Steven didn't mind this new place. It's very different from all the places he's ever been. It's as though someone went inside his brain and got all the fun stuff he ever thought about and threw it into a room. There were rainbows, smiley suns, toys everywhere, bright colors, Steven-sized chairs, carpets that smelled like candy, paint and crayons.

It was Steven heaven.

At first, Steven hadn't liked that his daddy had left him alone here with only a strange lady, but now that he could see all of the cool stuff, his daddy could stay gone for as long as he needed. Steven grabbed a big piece of paper, still maintaining his tight grip on Sir Bearington and took a seat at one of the perfectly sized tables. Most tables were made for big people like his Daddy and Garnet – he always had to use booster seats or sit in someone's lap.

"Soooo….Steven, is this your very first time at a kindergarten?" The lady asked, doing her best to balance on the tiny seat. She introduced herself as Mrs. Sunny.

Steven nodded shyly resisting the urge to suck his thumb nervously – as that was for babies not big boys. He nibbled anxiously on Sir Bearington's ear (which didn't help as much as his thumb would have but would have to do).

"And you're about to turn five years old, huh? You're really a big boy aren't you?" Mrs. Sunny asked, smiling gently and grabbing a giant box of crayons. She let them spill onto the table. Steven's jaw dropped, marveling at the countless amounts of colors. Steven proudly knew all of the colors of the rainbow, Pearl had taught him personally. He knew there were more colors, colors that weren't quite blue or green, but he hadn't known someone had made them into crayons.

"I'm four haf." Steven whispered, grabbing one of the fat crayons and squinting at the tiny scrawl. "I can't read, wha color dis please?"

"That one is called outer space." Mrs. Sunny said.

As soon as he heard its name, he immediately scribbled it on the page. Then he looked back at the box and reached for another one, asking its name each time before coloring another bit of the page. When he got through all 64 colors, even the rainbow colors (even though he knew those already); he and Mrs. Sunny began to play with the blocks. In the middle of one of their many castles in their kingdom (all owned by Sir Bearington of course), his daddy returned.

"Hey Steven, you having fun?" Greg sat down next them, a little folder of papers in his hands.

"Yes, lookie." Steven began to waddle around the colorful kingdom, lost in his own world.

"So, uh he looks good, social wise? He spends lots of time around older people and kids." Greg stuttered. "Just not a lot of time with kids his actual age, but he loves people really!"

"Mr. Universe, he seems fine. Normal four and a half year old boy." Mrs. Sunny grinned. "Eager to learn, likes playing and warms up quickly. I think he'll fit in here just fine, but…"

"But- what but?" Greg whispered, accidentally crushing the paper file as his hands balled into fists.

"I think his daddy might be more nervous about this then he is." Mrs. Sunny chuckled, laying a hand on his tense shoulders. "With the way you walked in here, I was a bit worried you had helped produce a demon child. You were sweating up a storm."

"Oh…ha…uh yeah." Greg chuckled weakly, rubbing the back of his neck. He muttered quietly to himself. "It's not Steven who I'm worried about."

"May I ask who then?" Mrs. Sunny asked, happily accepting some of the blocks Steven had deemed unacceptable and placing them in her lap.

"Well…Steven has these…auuuunnnts?" Greg muttered with a frown. "They don't really like the…the government and stuff or-or anything like it. They don't really like schools or taxes and junk either – cause of the government you know! And…I k-kinda didn't tell them about taking him here cause last time I mentioned kindergarten one of them almost ripped me a new one."

"Oh, but we're not like most kindergartens. Charm ISD made this kindergarten with some of the smaller towns in this residential area like Beach City in mind. To make sure the kids had a familiar, laid back environment."

"I know, but they reeeaally don't like kindergartens."

…

"Okay buddy, what do we say when Pearl asks where we went?" Greg asked, peeking in the rear view window, watching Steven fervently lick his melting cookie cat.

"Um…we went to go see toy store." Steven mumbled, desperate to catch the many rivulets of melting ice cream before they reached his elbows.

"Good! Yes, and that's where we got you these new crayons." Greg sighed, looking briefly at the shiny plastic bag filled with a few boxes of different crayons. Greg had felt pretty bad about teaching Steven about lying and had bought these to compensate for the trouble.

"Daddy, how come we can't tell?" Steven asked, accidently smearing himself a chocolatey beard when the van bumped up and down. "Is kindergarten bad?"

"No, kindergartens aren't bad." Greg grumbled. "Wasn't it fun? You could meet tons of new friends and get to play safely all day when I'm not around."

"Fun there, but Pearl, Ametsyt and Ganet watch Steven day, they come too?" Steven asked. "I don' tink Ganet will fit chair though."

"No buddy, kindergarten is only for big boys and girls, not adults." Greg chuckled, gulping as the house came into view. "If we tell the gems they would want to come with you and they would get really jealous."

"Don't want to get jealous?" Steven sighed, rubbing an ice cream covered fist against his eye.

"Yep, so we won't tell them, right?" Greg asked, turning the key and listening to the soft sputter of the engine die. A skinny shadow peaked out the window of the house.

"Yep." Steven chirped, happy to be home and very much ready for his nap.

A/N: Sorry for the lack of updates, I've got this infection and the meds I've been taking have been making me kinda hazy. Plus side, I'm now a vampire since I can't be in direct contact with sunlight for the next week, so I've just been binging Steven Universe and Voltron. Hopefully once these meds calm down, I'll be able to sit up and write more. Can't wait for Steven Nuke to drop - also partially scared for the terror of a hiatus that it will bring with it.

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