Later at the temple, Lapis is sitting on the couch holding a mug filled with a warm beverage provided by Steven. She still looks flustered. Steven is sitting next to her and Garnet is standing facing the couch. Amethyst is sitting on the floor by Steven's bed, looking down at the conversation going on.

"... And then she just kisses me! Right out of nowhere!" Lapis blurts out still frustrated. "I mean... Who does that!? It's like... Does she even know what she's..." Lapis stops her rant dead in its tracks and stares at Garnet. "Garnet?"

Garnet is standing there, hands up in front of her mouth with the palms touching. She's grinning ear to ear.

"Uhm... Garnet?" Lapis is confused. She turns to Steven. "Steven, I think Garnet is..." Lapis sighs with frustration. "Figures."

Steven is also grinning ear to ear, his eyes all bright and starry.

Lapis looks up at Amethyst.

"Hey. Don't look at me!" Amethyst says defiantly. "You put yourself in this 'Peri-dicament.'" Amethyst snickers as Lapis facepalms and lets out another frustrated groan.

"I don't have time for this." Lapis says angrily as she takes her cup of hot drink and splashes it in Garnet's face.

Steven's smile quickly gets replaced with a look of concern, and Garnet's smile fades back to her normal stoic expression.

"Welcome back to Earth." Lapis says dryly. "Now can we get back to the problem at hand."

"What's the problem?" Garnet asks with her standard stoic expression.

"PERIDOT!" Lapis yells with frustration as she almost rips some of her hair out. "You know! What we were JUST talking about!"

"Oh..." Garnet says dryly. Its pretty obvious that Garnet doesn't see this as a problem at all. She shrugs. "You'll work it out."

Lapis groans. "You call that an answer!? If I wanted a half-ass response, I would've asked Amethyst!"

"HEY!" Amethyst yells as she stands up.

Before the situation can get any further out of hand, the door opens. Peridot walks in casually. The room goes silent, all eyes on Peridot.

"Lazuli." Peridot says quietly. Lapis looks away. "... Lapis... I think I understand why you're so upset with me." Peridot has a sincere tone to her voice.

Lapis turns back to face Peridot. "Really?"

"Yes." Peridot explains. "It has been brought to my attention that I had acted rashly and should have thought harder about my action ahead of time."

"So you do understand?" Lapis said with a smile.

"Yes." Peridot continues. "... Apparently the humanoid known as Onion isn't an infant after all. It's an 'adolescent.' I'm sorry. A mistake like that won't happen again."

Amethyst starts laughing. Steven facepalms. Lapis's smile vanishes and is replaced with bewilderment. Garnet walks over to the shelves and takes a book labeled "A Rock and A Hard Place: A Life's Guide For the Dense" down from the top shelf. She hands the book to Peridot. "I already have the chapter bookmarked." She then walks back towards Steven.

"Did you see this with your Future Vision?" Steven whispers in Garnet's ear.

Garnet laughs. "I didn't need Future Vision to see this coming."

Peridot opens the book and begins to read. "Hmm..." She keeps reading. "Oh..." She keeps reading and suddenly her face flushes. "OH MY STARS!" Peridot yells out as she drops the book.

Amethyst starts laughing so hard that she falls down from Steven's bedroom and lands in the living room with a thud. "My ribs! I'm gonna die!" Amethyst forces out during her outburst of uncontrolled laughter.

Steven looks down at Amethysy and then back at Lapis and Peridot. "I think you two should talk outside..."

Lapis walks towards the door. Peridot is still standing there, like a statue. As she walks by Peridot, Lapis grabs her by the back of the shirt and just drags the stationary Peridot with her. The screen door shuts behind them.

"You watch so much Camp Pining Hearts... And you still didn't piece that together!?" Lapis yells out on the porch.

"There's only one episode!" Peridot yells back, still not realizing it yet that Steven had lied about that.

They stand there in silence. Peridot looks away and out towards the ocean. Lapis grabs Peridot by the face and turns Peridot's attention back towards her.

"Lets try this again." Lapis says with a deep exhale as she forces herself to calm down. "What was your mistake?"

"The kish." Peridot slurs out. Its hard to talk when you have two hands pushing your cheeks together.

"Good." Lapis says with a smile as she lets Peridot's face go. "Why was it a mistake?"

"It was... Inappropriate." Peridot states as she averts her gaze. Lapis clears her throat, and Peridot quickly snaps back into focusing on Lapis.

"Now what won't you ever do again?" Lapis asks.

"Act on impulse." Peridot responds.

"... No." Lapis says.

"No?" Peridot asks.

"Yes." Lapis replies.

"Yes?" Peridot asks confused.

"Right." Lapis responds with a smile.

"What?" Peridot asks. She is clearly lost.

"It's alright to act impulsively, Peridot." Lapis says with a smile. "But you should still be aware of others. Keep them in mind."

"Alright." Peridot says calmly with a smile. "I'm sorry."

There is silence.

"Don't think I'm gonna let you off the hook that easily, Peri!" Lapis says with a joking smile.

Peridot looks confused. Lapis turns away from Peridot and stands in silence. Peridot goes to reach a hand out towards Lapis but quickly brings it back, eyes full of uncertainty.

"I still have a regime to overthrow!" Lapis says with cartoonish enthusiasm. She then quickly turns around with a wide toothy grin and points dramatically at Peridot. "And you're gonna help me pull it off!"

Peridot gets caught up in the moment and smiles as well. She snaps to attention and crosses her arms as she would salute a diamond. "Yes Ma'am!"

In the window, Garnet and Steven are spying on their conversation. Garnet has a huge grin on her face. Steven looks concerned.

((So... Yeah... "They're Pinky and the Brain! Yes Pinky and the Brain! One's name is Lapis, and I'm sure they're both insane!" I'm not gonna parody the rest of the song here... I may eventually. But not now. Things are getting pretty intense in the "Not Dewey" Party... Dang I wish I was better at drawing... I'd totally make a comic stip of the last scene in Gurren Lagann art style... Oh well. I had fun with this chapter. Had a lack of Dewey in it, but don't worry. He's probably coming up with his own clever scheming and catchy slogan... That Pearl is probably going to replace later anyways...

Everytime in the show "Future Vision" is mentioned, my mind mentally places a trademark logo directly after it. Not sure why.))