Steven felt something lightly tap his forehead and stick between his eyebrows. Blinking the sleep out of his eyes, it took a second for him to be lucid enough to recognize Amethyst perched on the headboard of his bed. Her face was upside-down from his point of view, and she had … something in her mouth.
"Yo, Steven! You were making some weird faces. Did you have a cool dream?"
"Oh, uh," Steven said to stall as he sat up and scratched the back of his head. Did he have a dream? All he could remember was….
His recollection was interrupted by Amethyst. She'd climbed down and was now licking Steven where he'd felt the tap earlier. He'd known her so long it didn't really faze him, and he just treated it like an overly affectionate dog. "Haha, c'mon, cut it out. What are you doing?"
Amethyst pulled away once she'd gotten all of it. "Sorryyyy, I just dropped some on you." That was when Steven noticed she had somehow obtained, and was holding, an actual honeycomb. This wasn't especially surprising to him either. When she bit into it, syrupy red-orange honey oozed out of the cells and stuck around around her mouth.
"Yeah, just try not to get any on my bed," Steven said lightheartedly as he hopped out. After shooing Amethyst out of his room and getting dressed, he skipped down the stairs to find Pearl and Garnet waiting in the kitchenette for him.
"Good morning, Steven!" Pearl sing-songed brightly, joining her hands together with a clap. "Is our big man ready for his big day?"
"He was born ready," Garnet said with a single nod.
"'Course I am!" Steven said with laughter in his voice. It was the third anniversary of the day Steven changed the course of the Gem empire's history. To celebrate the newfound peace and freedom, there was a multi-day gala spectacular being thrown for all gemkind. This was the day gem tourists from all over the galaxy would be coming to Earth where it all started. Mostly partying around Beach City and the temple where he lived.
"Hey, tell them about your cool dream," Amethyst encouraged as she sucked the remaining honey off each of her fingertips in sequence.
Steven squinted as he tried again to remember. Suddenly, he felt ravenously hungry. Like he was going to starve to death if he didn't eat everything in sight. Maybe it was just smelling that sweet clover honey scent while he was asleep that did it.
"I don't really remember, it was probably just about going to Funland or something," Steven rationalized. "Anyway, I gotta make some breakfast."
"No you don't," said Garnet with a knowing smirk and an adjustment of her visor.
Steven raised an eyebrow.
"That's riiiight!" Pearl joined in. It was just then Steven noticed they had been standing together the whole time so as to block the view of the breakfast bar. They stepped apart at the same time, like it was rehearsed, to show multiple plates teeming with Together Breakfasts of pancakes, whipped cream, strawberries, and bacon. "Ta-da!"
"Aw, you guys! This is so great! Thanks!" Steven said with his eyes sparkling ecstatically.
"No prob dude," said Amethyst, grinning.
Pearl, with an effort, refrained from pointing out that Amethyst hadn't helped with the preparation at all, to avoid spoiling the moment. "I added the protein to give you all the nutrients necessary for humans to get strong," she explained.
"He's already strong," said Garnet.
"StrongER," Pearl corrected herself with a smile.