Chapter 2: Hitchhiker
Yellow felt queasy, she was HUMAN! She must be having a dream, "A result of the explosion that's all." she thought to herself. But the more she thought about it the more that theory was proven wrong. "OH NO!" Yellow talked to herself "What if I can never make it back? I'll die here in this stupid, disgusting Human body!" Tears started to form on her face as she continued. "I'll need to eat, sleep, drink and…." She shuddered at the last thought. She was feeling very hot, she didn't want to get rid of her clothes but she knew that Humans aren't as resistant to heat as Gems. So she sadly took off her beautiful golden overcoat, revealing some thin, lemon colored underdress.
Soon after her throat started to hurt and it slowly got worse. She knew what it was, thirst, Yellow knew that Humans survived of water. She turned to the puddle of water for a moment, but thought against it. There was no way a Diamond such as herself would go so low as to drink water from a dirty puddle! So she sat there and waited, for anything, all she saw for miles around was desert. There was the black path, so she ought to start there. She stood up again and started to walk besides it, she looked around, trying to find anything besides desert. Then she saw it, in the distance, something shiny was moving quickly down the path. As it got closer, she could make out some details. It was silver in color, it had 4 circles, two on each side. It was shorter than her, but not by much. Finally it had a large glass cockpit on the front, it was slowing down and it eventually pulled up besides her. One of the side windows rolled down and she saw a Human inside. He had tanned skin like her, but had a short beard and full head of dark brown hair. He looked about 30, he wore a light grey shirt and some jeans. He looked at her and asked "What is a pretty women like you doing out here in the desert? You lost?" He sounded genuinely concerned, Yellow had to make her next choice carefully "Yes I am, lost. Can you direct me to the nearest settlement Human?" He made a funny look, "You act like you aren't a Human, which you clearly are. Are you ok?" Yellow looked at him with a scowl "I'm fine just, thirsty." He chuckled "Well you can hop in if you like, I'm driving back to Vegas anyways." He opened the side door and she climbed in. She looked around the vehicle, it was fairly clean with the seats made of leather. She then saw a bottle of clean looking water in the console between them, without thinking she grabbed the bottle and drank its contents. "Hey hey, slow down. You will make yourself sick!" He said as he started driving, "Names Grant by the way." he finished with as he put on the radio.
Yellow jumped at the sudden noise but Grant didn't seem to notice. As she looked out the window and the neverending expanse of desert she thought to herself "I will make it back to Homeworld, even if it kills me!"
