"Amethyst, are you sure Pearl isn't going to get mad at us?" Steven asked, lingering in the frame of the doorway apprehensively. The dark storm clouds weren't as violent as they were earlier, now hanging rather raggedly in the sky as though entirely exhausted by their earlier tantrum. The flashes of lightning that had been constant throughout the day had gone off to light up some other town in the distance. Even the staccato of rain had fizzled out to a soft, cool drizzle.

"Dude, is Pearl here right now?" Amethyst asked, balancing on the slick railway, her messy arms waving around at her sides.

"No, but-."

"Then how she's going to get mad at us?" Amethyst hooted, flipping back onto the deck, landing squarely in a puddle. Steven flinched as the cold water hit his bare thighs.

"But Pearl says I'm not supposed to be 'indecent'." Steven mumbled, tugging at his underwear-the only article of clothing he was currently wearing. It was also the cleanest part of him seeing that the majority of his body was covered in tomato sauce, melted cheese, and exploded pasta.

"Bro, we're not naked! Besides we're doing this to get clean. Plus if we use the shower it'll get dirty too." Amethyst insisted, wiping some of the caked pasta out of her hair and sticking it in her mouth.

"I…guess so." Steven sighed, looking back to the newly cleaned kitchen. It had taken them two whole hours to scrub every bit of spaghetti from the walls, floor, refrigerator, stove and ceiling. He really didn't feel like cleaning any more (how did Pearl do it?). Even it meant not having a nice warm bath.

"Then come on, let's hurry up and do this before they get back." Amethyst shouted, jumping back onto the rail and diving backwards onto the soggy ground. Steven tentatively stepped into the rain, sighing happily as the sticky paste and parmesan washed away. He had a brought a bar of soap with him and a sponge and began rubbing it against his skin and followed Amethyst down to the beach.

...

"Hurry up, man!" Amethyst whispered, throwing him his PJ shirt.

"I can't button it that fast!" Steven groaned, grabbing at his pants and pulling them up as fast as he could instead.

"Okay, okay. Uh, we got the kitchen clean, you're dressed - are we forgetting anything?"

"Um…" Steven's stomach suddenly growled loudly.

"Wait, you didn't eat any of the spaghetti?"

"Pearl says I'm not supposed to eat food off the floor." Steven mumbled sadly, rubbing his angry tummy.

"Half of it was on the wa-halllll!" Amethyst groaned.

"Pearl says the wall is just a slightly cleaner version of the floor though."

"Of course, she would say that." Amethyst rolled her eyes. "Well that was literally the last of the food - we probably shouldn't have blown it up."

"Yeah, probably." Steven sighed. "I'll just go get donuts early tomorrow I guess."

"I can go steal something?" Amethyst offered with a shrug, rubbing at her head guiltily.

"No, it's okay. They're gonna be back soon anyway." Steven sighed, rubbing his arms as a shiver wracked his frame.

It was true. It was 7:59pm. Pearl had said earlier that they would be back by 8pm. Pearl must have had some perfect internal clock of some kind because she was never, ever late and she and Garnet were probably in the warp stream right now.

"You remember right?"

"We ate dinner, played some video games and if any and all evidence is found of the prior explosion, we-being Amethyst and Steven, were not in the vicinity of it nor were we responsible for such an explosion." Steven recited.

"Good, well-."

The clock ticked over to 8pm and immediately the warp pad activated. Steven and Amethyst froze and watched as Pearl and Garnet arrived with a flash.

"Oh, thank goodness." Pearl sighed, stepping from the warp pad and approaching Steven with a smile. "We thought we might be late. Steven you misbuttoned your shirt again."

"Oh, ha ha...ha ha oops." Steven laughed weakly, nervously glancing at Amethyst before fiddling with the buttons with shaky hands.

"Amethyst…you made…something with tomato sauce?" Pearl had taken a quiet whiff of the room, easily picking up on the scent despite all the soap they'd use. Amethyst and Steven froze once again, comically tense. "Good, ordering pizza every time we're gone isn't healthy."

"Yep, super feeling all that healthy junk." Amethyst laughed loudly, slapping Steven on the back. Steven joined in with a slight grunt, backing up slightly towards the stairs.

"Wellll, I'm tired and I think I am going to go to bed now." Steven said robotically, finally getting his buttons to clasp properly.

"Are you sure?" Pearl asked, following Steven as he backed up. "It's only 8 after all. Isn't there some show you want to watch or perhaps some newfangled video game you wanna play?"

Amethyst subtly shook her head and frowned behind Pearl.

"Oh, no. I just wanna go to bed, cause you know...um it's finally quiet!" Steven exclaimed frantically.

"Quiet?" Pearl asked, cocking her head to the right.

"You know cause it's been really noisy cause of the thunderstorm." Steven muttered. "It's been hard to get really any sleep, but now it's nice and quiet. So I think I'm just going to go to bed now."

"Well, okay then. Good naugh-." Pearl gasped as Steven gave her a quick hug around her knees. He did the same to Amethyst, who playfully pushed him off and he tripped into Garnet's waiting arms. She hugged him tightly, nuzzling their cheeks together.

"Good night." Garnet mumbled calmly, taking him upstairs and tucking him into bed. "Sleep well."

"Yep good night dude!" Amethyst shouted, grabbing Pearl before she could ascend the stairs behind Garnet. "Hey uh Pearl, can you maybe - show me how to like organize my junk?"

"Amethyst! I thought you'd never ask." Pearl gasped, following behind Amethyst with a beaming smile. "Good night Steven!"

Steven watched as the two gems exited with a sigh before turning toward Garnet - who had now taken a seat on the side of his bed. She ran long fingers through his thick curls before picking something from his still slightly damp hair.

"I wonder how this piece of pasta got stuck in your hair?" Garnet asked knowingly. "Or how the bar of soap ended up on the rail outside? Or why you smell like rain?"

Steven buried himself further into his blankets with a blush. He should've known that Garnet would find out. Garnet always knew, even when there was no way for her to even know.

"You can't tell Pearl!" Steven whispered with a pout, peeking up from under the safety of his blanket.

"Alright." Garnet shrugged, leaning forward with a slight smile.

"Well, me and Amethyst were trying to make dinner since we couldn't go out or order pizza. But all the stuff we had left was pasta, cheese slices, green tomatoes, tomato sauce, and a bottle of parmesan cheese. So Amethyst said we should try making Spaghetti Lasgna Awesome Special Dish!"

"Sounds complicated."

"It totally was!" Steven exclaimed, jumping out of the blankets to stand. "Cause we didn't know exactly how to make it special - since Amethyst said we needed a special ingredient to really make it 'explode' with flavor."

"Hmmm." Garnet hummed.

"Well it turns out that putting 1 cup of fire salt mixed with olive oil into the pasta and then adding birthday candles was a really bad idea." Steven shrugged, climbing into Garnet's lap with a shiver. Garnet wrapped her arms around him, laying down on the bed with him.

"You weren't hurt?"

"Nope. The kitchen just got really dirty." Steven explained. "There was pasta EVERYWHERE! Even on us, but don't worry cause we totally cleaned everything up so Pearl won't get mad."

"And you took a shower outside in the freezing rain?" Garnet asked, rubbing her hands over Steven's still cold, pudgy cheeks.

"Only for a little bit an-and I wore my underwear so that I wouldn't be indecent, cause Pearl says that's rude." Steven yawned, snuggling into Garnet's arms.

"I suppose it is." Garnet shrugged. She personally didn't mind - mostly because Steven had learned how to take off his diaper quickly after learning how to walk. She and the others had been flashed too many times to count during his first three years of life. "Why didn't you take a bath in the bathtub in the house?"

"Me and Amethyst didn't want to clean it up after we were done." Steven shrugged, trying to blink away his growing drowsiness.

"Such an innovative little boy." Garnet chuckled softly, bringing him close for another quick kiss before retucking him into bed. She silently made her way back to the temple, shaking her head and sifting through the sudden pathways that Amethyst and Steven's Spaghetti Lasagna Awesome Special dish had created in the coming future.

A/N: Finals are done! I am free! Sorry for being a little late, had a final project I was procrastinating on. But I am back. Trying to work on the special, but obviously it may take me a while. So you guys have been too awesome and I've been really lazy. So I think it's time that we take a moment to thank the 346 people who have favorited this and the 94, 931 reads that couldn't happen without you guys! There are 392 reviews, all of which I have read way too many times, thank you guys for taking the time to write them. It is truly wonderful to hear from you, makes my day. There are 365 followers, thank you to those extra 20 or so who haven't committed to favorite yet, I still love you!

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