Steven's birthday party was more fun than he ever could've hoped. There was music, dancing, singing, the whole town was there it seemed! More than anything though, Steven was glad he was finally starting to look his age. He finally got a job, didn't have to be hit with all that fucking skepticism when applying for drivers license or going to buy condoms, there were tons of reasons to finally be happy to hit that milestone.

Him and Connie though, they weren't exactly growing apart...but they were still just friends. Strangely enough Steven felt comfortable with that, but he still felt like shit because he knew deep down she wanted more.

Over the past few years, as he expanded his friendship circle to include a little more people his age, some who had only visited from out of town during summers, he began to have close feelings towards this one boy in particular. Eventually the boy stopped visiting during the summers, but those feelings were still there. and after he came to terms with those feelings, Steven found his love for Connie was not the same love he had thought it was for those past few years. It was a family love..a normal platonic kinda love...and he knew that upset her a little. That he was different and couldn't love her anymore the same way he could love a boy.
That was the only downside to today. That's what took up most of Steven's thoughts as they all cleaned up the party.

Overall it was pretty bad-ass, especially when he saw his cake. It was as tall as Garnet!

"HAPPY BIRTHDAY STEVEN!" They all shouted as Peridot threw confetti in front of him and pointed, "You see how big that cake is? I made the metal stand to hold its weight!"

Steven scooped Peridot up in one arm and yelped as he gave her a big hug and kissed her cheek, "Thanks Dot! But uhh...is there...supposed to be a giant hole in the side...?"

"Wha-?"
Then-

Connie JUMPED out of the cake clad in nothing but a bikini that she had gotten at who knows where, only right next to him was...Connie. And this Connie that just ruined his birthday cake was Purple.

"Amethyst!" Steven screamed, covering his eyes.

"Happy birthdayyyy Ste-maannnn" she said doing a little shake and a twirl"

But then Amethyst jumped out of his cake looking like Connie and completely ruined everyone else's appetite except for Peridot, who thought it was hilarious as Amethyst did.

Back to the present moment, Steven shook himself out of his flashback and continued folding up tables and the cake tiers. Connie had left a while ago after seeing Amethyst mimic her, very embarrassed and Garnet had just come back with a Grim look on her face. And Jamie was with her. He'd gotten a lot more beefy than Steven remembered. 'I guess he was a lot younger than I thought way back then', he thought.

Garnet and Jamie had been spending quite a lot of time together over the past year and a half, they discovered a Spark between them after all. Just two weeks ago, Garnet had revealed herself to be a fusion to him, but he continued to care for Ruby and Sapphire just as much as he did Garnet. In fact, he actually didn't seem all that surprised about the news! It was probably because both him and Sapphire tended to have a flair for the dramatic and suspenseful.

By the time all the party stuff was put away, and Peridot had gone back to the Barn, the rest of the Gems and Jamie were all sitting around a campfire, looking attentively at Garnet since she had said she had something she needed to tell all of them.

GARNET POV

Sapphy are you sure we should tell them all like this? JAMIE doesn't even know yet!

I'm sure. The possibilities I see point to this as the best course of action to take. If you and I both really intend to continue with thi-

But this hasn't even ever been done before! God FORGET rose, this is a whole bother story, what if something happens to Garnet, or worse, only one of us?!

Rub-

"Uh, Garnet, you okay?" Steven looked at her concerned.

Ruby...

'Just tell them before I start being dramatic all over again.' Ruby huffed.

"Everyone, you all know over the past year me and Jamie have grown very close."

They all nodded and Jamie blushed and leaned his head on her shoulder (one of his only options because of her height even sitting down)

"I'm pregnant."

Everyone gasped and Pearl straight up fainted, Amethyst started choking on the entire bag of marshmallows and Peridot was left grumbling to herself and frantically googling things on her tablet as Steven got stars in his eyes.

"OHMYGOSHGARNETCONGRATULATIONSISITABOYORAGIRLSAPPHIRECOULDTELLRIGHTORAREYOUKEEPINGITASURPRIS-That's when the realization hit him.

She was pregnant.

From a human.

That meant-
'oh no' Steven froze and tears began to well up in his eyes.

He looked to Jamie where it was just starting to dawn on him too.

"Garnet..."