High School Freshman Year Second Semester
Normal lunch as usual, with the food holding the world record for mediocrity and the many students cursing the name of Michelle Obama. Lapis Lazuli stared down at the pile of food on her gray platter while her friends chattered away.
"Hey, Lapis! Where's Peri?" one of her friends asked.
The blue-haired girl looked up to across the table, "I have no idea. She said she had a 'surprise' for me but I have no idea what that could mean."
"Yeah! With Peridot that could literally mean anything!" another friend from her group agreed.
If today had gone how she thought it always would, Lapis would have munched on the mediocre food, but today, nor Peridot, had that in mind.
The intercom in the cafeteria suddenly came to life, and the sounds of an amplifier starting up with a piano starting to play.
"Oh no. Please don't tell me," Lapis blurted out.
"The Darkside's coming out nothing is real. She'll never know just how I feel," on que, Peridot's singing filled the entire cafeteria. The sound quality wasn't great, Peridot didn't have the greatest singing voice, but the passion of her voice and of her piano playing more than made up for it.
"From out of the shadows she walks like a dream. Make me feel crazy make me feel so mean! Ain't nothing gonna save you from the love that's blind, slip into the dark side and cross that line!" suddenly more instruments began playing from Peridot's piano program, while the girl stepped up from her electronic instrument to a mike stand. With a nod to a janitor she paid off, the curtains to the stage in the cafeteria opened, "On the darkside! Oh yeaah! On the darksiiide! Oh yeaaah!"
When the song's rhythm changed, Peridot started dancing to the rhythm, now with an audience of the entire student body. Eventually the clapping in the song got everyone to start clapping along too. Just as Peridot started singing, she rapidly tapped her feet on the floor to the drum, "The Darkside's coming out nothing is real. She'll never know just how I feel! From out of the shadows she walks like a dream. Make me feel crazy make me feel so mean! Ain't nothing gonna save you from the love that's blind, slip into the dark side and cross that line!" just before Peridot had to sing more lines, she ran for a saxophone and slipped the strap on before running back to the mic, "On the darkside! Oh yeaah! On the darksiiide! Oh yeaaah!"
Now even more skillfully, Peridot played a long, sick, and awesome sax solo that was even louder than the song playing through her piano.
The whole time, she never stopped looking at Lapis. She knew where Lapis was sitting and kept her eyes on her the whole time. If it weren't for the fact it would have gotten her suspended with her, she would have invited her on stage to dance.
"Ain't nothing gonna save you from the love that's blind, slip into the dark side and cross that line! On the darkside! Oh yeaah! On the darksiiide! Oh yeaaah!"
The song ended with Peridot bowing to her fellow classmates who bellowed in cheers. She rubbed the back of her head while she blushed from the praise. She looked through the crowd for Lapis, unable to find her amongst the sea of faces. Not helping matters was the intercom going, "Would Peridot Olivine please report to the principal's office!"
With no choice, Peridot grabbed her saxophone, her keyboard, bowed to the audience and walked towards the fate of her academic career. While the crowd cheered for her name, she couldn't stop searching for Lapis.
"Well, time to face the music," Peridot muttered to herself, raising her fist while she left the cafeteria.
While she was walking to her car, she thought of the conversation with the principal that mainly was him complaining and raising hell at her for disrupting lunch. Ultimately, after an hour long throwdown, the old man suspended her for a week and gave her another week of detention. She was expecting worse, and thought that the only reason the old bastard didn't expel her was that he liked the song she sung.
Peridot opened the backseat to her shitty, white car and placed her instruments inside, "Hey."
The blonde hit her head on the car roof when she heard her voice, "Oh, hey," she replied while she rubbed the back of her head, "So, uh. How are you?"
Lapis raised an eyebrow, "How am I? How am I?" she leaned against Peridot's car, "Well, the girl that I've been best friends with for two and a half years goes on stage, sings her heart out, and it's clearly to me about how she loves me and I don't know how to react to that!" Lapis poured her heart out, "I've been alright."
"You figured out what that song was about pretty quick, huh?"
"You didn't hide it to me very well," she admitted.
For a few moments, the two of them said nothing as they watched the Texas Sun set into the horizon, "So. Did you like the song?"
Lapis turned to her best friend, put her arms around her and held her tight, "I loved it. I loved it almost as much as I loved you."
Peridot hugged Lapis back, pulling her in as much as she possibly could, "I've known you for two years, and I think I've loved you for a year."
"Pfft, that's nothing. I've started loving since we played Pokemon in bed for the first time,"
Peridot looked into Lapis face and started piecing things together, "So you've loved me since eighth grade?"
"Yep. Congratulations, Peridot, you turned me gay," they shared a laugh for a little while, "So I gotta ask. What now?"
Peridot reached for her keys and held them up, "I've got the perfect place in mind."
In a corner of some Wataburger, Peridot Olivine and Lapis Lazuli sat across from each other, eating chicken strips.
They said nothing to each other, basking in their own company as old country music played, "The Swim Finals are coming up soon," Lapis suddenly brought up, "Will you be there?"
Peridot looked up and nodded, "Nothing will stop me from watching you swim!"
College Freshman Year Second Semester
Peridot looked down at her prosthetic leg, randomly tapped the metal and thought, "I'm hungry for some chicken tenders."
A/N A little story as to how Peridot and Lapis got into a relationship. This story is meant to be non-linear so just sit back and enjoy yourselves you crazy kids :D, it'll be like Pulp Fiction, except without the violence and the foot fetishism.