It was a beautiful day, Steven and Connie taking selfies on his phone.

"You blinked!" Steven laughed, looking at the picture.

"Let's take another one." Connie grinned.

Steven turned and saw the ocean. "Oh wait. What if we get a shot with the ocean behind us? That'd be so cool!" He ran to the edge of the cliff and motion Connie to him, "Come on, Connie!"

Connie blushed and joined him. Steven held up the phone. "Say "cheese"!" He said. They grinned and said, "Cheeeeeese!" They kept smiling as Steven tried to press the capture button, but failed.

"Did it take it?" Connie said through her teeth.

"I don't know." Steven murmered back.

"Press it again."

"I've been pressing it."

"You guys look cute." They turned and saw the mailman, Jamie smiling up at them with black sunglasses on.

"Oh! Jamie! It's so great to see you again!" Connie cried, running to him.

"Jamie! You're back!" Steven gasped, running after Connie.

"Good morning, Connie, Steven. Long time, No see!" Jamie laughed. He offered Connie a high five and she accepted.

"Hi Jamie!" Steven said, also giving a high five. "Where have you been?"

"Oh, you know, just spendin' some time where all the big pictures are made…" Jamie sighed wistfully.

Connie and Steven looked at each other and Connie whispered, "Uh, where's that?"

"Just a little place called Kansas!" Jamie said waving his hand across the sky.

"You're a movie star?!" Steven gasped with stars in his eyes.

"I am, a actor, good sir." Jamie said, giving a bow to the boy.

"Wow, I didn't know you wanted to be an thespian." Connie grinned.

"That's because," Jamie turned and clutched his heart. "I'm very good at acting."

The children clapped for him. Connie cocked her head with a eyebrow arched saying, "Ah! So, that's why you're wearing those glasses that say "Movie Star"." She pointed to his glasses.

"Uh, well, no. I just bought these at a souvenir shop." Jamie blushed. "I missed being a regular old mailman, so I just came back." He dropped a big bag at his feet. "And you, miss Universe, got a lot of mail while I was
gone."

"Looks like the postal service has been slacking off." Steven said.

"Jamie's the only mailman that knows where I live." Connie said with a smile.

"I'm gonna need a lot of signatures as well." Jamie said.

Connie tried to crack her knuckles but failed.

"Your knuckles are so quiet." Steven whispered.

"My hands are polite."

Steven squinted and frowned. "Connie… why's the ground shaking?"

Connie then noticed it too, it was a very slight rumble that turned to a tremor. A crack suddenly opened between the children and Jasper gave a yell as she leapt out. She shook rocks out of her hair. She glanced around, seeing she had knocked
both Connie and Steven over. The crack was filled back in with sand.

"Oh, kiddo, you okay?" Jasper gasped, helping Connie up. She either didn't notice or ignored Steven behind her, to be honest, it was most likely latter.

She didn't notice Jamie had taken off his glasses, staring at this goddess-like gem.

When Jasper saw, she tilted her head. "You okay, bud?"

Connie leapt in front of him. "Did you find them?" She asked hopefully.

Jasper gave a sigh, "Nope. Didn't find the runt and Garnet anywhere… I searched to the core of the Earth."

Connie nodded sadly and hung her head. "Thanks for trying…"

"How did you get to the core of the Earth?" Jamie whispered in awe.

"Easy." Jasper smirked. "I was made in the core of the Earth." She said epicly.

Jamie stared.

Jasper suddenly shook off rocks like a dog, and Jamie thought it was amazing and beautiful.

Some time later, Connie and Steven were unwrapping Connie's many packages.

"Connie, why did you order so many boxes of Sea Pals?" Steven asked.

Connie grinned, "Well, Peridot was certain they were real sea animals, even though I kept telling her they weren't. So, I ordered just one to make her see that… they didn't show up, so I kept ordering more!"

"Cool! I love Sea Pals!" Steven gushed.

"Want some? I got plenty." Connie laughed. They were about to exchange when they heard a small cough. They turned to see Jamie looking very nervous clutching a rose pink letter.

"H-H-Hello, Connie…" He said, blushing hard.

Connie cocked her head and pointed to a letter. "What's that?"

Jamie flinched a little. "Uh... It's…" He looked at the letter, then shoved it into Connie's hands. "Here!"

"But, what is," She looked up and saw him running away, laughing like a manic. "it…"

Connie slowly turned it around and she and Steven gasped for it said, "For Jasper"

They were too shocked to see Jamie still running and flapping his scrawny arms like a chicken with it's head cut off.

They rushed to the beach house to tell Jasper. "Jasper! Jasper! Jasper! The most unbelievable thing has happened!" Connie cried, almost bumping into the gem.

"Whoa, kiddo!" Jasper laughed, stepping around her. "You can tell me later! Right now, I got to go." Jasper said, her helmet appearing. She attempted to walk away, when Connie struggled out, "But… You got a letter!"

Jasper stopped. She turned and saw Connie holding the pink letter. "Read it, now."

Connie opened it and read Jamie's letter: "To Jasper…."

Connie imagined Jamie writing this dressed in Shakspherin clothes, in a candlelit study, pouring his very heart into this letter. She imagined him writing, "When I saw you rise like an ancient goddess of earth, a white hot steel pierced the
deepest artery of my being!" He maybe had used his hands to make dramatic gestures? "You, you are a cardiac surgeon and I am your transplant patient and you stand poised over my chest, holding my still beating heart. Hesitating, waiting,
wondering. So I implore you to join me for dinner, or maybe lunch if you wanna keep it casual, next Friday at the Crab Shack! I await your response, as the camellia awaits the rise of the moon! 'Cause, you know, it only blooms at night and stuff.
Love, Jamie…"

Steven had stars in his eyes and whispered, "I think Jamie is asking you out. On a date!" He blushed.

"Well, that's not happening." Connie answered.

"Absolutely not." Jasper grunted.

"But why?"

"Jasper doesn't like humans very much, besides, she doesn't like to date, she just likes to be single."

"Yeah, fusing with a human is impossible, and it would only make me weaker." Jasper explained.

Connie nodded in agreement.

"But why can't you just try?" Steven begged, "Jamie put so much thought into this letter! We gotta reply at least!"

"Uh, no, we don't." Jasper growled. Connie grabbed Jasper's arm. "He has a point…"

Jasper gave a groan walking over to the couch. She purposely sat between Connie and Steven. Steven picked up a pencil and paper, "Okay, so, Jamie'll probably like it if this kinda sounds like his letter. And start off with something like,
Dearest Jamie,—"." Steven looked up, winking, "Go for it, dude!"

Jasper avoided eye contact and mumbled out, "No."

"Please, Jasper-" Connie tried.

"N. O. That's my letter, straight, simple, poetic, rolls off the tounge, oh, and-"

"That can't be it!" Steven cried.

Jasper gave the child one look of utter destruction in her eyes.

"O-Ok! Honest! That's.. I like it!" Steven laughed, sweat rolling down his cheek.

Connie looked at Jasper who gave a halfhearted shrug.

"Where do you think he could be?" Steven asked.

"Prehaps he's taking a lunch break, seems logical, it is noon." Connie shrugged. She then saw the man sitting on a log at the beach, staring at the sky. "He's right there!" She pointed.

"Jamie!" Connie cried, running to him with Steven not far behind.

"Oh hi, Steven and Connie." Jamie sighed wistfully as Connie and Steven sat down beside him, "You guys come here to stare at the ocean and think about life too?"

Steven gave a chuckle. "No! We came to uh-" He moved to give Jamie the letterbut the man interrupted with a monologue, "Yeah, life is crazy. One day you're right here in Beach City delivering mail and then the next thing you know,
you're on a bus to Kansas, following your dreams of becoming an actor. "Follow your dreams," they said. But no one said anything about all the rejection and sadness there was to be found." The man clutched his fist, watching seagulls flying in
the sky. "So many auditions day after day. So much rejection day after day. That's why I came back…" The seagulls suddenly slammed into each other and fell into the ocean. "One more rejection would have destroyed my fragile heart."
He gave a sigh and wiped his tearfully eyes. "Sorry, some times I get caught up in the "drama zone", you know?"

Connie glanced at Steven whispering, "Yeah, right... "drama zone"."

Steven immediately crushed the letter in his fist.

A few minutes later, Connie smoothed out the paper and held a pencil. She erased what they had written before.

"How can we give this letter to Jamie now? He might get upset." Steven sighed.

"We can make adjustments." Connie said firmly.
"We can match Jamie's poetic language and let him down easy! I watched some episodes of a torrid soap opera once, so I'm confident that I get the gist of romance." She started to write, "Dear Jamie. You, dear camellia, expectantly await the
light of my moon, yet my light is more of a scorching.. wilting… dry desert heat. And as for your metaphorical surgeon, it is with a heavy heart that I urge you to seek a second opinion. I return your heart to you-"

""Also, your hair is nice." Steven added.

"Hair... is... nice. Yours, but not really, Jasper."
Connie said softly, ending the letter.

"Perfect." Steven murmered.

They soon walked out to Connie's mailbox and put the letter to Jamie in. "We did it." Connie beamed.

Connie was reading a mystery book at the light of a flashlight as it poured rain outside. She nearly jumped out of her skin when she heard, "Jasper!"

"Jasper! Where art thou, my sweet scorching sunbeam?" Connie ran out to the porch and saw Jamie, soaking wet in the rain, "Jasper! I read thy letter and I understand. Thou hast returneth mine heart!"

"No! No, that's not what—" Connie tried but he didn't see her, too caught in his own feelings.

"Jasper. You like my hair just as I adore yours. Come to me, Jasper." Jamie sighed in longing.

"Jamie!" Connie yelled sharply, snapping him out of it.

"Ah, young mistress Connie," Jamie said, looking up at the girl, "pray thee, where is Lady Jasper?"

"She... she's, no— She's not coming." Connie sighed in defeat.

"But I've come to proclaim my love for my woman!" Jamie yelled, making a dramatic and almost scary face.

"No, Jamie," Connie sighed. "you don't understand, I—" She gave a gasp when Jasper suddenly walked out. She glared down at Jamie, "What do you want wi, mailman?"

"Jasper! Hah, you've come." Jamie whispered.

"You can tell Connie about all the beautiful things you wrote to me in your missive!" Jamie said, producing the letter.

Jasper glanced at it, "Stop lying, twerp, I didn't make that!"

"But it's all right here, stained with tears of joy, and now also rain." Jamie ensisted.

Connie felt guilty and finally let it out. "Steven and I wrote that letter, Jamie!"

"What?" Jamie gasped, looking almost heartbroken.

"I'm sorry, Jamie. We just wanted to let you down easy." Connie explained.

Jamie said in a low and sad tone to Jasper, "Willst thou not scorch me, my darling sun?"

"How dare you call me darling!" Jasper growled. She then gave a sigh and said, "Leave me alone! I'm not interested and will never, ever be interested in you! GO AWAY, NOW!"

Jamie gasped in shock, clenching a fist and holding the other to Jasper. "M-My panache!" He then ran away, crying.

"Jamie! Wait! Please!" Connie cried while Jasper crossed her arms.

Connie and Steven sat on a grassy area bellow the beach house, feeling guilty and sad.

"I feel so bad for poor Jamie." Connie sighed.

"Yeah, but I'm sure he'll bounce back from this in no time. He's probably gonna show up with the mail any moment now!" Steven said with hopeful optimism.

Connie gave a small smile and Steven grinned back.

"'Scuse me, kids!" They suddenly heard. They turned to see a short and stout woman who looked much like Sadie with a letter in her hand. "I'm looking for the home of... Connie Universe?"

"Oh! I'm Connie, madam, nice to meet you." The girl said, walking to where the woman was.

"Hey!" The woman laughed, recognizing her. "You're Doug girl! I thought Jamie was pulling my leg when he told me you were living over here."

Connie looked around her, searching for the man and asked, "Where is Jamie?"

"Oh, that poor kid's emotions have been destroyed!" The woman cried.

"W-what?!" Connie gasped.

"Yeah, he's a mess! Said he couldn't bear to deliver mail on this route again after having his love spurned."

Steven walked up behind Connie with his head tilted in curiosity.

"He said it just like this." The woman striked a pose just as Jamie often did. "Like, like when he's in the "drama zone". Then he clenched his fist and closed his eyes like this—" She did so for demonstration. "full of
drama 'til the end…"

The children merely stared in suprise.

" Anyway, here's a book of coupons." Connie numbly took it and the woman walked away, with a "Have a good one!"

Connie exchanged a concerned look with Steven. Suddenly, Jasper slammed in front of them, fighting some kinda rock monster. She kicked the rocks apart and grabbed the gem from it. Connie and Steven watched in amazement and Jasper turned. She frowned,
"What's up with you? Look like someone got shattered."

"Because of us, Jamie is feeling lower than ever." Connie sighed.

"We shattered the man!" Steven cried.

"He'll never love again!" Connie whispered, tears in her eyes.

"Ugh, I'll fix this." Jasper muttered. She started walking towards the town. Connie and Steven went after her, running while Jasper walked and was still ahead of them.

"But your words will destroy him!" Connie cried.

"Can't you just, like, zap his brain so he forgets any of this ever happened?" Steven begged.
Jamie sat on his log again, letting many letters blow into the wind and into the ocean. A shadow covered him, "Jamie, right?" He turned to see Jasper.

"Jasper!" Jamie gasped in surprise. Jasper sat down next to him. "Listen, I didn't mean to make you upset, I mean, I kinda did, but I feel bad now. So… sorry."

"Oh! So, will you go out with me?" Jamie asked happily, spirits lifted.

"Are you even- No!" Jasper snapped.

Jamie looked at her with a dreamy exsprsion, and whispered, "But I've loved you since the moment I saw you."

"Love at first sight doesn't exist." Jasper growled then softened. "Love takes time, and love takes work. I haven't experienced this kind of romantic love, and if I have," Jasper smirked, "I wouldn't know. But I've seen
it happen, I've seen love create something strong and powerful, cause love's like that, ya know? ….You literally have no idea of who, or what, I am, so you should not want to date me."

"But I bloom for you like... like a... camellia... under moonlight." Jamie whispered.

"Probably not, bud." Jasper shrugged. Jamie looked upset and Connie glanced at Steven with surprise.

"You know, you make a pretty good lovesick fool. You convinced these kids," Jasper motioned to Steven and Connie. "You even convinced yourself. You're not half bad for a actor, Jamie."

"What am I supposed to do now?" Jamie said with maturity.

"Start with local theater, I guess." Jasper shrugged. She slapped Jamie on the back and walked away.

Connie and Steven walked up and Connie cocked her head, "Are you okay?"

Jamie gave a weak smile. "Yeah. That was some pretty solid advice."

"Were those more letters you wrote to Jasper?" Steven asked.

"No. That was the mail I was supposed to deliver on my last route." Jamie said. Jamie stared at the ocean while Connie and Steven stared at him.

"We'll help you pick it all up." Connie smiled.

"Thanks."