(takes place between raising the barn and Kevin party)

Peridot lay in the bathtub, as utterly defeated as usual. She was shifting through the memories with lapis, and letting her thoughts take her elsewhere. The bathroom was a mess,the curtain rack had fallen, water splayed about on the floor, and tears splotched the half full, dirty sink.

Knock knock. The door to the bathroom trembled before opening. "Peridot, I'm coming in." A grim and depressed voice echoed in the room. Small footsteps pattered in the room, turning on the lights. Peridot took no notice at the new light, not bothering to lift her head.

A creak was heard as he closed the door.

Steven walked over to the bathtub and sat down, back towards Peridot. He pulled out his phone, the new light blaring in her face. Only then did she bother to look up. Although she didn't say anything, she caught glimpses of his messages. It was a one sided conversation on a contact labeled "Connie". He was looking at his texts saying "hi!" "How are you?" And some awful puns about talking to her.

"You're really that desperate, huh?"

"What do you mean?" Steven looked taken aback at her remark.

"I mean, at least you're still in contact with her." Peridot sat up. "Your situation seems primitive, I mean, compared to mine.." Peridot mumbled, albeit loudly.

Steven whipped his head around to look at her, feeling slightly angry at her for her remark."Hey! This isn't a competition! I Know lapis left and all, but both of us have something going on and someone who left us! And plus, Connie might still never talk to me again, so why can't you just keep yoUR MOUTH SHUT FOR ONCE!" For once, Steven didn't feel bad at his remark, he just felt anger. Which had now burned to a sluggish fury.

She had stayed in a stunned silence for a few moments, to be truthful, hearing those word coming out of his mouth had stung, before taking a breath and continuing. "Why can't I keep my mouth shut? Well, Steven just to give your pebble of a brain some information, Lapis is GALAXIES away with my home and my things, and your human friend is minutes away. So you have no right whatsoever to compare your situation to mine. You can never understand the pain I feel!"

"Oh really? I bet if you spent a day in my shoes then you would realize how much worse I feel!"

"There's no way you could feel worse than me you CLOD!" They were face to face now. And as one last angry remark, they said in unison,

"YOU COULD NEVER UNDERSTAND THE PAIN IM IN!"

Giving each other one last angry look, Steven stormed out of the room, slamming the door behind him.

Peridot dropped back down into her makeshift bed, face towards the pillow as she let out a muffled scream into her pillow. As much as she fought it, she started to sob. And that's what she did until she fell into a sickly sleep, dreaming of nothing.

Steven, once he had left the room, had ran up the stairs and dropped onto his bed, and cried.' Nrrraahh!' he let out. He turned and looked to the side. The sun had gone down and the first few stars were poking out. He didn't even bother to get ready to sleep as he rolled to the other side and mumbled." I wish she would understand me, and I could understand her, so that Maybe, we could talk it out sometime.." before drifting off to sleep.

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-Snowy