They threw a party for me. Invited everyone in town.
Well, it wasn't really for me, not officially, anyway. But Pearl and Steven were trying pretty hard to get me to enjoy it. Ruby ignored me the entire time. Maybe she wasn't even there - I didn't see her even once.
They never let me go to my room. Not once, not until the last guest had gone home. I hated every second of it - all the people, all the noise. If they wanted to make me happy, they could just have let me had the day off.
Anyway. I had another dream. The triangle was there again. But something was different.
"I can really help you," he said. "If you just let me, I can turn back time, and you can defeat Jasper, save Sapphire. Amethyst, I'm offering exactly what you want."
I didn't know how he knew those names. I never told him anything. I don't trust him one bit - but I didn't have a lot of options. I asked him what he wanted. He wouldn't do it for free, would he?
He said, to that, "I need to borrow your body. I'll give it back when my part of the deal is done."
I told him I'd think about it. I wasn't that desperate for change.
How could him being in my body make me even a little bit stronger?
Ugh. I didn't know. I didn't want to know.
But the strange thing was, with Sapphire's vision, I couldn't see him in it. I could only see pain and misery, for the rest of my life.
What a cold, dark world we live in.
And it's all my fault.
