Amethyst sings, Pearl is done.
"I- wanna knooow, have ya ever seeen the raaain…"
Pearl looked up from her notebook, very annoyed. Amethyst was standing at the stove, singing loudly into a wooden spoon. She stopped singing and started stirring her macaroni and cheese. Pearl looked back down at her notebook, trying to remember where she was at in the math problem she was working.
Amethyst wasn't done singing, though.
"I- wanna knooow, have yoou eva seen the rain? Comin' down ona, sunny day!"
Her voice was loud and extremely off-key, sending Pearl into a silent spiral of annoyance. She would just leave the house, but it had come a flood. Which was why Amethyst was being so annoying.
"Hey, P? Want some mac and chee?" Amethyst called from the kitchen. Pearl looked up and frowned.
"No thank you, Amethyst. I'm trying very, very hard to work on this extremely difficult problem, and any sort of distraction would really hinder me."
"Suit yourself."
Silence.
Finally, Pearl thought to herself. Thank stars. She found her place in the math and started back.
"Are you sure, P? It's homemade," Amethyst yelled from the kitchen. Pearl dropped her pencil and looked up.
"Amethyst, I know you aren't used to it, but I need quiet to work. Could you please be quiet? Or quieter?" Pearl snapped. Amethyst didn't reply.
Pearl started back on her work, grateful for the quiet.
Several moments later, however, she felt awful.
Amethyst hadn't made a noise in fifteen minutes.
I shouldn't have snapped at her, Pearl thought to herself. She was trying to be nice.
Pearl got up from her desk in the living room and walked into the kitchen, expecting to find Amethyst. She wasn't there.
"She must have gone to her bedroom," Pearl decided and walked upstairs. She knocked softly on Amethyst's door.
No answer.
She knocked again, then she opened the door and poked her head in.
"Amethyst, I…," she said, realizing that nobody was in the pile of junk Amethyst called a room. "Where is she?"
Pearl checked every room in the house, finding Amethyst nowhere. She double checked the bedrooms and was about to give up when she heard faint singing. She followed the singing to the window that opened out onto the roof.
"Yesterday and days before." Amethyst was sitting in the rain, singing to herself.
Pearl stood by the window, leaning almost out, listening to Amethyst.
Sun is cold and rain is hard,
I know been that way for all my time
'Til forever, on it goes,
Through the circle, fast and slow,
I know it can't stop, I wonder."
Pearl, who hated going out on the roof, steeled her nerves and carefully climbed through the window onto the slick roof.
"I wanna know," Pearl shakily sang as she scooted across the roof towards Amethyst, who looked up, surprised. "Have you ever seen the rain?"
"Pearl! I thought you were doing work," Amethyst said, brushing wet hair out of her face. The storm had settled down into a light rain, and the sun had started to peek through some of the clouds.
"I'm sorry for getting cross with you, Amethyst," Pearl said.
"Cross?" Amethyst laughed. "LOL, P. I'm sorry I was being obnoxious. I know I'm too loud most of the time. Thank you for putting up with me."
"I don't 'put up' with you, Amethyst. I am aware that I come off as pretentious and stuck up, but I really do enjoy being around you. I enjoy your company. I'm sorry that I'm so, …unfun."
"You're not unfun! You're sitting on the roof in the pouring rain at ten in the morning while you have homework you should be doing! I know you, like, think school is important and stuff. You aren't unfun; you think different stuff is fun."
Pearl considered Amethyst's words for a moment.
"Can I ask you a question, Amethyst?" Pearl asked, looking over at her.
"Sure, Pearl, fire away."
"Well, I want to know…" Pearl started, leaning in towards Amethyst. "Have you ever seen the rain?"
Amethyst laughed, lightly hitting Pearl's shoulder.
"Coming down on a sunny day? I have, actually."
"Oh, really? How special," Pearl said, smiling at the younger girl.
"Look around, P. The sun's out now," Amethyst said, gesturing to the sky.
They sat together on the roof until a car pulled up in the driveway.
"What're you two doin'?" Garnet called up to them as she got out of the driver's side of the car.
"Enjoying the rain, G! What're you doing?" Amethyst called back. Pearl started edging back towards the window.
"Storm's 'sposed to last a bit longer, so I went and got some movies to watch."
"Awesome! Let's watch one!" Amethyst said excitedly and crawled over to the window, passing Pearl. She climbed into the house then turned and offered a hand to Pearl, who was trying to get through the window somewhat gracefully. Pearl graciously accepted her hand, and Amethyst pulled her through the window, a little too hard.
Pearl came out of the window too fast, and Amethyst fell onto the floor, pulling Pearl down with her. Amethyst lay flat on her back, laughing, as Pearl lay on top of her in a daze, their noses touching.
"OMG, P! I'm sorry," Amethyst laughed. "Guess I don't know my own strength."
"Ha," Pearl laughed weakly. She was suddenly very aware of how close they were, and she stood up, brushing some dust off of her wet clothes. She held a hand out to Amethyst, who was still laughing on the floor. She took it and Pearl hauled her to her feet.
"Thanks, P. Let's go watch the awful movie G brought home."
"You don't know that it'll be awful."
They exchanged a look before bursting into laughter.
"Movie time!" Garnet yelled from downstairs.
"Don't you need to do your work?" Amethyst asked Pearl as they walked down the stairs into the living room.
"It can wait. I'd much rather watch a movie with my friends," she said, leaving out that the homework she had been doing wasn't due for another two weeks.
The movie was awful. They loved it.