AN: Well I tried to get this out by Halloween, but eeeehhh.. I guess people actually like this story, so here be another chapter!
Chemistry went smoothly enough, mostly a notes day but that was okay, Peridot had quite a lot to catch up on and thankfully a few other students were willing to let her see their notes and let her in on the next assignment and lab. This class always seemed to be that one class that lasted way too long for whatever reason, she blames the teacher's monotone and repetitive voice. Either way, it was free period now. This was that time for kids to go around to respective rooms and work more closely with the teachers, this was a valuable time to catch up on assignments or kill time with friends on campus until school was officially out.
This was perfect time for the blonde to hide back in the mechanics room and play with her electronics, but Universe left early today to take his kid to soccer practice and then to the movies. So this left her with about an hour of nothing to do, she could probably go to the library and work on math homework, but something compelled her to be outside today.
She sat with her bag on a bench under a tree that looked out over the softball field and the schools outdoor swimming pool. This was still considered on school property but it was far enough out that not a lot of people bothered to walk out here to chill, unlike her. Sounds of her classmates in the distance bustled about as she read from one of her textbooks, vainly, she can make out the sound of her friend Jasper's voice yelling about something. Probably yelling because some upper-classmate was being a dick or decided it would be fun to challenge the huge woman to some athletic thing that she would obviously win and boost her equally huge ego.
"EY PERI!"
What the heck?
Green eyes snapped in the direction of the voice that demanded her attention. Someone standing by the pool garbed in a navy blue colored one-piece swim suit was waving/flailing an arm in her direction before some other swimmer pitched a towel at their head with a hearty laugh.
What was this all about? People shout all the time at school, teens are teens and teens are loud more than half the time, but no one called out to PERIDOT of all people. It became apparent that whoever this was really wanted the blonde dorks attention as they walked the distance over to the bench with that towel around their waist. Brown hair damp and dark skin dotted with water droplets.. Wait, was that..?
"Lazuli?"
"Hello! What are you doin out here?"
"Sitting."
"Really? I couldn't tell. I sorta thought you'd be in the basement building rockets-"
"-robots. I build robots. Everyone and anyone can and does already build rockets. Too mainstream."
"Wow, such a rebel," blue eyes rolled with a smile before she took a seat beside the other girl "I bet you built rockets before they were cool too, huh?"
"Precisely," with it becoming obvious that she wasn't going to get anymore work done, Peridot closed the math book and tucked it away so the other girl could have her attention fully, she made the effort to come all the way out here to talk with the nerd, so why not? "So, you tried out for the team?"
"Huh?"
"The swim team."
"OH! Yeah, I did. Not the same as the ocean, but a big chemically treated petri-dish full of hormones and competition will do for now," this made the blonde snort. Lapis did smell strongly of pool but by the looks of it, she fit in nicely with the other swimmers "I haven't heard back from the coach yet, but I'm sure I totally made the team!"
"Nice. Something tells me your'll fit in just fine here at this school."
"Oh gosh I hope so.. hey Peri?"
"Mm?" In this moment Peridot turned just in time for green to meet with blue seconds before the smaller of the two looked away with a tinge of pink on her cheeks.
The heck was that about?
"What time is it?"
"Twenty before final bell," Peridot glanced at her phone and relayed the information she'd read to answer the question before bringing her eyes back to the other whom was still averting eye-contact with the blonde.
"Hm, time enough to get changed and catch the buss out.." A look of determination crossed her features momentarily before she turned to the other again "..Listen, I don't wanna come off as weird or whatever, but my parents own the racetrack in town now and lent me two tickets to the race this Friday."
"Oh? Wait like, NASCAR?"
"Yeah exactly! And I'd like to take you with me. J- Just, you know... Well I haven't, I mean.." all confidence is lost in the wind and blue eyes look down at the hands in her towel-covered lap as if her hands would signal her to either get out what she was trying to say or tell her to get up and run before she made an even bigger fool of herself "I.. I trust you enough not to throw me in front of the cars and It would be a nice opportunity to get to know you better."
The blonde just blinks at her a moment before replying "Sure, why not." She didn't care for cars, but what the hell, if it gets her out of the house.
"Really?" Why did she look and sound surprised? Did she expect the nerd to decline the chance to get to spend time with an attractive girl?
"Really really."
"...did you just Shrek me?"
"Lapis you're going to miss your buss at this rate-"
"Crap, nearly forgot about that, here, do you have a pen?"
"Uh.. yeah?" She reached into the front pocket of her bag and pulled out a black sharpie, handing it to the girl.
"Sweet, gimme your hand and I'll give you-" as she spoke, she reached out for Peridot's hand, and as a reflex the blonde pulled away quickly.
"-NOPE. Er... sorry, I have an issue with my hands.. Here, let me get you a piece of paper." Quickly she fished out the nearest scrap of paper she could muster and hand it to Lapis. The brunette looked confused, but didn't question, instead she jotted down a number and her name in pretty and curly writing, little hearts where the dots in the "i"'s should be. She looked up from her work, folding the paper in half with a grin before standing up and holding the paper to the green eyed girl mischievously.
"Hey, I just met you.."
"What? We met this morning-"
"-And this is crazy!"
"..Oh no."
"But here's my number-" Peri wasn't going to stand for this, or.. well... sit for it, so she stood, shocking the shorter slightly making her pause in her musical number momentarily as the blonde came to stand a bit closer in front of her, holding her ocean-colored gaze with her own bright green , watching as a hard blush ripped through the still damp blue clad girl's cheeks and across her nose. To make the smaller even more flustered, Peridot reached out for the paper with a lopsided smirk, gloved fingertips grazing the back of the other girl's soft warm hand and down those long digits.
"Is this revenge for getting Shrekt?" Lapis's eyes narrowed a little playfully as she leaned up some on her toes, bringing her face closer to the others and enjoying the slight amount of color that dusted Peridot's cheeks with her movement. Her next words were quiet from her lips, but Peri heard them loud and clear.
"So call me maybe."
Hours later, Jasper sat on the low couch, shirt off and a mud-mask on her face as she comfortably played videogames on a massive TV in Peridot's living room, occasionally fitting various snack food in her mouth as she covered for the other woman who was in the kitchen getting more snacks and soda.
"Yeo Peri, Ame wants to know if your coming back to the controller today." She adjusted the headset so she didn't yell into the microphone as her voice raised enough to be heard by the other. This was their relationship. They were painfully comfortable around one another enough to be in only her bra and and faded jeans. Jasper wouldn't be like this even in her own house, but around Peri, she could be herself and let everything out. No fear of being judged here and no reason to be ashamed of herself.
"Tell her to eat shit and step on a claymore-" Jasper barked in laughter at that, classic Peridot.
The green eyed woman was also shirtless, enjoying her sporty black sports-bra. This being her own damn house and she didn't have plans for the rest of the day, also stripped down to her super-mario boxers, ensuring comfort leveled out to the max.
"So P, Ame tells me you beat up a kid at school today."
"What the hell..? Beat up a kid? ME?! You're funny." Her cackle bounced off the walls of the kitchen as she picked up a bag of Doritos and fished a few more sodas out of the refrigerator. A thought struck her as she thought about it though, was Amethyst referring to Lapis as the kid she beat up? Probably. She walked out the living room and deposited the food and drinks before fishing her phone out of her pants that she discarded on the floor some time ago. Peri put the number in her phone after Lapis had left to go change and catch her bus, but hasn't messaged her yet.
Better do that now before she forgets later.
Peridot: Is this Lazuli's number?
She put the phone down and sat beside Jasper, taking her controller into her hands and putting her headset back on "Alright homos, let's provide some noob kids anger-management therapy!" The match only had about five minutes left to it, but they managed to destroy the other team, the lobby exploding into twelve-year-olds calling hacks and screaming useless profanities.
Jasper and Peridot collectively laughed at the sour-sports until they were both in tears. Dream-crushing monsters, these girls are. Both their phones went off, one as an alarm and the other with a text.
The brute blonde stood and stretched with a sigh, "I gotta scrub my face-mask off, you need anything as I'm up?"
"Hm? Nah, I'm alright. Just don't plug up my sink with that gunk-"
"-Yeah yeah, I know the drill." She shakes her head and makes her way to the bathroom briskly. Peridot watches her go before picking up her soda and taking a deep swig of the carbonated beverage. Her phone vibrates again, drawing her attention to it.
Lazuli: Mehby? (some shifty-eyed emoticon followed the question)
Lazuli: Who dis?
My stars... what compels people to type like this? Seriously. She types back after a moment of re-reading those two texts again.
Peridot: Just some mega-nerd looking for a pretty girl to talk rockets with.
Lazuli: Peri? Thank god, I though you were my dads coworkers son for a second!
Lazuli: How are you?
Peridot: Uh, I'm fine. How are you?
Lazuli: Better now, just chillin in my room with YouTube and talking to you!
Peridot: Nice. Sounds like a good night.
Lazuli: I like to think so
Lazuli: Now, about that pretty girl and rockets...
The blonde nearly chokes on her soda about to defend herself and make a comment about how rockets were basically the butt of science jokes, but recovers quickly with her next text
Lazuli: What's her name and where does she live?
They chat and playfully banter for a while before Jasper comes back into the room, now with a clean and sparkling completion. Sitting down beside the smaller who was comfortably lounging on the couch.
"Feel better?"
"Quite. I might have time for one round of Mario-Cart if you're up for it"
"I really don't feel like going to bed angry though, Jasper. Both you and I know that's the only game you can beat me at," Peridot stretches, a few pops sounding from the small of her spine "I might have to kick you out early so I can actually get some real sleep."
"Real sleep? You mean lay in bed and play AnimalCrossing until the sun comes up or lay in bed on your phone till you pass-out for two hours?"
"I mean get a solid five hours before I get up and do homework"
"Really living it up, aren't you P?"
"In the only way I know how." Jasper just grinned and ruffled the shorter's hair before standing and finding her shirt. She bid the smaller goodnight before making her way to the door, stopping to turn back to the green eyed female.
"Yeo, you free Friday? Ame and Pearl wanna go the the movies. Something about superheros and junk."
"Nah, I'll have to pass."
"But P... It's DC."
"I know."
"You love DC."
"I have previous arrangements, Jasper. I'm sorry."
"What could be more important than Superheros?" Peridot paused at this, looking at her phone before turning her eyes to the other woman, green eyes looked timid and maybe a bit confused.
"I have a date."
Jasper's eyes widened in disbelief "...holly shit!"
AN: (loud dramatic music intensification here) WWWAAAAAAAAHHH! Peri is so deep in Memes she can't even! Also YAY, mild nudity and flirting! Lots of Peri/Lapis in this chapter, can't decide if Lapis is a huge dork of a flirty popular kid or what, but eh. Man, I'm already missing StevenUniverse... I have faith that we'll all be strong enough to last this hiatus though, It still would have been nice if they did it at the end of the season and not in the middle of something important, like C'MON GUYS, THE CLUSTERRRRRRRR!
ANYWAY. I still don't own anything, none of these characters are mine and none of these references are mine either. I don't own
"Call me Maybe" by Carly Rae Jepsen, but hell that song is GREAT and I can so see Lapis serenading Peridork with it.
HOPE YOU ALL ENJOYED THIS SUPER LATE UPDATE! HAVE A NICE DAY AND A GREAT NIGHT! See you all again soon!