It was sunset. But this wasn't a good sunset for the Gems. Atleast, for Pearl and Lapis.
Much to Pearls discomfort. She was kind of squeezed between Greg's stuff...and Lapis.
Onyx was smart enough to call shotgun. He didn't want to invite Pearl or Lapis to the front.
If he had done that, he'd only get to invite one. Then the other one might get all lose and break the van. Especially Pearl.
Onyx was just looking at the rear view mirror. He saw the annoyed look of Pearl, and the uncomfortable look on Lapis.
"So, Onyx. How are you enjoying my new and improved van?" Greg asked.
Onyx blinked twice. "Nothing changed, Greg."
"Really? I mean...It has been broken twice now. Or thrice." Greg added.
"I didn't know you could fix your van." Onyx said with a slight laugh.
Greg shook his head. "Nah, Pearl fixed it for me. She didn't want me living with them at anytime, so its the best she could do to keep me away." The long haired man said as he looked at the rear view mirror to see Pearl with a guilty face.
"That does sound like Pearl." Onyx joked, while Greg laughed with him.
Pearl groaned. "I'm right here you know?"
"Oh yeah. I know you're there. How are you holding up?" Onyx asked the pale gem as she blushed.
"I kinda wanna go back..." Pearl said quietly as she tried to look away from any eyes staring at her.
Onyx sighed. "Well its too late. We're almost there anyways. How about you Lapis, you doing okay?"
Lapis was surprised by his attention. "U-uhm...yes. I just really don't like..."vans"." Lapis said as low as she could.
The three still heard it though. Onyx knew the two were not gonna talk, not even a chance.
He then looked outside to see Steven and Peridot riding Lion. "Are you two doing good?"
Steven nodded. "Yeah, we're doing fine."
Peridot just had her eyes closed and held on Stevens backpack. Onyx chuckled at her.
Most of the trip was just silence. They were really not conversing with each other. Onyx and Greg would have small talk, but they would just stop.
"Ah, we're here!" Greg exclaimed as he parked in front of their door. "Okay gang. I've ordered two rooms. So who'll be the picker here?" Greg asked.
Steven raised his arm. "Ooh, me!" He kept repeating until Greg picked him.
"Go for it shtoo-ball."
Steven thought of it for a second, he then pointed at Onyx. "Onyx will be with Pearl...and Lapis!"
Said three reacted negatively. Onyx put his left hand on his eyes. Pearl covered her ears, while Lapis put her hands on her mouth and the three simultaneously say, "Steven..."
Greg snickered at the three's reaction. "So, I'm guessing that's you, me and Peridot." Then Lion growled. "And you too."
Steven ran inside their room and was followed by Greg, Peridot and Lion.
Onyx, Pearl and Lapis just stood there.
For about half a minute, Onyx decided to step in front of the door and open it.
He saw two beds. And he turned sick. "Holy mackerel." He wheezed out.
Pearl and Lapis looked inside to see what made Onyx stop from entering.
The two blushed. Thinking that Onyx might need to share a bed...with one of them.
"Well, I guess we can go in now." Onyx said as he entered the room. Pearl and Lapis followed.
Onyx turned on the TV to block out the silence. "So, you guys up for a fun night?" He asked the two Gems.
They both blushed at his enthusiasm. Onyx made a poker face. "Okay then..."
He then thought of something. "I'll be right back. I forgot to give something to Steven."
He quickly left the room and went towards the pool.
Pearl sat down on one of the beds. Lapis did the same on the opposite one.
They just stared at the walls. The TV still blocking out the silence.
"Look, Pearl I-..." Lapis stopped.
Pearl got curious. "What?"
"I'm sorry for what I'm feeling about, Onyx. It's just that...never mind." Lapis stopped again.
Pearl looked at her. She was really angry at Lapis. But she saw that she was confused. "I won't be too harsh on you, Lapis. Just..."
"I don't even know how we'll work this thing out."
Lapis shrugged. "He said that he was gonna choose..." Lapis stood up and walked over to the door.
"Where are you going?" Pearl asked her.
"I'm going to let him know...I don't want to do this anymore." Tears ran along her face as she ran outside.
Pearl felt her heart ache. She held her chest as she thought through things. "Am I...no...don't think of yourself like that. He said it himself. He loves me..."
"Does he?"
Onyx sat on the edge of the pool. He had his feet in the water. Well, it was his shoes.
He didn't really want to stay in that room. "This is the only time I don't like Steven's decision." He said to himself.
"Why can't I just choose?!" He yelled as he held his head.
"You know that if you do, then you'll one of them."
"Its just that...I'm confused, Nyx. Why do we still exist?"
"Look. If you just calm down, and shut up. We can think of this, as us."
"We can't, Nyx! We've been thinking our whole life! We kept thinking that it was our fault. And we still do!"
"I said calm down! We're gonna get unstable if you don't stop!"
"Onyx!" Lapis called out.
"It's Lapis. I'm over here!" He called back.
Lapis followed his voice. She then saw him at the pool. She sighed. He looked really disturbed.
"Onyx..."
Onyx looked at Lapis. She sat down next to him, her bare feet touching the water.
"I can't do this anymore."
Onyx's eyes widened. "What do you mean?"
"I mean us! I don't even know if there IS an us..." She whimpered.
Onyx hated seeing people cry. Especially the ones he cared about. "I can't do this anymore. I'm hurting yours and Pearls relationship."
Onyx didn't speak.
"I'm...going back to the sea...Jasper is gone anyways." She had lost hope.
She stood up. "Goodbye, Onyx. You've been the best..."
Before she got to continue walking. She was stopped. Not by herself. It was Onyx.
He wrapped his arms around her. Her arms were in the embrace aswell. She didn't know what to feel anymore.
"Don't leave..." Onyx whispered to her.
"I have to..." Onyx then spun her around to make her face him. Her eyes were lightened by the moon.
Lapis felt her heart go faster. She had always been in love with Onyx's dark eyes.
Her breathing became colder. Her mouth trembled. "Why? Why do you do this to me?!"
She yelled as tears were falling from her eyes. Onyx was still lost. If he did this...then he wouldn't be turning back.
"Do you even care anymore?..." That was it. He couldn't take it anymore.
He quickly pushed his face towards hers as they began to kiss.
Lapis could feel the butterflies as they spread out all over her. 'Metaphorically speaking'.
She was in full bliss. Their tongues savored their little dance. They parted as they looked at each other.
Onyx began to feel something tingle inside of him.
"I'll always care about you..." Onyx said sweetly.
Lapis just wiped her tears away and smiled at him.
"I'm still confused, Lapis. My mind is getting pulled apart. And I'm sorry I'm doing this to you two. I never wanted this..." Onyx was completely guilty.
Lapis just hugged him. She was nervous about her actions, but it was for the best.
Onyx didn't flinch. He got lightheaded. He had never thought this hard before.
"Lapis..."
"Hm?..."
"Who do I choose?"
Lapis was shocked. She was making her choose. She never expected this. "Uhm...I don't know, Onyx."
"This is the first time I've felt this way towards another gem." Lapis added.
This made Onyx more guilty. One of them he had history with. The other one was their first time. He couldn't just leave them there.
"Can we go back inside now?" Onyx suggested.
Lapis wasn't sure, since Pearl was inside. But she agreed anyways. They started walking towards the room.
Pearl decided to tire herself out by cleaning the place. She wanted to sleep the night off so there won't be anything awkward happening.
She heard the door open. It was Onyx and Lapis. "Hey Pearl." He greeted.
"Oh, hello there Onyx." Pearl replied. Lapis decided to sleep on one bed. She was tired. And her eyes were tired from crying.
"So, what happened with you two?" Asked Pearl. She had a more concerned look than a furious one.
"We talked...I'm just getting confused, Pearl."
"Why, what is it?"
"This is getting out of hand. This is wrong..."
Pearl saw that his face was a mess. A mix of confusion, doubt and sadness. She held his face. "Onyx...this is your choice, and we both respect it...we can't have to of you now can we?" She joked with a sweet voice.
Onyx's mind lit up. "Or can we?" He said under is breath.
"What?"
"Oh nothing. Just...saying...stuff."
Pearl wasn't really convinced by his answer, but she didn't want to add up a problem. "Well, I'm gonna rest. Wanna sleep with me?" She asked with her face blushing.
"You can go ahead. I'll be out for awhile."
"Alright, be careful." Pearl told him as she started drifting off to sleep.
Onyx sighed. The two were already sleeping. He looked at the two. "What if I can't choose?"
He stood there for a few minutes, he just decided to not think about it.
He came closer to Pearl and kissed her gem. And he walked over to Lapis and kissed her forehead.
He headed out side. Not knowing that the two weren't really sleeping yet.
Onyx went outside to find Peridot pacing around the pool. He headed towards her.
Before he decided to let her see him, he wanted to hear her out first.
"I can't believe this is happening. These earthlings seem to "care" about me. And I am being affected by it? This is outrageous, they are no better than the clods they are!" Peridot said as she held her tape recorder.
She stopped pacing and put her head down. "But who am I kidding? I'm supposed to be back on homeworld...not in this trash of a planet. I can't even go back, how did Onyx do it? He must've had a warp sphere."
"I just need to go back and have my old life back."
Onyx finally stepped up and came to her. "Do you really think yellowe diamond cares for you?" Onyx asks the small gem.
Peridot growled at him. "Of course she does! I'm one of her trusted allies!"
"Oh? Then how can she tell which Peridot is which?"
Reality came hard on her. "Who cares?!"
"Steven does. He even said you were better than the hundreds of Peridots in homeworld." Onyx told her as her face heat up.
"W-well. I still want to go home!" She kept pushing him. She wanted to go...Onyx just smiled.
"Okay, we can go now." Onyx said as he held out a warp sphere.
"R-really?"
"Yeah, just hold on to me."
"Yes! Finally!" Peridot said as she held onto Onyx's leg.
"But are you sure you want to go? What about Steven and the others?" Onyx was making her think twice.
Peridot just bit her lip. "Let's just...go."
Onyx nodded and dropped the ball as they warped away.
As they warped into homeworld, Peridot saw that the station was destroyed and multiple Peridots were preparing the place, they weren't really progressing.
"Is this your doing?" Peridot asked Onyx.
He nodded. "Yeah, with the help of Steven...and Topaz."
"Whatever... I wanna see yellow diamond." Peridot said. Onyx tugged himself away from Peridot.
"Then go...don't come running back to me." Onyx left her sight. She was alone now.
A Peridot then came to her. "What're you doing without your limb enhancements?"
"They were...damaged in my fight on earth." She said the truth, but she didn't want them to know more.
"Alright, I'm taking you to Yellow diamond."
"Much appreciated." She replied as the other Peridot escorted her to Yellow diamond.
As they made it to Yellow diamonds quarters, the other Peridot left.
Peridot was left with two Jasper's and Yellow diamond.
"Ah...the Peridot I sent to earth. So, where is your informant and escort?" Yellow diamond asked.
"They...were defeated in our battle with the Crystal Gems." Peridot lied.
Yellow diamond came closer to the small gem. "Are the Crystal Gems defeated?"
"Well..."
"Are they?" Yellow diamond asks again.
"Yes...my mission was complete." She lied.
Yellow diamond smirked. "Good." She then face the two Jasper's. "Dispose of her!"
Peridot was shocked. "What?!"
"You've completed one of the best achievements homeworld has ever done. Now you must get wiped out of the picture." Yellow diamond said with a proud smile. "The station might have been destroyed. But there'll be no more of these "Crystal Gems"."
As the Jasper's restrained Peridot she lost all hope. She remembered what Onyx said to her.
"Don't come running back to me."
She was being taken away. She doesn't know where, and she didn't care.
This was her fault. She got her wish. And now she had a new wish. She wanted to go home.
Peridot tried to struggle. She wanted to get away from the Jasper's. "Get your touch stumps off me!" She yelled.
"Stop talking!" One of the Jasper's growled.
The other Jasper just stopped walking. The other one was furious. "Why'd you stop?!"
The other Jasper suddenly poofed. "What the?!-" the lone Jasper was confused.
She shook Peridot. "What did you do?!"
"I- I don't know!?" Peridot was just as confused as the Jasper.
The two suddenly hear footsteps. They looked forward.
They see Onyx. "So, Peridot. Have you changed your mind?"
Peridot growled at Onyx. "Yes! Now get this Jasper off me!"
"With pleasure." Onyx crouched as he was waiting for the Jasper to do something.
Jasper didn't know what to do. So she just summoned her weapon as she charged at Onyx.
There was a slight change of wind as the Jasper opened back her eyes. Onyx wasn't there anymore.
She looked behind her to see him picking up Peridot. "Hah! You coward. Can't even kill a-" she was cut off by poofing.
Her gem fell to the ground as Onyx just crushed them.
"That wasn't necessary!" Peridot argued.
Onyx sighed. "Peridot. Homeworld isn't what it was anymore. Some things need to be done. Even if its bad."
Peridot looked down and started to tear up. "Let's just go...home."
Onyx smirked. And then he threw a warp sphere on the ground. Then they were gone.
The two warped back onto the motels pool. Peridot just let go of Onyx and sighed. "I'm sorry..."
Onyx wasn't expecting that. "For what?"
"I just thought..." She face him. "Look, I thought that I never needed this human affection called "Love", but comparing you earth Gems to homeworld Gems...I see something different."
"What's different?" Onyx asked as knelt down to face her level.
Peridot stared at him for a moment. "I see...friendship..." She said slowly as if it was a hard thing to say. For her.
"Well...we're more than that aren't we?" Onyx said as he began walking away.
"And what do you mean by that." Peridot asked him curiously.
Onyx walked back to her and put a hand on her ponty head. "We're family now. And that's what Steven wants us to stay with."
Onyx turned around and went back to his room.
Peridot stood there. She was just flattered. "Family..."
Onyx silently walked in the unlit room. The only light was from the moon.
Pearl and Lapis were both sleeping peacefully. The TV was turned off, he was guessing one of them had turned it off or it was automatic.
He sighed and lean on the door.
"I never thought this would happen. But sometimes Its just gotta go.
Never thought these things could happen. But I guess it's just gotta flow, woah...what do I do?
Could I have been your disaster. Whenever I came everything went wrong.
Could I have been your distraction. Either way I wish that I am wrong... There's nothing to do...
Every time I see you. I think I'm going insane.
'Cause whenever I do, I dunno what to do, but I try to do what's right for both of you.
Oh its true...
...
I guess that I'm just another distraction.
Maybe things would change when I'm on my own.
Never really cared about actions.
Except if it had to do with the two of you...
The two people
Who
Don't
Want
To Be
...alone.
Onyx ended his song as he just sat behind the door. He sighed.
"And I thought Peridot had problems..." He managed to let out a chuckle.
He looked at the two who were sleeping peacefully. "I'm sorry you two...I don't think I can make up my mind soon." He whispered.
Onyx just sat there.
Staring at the other door across from him. He knew it was a bathroom. So he decided not to mess around in it.
He sighed, then stood up and open the door behind him. He stepped out of the room once again.
The two weren't really asleep.
It was already dusk. Onyx didn't know where to go. "I'm starting to regret my decision on coming."
He looked over to his left to see that, Peridot was still standing there beside the pool. This made him curious. He walked over to her.
It seemed like she was shaking and...whimpering?
"Uhm...Peridot?" This made Peridot jump.
"Gah!" She screamed. Onyx saw that she had distress on her face. She was crying. "What're you doing here?!"
"I should be asking you that." Onyx crossed his arms on his chest.
Peridot just looked at him. "I just don't know why?!"
"Why what?"
"Why you earthlings just accept me on this "family" group, even if I tried to smash and kill all of you! It's not fair having no explanation! " She cried.
Onyx grinned and knelt down to her eye level. "Look...whatever you did back then, it doesn't exist anymore. It's in the past, its easy for you to just forgive yourself and forget."
"Forgiving and Forgetting didn't work for us." Nyx said to his half.
Onyx just completely ignored him. Peridot's crying slowed down. "But why would you let me stay?" She asked again.
Onyx chuckled. "Here on earth, if we have problems we take care of them. And they're taking care of you now. As part of their family."
Peridot just stopped crying and sighed. She came closer to Onyx and embraced him. Onyx hugged back.
"Thank you for this...explanation on earthly affections." She said as she kept looking over his shoulder.
"It's no problem. Besides, if I saw you crushing Steven and the others in the past. I'd kill you." He said with a huge smile.
Peridot's face went poker face. She just brushed it off and ended the hug. "Well, you wanna come help me?" Onyx asks.
"With what?" The small gem asks.
"Well, Greg told me he couldn't come back to a specific diner here. So I'm guessing that we can buy food here." Onyx explained.
"We don't even have human currency."
"I have some. Hope it fits though." Onyx said as he took out a pouch of money. His pouch was a small sandbag with a rope tied to it, making it closed.
Peridot groaned. "Fine. Let's go buy human food. Just make sure to make it fast."
"Oh I will. Just grab on." Onyx said. Peridot just shrugged as she hopped into his back.
"Hold on tight!" "Wha?" Onyx zoomed away from the motel as Peridot screamed for mercy.
Garnet and Amethyst were just sitting in the beach house living room.
"Man, I can't believe I declined their request. It's really boring here without them." Amethyst groaned.
Garnet just sat there. "You can't leave me alone to handle things here in Beach City." She said.
Amethyst slouched down. "Well...we could've told Pearl to stay, and I should've joined them."
Garnet smirked. "She'll join them even if you told her no."
"What do you mean?" Amethyst sat back up.
Garnet didn't speak. She just looked forward.
Then Amethyst got the message. "Wait...don't tell that they're..."
"Yep."
"And he forgave..."
"Mhm."
"And Lapis-..."
"Yeah."
Amethyst stopped.
She snorted as she laughed loudly. "Woah man. Onyx is a playa!"
"He is not, Amethyst. He's having trouble with who he's gonna pick...and we can't do anything about it." Garnet told her as she stopped being childish.
"Can't you just see who he picks?" Amethyst asks.
Garnet shook her head. "No. I don't want to interfere with his future relationship. He's gonna have to pick. Or else he might do this until he..."
Amethyst came closer to her with a worried face. "Until he what?"
"Until he dies."
Amethyst was shocked. "What?"
"I've seen it. A glimpse of it. What he did back on Homeworld won't hold them for long. And he knows it. When they come down here they'll..." Garnet stopped.
"No more, Garnet! I don't want to hear this..." Amethyst said, almost tearing up.
Garnet put a hand on her shoulder. "Amethyst. I know how important he is to you. He's important to us aswell. But he is fighting for Steven's sake. Even though Rose didn't trust him, he is still the same Onyx you met in the kindergarten. But there's two of him now, so that doesn't really matter."
Amethyst was surprised by her last words. "There's two of him? He's a fusion?"
Garnet sighed. "Well...this is what he told me."
Steven woke up with the bright light of the sunrise on his face. He sat up, stretched, then yawned. He looked over to his side. He didn't see Peridot.
Lion was on the floor just in between the two beds. While Greg was on the other bed across Steven.
The boy got off of his bed and went to the bathroom. He was expecting Peridot to be in there, but she wasn't. He just shrugged it off and then washed his face.
He then began to brush his teeth. After he had done that, he spat out water and wiped his face with a towel.
He walked out of the bathroom and looked at his bed. He looked back at this bathroom, then looked at his bed again. He gasped.
"Peridot's gone!?"
This made Greg jump out of his bed. Lion didn't even flinch.
"What happened, where is it?!" Greg panicked as he picked up the lamp from the table beside the beds, and used it as a weapon.
"Dad! Peridot's missing!" Steven held to his father's leg.
Greg groggily rubbed his eyes and yawned. "She's probably just outside, or with the other Gems."
"But dad! The door is still locked from the inside!"
Greg looked at the open window. "I'm guessing she climbed out of the window?"
Steven looked at the open window and ran to it. He put his head out and called out for her. "Peridot?!"
Greg flinched as he ran to his son and covered his mouth. "Son, people are still sleeping." He scolded him.
Steven looked up to his dad. "Let's go find her outside!"
Greg didn't know what to do. He then saw Onyx walking towards their door with Peridot on his back.
"Uhm...son?" Greg let out as he pointed at the two Gems who were holding paper bags and a box of pizza.
Steven went starry eyed. "Guys!" He said as he quickly went to the door and unlocked it.
The door opened and Steven jumped with joy. "Did you get me square pizza?" The boy asked.
Onyx and Peridot went nervous. "Well, you see..." Onyx began.
"Welcome to box-it-pizza, may I take your order." The employee said as he held out a paper while Onyx just had a confused face.
"You're gonna take my order?" He said in confusion.
"Yes!" The cashier said.
"Uhm...okay?" Onyx then placed his sack of money on the counter. "Just pizza."
The guy nodded. "And what will you pick. Fist-a-pie? Or Boxer Pizza?"
Onyx and Peridot were really confused with the foods choice of names. "What do you want?" Onyx asked the guy.
"Well...if you're going with my opinion, I'll go with this!" He held out a picture of a "Fist-a-pie".
Onyx just looked at the picture, then at his fist. He quickly punched the picture of the pizza and straight to the employees face. This knocked him out cold.
Peridot's face went blank. The whole place was quiet.
Onyx and Peridot were thrown out of the restaurant by the manager. The two laid in the dirt. Onyx stood up and yelled at the manager. "Hey! We paid for that. He said he'd take our orders, so I gave it to him!"
The manager threw a box of pizza at their feet and shut the door fastly.
Onyx picked up to box and helped Peridot up.
"What was that?!" Peridot yelled at him.
"Hey don't blame me. Blame the names of their food. And he asked for it!"
Peridot scoffed. "Whatever. Let's just get out of here."
"Yeah...the pizza wasn't cut. Because of...problems." Onyx smiled innocently.
"Hm..." Steven gasps. "Can you cut it with your sword?"
Onyx put a finger on his chin. "I guess. What do you think Greg?"
Greg just shrugged. "Go for it."
Onyx nodded then took the box of pizza. He opened it up and grabbed the box shaped pizza from the bottom. "Ready?" He asks.
Steven stios him. "Wait!" He runs inside.
He then came back with a camera. "Okay, go!" He started recording.
Onyx exhales and summons his sword with his metal arm. He then throws the pizza up in the air as his sword made multiple cuts on it.
Steven went starry eyed. Onyx caught most of the pizza in the box. But one slice fell on Peridots head.
The three laughed at the small gem. "It's not funny!" Peridot yelled at the three.
Pearl opens her eyes from her slumber. It was always morning.
She sat up and looked around. She just saw Lapis laying down on the other bed.
She then remembered Onyx. She had heard his singing in the night. He was hurt. Deeply wounded.
He was emotionally unstable. And she knew that he needed help.
Pearl looked over at Lapis. She was sleeping peacefully.
She sighed. As much as she wanted Onyx to be with her and hers only. She realized her mistakes with Rose.
It was just like Rose and Greg.
Pearl and Greg are "good friends" now. And she respected him.
And she doesn't want the same thing happening to her, Lapis and Onyx. Sure, she knew it herself that she is challenging than Lapis.
But she wanted to do it for Onyx. And she respects his decision even if he chose...Lapis.
She hopped out of the bed and walked over to Lapis. She shook her as Lapis stirred in her sleep.
Lapis opened her eyes slowly as she turns around to be met by Pearl.
"Pearl?"
"Hello there, Lapis. I wanted to speak with you."
Lapis sat up slowly. "What is it about?" She asked weakly. She looked like she wanted to sleep more.
"Uhm...it's about Onyx."
"Why? Is he in trouble?" Lapis asked as she scanned the area for the dark gem.
Pearl shook her head. "No, no. I heard him singing last night...and the song was emotionally touching..." She said while she looked down.
Lapis remembered. "I-I heard it as well."
"You heard?" Pearl asked.
Lapis nodded. "He sounded very...hurt."
Pearl sighed. "Look...Lapis. I don't want to get off on the wrong foot here. But whatever happens in the future, we just need to accept it. So, no hard feelings?" Pearl said to the ocean gem.
Lapis just looked down. She was unsure. But it was for Onyx's sake. "Alright, no hard feelings." She smiled at the pale gem.
"That's good. We already know that he is having a hard time with choosing. So let's just go with whatever happens." Pearl said with a smile. Sure she made an agreement, but she really didn't want to be that close to her supposed rival.
"I agree. Let's find him!" Lapis said to her with a smile. The ocean gem just jumped out of the bed and went towards the door.
Pearl followed.
Steven, Greg, Peridot and Onyx were just hanging out by the van. They noticed the two Gems coming in their direction. Steven greeted them. "Goodmorning you two! We're just talking about swimming in the pool!"
Greg scratched the back of his head. "Yeah, for some reason there aren't any other people coming in the pool. So I'm guessing it's just for us for now!" He then unlocked the back of his van and most of the stuff from it fell out. "Oh..."
Greg chuckled. "Well, Steven, I guess you're gonna have fun without me."
"Aw come on dad!" Steven pleaded.
"I can do it." Pearl suggested.
"Really?" Greg asked the gem. "I mean...if it's no trouble for you..."
Pearl patted Greg's head. "Oh don't worry. I don't want to see your obnoxious items not in order anyways."
"Aw thanks- wait what?"
Pearl then pushed him. "Go and have fun with Steven." She ushered him out of the way.
"Yay! Dad's coming! Thanks Pearl, I know you don't like swimming anyways." Steven said as he ran inside to get towels and get changed. Greg came with.
Onyx looked over to Lapis. "You can join them if you want. I know how you missed being in the water." Onyx told her softly.
Lapis smiled at Onyx. "Well...If you insist." She then gave him a quick kiss on the cheek. This made both of them flush with embarrassment.
Lapis just skipped towards the pool. Peridot sighed and just followed them.
This left Onyx and Pearl alone. Onyx lost his smile and started helping Pearl pick up the mess.
Pearl noticed that he was being unusually quiet. "Is there something on your mind?" She asks.
Onyx chuckles. "A lot."
Pearl stopped working on the stuff and face Onyx. "Onyx..."
"I'm fine, Pearl." Onyx replies dryly.
"You're not."
This made Onyx stop.
"I heard your song last night. And I can't stop thinking if we are the ones that are tearing you apart." Pearl admitted.
Onyx had a mix of worry and embarrassment on his face. Pearl put her hand on his shoulder. "Just...stop...caring. I don't want to see you do this to yourself." She said as tears fell from her eyes.
Onyx quickly took notice and held her face. She looked at him.
Onyx smiles. "I don't know if I'd take that as an advice or a joke."
Pearly just closed her eyes and hugged him. He hugged back. "I may have these problems. Some that I can't even solve for myself."
"But sometimes, I get through them." He released her from the embrace to look at her. "And that's because of you guys."
Pearl smiled, tears still in her eyes. She leaned forward for a kiss. He accepted.
Pearl blushed as Onyx hugged her tightly. They released each other after a few seconds.
She turned around to find that everything was already fixed up. She looked back at a grinning Onyx. "Thanks for the help." She gave him one quick kiss on the lips. "I really appreciate it." She walked over to the pool where the others were.
Onyx smiled and looked over to the contents of the van. It was mostly Greg's stuff. But some were just about Rose and Steven. He smirked and closed the doors.
Okay. This might be the most "uninteresting" chapter I've ever done. And I'm sorry. Also for the huge delay.
Next chapter might be up on Tuesday night or Wednesday morning. It usually takes two days to make a 4k worded chapter.
Thanks for the peeps who leave very appreciating thing on this story.
Love you guys and gals!
Hope you have a fantastic day/night.
PS: I'm super disappointed that there aren't gonna be any new episodes of Steven Universe for a few months. They said it'll come back in early next year. Or another Steven Bomb. I hope.
Luv Onyx.