lunchwithjandp

Pearl scanned the lunchroom for somewhere to sit.

There was…nowhere to sit. Of course. I've been jinxed. I am supposed to have the worst first days of school ever.

Then she spotted an empty seat and raced towards it.

But the person right next to the unoccupied seat, of course, was Jasper. She was talking busily to some equally sloppy slobs, Sugilite and Malachite.

Sugilite had the same long, messy hair that Jasper had, and she was wearing a pair of ripped jeans and a purple shirt with a 2 inch tear at the neck. She was not wearing her yellow diamond pendant, and was wearing chipped purple and black nail-polish.

Malachite had short, messily teased bleached blond hair with teal and turquoise streaks. She was wearing black leggings and a dark green tunic with 6 inch tears on the sides, showing off a black bra. She was wearing her pendant.

Pearl gulped. "Excuse me," she said, smiling shakily.

The bigger girls turned and looked at her. Pearl suddenly felt smaller, with all these eyes on her. Amber brown, dark blue, and turquoise green eyes were looking at her, confused. Then the amber eyes narrowed angrily.

"Hey, you're the girl from this morning, aren't you?" Jasper growled.

Sugilite cocked her head." That's the girl that blew you off?"

Malachite wrinkled her nose in disgust. She said in a low lispy voice," How did THIS weakling piss you off so much?"

Pearl lifted her chin and stared Jasper down with her baby blue eyes.

Jasper didn't look away.

Malachite and Sugilite exchanged looks. Then they started laughing. "Oh, Jasper, leave her alone. It's not like SHE can do any damage to you. Look at her! She's so…" Malachite poked Pearl's arm,"SCRAWNY."

Pearl felt tears well up in her eyes. "NEVER say I'm weak again."

Then she ran away, crying angry tears. She ate her lunch in a corner, giving everyone who passed her by a nasty glare. Then she hid her head in her knees.

"I'm serious, Mal. I don't know WHY or HOW she pissed me off this morning." Jasper's voice growled.

Malachite's lispy voice whispered,"If she pisses you off again, I'll handle her."

Sugilite's loud overconfident voice joined the party." Oh, Mal. That'll hardly be necessary. Did you see her running off crying ten minutes ago?"

The threesome chuckled.

"I can…hear you, you know." Whispered Pearl.

"What's that?"

Pearl felt a body surrounding her, strong arms lifting her up off the ground.

Malachite was the one that picked her up." What was that, you puny attempt of a beautiful human?"

Pearl saw Jasper's face change momentarily when Malachite said that. But before she could grasp what she just saw, the expression disappeared and Malachite shook her roughly.

"I SAID," Pearl said shakily, "That I can hear you. I am not weak."

Then Pearl saw respect on Jasper's face. But then it disappeared in masked anger again.

She is very bad at hiding her feelings. Pearl observed.

Then Sugilite smirked. "Not weak? Hm. All I have seen this whole lunch break is you being weak. You think you're something? You mean nothing."

"There are different forms of strength, you know." Pearl said loudly.

"Put her. the hell. down." Came a strong voice from behind Malachite.

"ROSE!" yelled Pearl.

Malachite turned around, as did Jasper. Sugilite took to holding Pearl now, and she had an iron grip.

"Rose Quartz." Growled Jasper.

Rose Quartz crossed her arms." Jasper."

Then Rose slapped Jasper across the face, punched Malachite in the gut , and stunned Sugilite so much by this that she dropped Pearl on the ground. Then she ran away from Rose and her injured friends.

"You okay, Pearl?" asked Rose.

"Thank you." Pearl said, leaning into Rose, who wrapped her arms around her.

"Whoa, what happened?" asked Garnet, appearing behind Rose. A purple haired girl followed her.

"Malachite, Sugilite, and Jasper were bullying her." Rose said, letting Pearl go.

"You okay, P?" asked the purple haired girl, walking up to her.

"Who exactly are you?" Pearl asked, sticking out a hand for the girl to shake it.

"Amethyst. I am the awesome one of me and Garnet." The girl said, shaking her hand firmly.

"Rose? How do you know Garnet and Amethyst?" Pearl asked, turning to Rose.

"Oh, well, besides the fact that she is in our trigonometry class, she and Amethyst ride my bus. I met Garnet first, then Amethyst got on later." Rose said softly.

Pearl nodded thoughtfully. "Oh."

The lunch bell started to ring.

"Time to go." Amethyst said, doing a cartwheel out of the doors.

As Pearl walked out behind them, the blonde, Peridot, brushed past her with Lapis and whispered,"Clod."

I had to use a bully scene. As you know, I wont be able to update anymore this weekend…sadly.