~ A Sleepless Night For Diamond Later ~

Diamond found herself drooling on her FanFiction early in the morning. She had fallen asleep three minutes ago, and written six chapters of FanFiction. She had read all of it over eight times and only had three minutes of sleep.

Their father had made breakfast, and the smell was lingering into their rooms.

Opal was already out of bed, getting dressed. She took a shower while Diamond was writing. Opal jumped down the stairs. "Dad! I have a question!"

Diamond took a very lazy shower, got dressed, and fell down the stairs.

Their father looked at Opal over his shoulder. "Yes?"

"Have you ever been in love?" Opal asked.

". . . Why, of course. I'm married to your mother." he answered.

"There was a slight pause! They're gonna get divorced!" Diamond lazily pointed out.

"Diamond . . . Are you OK?" Opal asked her sister. "Anyway! Dad, what if I might just be in love?"

Diamond fell asleep right at the end of the stairs.

The father dropped the spatula instantly.

Their mother only got three minutes of sleep, took a very lazy shower, got dressed, and fell down the stairs. Only God knows what she was up all night doing...

"Like mother like daughter . . ." he muttered.

Opal glared at her mother and Diamond. "I guess you two don't want any blueberry pancakes!"

They both jumped up and ran to the table.

Diamond pounded on the table with her fists roughly.

The mother pounded on the table with her fists violently. She wasn't her when she was tired and hungry . . .

"FOOD!" Diamond screeched.

Opal gave both of them some pancakes.

"Mom! I have a question!" Opal was going to say the same thing she said to her dad.

Diamond gobbled up her pancakes and flooded them with syrup.

Their mother was about to take her thrid pancake. "Yes?"

"Have you ever been in love?" Opal asked, spreading out her syrup with her fork.

There was another slight pause. "Of course, darling, why wouldn' I?"

"There was another pause! We're gonna get divorced!" Diamond exclaimed happily while replacing her father's coffee with her orange juice and drinking his hot beverage.

"What if I might just be in love?" Opal asked slowly as if her mother was almost deaf.

Their mother dropped her fork. She stared unblinking at Opal.

"What! What's so wrong with me falling in love?!" Opal yelled. Was she so much of a tomboy, that it was impossible for her to fall in love?

She stammered on her words. "W-Well. Y-You k-know."

"It's so very unusual for you to be in affectionate, passionate love with someone, especially a serial murderer, that it has left both your adoptive parents speechlessly petrified." Diamond explained.

Opal hit the back of Diamond's head so hard, it hit her plate.

"Did she just say serial murderer?" their father asked with a concerned frown.

"You know Dia! She meant cereal killer! As in a food killer! Hahahahah!" Opal quickly filled them in with lies.

To the guardians, Diamond was "imaginative" that they considered it true. "Oh..." they both said at the same time, looking at Diamond like she was a mentally ill child.

"So, I'm going to go back upstairs." Opal sighed and walked upstairs.

Diamond had a sticky face from it hitting her pancake. She took their plates and put them in the sink, and washed her sticky face. "Dad, the eggs are burning!" she said, kissing his cheek and running upstairs. "Hey, sis!" she stated, but ran into the wall next to the door from running up the stairs when drying her face. "OWW!"

"Yeah?" Opal looked out the door. "You OK?"

Diamond rolled over. "Perfectly fine!" she sarcastically commented. "So, about that love-y dove-y stuff!"

Opal slammed the door. She needed to talk about this with her mom, not her sister.

Diamond banged on the door with her fists. "PLEASE!" she begged.

Their mother pushed Diamond aside. "Let me take care of this. Opal, please open this door!" she politely knocked on it.

Opal opened the door. "Yes?"

"About those love troubles" Her mother brought up the subject.

"Actually, I think I'm fine now. Thanks for your concern!" Opal said, closing the door again.

Their mother stared blankly at the door. "Okay, darling, come to me when you're in need!" she called before walking back downstairs.

"Wow, you turned down your only hope." Diamond stared.

Opal instantly opened the door. "Mom!" She called.

She was only halfway down the stairs. "Yes?" she turned around slightly.

"Can you, please, talk with me about that subject?" Opal sighed.

"I thought you were fine, sweetie." her mother asked.

"I'm not. I feel sick, my heart's been pumping to fast, I feel dizzy, and when I think of IT I blush. I am NOT OK!" Opal stated, "Can we talk about this?"

The mother smiled. "That's how I felt about your father. Wait, did you just say it?"

"It, him, same thing." Opal rolled her eyes.

Diamond giggled. But it wasn't a sweet giggle, or even a cute giggle. It was a rapid, fangirl giggle that creeped anyone who heard it the fudge out . . . It was high-pitched, then suddenly it would seem like the lowest-pitch ever heard. Then it turned into a squeal, and Diamond had to start writing FanFiction or she'd die. She'd literally die. So, she barrel-rolled down the stairs and fell flat on her face. Though, she just got up and started writing FanFiction. It looked like squiggles on a page, but it was really all her ideas jotted onto one, single piece of paper.

Their mother stared at Diamond. Then she looked back at Opal as if ignoring Diamond. "What was that, darling?" she asked.

"Nothing, can we get in the room instead of you being... There?" Opal asked her mother.

Her mother paced up the steps and into the room. "Alright, honey, lay it all out on me." she offered.

"His name is Jeff... And he saved me from a murderer." Opal sat down on the bed.

"A WHAT?!" her mother choked out.

"He saved me from a murderer. We called the cops and they took care of the rest." Opal answered slowly.

She relaxed a bit. "Why didn't you tell us?"

"Well... I didn't think it was important... Plus you guys came back tired. So I'm telling you now." Opal stated.

"Yes, because getting attacked by a murder is totally not important." her mother sighed. "You do have a point, though."

"Yes, so nothing to worry about!" Opal said. "Anyway... He's pale and he has black and hair and... brown eyes..."

"OOh, he looks cute!" her mother excitely peeped.

Opal shook her head. Her mother had no idea... "Sure. You could call him that... But, what do I do?"

"Well," her mother put the vague information together. It was barely (ITALICS)any(ITALICS) information at all, but with her mother's intelligence, she did anyway. "He sounds like a jerk with a heart of gold."

"Kind of like Inuyasha!" Opal pointed out. "Sh-" She looked at her mother. "Izzle sticks..." Opal laughed nervously.

Diamond burst into the room. "I TOLD YOU! I TOLD YOU! BUT, NO-O-O-O! YOU ALL IGNORED ME! I FRICK'IN TOLD YOU HE WAS LIKE INUYASHA!" Diamond then slammed the door and went back to writing.

Their mother stared. "Er . . . Okay!" she concluded. "What was that, darling?"

"Nothing. Nothing at all. Back to the topic!" Opal said suddenly. "What should I do?"

"It depends on what you want to do." her mother replied.

"That doesn't help." Opal muttered. "Well, I wanna live happily ever after with straight A's in grades, a guy who will 100 percent have a successful job, have kids, have them go to colledge, then they live successful lives, and have grandkids! Not to mention live in a big house and have a PHD without a problem. Be one of the most smartest and beautiful doctors around. And," Opal thought for a moment. "Die knowing that everyone around me loved me and have no regrets!"

Her mother pat her on the shoulder. "Not everyone gets what they want." she reassured. "Besides, first, you gotta understand why you like Mystery Man in he first place." she started.

Opal stared at her mother. "Yup, so the it's the hormones."

"Stop blaming everything hormones!" Diamond called.

"And it's lust!" Opal shouted right back. "Not only blaming it on hormones." Opal muttered before putting her attention on her mother again.

Her mother stood up. "Well, I have things to do. Figure out why," she simply stated before leaving.

"HAH!" Diamond started laughing. "The desperate attempts to block out any feelings for Clown-Face is very amusing." she smiled.

"Clown F- Ohhhhh... Next time I see him, I'm going to tell him you said that." Opal smiled back at Diamond before getting up and walking away.

"I'm not afraid of anything!" Diamond proudly informed, striking a hero pose. She watched Opal leave. Then she quickly looked around for her FanFiction. She felt in her boot ten pages of paper. Then, she began to read aloud to her imaginary friends. "AHEM!

Jeff had run into Jane and Jane had run into Jeff. They glared at each other as if having a fight with their eyes only. Jane smirked under her mask.

"This time, I'm not letting you go." Jane confirmed.

"I'd love to see you try." Jeff replied."

Diamond was very proud with her work after she had read the last few pages. She slammed open her computer and began to rewrite it. She nodded at some parts, then squealed at others. She nodded viciously at (BOLD)ONE(BOLD) particular time. She looked like a pedophile looking at kiddie porn.

Right when Diamond was finished, it turned off...

Diamond smiled at her computer. She froze and just kept on smiling, with her mouth ajar. She closed it, still grinning. "WHAT THE **** ON A ****!? WHO THE **** **** **** ******* ****!" Diamond ripped her FanFiction into pieces.

BEN poked his head out from the computer. "JEZUS CHRIST IT'S YOU!"

Diamond pulled BEN out. "WHAT THE HELL!? DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOU JUST DID, BOY!? DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOU JUST DID?!"

"I told you you should've never kicked me earlier." BEN rolled his eyes.

Diamond felt like backhanding BEN. She ran over to her computer. She put a hand on the screen. "Baby, baby, listen to me, it's gonna be okay, okay?" she cooed, seeing as the lights were blinking off. She saw the power-button light go dim, then, off completely. "No, no, stay with me, babe!" Diamond cried out as the fan stopped spinning as well. Diamond slowly turned to BEN with bloodshot eyes as she realized her computer turned off. "M-y computer. C-Computer, o-off. C-computer, m-my computer." she kept on muttering.

BEN knew that he should be going. "I... have to go..." He said, backing up.

"You shouldn't have done that," Diamond started twitching.