"—And her manager, I think. That was more or less a freebie. Wrestlers are into all sorts of stuff."

Amethyst added yet another line to her part of the scoreboard. She had divided it into three segments, one for her and the other two for her gem compatriots. She stepped back and admired her work. There were a lot of tally marks up there.

"Okay Garnet, lay it on me. How many humans did you do?"

The red gem sat in a reclining position. "I physically bonded with one."

Amethyst's head dipped. "Just the one?"

Garnet grinned, content with her answer. "Yes, just one."

Amethyst didn't know what to expect. "Did you like it at least?"

"There were enjoyable moments," Garnet shrugged. "It wasn't a regrettable experience."

Amethyst didn't have a response to that, or at least none that didn't involve roasting the group leader, so she turned and added a single line to Garnet's side.

"This should be the tiebreaker here. So, Pearl, did you prove me wrong?"

Whilst Garnet sat back in a relaxed mode, Pearl's back was straight, her hands resting on her knees, and her eyes staring off into the distance. She hadn't even blinked since she'd sat down.

"Yo, P!"

Pearl was brought back to reality with a jolt. She cleared her throat; "Oh, well, um, yes, heh, I, uh, well, I did, succeed in the task we agreed on…"

Amethyst chortled, "Way to go, P! I didn't know you had it in ya! So cmon, what numbers are we dealing with here?"

"Oh, you know, just they, uh, standard."

"Uh yeah, sure, but how many digits? You're good with numbers, c'mon now!"

Pearl still wasn't responding.

"Pearl?" Garnet intoned, her voice low and soothing, "There can be no clear winner until you reveal how many humans you succeeded in—"

"It was one, okay!? It was just one!"

In the vacuum of silence that followed, Pearl realized she'd had an outburst, and righted herself when she noticed Amethyst's cheeks swell up with a barely concealed snrk! She attempted a "Now in my defense-!" but was interrupted when Amethyst doubled over laughing.

Garnet leaned in to settle this. "Amethyst, there is nothing shameful about the low amount of humans Pearl managed to copulate with."

This only caused Pearl to blush with embarrassment and Amethyst to laugh even harder. This tore it. Pearl grabbed her by the lapel and pulled her in, pointing her nose down as to note poke Amethyst's eye out.

"Listen here, you. Nobody said this bet of ours was off just yet! I'm only just getting started! By the time I'm finished I'm going to be running LAPS around your pathetic little total, I guarantee it!"

Amethyst giggled a little. "OOOoo, big talk, Pierogi. You ready to eat those words?!"

Pearl grit her teeth, "I don't even have a digestive system!"

Without warning the door to the house flung open. In the span of a second, Pearl dropped Amethyst to the floor while Garnet grabbed the whiteboard and folded it in half like a sheet of paper, which was then dropped into Amethyst 's mouth, who swallowed it without chewing. As she was picking her teeth, Steven and Connie entered, not too much concerned at the tense atmosphere

"Steven, you're home!" Pearl said in an awkwardly positive tone, "and you've brought Connie with you, how nice!"

Steven rubbed the back of his neck, glancing away. "Yeah, sorry, probably should've called ahead a bit before."

"I hope it's alright with you all if I stay over," added Connie, "I finally got done with my SAT prep, so I finally got enough time to hang out with little Steven here." She squeezed his cheek, causing him to laugh nervously. "Knock it off, Connie, we're the same height now!"

"Oh, you're definitely bigger, all right!" purred Connie as she punched Steven playfully on the shoulder, "and you definitely know how to use your additional inches!" Steven was practically pink-skinned. Pearl coughed.

"Alllllrighty, well, don't let us interrupt you or anything. We're gonna head out anyhow."

"Oh?" enquired Steven, hanging up his jacket on the coatrack while Connie fished around in her backpack for snacks, "You guys have Gem business to attend to?"

Amethyst chortled. "You could say that, yeah, it's definitely business!" Pearl smacked her on the back of the head.

"Do you want me to help out then? It's been a while since we went on patrol—"

All three gems were already inching out the door whilst clustered together. "No no no, not at aaaallll, we can handle it!" cooed Pearl in an overt motherly tone, "you just stay here and have your little playdate with Connie, we'll be back later!"

Steven was still blushing. "I said it's not a date!"

Amethyst was now practically pushing the other two gems out. "You keep telling yourself that, bud!"

The door slammed shut and Steven watched as the three sprinted down the steps. They were definitely up to something, he thought. However, that thought was quickly forgotten when he turned around and saw Connie, who was now wearing fewer clothing layers than she was before. Now he was the one being grabbed by the lapel.

"I thought they'd never leave. Now, c'mere, big boy!"