Chapter 4 - Stormy Weather
"What is that obnoxious sound…"
Peridot, even after Steven had taught her that rain and thunderstorms were not going to hurt her or destroy the earth, still didn't like them. Thunder and lightning scared her just out of sheer surprise. This storm was loud enough to wake Lapis Lazuli up from her side of the barn. Peridot didn't know if Lapis knew what a thunderstorm was.
"Um, it's thunder." Peridot answered from the box she was hiding in. She really still didn't like thunderstorms. "The result of lightning being created from the high amount of opposing charge in the clouds that consist of the s-s-storm and the atmosphere below the c-cl-clouds…"
"Oh, okay." Lapis replied in a monotone that had become her permanent voice. "I'm going back to sleep."
"You've been sleeping all day!" Peridot replied. In truth, she didn't want to be alone in dealing with the thunderstorm, but she would never admit that, especially to Lazuli. Their relationship, while improving, was still strained by the past.
"Yup," Lapis replied, "G'night."
And with that, Lapis went back to sleep. Peridot would never understand how Lapis could sleep through literally everything, nevermind how she could sleep so much. It was almost like it was a hobby to her.
BOOM!
"Gu-AH!" Peridot jumped from her position, knocking the box off her in fear. She scampered to another hiding place, terrified. "Are you s-s-s-seriously going to just leave me to be terrified until this ends?"
No answer. Lapis was already asleep.
Peridot sighed, on high alert due to the thunderstorm. She needed to find something to calm her down, so she ran up to the attic to binge watch Camp Pining Hearts for the fifty-fourth time. She would never disclose that fact to anyone, except maybe Steven if he asked. He already knew she was CPH trash so there wasn't anything to hide about the show from him.
Settling down, Peridot focused on the show and somehow was able to forget about the thunderstorm.
Back downstairs, Lapis was asleep, as usual. She liked sleep because it was peaceful. It was something she (and no one else) could choose to do, and making her own choices herself was very important to her.
This sleep was not peaceful as she had come to expect.
Lapis didn't have a ton of experience with dreams, though the ones she had so far were decent. She had never had a nightmare before. At least, not until now.