Hey everybody, Portalfan here with a new chapter. Finally. I'll tell you more below

It had been 30 minutes. Pearl and Peridot had just started to bowl without Lapis, at her request, but Peridot was starting to get worried.
"Take that, Diamond! Perfect game!" Pearl gloated.

"Shut up, Quartz." Peridot replied, obviously worried. Pearl looked at her, grin wiped off of her face.

"Is it about Lapis?"

"Yeah…" Peridot trailed off. "I'm gonna check on her." She stood up, changing into her normal shoes and walking outside.
"Lazuli, everything okay out-"She stopped. Lapis was sitting on the curb, hands on her face, sobbing. Her phone discarded next to her. Peridot walked out and sat down next to her. Lapis looked up for a second, before just putting her hands back on her face. Peridot didn't know what to do. She had never had a real relationship. Sure, she had One-Night Stands with guys every so often, and she had a fuckbuddy in her Junior Year of High School, but she had never committed.

"I'm sorry." Peridot said, not looking at her. Lapis just continued crying.

"I'm sorry I can't help. I've never had the kind of feelings that you had for Steven. I've always been afraid of commitment, afraid of what that meant. I'm sorry I can't give you advice. I'm sorry I can't do what I'm supposed to as a friend.
Do you wanna just go home? Quartz and I are done bowling."

"Please…" Lapis replied, hiccupping.

"Pick up the phone, you fuck…" Peridot thought to herself as she heard the phone ring on the other end. She was calling Steven. Ever since he called her, Lapis had been crying her eyes out. Half the time, it was almost like she had waterfalls coming out of her eyes and mouth because of how she got. She had loved Steven, and it had seemed like he had loved her too.
She needed to find out what he said.

"Hi, you've reached Steven Universe! I can't pick up the phone right now, so leave a message with your name and number after the boop. BOOP." Peridot couldn't stand his childish voice message. It sounded like he was 10 sometimes. Makes sense, because his dad was the crazy teacher that always acts like he's a rock star, Mr. Universe. Or maybe because his mom was the late Rose Quartz, founder of the college, so he could pretty much do whatever.

"Wait, Quartz? Is he related to Pearl? Come to think of it, almost everyone here has the name Quartz, Diamond, or Crystal. Weird…"

Peridot dismissed this irrelevant thought and called once more. One ring. Two rings. Three. Four. He finally picked up.

"Hello?" He said. He sounded just as dead as Lapis had.

"Hello, Mr. Universe. My name is Peridot Diamond, and I am calling on behalf of my best friend and roommate, Lapis Lazuli." Steven was laughing until he heard Lapis' name.

"What about her."

"She has been severely depressed ever since you called her on August 21, at around 8:00 PM. I want to know what you said." Steven was quiet for a moment.

"Why are you speaking so technically?"

"I'm strictly business right now."

He sighed. "Well if you must know, I called to tell her I was sorry.
"I told her that what happened with me and Connie was just an accident and that she just walked in at the wrong time. I told her that she was the best thing that ever happened to me and I still wanted to be with her."

"That couldn't be all of it. She was too upset."

"I know. She started saying that I was lying and that I'd rather have Connie instead of her. She just wouldn't listen to me, so I hung up."

"Ok. Thank you for the information." She hung up.
She had heard this same thing before.

"I'm sorry, but I can't do this." Peridot said to the boy in front of her. "I can't do this relationship anymore. I just don't feel the same."
The boy was obviously upset. "I'm sorry. I don't know what it is. You're cool and all, but I don't feel the same way. Goodbye." And with that, Peridot turned to walk home. She didn't know what it was, but she just couldn't do it. At the beginning, she had been head over heels for this guy, but as they got closer physically…

She opened the door to the house, throwing her backpack down on the floor and announcing that she was, indeed, home. She threw off her battered sneakers and stumbled down the stairs into the basement, where she preferred to make her home. Shedding her shirt and pants, leaving herself in only her green hoodie and a pair of panties, she plopped down into the scratched computer chair and turned on her monitor, the music she had left on immediately greeting her. She absentmindedly pulled up some random game to take her mind off of things.
"What if I really hurt him?" She thought to herself. "I don't wanna hurt him…"
She grabbed her phone and started to write a text.
Peridot: I'm sorry
Ronaldo: Why
Peridot: I don't want to hurt you
Ronaldo: I thought you were different. I thought you wouldn't leave my because of how "weird" I am.
Peridot: Im not. Im leaving you so that you don't get hurt.
Ronaldo: Stop. I don't want to talk to you anymore.
She threw her phone down and turned off her monitor. She needed some sleep.

"How is Ms. Lazuli?" Pearl asked.

"Hm?" Peridot said, distracted. "Oh, yeah. She's getting better. Poor girl… I wish I could help more, but I don't really know anything about working relationships."

"I could help."

Peridot just looked at her. The only reaction Lapis and Pearl had ever been in was the most uncomfortable time in Peridots' College life. She wasn't quite sure why Pearl would be jumping up to help Lapis out when the only time they truly interacted was when Lapis was saying something extremely offensive.

"How could you help?"

"Oh, you know… I've had a relationship or two before. They usually don't end well, so I can say I've been just as down as she is. What happened, though?"

"She caught her boyfriend kissing another girl."

"Who was her boyfriend?"

"Steven Universe."
At hearing this, the face Pearl was wearing turned from one of curiosity to one of shock.

"Steven? I've known him since the day he was born, Steven would be the last person to ever cheat on someone or try to hurt their feelings. He is a very caring boy."

"Well, tell that to Lapis. She was going to go meet him somewhere and she just saw him kissing Connie. He says that she kissed him and Lapis just walked in at the wrong moment, but I honestly don't think he's telling the truth."

Pearl was silent for a moment.

"I will make sure Garnet, Amethyst, and I have a word with him."

"Thank you."

Bzzt. Peridot felt the phone vibrate on her chest as she slept. "It's two in the morning, who is texting me..?"
Peridot: Who is this?
Unknown: Someone you should know.
Peridot: What?
Unknown: I'm coming to your dorm. I'll be there in a few minutes.
Peridot: Um, OK?

Peridot jumped out of bed and bolted to the door as fast as she could without waking up Lapis. She turned every lock on the door and pushed a few chairs in front of it. For all she knew, some random guy was going to come in and either kill them, rape them, or both.
That was NOT happening.

Soon after came the knock. She was hesitant to look out of the peephole, or even approach the door. Eventually she did, though, so that the knocking would stop and Lapis would get some sleep, something she didn't get much of anymore.
She looked through the peephole and immediately jumped back in surprise. Standing at her door was someone she hadn't seen in a long time.

Ronaldo Fryman.

Lets talk updating.
So for the past two months I've been working on school, since that started up again. I've been trying to focus on that, and I've been writing in my free time. I actually went through around 10 different versions of this chapter before I wrote this one, most of them involving the actual conversation Steven and Lapis had on the phone. I eventually realized that it wasn't working, so I tried writing some backstory for Steven, and then some of this from his POV.
It obviously didn't work the way I wanted it to.
If I'm not 200% satisfied with something I create, I won't post it. This leaves some crazy gaps between updates. I also have school and other things to focus on. That makes the periods even longer.
On that note, I'm looking for someone to help me out with writing/editing this fanfic. If you are interested, PM me.
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~Portalfan4351