We manage to find Amy inside the beach house underneath that cliff. She's sprawled out of the couch and dozing off from what must have been some intense drinking. I'm so close to her that I can smell the alcohol on her breath. I think Garnet can smell it, too.

"Should we wake her?" Ruby asks me.

I shake my head no. "I don't think she'll need our help. She'll come to soon enough."

Just at that moment, Amy comes to and stares straight up at me.

"Ugh..." Amy murmurs. "What happened last night? How'd you guys get in?"

"Uh... through the door?" I answer, slightly confused. "Looks like you drank a lot before Ruby and I got here."

Amy doesn't quite understand at first, but then her eyes trail down to the empty cans of beer near the couch and on the coffee table.

"Oh, right..." Amy murmurs again. "I must've blacked out while getting wasted and watching 'How I Met Your Mother.'"

"Why were you watching 'How I Met Your Mother?'" I ask while utterly confused.

"I don't know. Why would I even want that stupid show? In fact, why am I talking right now when I should be trying to deal with this hangover?"

I look over to Ruby and we come to the conclusion that we should leave. As we make our way out of the beach house, we spot an old friend. It's Peri.

Peri appears to be filming something, and that something probably involves the two crabs in front of her. The two crabs keep circling in the same spot, seemingly waiting on which one will thrust their biggest claw. Peri can't wait to see what will happen next.

"Hey, Peri," I greet her from far away. "What's going on?"

Peri cranes her head around to see me and Ruby right beside her.

"Oh, it's nothing too special," Peri replies nonchalantly. "I'm just recording these two crabs and waiting to see what they will do."

"Oh, that must sound exciting."

Ruby snickers for a little bit. "Yeah, I bet."

I look over to Ruby sternly. "Ruby, be nice."

Ruby laughs sheepishly. "Sorry."

"Well, it's nice to see you came back to visit us, I guess," Peri says while she continues to film the crabs.

"Actually, Ruby and I just moved back here from London," I correct her.

"Ah. I stand corrected." She cranes her head to look at me again. "So why did you move back here?"

"It's a long story."

"Did it involve terrible neighbors?"

"Yeah, you could say that, but that's all you'll need to know."

"If you insist..." Peri stops filming the crabs after a while, having apparently already grown bored with them, and begins walking off. "Alright, I'm going to go down to the Big Donut."

"Okay!" I call out to her. "But just so you know: Pearl and Rose are in there, so you might not want to stay for long."


While passing by the Big Donut, we happen to spot Alexandra talking with Mr. Fryman about something. Since we're out of hearing range, we can't exactly tell how the conversation's going down between Alexandra and Mr. Fryman. One thing seems for certain, however: Alexandra doesn't seem comfortable with what she's experiencing right now.

"What do you think they're talking about?" Ruby asks me.

I shrug. "I'm not really sure. Maybe we can sneak in closer and find out?"

"Are you sure? Alexandra might not like it if we do that."

"Don't you want to know?"

"Well, yeah, but..."

"Then let's go."

We move in just a little bit closer, but we move to where we're just behind Mr. Fryman. Seems easy enough, right? We don't manage to hear everything between him and Alexandra, but the gist seems to be that Mr. Fryman has asked Alexandra to babysit his son Ronaldo while he and his wife go out somewhere.

"Okay, have a beautiful time!" Alexandra calls out to Mr. Fryman while he leaves.

"And you have a good day yourself!" Mr. Fryman calls back to her.

As soon as Mr. Fryman is gone, we start talking with our old friend.

"So... Mr. Fryman wants you to babysit his son, huh?" I ask while full of intrigue.

"Yeah," Alexandra replies. "He says he'll pay me, like, twenty bucks for the job. How long have you guys been standing there?"

"Not that long, right, Ruby?"

"Right!" Ruby answers quickly.

"Oh, okay. Do you want to help me babysit Ronaldo, right?"

Ruby and I look at each other sheepishly.

"Ooh, sorry," I reply to Alexandra. "Ruby and Garnet and I just moved back from London. We'll probably be unloading our things and moving into the beach house underneath the cliff for the rest of the day. Is that alright with you, Alex?"

Alexandra mumbles something that I can't hear at first.

"Huh?" I sound.

"That's fine," Alexandra says to me. "Guess I'll see you guys later."

"Alright, well, it was nice seeing you, too. Maybe Ruby and I will help you babysit some other day."

Alexandra beams up. "Oh yeah! I'd love that very much!"


Ruby and Garnet and I have now made it back inside the beach house. We look around at all the boxes that still need to be unpacked.

"Man, this is going to be a long week for us, huh?" Ruby asks me.

"I bet," I reply. "I wonder how Rose and the others will adjust to us living here."

"Probably as well as most of the other people here at Beach City. No worries, though. Things will get better for us later."

"What about Pearl? What do you think she's going to do now?"

"I don't know. I guess we'll have to wait and see."

I hope Ruby's right, but I can't be certain. All I have to go on is her word.