Chapter 1: Meeting the *Gasp!* Roommate.

Disclaimer: All rights go to Rebecca Sugar and Cartoon Network. None of it is mine, except for the plot. Sigh.

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Peridot looked up from the messy pile that was her bed and turned to look at the door, where a girl with short, blue, slightly windblown hair stood with a box in her arms and curled her lip in annoyance.

"What do you want?" She bark-asked, and was silently pleased when the girl seemed to reel back in surprise and looked at the number on the door for the third or fourth time. The girl wore a pair of grey, tight-fitting jeans with a pair of black sandals with a white and blue off-shoulder, long-sleeved shirt that covered her fingers.

"Uh, this is room D-A5-43, right?"

"What matter of it is to you, anyway?" Peridot replied rudely. The girl frowned, before she shook her head and it turned into a smile. She walked in, placed her box on top of the spare bed and held her right hand out.

"I'm your new roommate; Lapis Lazuli."

Peridot couldn't believe her ears. She had a roommate?! B-but she'd already applied for a room that was hers and hers alone! Was her request not approved by the university's authorities? She eyed the appendage warily, like it carried some sort of fatal disease before finally, reluctantly shaking it back with her own hand.

"Diamond… uh, Peridot."

"Cool, hey!" the girl replied. "I've never heard the name Diamond Peridot before. Is that really your real name? Isn't that kind of like a rock or something? I mean, I know that Diamond's technically a type of gem, but Peridot…" She shrugged. Peridot raised an eyebrow at her question. What kind of idiot did these people decided to pair her with, really?

"It's the other way around. The name's Peridot Diamond, actually." She answered and gritted her teeth. "And my name is as much as a rock as yours are, Lapis Lazuli." Peridot spat out venomously. "If you're allowed to be named after a gem, then I deserve that right as well." Lapis narrowed her thinly-sculptured eyebrow and crossed her arms defensively across her chest.

"Whoa, dude. You don't have to be rude, I'm just trying to be nice. We are going to live together for the next… whole semester, you know. Might as well get along."

Peridot decided to turn her attention back to her clutter and grunted. "Whatever, clod." She muttered under her breath and only allowed a small smile when the girl Lapis finally went back out the door with a huff. To get more stuff, probably. It was only after that that Peridot tuned in all her attention back to her mess- there was still so much that she needed to do! Her clothes needed folding and hanging and she needed to arrange her shoes along in the small shoe space in her closet. She needed to set out her laptop and... Well.

Peridot took in a deep breath to clear her mind and rolled up the sleeves of her brown, silk-cotton cardigan and folded her jean-clad feet on the bed. Peridot had kicked off her shoes first, of course; she certainly didn't want to trail dirt or other gross stuff on top of her still-bare bed. Peridot worked in silence; it helped her to focus at the task at hand. The way the blonde girl sees it, the more focused she was on her job, the faster it would finish; and then she could move on to more less mundane, more exciting things… like at the moment, getting the hell out of this stupid room and out of this damned building!

When her father, Frederick 'Freddy' Fryman had informed her that one of the requirements of studying at Crystal Gem U was staying inside the hostel that was located inside the campus, Peridot could hardly believe her ears. Jasper had outright laughed in her face when she learned about it, but had stopped when she realized that that would most probably meant that she had to do it as well. Fuck Jasper, anyway.

Peridot scoffed as she proceeded, barefoot, to hang her clothes in the average sized closet, which was much, much smaller than hers at home.

"It'll be fun, he said. It'll be easy, he said," she muttered hotly beneath her breath as she sorted the clothes out in accordance to type- night-wear, casual, sports, semi-formal, formal- and returned back to her bed. Her closet was white with black metal frames- the standard design for all student wardrobes, and had two lower drawers from where it opened up to store her shoes and other personal stuff.

After throwing her underwear into one of the drawers and arranging her shoes in the other, Peridot re-zipped her bright yellow and black luggage bag and pushed it into the dusty space underneath her bed. Usually people would either store it on top of their wardrobe-closets, or even inside it for safety reasons, but Peridot's closet was almost full from her clothes alone and standing at the height of slightly lower than the average five feet, she was simply too short to reach the top for that purpose. Peridot had no real worries whether or not the bag would eventually make it to the end of the semester- if it won't, then she'll just buy a new one; easy –peasy. Having born to the prestigious Diamond-Fryman family, money has never been an issue.

Her mother, Yellow Diamond, was the CEO and owner of the world-renown Diamond Homeworld Enterprises, a technology and communications company that specialized in producing mobile phones and other such communication devices- laptops, desktop computers, televisions; etc., etc. Her father was the current owner of the 'Fryman Fries'- A family-based, fry-themed, popular fast food chain restaurant that was well set all over the nation. So no, they've never actually had financial-based problems, thank you very much.

The successful couple had three children; Peridot Diamond-Fryman was the middle child and the only daughter of the family. The eldest was a son, named Renaldo Diamond-Fryman, though in the last few years he's called himself as only Renaldo Fryman, for some weird reason or another. The youngest child was also a son, named Peter Daniels 'PeeDee' Diamond-Fryman. He was 10 years old. Peridot sighed as she remembered the younger boy- he was the sole reason she was stuck in this place!

"-he said, just a few years; maybe you'll even make yourself a few friends, Peridot! Isn't that exciting?!" Peridot kept muttering, mocking her dad as she began setting her laptop on top of her desk; an old thing, not even the latest version of her mother's company's design, but she loved it. It was grey with a single typical green alien head on the cover, with a pair of matching speakers, a black, sleek printer set- the latest version, and a small, cordless lime-green and white mouse. The desk was located between her closet and her bed. The room was average sized, not too small much but not as spacious as hers own back at home. It could've been like almost the size of a quarter of her room, minus the private bathroom, so Peridot guessed that that was okay. Beggars can't be choosers anyway, no matter how much she wanted things to go her way sometimes she just had to accept that they won't.

Like her roommate, what's her name? Lapis Lazuli? Peridot snorted. She decided she was going straight to the administration office to sort off the problem after being done with putting away her items. Her campus room had two main spaces: the one straight through the door was the living-slash-sleeping space, which consisted of two twin-sized beds, two matching student-issue closets, and two desks. It had a single window on the wall that overlooked a picturesque view of the famous Beach City Ocean. The second main area consisted two portions: one was of a bathroom that had a single toilet, a mirror and sink set and a simple shower head, sticking out of the wall. And the second was like a small kitchenette, with a small fridge to store in food and a sink to wash the dirty dishes. Peridot unconsciously found herself comparing everything to her luxuries back home. She couldn't help it- it's just that everything's so… different. Everything felt alien to her.

Alien, heh heh.

Back at home her private bathroom had a large bathtub to go with her modern-type shower system that had buttons so she can adjust the water temperature for her own comfort, but there was no way she could do that here; there were merely two knobs that she could twist around to get either the hot or cold water out. Back at her private bathroom she had a huge, luxurious vanity mirror on the wall by her sink that could hold her toiletries, and a medium-sized cabinet for personal medicines and the basic first-aid kit, maybe some spare shampoos or toothpaste. Here there was the sink, and on top of it a small mirror that showed only her head, to which Peridot had actually needed to stand on top of toes to see properly, and a single, small cabinet that she had to share with her roommate. Peridot shuddered at the thought, and a horrified frown carved itself on her face. How was she going to get some personal space with some… idiot breathing down her neck 24/7?!

And as more absorbed she was in her work, the deeper Peridot was lost in her thoughts. Before she knew it, Peridot was done. She wiped a small arm across her forehead and breathed out in silent satisfaction. And just her luck, the blue-haired girl still hadn't returned from getting her stuff! Time sure flies fast when you're too deep in your thoughts. Peridot went to the bathroom mirror and fixed her hair and brushed down her clothes. She straightened her old-fashioned, round-framed, green-coloured lenses glasses and put her shoes back on. Then she picked up her car keys and headed out the door. As she exited the room, she'd almost bumped into Lapis, who was finally back with another box and pulling onto a silver luggage bag.

Lapis groaned silently when she saw that Peridot was heading out of their room. "Y-you're done? Already?" she squeaked out and suppressed an urge to slap the other's cheek when Peridot only smiled mockingly at her and walked away. She watched as Peridot went down the hall, a huge, bronze-skinned, heavily muscled young woman appear from one of the rooms and wrapped a huge arm around the other's neck, which seemed tiny in comparison, and Peridot squeaked.

At least one of us has no problems making friends; Lapis sighed to herself and shook her head as she set her things on her bed. One more bag and a box to go, she told herself as she started back down to the visitor's parking lot where her parents were waiting for her with the car. Her mind wandered off to her new roommate and she wondered where had she heard that name before- it was kind of familiar, but it was all fuzzy when she tried to think of the further details.

At least she was kind of cute; in a weird, nerdy sort of way.

Lapis shook her head to be rid of that disturbing thought about her roommate, deciding that that was where she was drawing the line. She had enough social problems as it is, there was in no way she'd add another to that list, short-cute of not. She stepped out of the elevator with another student; a boy with black hair that he let grew to his shoulders, wearing obvious eyeliner, a red and black Deadpool hoodie and dark-grey ripped jeans with red and white Converse sneakers. Lapis walked away with a frown on her face- she always had that problem of being too focused on her surroundings, her parents had once complained that she was too observant than what was supposed to be proper, but she ignored them and carried on like she'd always had, despite being hurt by their words, there was nothing she could do about it. They'll simply have to make do with what they have.

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