Ring Ring Ring...

"Fucking finally' I said , packing up my stuff to head home. I felt my phone vibrate in my pocket. I opened it up and looked at the message .

J- Yo Shorty, ya coming to see our football game-

Shit, I forgot today was Friday. Also jaspers football game. I rolled up my jackets sleeves to see my watch. 4:00pm

P- What time does it start-

J- around 7:30 but there's also a pep rally at 4:30. If you're going to the rally head 2 the gym-

P- I'll go to them both, see ya-

J- Later nerd-

I snorted, leave it to jasper to want you to support her in games then insult you. I started heading towards the gym when I noticed a pom poms on the ground. "Damn cheerleaders" I mumbled out. I picked it up and went into the gym. Inside was insane, everyone was doing something. The band, cheer and dance where practicing, but I noticed pearl frantically searching for something and lapis trying to calm her down. As I walked closer , I could hear them talking.

"Pearl you need to calm down" lapis said putting both hands on pearls shoulders.

"I need to find them, they are really important " pearl said with tears in her eyes "ok ok calm down, I'll go look for them" lapis left to search after that.

I saw her leave then quickly advanced to pearl. Her back was to me, her mirror in hand trying to fix her makeup.

"Pearl"?

She turned around to face me, I barley heard her when she answered me back. I held out her pom poms. She seemed surprised.

"I heard you were looking for these and I found them outsi-" the rest of my sentence was cut off as pearl was hugging me, sobbing into my neck. She was crying out thank you's over and over.

"Alright that's enough" I coughed out. I pushed her off of me and placed my hands on her shoulders.

"I'm sorry, it's just that these pom poms are really important to me"

"How come"? I wiped her tears with my thumbs

"Rose gave them to me"

"Ah, I see. I'm glad that I got them back for you"

"Yeah" pearl smiled at me and I think she was blushing, must've been just me

"Seems you found them" I turned to see lapis walking towards us. I started getting warm in the face. I took my hands off of pearl like I've been burned.

"Yeah, it was all thanks to... um"?

"Peridot" lapis answered, I was mentally screaming and my heart was pounding. Lapis remembers my name.

"Yes peridot, thanks again for finding them" Pearl said

"It's no problem, Anyways I have to go. Bye pearl, bye lapis"

I basically ran away from them before they could reply. And the pep rally started. Everyone was screaming, throwing confetti. I just sat there starring at the cheerleaders, mostly lapis. Then the football players came out to join the insanity. The only players I knew of were #42 garnet, #35 amethyst, and finally #79 jasper. When rally finally finished, everyone left and I stayed behind to help clean the mess. I felt someone tap me on the shoulder so I turned to see lapis. I swear I felt my heart fall to the bottom of my stomach, she was too close to me. I took a step back cautiously.

"Yes?"

"Hello peridot, I was wondering if I could have your number"