Hello, all I am currently up at campus writing this next chapter. I feel like I want this story to be kind of a slow burn for a little while. Building more backstory for both Jasper and Lapis. I am going to try my very best to not do that with this story and really build the characters and the way they interact with each other, not just between the main characters. So as always reviews and comments are always welcome. Peace, gay love, and pizza!


Jasper

Garnet dropped me off at my apartment and we both stumbled into the room and she fell out on the sofa and I fumbled with my shoes and I laughed as I tripped over her boot and I went flying into the armchair. I settled down with one shoe on and one off. I rolled my eyes as my phone rang. I fumbled for it in my pocket as Garnet grumbled for me answer it.

"Heillo, what do yrou want Aabmethyst?!" I slurred as I giggled and Garnet sat up and laughed so hard she belched.

"Damn you're smashed bro! I was just making sure you both got home safe. After you left after the blue haired girl, Garnet left 10 minutes later."

Her voice sounded like she was speaking through a soaked cotton ball. But maybe it was just my hearing.

I sat up as best I could and I blurted out,

"Wpe govt back fine. Garnet is staygni teh night ni vthink. Sman you shlozud have seeen me. Ji was smooth as jsiht and didn't ucfk pup with Lapis! I think shbe wants me!"

Amethyst laughed and gave me props before she told us she would see us tomorrow and hung up. I flopped back and I ran my hand over my head and I snatched the tie out of hair with thick slow fingers and I sighed as my hair fell back in its thick heavy mane around my face. I turned blurred eyes to Garnet to see that she was knocked out snoring.

I was proud of myself that I had myself together even with Lapis even when I was hammered. I got up and stumbled over to Garnet and I took her legs and I drug her off the sofa, her head hitting the carpet as I drug her to my bed and I tossed her on it falling on top of her as the world pitched from the sudden movement. But she didn't stir. I laid on the other side of the bed and fought to get my other shoe off. I rolled over and I blacked out.


The next day I forced my eyes open. Thick eye crust had sealed them. I rubbed them annoyed and I rolled over and my heart lurched as I fell out the bed and landed on a pile of pizza boxes. I sat up with a start and I heard the shower going. I stumbled up and I walked into the bathroom and I saw a red leather jacket tossed over the shower bar. It all came rushing back and I groaned. Garnet always had an easier time with a hangover.

I looked at my reflection and I washed my face and I brushed my teeth multiple times to get the taste of weed and vodka out my mouth. The shower stopped and Garnet stepped out the shower and walked naked from the bathroom waving her hand to me. I grunted a hello to her. I had seen her naked so many times it didn't phase me. She was more of a sister than anything. And this had become our thing. We would crash at whoever place was closer and kept an overnight bag just for this purpose.

I peeled the clothes off me and I got in the shower and like always when I got out I was feeling much better. I dried off and I got dressed in some black sweats and a thermal long sleeve. It was cold in the apartment. I went to the small kitchen and Garnet had dressed and was sipping on a cup of hot coffee. I made another pot and I poured out a cup for me and I sat down across from her with the wobbly table between us.

"Morning." She said over her coffee.

"Morning. I can drive you home when you are ready. I was gonna swing by Amethyst's if you down later."

Garnet looked up from the cup of coffee. I did not know if she was really looking at me since she had her shades on. She nodded and went back to sipping her coffee. I drank down the rest of mine not worrying about the burn if it down my throat. I tossed the cup in the sink I grabbed my keys and my wallet and I slid a drop beanie on my head and Garnet got up and washed her cup and tossed her clothes from last night in her overnight back to take them with her.

"You want some breakfast one the way?" I asked as we walked out the door and I locked it.

She shook her head as we walked down the stairs and towards my car that was parked haphazardly next to the huge old oak tree across the street. I rolled my eyes at Garnet. She just shrugged her shoulders and got into the passenger's seat. I got into the driver's seat. The sun was blaring into my eyes. Still sore from the hangover. I pulled the visor down and I pulled on the tinted Aviator shades and started up the car and pulled off. Weaving through the afternoon traffic I dropped her off at her little studio apartment she shared with her sister. I waited in the car and looked at my phone scrolling through iFunny.

A knock at my window made me look up. My windows were deep tinted but I could make out the shape of a man. I rolled down my window just enough to speak,

"Can I help you?"

The man didn't answer but a small slip of paper was slid into the crack of the window. It fell into my lap and my eyes followed the paper. When I looked up I saw that the outline of the man was gone. I picked up the slip of paper and I already knew what it was. Unfolding it there was scrawled in the middle an address and the symbol of a Blue Diamond.

I had been getting these notes for the last two months. The Blue Diamond gang was well known around these parts. They dabbled in it all, from drugs to selling women on the Black Market for sick pervs. I guess I knew why they wanted to recruit my e. But I may have been one itching for a fight just picking a fight, but I was not out to be in a gang. Especially the reputation Blue Diamond had.

Yes her name was Blue Diamond. I guess her parents thought it was a good idea to name their kid after a rock. But who was I kidding? My name was a rock. A boring rock at that. Word around was that she killed her first person when she was fourteen. Did I believe that? A part of me did, but another part of me didn't want to believe it. I crumpled the paper and opened my door and tossed it out into the street.

I wondered how long this was going to go on before she and her lackeys took a hint that I was not interested. The passenger door opening took me out of my muse as the car's weight shifted as Garnet got back into the car. She tossed a duffle in the back and the clink of bottles rang out. I looked over at her and she shrugged. I pulled off and headed over to Amethyst's flat.

She lived the farthest from us. Her building overlooked the beach and town and college nestled between the rolling hills on either side. The winding road leads us closer and closer to her place. Her parents had made a name for themselves early in their life. Her father was a Petroleum engineer, which had him gone a lot. Sometimes weeks at a time. Her mother was a heart surgeon. So you know they were making serious bank.

Amethyst was nothing like her parents. She enjoyed drawing and painting. She was the artsy type. Her parents did not approve of their only child slumming it out painting and hanging out with the likes of Garnet and I. But she brought in the grades and kept her party life under the radar. If her mother ever found out Amethyst was anything like she knew Garnet and I were she would have an aneurysm. But they raked over the cash for her to live in her decked out pad.

Pulling up we got out and I saw a dark SUV sitting in the driveway. I was curious about who's it was as we let ourselves in with they key under the flower pot and I closed the door behind us. Garnet walked ahead while I went into the kitchen to put the beers in the fridge.

Grabbing a beer for myself and Garnet and Amethyst I closed the fridge with my foot and came around the corner and into the living room.

I stopped dead in my tracks as I saw Garnet and Amethyst were sitting on the love seat and across from them was a very tall, well-built women. Her hair was dyed an ice blue. Shaved down to a taper on each side and a precise cut of a diamond shaved into the left side of her head. Her face had a strong angle on her cheekbones. And deep black eyeliner outlined her cerulean blue eyes. Her ears were stretched with gauges encrusted with blue diamonds.

Blue tribal markings covered her arms in thick gashes of blue. Wrapping around her upper arms all the way down to her hands. And deep stripes cut across her chest. She dawned a simple black tank top and ripped jeans. On her feet were spiked heels and her toenails matched her finger nails. A deep blue. Every one of her fingers had rings of different sizes. Different cuts of blue diamonds.

A predatory smile graced her lips as she waved me over to take a seat. I frowned as I handed the beers to Garnet and Amethyst. They took them without a word. I chose to stand as I took a swig of the beer and looked at her. Her smile did not falter, in fact, it grew bigger as she leaned forward. Clasping her hands together she looked over all of us.

"Well... I did not know I would get all of you in one go. Lucky me I guess. I am here to take business with you all." Her voice was deep and droning.

I crossed my arms and I growled,

"Listen hear lady. We do not want to get in on whatever fucker you like to on your free time. So you can get your tight ass up and bounce."

I did not know what had come over me. But my anger had spiked and I wasn't having any of what this woman had to say.

She smiled as she stood up. In her heels, she stood about an inch taller than me. Garnet put her hand on my arm and shook her head. Amethyst just looked shocked.

"See that's the type of fire I'd like to have working for me. Someone like you can get things done. But just hear me out. Your first outburst was a freebie. Next one will come with consequences...girl."

She raised a perfect eyebrow and a smirk graced her face. My hands clenched and the bottle shattered in my hand. But no blood fell from my hand. As I had oddly enough not been cut by the glass. The smell of beer wafted up from the floor as it pooled around my feet on the stained wood floors. Mixing with the bits of shattered glass. My blood rushed and I could hear it in my ears. My teeth gnashed like a wild animal as I bit out,

" I don't know how many others have bent over and spread their ass cheeks for you to fuck them. I ain't the one. So like I said walk your ass out this house. Before I wedge my size twelves up your ass."

Garnet stood up and grabbed my arm and pulled me away and hissed in my ear.

"What the fuck man? You know who that is?! She could have us all strung up by out toes with a snap of her fingers. Cool it."

I pulled away from her hand and turned back to the women and growled,

"You hard of hearing?"

She laughed as she walked around the table and Amethyst was frozen in her spot on the couch as she women leaned down and whispered something in her ear. She went sheet white and her fist balled. The women stroked her cheek and waved her ring-clad hand to us both before she let herself out. I waited until the SUV's engine faded before I sat next to Amethyst and made her look at me,

"Ame... what did she say to you?"

A thin sheen of sweat and coated her face and she licked her lips nervously as she looked at me with fear and pleading mixed in her eyes,

"We have to do what she says. She has her hold on all of us. She will go after our families and friends. She will not stop until she has what she wants. She wants you more than us. She will use us to get you.

My heart seized and I slammed my fist into the table and the legs gave way and broke.

"Fuck."


Lapis

There was a knock at my door. I stood on my tip toes and looked through the peephole. I saw the pale skin of Pearls face as she held her books in her arms. I had completely forgotten I had agreed to have her over to do Chem homework together. I unlocked the door and opened the door for her. The slim women came in and closed the door behind her.

She strode over to the sofa and sat down and placed her books down. Her thin fingers flipped through the textbook. I snapped out of it and grabbed my bag and sat down next to her. I looked over at her. She had sharp features. A high forehead and light pink hair what collected in the back of her head in a small point. A pointed nose and thin lips. She was nice, though. A bit of a stickler for the rules. And a bit uptight but she had been at the party last night. I shuddered as I remembered the events of last night.

I was pulled from my muse as a thin hand waved in front of my face. I blinked and I blushed and I fumbled with my book,

"Lapis? You okay? You were out of it all through class today. Something happen?" Her voice gently coaxed.

I shook my head and I gave her a weak smile,

"I am just a little tired is all."

She looked me over trying to look for what was really wrong, giving up with a huff and went back to her book. I relaxed and I started to write out the equations for the Chem homework.

After a few hours of homework, I made us some toast before she packed up and left. I put my books away and I went to my room and I sighed as I flopped down and I closed my eyes. My vision was filled with a mane of white hair. The figured turned and the smirk on her face made me jump up and my eyes snapped open. The image of Jasper slipped my mind. I rubbed my eyes as my face went flush. Was I thinking about her?

I took off my clothes thinking that a shower could help me clear my head. I turned on the shower and the room filled with steam and I got in and I stood under the water staring at the drain as the water swirled around. After what seemed like forever I got out and I dried off and pulled on some Pj's.

I opened my laptop and put on Netflix. I needed to catch up with Gotham. And maybe some TV would get last night off mind.

About an hour later I turned off my laptop and I put it on the charger. I checked my phone but like always I only had a good night text from both of my parents.

Growing up was hard for me. I was the youngest of three kids. Both my older sisters were always better at everything. They were even born perfectly. I, on the other hand, was born premature and spent my first months looking at my parents through an incubator.

When I was young I was smaller than kids my age. I got left out of every sport. Being picked last. Going through school being in the shadow of my sisters Emerald and Ruby. We were all named after gems that represented our characters. Emerald like the gem was the brightest of us. She had the brains and the looks. But she was the most likely to crack under pressure. Just like the gem. Her resistance to anything negatives was very low.

Ruby was a fiery person. Strong willed and tough. She had a temper on her and got into many fights. Which earned her the respect from her peers. But it also gave her a big head. Basking in her own rays of her own existence. Even being the middle child she protected us while growing up and even today. She was out of the country at some school for gifted military tactics. Yes, that is a thing. She calls around twice a month to check on my sister and me.

The there is me. Dull and weak. Just interesting enough to pass. I was the quiet depressed one. My family handled me with the utmost care. As if they were scared I'd break and fall apart and get lost to the four corner winds of the world. Sometimes I liked it. It meant I didn't have stress. But most of the time I was just babied and coddled like a child. It took weeks for my parents to agree to let me go to college.

"You sure you don't want to go to a community college? Or go somewhere close so you can stay home and commute?" My mothers gently voice floated to my ears as I laid in my bed.

My father stood next to her with his arm around her shoulders comforting her. His eyes were big behind his thick frames. His tie hanging loosely around his neck and suit jacket hanging from his other arm. Most likely heading to work.

My mother had her apron on. Streaks of flour racing across the deep blue of the apron. Most likely from the cake that had filled the house with its aroma. Her soft brown eyes filled with worry and concern.

"Mom. Dad. I'm sure I want to go away to school. I have a full ride to a college. It will not only save a ton of money. It will help me open up and be more social. I'll be fine."

I drew myself out of my memories and thoughts. I stared at my blank white walls. With the slight peeling paint and I sighed as I thought out loud,

"Was I really ready for this?"


Lord, I am so sorry that the Lapis part was so short and boring. It will get better. I hope you all are enjoying! Comment your thoughts! Peace, gay love, and Pizza!