Peridot sighed, carefully moving her body to reach a more comfortable position in the cramped space, trying not to get even more stuck in the process. Her back laid against the cold and thin wall, she slowly let herself slide to the ground, folding her small legs against her chest, rasping her heels against the floor with a metallic sound. She grabbed the phone in her pocket and opened the recorder application.

"Peridot, log date 12 3 15, 15:30. I'm stuck in my locker. Again." She added angrily. "The culprit is probably one of the many troublemaker students infesting this school, though I haven't had time to identify him or her." She paused for a second, reevaluating the events. "However, today's situation is slightly more difficult than the usual since my tools are in the bag I left on the ground next to the locker. The bully might have stolen it, like he or she did three weeks ago." She paused again and thought for a bit. "I have no other option than to wait for professor Diamond to finish her lessons of the day. Then I'll call her and ask her to free me. Until then I'll…"

"Yo, dude, everything alright in there?" Startled, Peridot almost dropped her phone at the mocking voice right outside the locker. A voice she knew just a bit too well, for it was the only one she paid attention to when the wrestling team walked down the corridors. Panic started to raise in her chest like bubbles in a soda can, no way she'd let HER of all people see her like this.

"I-er… I-I'm fine. Just… I…" No good, she had to come up with a decent sentence. She heard the voice laugh loudly from the other side of the locker's door and blushed. Great, now she was even more ridiculous.

"Oh my gosh, calm down." She said, still laughing. "Come on, I'll let you out. Tell me the combination."

"I-I…" Peridot didn't know what to do but she couldn't pretend to like being trapped in there, or to know how to get out. It was very humiliating but she'll have to accept her help. "3141." She said, unwillingly. She heard a few clicks and the door opened. A tan face surrendered by unbelievably long pale purple hair appeared in the corridor's electric lamp's light. Joyful eyes, round cheeks, a proud and bold smile; she was short and plump, with as much muscle as fat in her body and such confidence that she couldn't look like anything but beautiful. Amethyst, the best wrestler in the school's team.

She reached out her hand for Peridot to grab and pulled her out with a smug smile. "Oh, it's you Peri! I thought I recognized that voice." she said.

Peridot opened surprised eyes from behind her glasses. "You mean you know my name?"

"Well duh! We're in the same class, you nerd!" She laughed again, snorting a bit. "And who could forget a know-it-all like you, right? You're the only one answering questions during class!"

"… Right." Peridot said slowly. Her hands instinctively looked for a notebook to hug but she had nothing with her. They only fidgeted in front of her, uneasy with emptiness. "Anyway, thank you for helping me."

"Don't mention it, Peri, it's nothing. Besides, it was funny hearing you making your nerd notes." Peridot blushed harder, both flustered and annoyed, and avoided Amethyst's eyes by looking around for her bag. Luckily, it still laid on the ground next to her locker. She quickly picked it up. "Hey, you got anything to do before the end of the day?"

Peridot looked up, surprised by the question. "No. But I was going to study at the school library."

"Cool! P, G and I are going to Rose's place in an hour, wanna tag along?"

A stupid amount of hope mixed with fear and uncertainty filled Peridot's heart. She mentally shook it off, tried to control herself. "I don't think I should… I have to study and your friends might not like to have an uninvited guest." Not to mention she really wasn't at ease around people, or things, or anything she didn't know. Amethyst's thick lips shortened in a pout.

"Aw, come on, it IS a study session, it won't change your plans so much. With you it'd at least be a bit funnier!" Peridot didn't answer, unsure and almost – okay, very flattered from the proposition and the regards the young girls seemed to have for her. Amethyst rolled her eyes and smiled a bit again, shrugging casually. "'Kay, you know what? Fine, just come if you feel like it. See ya later, nerd!" she said as she turned and left through the corridor. Peridot watched her go and turned to her locker to change the combination. She though for only a few moments before changing it to 1203, blushing a little bit. Then she reached for her phone and opened the recorder application.

" Peridot, log date 12 3 15, 15:45. I'm out. And… Amethyst knows my name."