"Connie... will you uhh. No that's not right. Will you marry me, Connie? No too straight forward. It needs to be more... what's the word... sophisticated."

Steven paced as he practiced saying the words so thing would go smoothly.

"Connie, I love you so will you marry me? RAHHHHHH! Still not right."

Steven crashed on his bed as he realized lion was watching him.

"What are you looking at." Lion purred roared as if to answer Steven's question. " I can defeat Yellow Diamond but I cant ask Connie to marry me!?"

Steven pouted then heard the timer on his alarm go off.

"It's three already. I need to leave now for my date with Connie. I think I know the place I should propose at. He then heard the warp pad activate as he took out the little black box from his pants and put it on his night stand. Pearl saw the box and wondered what was going on but she didn't ask. She was going to find out.

"I'll be back later for that later."

He thought as he said hi to Garnet, Amethyst, Pearl, Jasper, Peridot and Lapis. They replied with a mixed up 'hi Steven' s.

"I can't talk right now." He said running down the stairs. " I have a date with Connie. I will be back soon!"

He said running out the door.

"Well that was different." Pearl questioned as she Headed to his bedroom to see what the black box was about.

"Pearl, you know Steven doesn't like you snooping around his stuff anymore." Garnet warned.

"I just wanted to see what this was about." Pearl said going to the box.

"Who's up for a game of cards! If you can beat me." Jasper bragged as she took out the cards.

"I can." Garnet smirked.

"OOOOHHHHHH you got... Garneted!" Amethyst joked grabbing the chips and sat down.

"Good one Garnet." Peridot laughed sitting down to watch the game.

"Well... uh ... not this time!" Jasper said defensively

"Challenge accepted." Garnet smiled receiving the cards as Jasper played them out.

Pearl was studying the small black box as she peaked inside. She saw a beautiful ring inside. She knew what this meant.

"Uhh you need to look at this."

"Bring it here were in the middle of a game." Jasper said trying to concentrate.

Pearl walked down holding the box. Amethyst and Peridot closely watched the game while Lapis was doing her own thing in the kitchen.

"And no cheating this time. I can see it coming." Garnet said straightening her shades.

"Fine" Jasper growled as she put down the cards to see what Pearl was holding.

"Look at this." Pearl said almost demanding they look at it.

She opened up the box uncovering a beautiful ring with several gem stones in it.

"It's a engagement ring." Pearl said with tears in her eyes.

"garnet" Garnet pointed to the red gem stone beside a rose quartz stone.

"Amethyst" Amethyst stared at the gem just like hers on the ring.

"Peridot?" She questioned starring at it

"I see a jasper." Jasper studied it while she pointed the gemstone out.

"There is also a Lapis Lazuli stone too." Lapis studied the ring and each gemstone.

"And a pearl." Pearl happily said in a bragish tone." Also a diamond in the center."

All the gems were amazed at the ring.

"I know what it means! The rose quartz gem means Steven, the pearl means me, The garnet means Garnet and so on so on but the diamond means Connie."

They all stared at the ring but only half of them knew what this meant.

"What is an engagement?" Peridot broke the silence.

"It is when..." Pearl stopped talking when she heard Steven and Connie talking.

"Go back to playing your game and act like you saw nothing!" Pearl whisper in panic as everyone went back to normal. Pearl franticly put the box back where she found it and acted like she was cleaning. Steven and Connie walked into the door laughing. Connie held a small basket and Steven had his arm around her neck.

"Are you going on a picnic?" Pearl asked picking up a couple of shirts.

"Yeah, I wanted to go somewhere special so I thought we would go..." Steven stopped himself wanting it to be a surprise to Connie.

"Where ever you want to go Mr. Quartz." Connie joked as they headed to the warp pad.

"Wait I almost forgot." Steven rushed to his room blushing and grabbed the black box.

Steven saw the smile and the tears on Pearls face. "Oh great, she found out I wanted it to be a surprise!"

Steven thought as he rushed back activating the warp pad.

The gems starred at it and it wasn't 30 seconds later that Pearl said, "We need to spy."

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