The two hadn't spoken for the past five days. Amethyst hung out with her old crew who had mostly (except for Marty who never liked Amethyst much anyway) forgiven her for what had happened at the party. Rose was released from the hospital and Amethyst was surprised to find Pearl keeping her distance from Rose no longer relentlessly flirting with her. Pearl didn't talk to anybody, she occasionally would say hello or goodbye to fellow classmates but she overall had resumed her position as the nerdy introvert. Amethyst would walk to school with Vidalia, Greg and Rose. Greg and Rose occupied themselves with each other so Amethyst would talk to Vidalia. "So what happened with you and the nerd girl?" Vidalia asked

Amethyst wasn't too happy with her former friend being refer to this way but she chose to ignore it, "I don't really know." Amethyst lied. Of course she knew what had happened, she just didn't want to share it.

Vidalia nodded, "Amethyst how do you do this. Your such a rock in tough situations nothing cracks you emotionally. I remember the first time I caught Marty cheating on me I broke."

Amethyst knew she wasn't a rock, not at all. When Pearl broke she often broke as well though it was internal, not external as others were. "I really don't know." God Amethyst wanted Pearl back. She recalled how stupid it was to kiss Pearl but her temptations got the better of her. She'd loved Pearl ever since they became friend, they'd always been able to support each other no matter what. If anything was a rock, Amethyst would have thought it would have been their friendship. Boy had she been proven wrong.

"Ammy, you seem so sad…" Vidalia commented looking at Amethyst.

Of course she was sad, Amethyst wanted to scream Of course I'm sad! I literally have lost all touch with the girl I think I'm in love with. But instead she kept quiet, "Just a little stressed about our workload you know?" Amethyst replied.

"To bad you don't have nerd girls help any longer." Marty replied with a snicker, when had he arrived? Amethyst asked herself. They'd finally reached crystal high and amethyst sullenly walked over to her locker. Pearl passed her stopping when she saw her for a mere second before moving over to unlock her locker.

In English class, Pearl sat alone. She peered to the back of the classroom to see Amethyst next to Vidalia who was between her and Marty. She longed to be the one next to Amethyst, she remembered the lilac scent of her hair that remained where she once was. The work that day for the next week was a book report of Lord of the Flies. Pearl had already read the book and remembered some of the majors concepts. So when their teacher had them have reading sessions she peered back to Amethyst. Ever so often Amethyst would catch her glance and she'd drop her head into her book continuing to pretend to be reading. In science class she sat next to Lapis Lazuli who she didn't try to speak with. The two were silent as the teacher went over a lecture on the central dogma for an upcoming test. Pearl walked home alone that night, it wasn't much of a surprise, she'd been walking home alone for the past 4 days of school as she hadn't left her house the sunday after her and Amethyst's "situation" as she described. She didn't know how to put it into proper wording herself. When she got home Pearl's parents tried to comfort her with hugs. But Pearl still refused to tell them exactly what had happened, she hadn't told anyone exactly what had happened.

The next day was Friday, Amethyst walked with Vidalia to school again as the girl pressed more upon the situation with her and Pearl. Pearl walked alone but soon was caught up with by Rose Quartz. "Pearl…" Rose began.

"Save it." Pearl snapped.

"Pearl this isn't you! What's going on?! Is this my fault?"

Of course Rose was blaming herself after the kiss and all, "No Rose it's not."

"Then what is it? Does it have to do with her." Rose asked gesturing toward Amethyst who was walking alongside Vidalia. Pearl simply nodded her head, "What happened?" Rose asked.

And for some reason when Rose asked her that Pearl spilt out everything that had happened between her and Amethyst. By the end Rose was in tears, "You have to talk to her Pearl." Rose replied firmly like a mentor to their student. Pearl affirmatively nodded her head.

As it turned out Amethyst had been given the same advice by Vidalia and Greg after admitting the whole "situation" to them. "Girl, you gotta talk to her." Vidalia replied.

"Sounds like that one time, I had a talk with Rose, ever since I did our relationships been better off." Greg added. Amethyst flinched at the word relationship, was the term ever applicable? She guessed it was for Greg's story but it didn't seem to fit her and Pearl. But Amethyst shook it off as normal, like a rock as Vidalia commonly described her. The first four classes that day Amethyst and Pearl sat in their respective places, Pearl not wanting to interfere a lesson with her personal "drama" and Amethyst just thinking over the situation for a while.

The lunch bell rang awakening Amethyst, had she really fallen asleep in class again? Amethyst shook her head as she gathered her binders and headed toward her locker. She quickly fetched her lunch bag and placed the binders in her locker. Locking the door behind her. For lunch her first idea was to find Pearl, she'd be alone as usually so them talking wouldn't be an interference. And then she saw Pearl sitting at a small table for two in the cafeteria, their table. Amethyst took the seat across from her only after Pearl had replied, "That seats taken."

Amethyst laughed, "Doesn't look taken to me besides we really need to talk."

Pearl nodded her head, "I suppose we do." She replied as she looked at Amethyst sitting across from her, "I'm all ears."