Cora Universe had returned to her beautiful home by slamming the door.
The eighteen-year-old girl had very long dark burgundy hair, gathered in two odangos, but with convoluted curls that went down happily to her hips, penetrating eyes of the same color and candy pink skin.
She was the daughter of Steven and Spinel, born thanks to the successful split of her parents' gem, which had allowed the creation of a new life without the tragic event that had marked Pink Diamond's existence.
Cora, however, with the fusion of spinel and diamond, had received another pink gem as a gift; a tourmaline, which showed off on the lobe of her left ear.
On that sunny spring day, Cora had run home crying desperately, and had dived into her mother's arms, who after the wedding with Steven had returned to live on Earth as a psychologist for Gems. She was certainly the most suitable person, given what she had gone through.
"Hm? Whats up cutie?" she asked, stroking her head with her gloved hand.
"Mom... You were lucky to have met dad..."
Spinel narrowed her mouth slightly, not understanding where her daughter wanted to go.
This, meanwhile, had raised her head from her mom's abdomen, her eyes flooded with tears.
"Michael doesn't want me. I told him I like him, but he dodged me in a hurry, it almost seemed like he had a loathsome swarm of flies in front of him..."
Michael was a human, Cora's classmate, because she attended public schools.
Spinel smiled slightly.
"Cora... Was he rude while rejecting you?"
"No... But he was in a hurry, I understood it... He quickly dismissed me."
"Would you have preferred him telling you some useless spiel?"
"I would have liked him to console me, instead he limited himself to telling me that he wants to continue being a friend and then greeted me and ran away."
"Then he did very well... If he had stopped to console you, you would have received a wrong message, that there was still hope, and this wouldn't have been healthy."
"But he was clear, he doesn't want me at his side."
"Cora, often feelings and mind go differently. Irrationally you would have kept hoping, instead with his quiet coldness Michael was a true friend for you."
"How can a friend be cold?"
"Would you have preferred him to delude you? That he played with you, that he stretched things in order not to let you have the truth before your eyes?"
Cora felt a note of heavy unease in her mother, a vibrate in her voice that sounded almost like anger.
It was strange, she hadn't seen Spinel angry several times in her life.
She was a very good psychologist, master of her emotions.
"Mom... What's the matter?"
The pink Gem with long red hair, so similar to that of her daughter, sighed.
"I want to tell you a story..."