Amethyst walked inside the barn.
Though instead of her regular clothes, she was wearing a purple hoody with a hood covered her hair, unless some curls up front.
Immediately, Steven leaned over from the loft.
"Amethyst! Where have you been?" He asked happily, though a little worried because of the time she hadn't been present.
Amethyst turned her head to see Pearl and Garnet standing in the barn, looking back at her.
"Hey ya, guys." She greeted them, smiling and laughing a little as she put her hands in her pockets. "I, uh, kind of went to the store to get snacks and fell asleep in the dumpster."
"Oh." Steven let out a sound. "Do you want to come up and watch me play?"
Amethyst looked up at the boy, and then at the two gems standing in the middle of the barn, looking at her worriedly. "Sure, dude."
She ignored the gems and climbed up to the loft and sat behind Steven as Steven laid down on his stomach and continued playing.
The time went.
Amethyst watched him play for a while. But her mind was elsewhere.
"Where have you been, anyway?" Steven at last asked, busy playing his game.
Amethyst's eyelids sunk as she came to remember the things that had happened the previous 48 hours.
It was nighttime.
Heavy footsteps hit the ground in a rhythmic pace.
Amethyst struggled heavily in her grip, wrapped in her own whip, her shouts muffled by a large, orange hand.
After a long walk, they had soon reached their destination.
The kindergarten.
They walked to a big mountain wall, filled with big holes.
"Hey! Let go of me, dude!" Amethyst shouted as the orange gem let her fall to the ground. "Hey! What's the big deal?!"
The big gem then on summoned a pair of destabilizer-looking hand-cuffs from the gem on her nose.
"Hey! Quit that!" Amethyst shouted, and then just yelped as Jasper locked the cuffs around her arms. "Get those off me!" She yelled, trying to pull them apart and push them away with her foot, but only ended up electrocuting herself and send her sitting leaned against the wall.
"You made a fool out of me." Jasper muttered as she held her arm tight. "You made me stand out as a joke." She then summoned a dagger-looking weapon out of her gem. "I'm just returning the favor."
She grabbed a fist of white hair.
Piece after piece, the purple hair landed on the ground. Amethyst tried to fight but it was no use.
At last, she looked at the bigger quartz, tearful with anger as Jasper mockingly laughed at her.
"This is just sad! Look at you! Can't even escape the place you came from!" Jasper scoffed. She picked the smaller gem up and threw her inside a hole in the wall very familiar to Amethyst. "Life wronged you. And why's that? Because it's what you deserve." She pressed a her finger hard against Amethyst's forehead, pushing her back until she fell backwards.
Amethyst's head slammed against the wall and she fell down to her elbows.
"We all get what we deserve. And you. You deserve nothing." Slowly, the light was starting to fade away.
"No! No! No! NO!" Amethyst yelled flying up to rush outside, but crashed into a heavy rock instead. She groaned in pain but tried again. She slammed her body against the rocky- surface. Again. And again.
After a while, she leaned back against the wall. She was angry, her teeth almost shattering from clenching so hard. But still, the tears running down her cheeks could only prove signs of fear and hopelessness as she heard Jasper's laughter echo through the darkness.
The darkness in the cramped hole, inside the deserted place she used to call her home.
Amethyst's thoughts was broken by the sound of the game and she looked at the TV.
"So, that's the dumb guy?" She asked, pointing towards the figure in black.
"No! That's Lonely blade. That's me." Steven explained as he played his game. "In this game, Arrow Bow buried his brother, Wing Catch, twenty feet under ground in a box and we have to save him!"
"Why did he do that?" Amethyst asked, frowning.
"Because Wing Catch was a freedom fighter about 300 years ago, but Arrow Bow was not. So 300 years later, master Cobra ordered Arrow Bow to bury his brother beneath the ground." Steven explained. "I don't think that Arrow Bow really wanted to bury his brother though."
"But he did it anyway?" Amethyst frowned again. "Why?"
"Because he was scared. People do crazy things when they're scared." Steven explained with a soft smile. "And Arrow Bow was so angry too... I guess that when you are scared and mad at the same time... you don't have much common sense."
Amethyst listened to him closely.
Before her mind slowly started to travel again.
It was dark. And the space was cramped. And it was so quiet.
Amethyst terrified looked around the cramped space, barely able to move in the darkness.
Frightened tears ran down her cheeks as she watched the night go by. Or at least, she thought it was night.
The kindergarten was such a quiet place.
Amethyst rest a hand on Steven's shoulder. "Hey, Steven?"
Steven turned his head.
"I got to tell you something."