Chapter 1

I sat up quickly, screaming, from yet another nightmare. "When are these nightmares ever going to end?" I say to myself as I run my hand through my hair. Nightmares suck, and that no opinion, everyone hates them. However, reoccurring nightmares are even worse. Having the same nightmare at least once a week makes you real hesitant about sleeping. I let out a big yawn as I rub my eyes with the palms of my hands. I swing my legs off the side of the bed and as they touch the stone cold tile I immediately regret getting out of bed. I shuffle over to the blinds, with each step feeling like someone covered my floor with a block of ice. I pull on the long brown sting immediately opening the dark black blinds and letting the piercing sunlight flood through my room.

What a nice day I say to my self as I change from my pajamas to suitable clouts for the day, and when I mean suitable I mean brown cargo shorts and a plain grey t-shirt. I go over to my mirror and see my reflection looking back at me. "Am I matching?" I ask myself with a puzzled look. Then immediately follow up with " Why do I even care?" I look exhausted. I have dark circles under my eyes from the lack of sleep; I'd do anything to stay away from that nightmare. My stomach growls with hunger and snaps me out of my trance. "I wonder what's for breakfast?" I say aloud really hoping that its waffles.

I walk downstairs to see Amethyst sitting on the couch, game controller in hand and is completely mesmerized by the television as she controls her avatar through hordes of hungry zombies as she's hacking through them with a verity of chainsaws, machetes, and ninja swords. I walk over to the coffee pot poring my self a piping hot stream of black liquid into my favorite coffee cup, I add a little milk and sugar then go and join Amethyst on the leather couch. I prop my feet up on the table in front of me and taking a nice gulp of coffee and let out a satisfying sigh. " I love coffee," I say to myself.

Knowing Amethyst wont start a conversation since she is so distracted I decide that I might as well. " How's it going A?" "Oh, hey Tom! I'm good, how'd you sleep?" she replies without even looking up from her game. After taking another satisfying sip of coffee I answer her " Good, can't complain." "That's good to hear!" "Yeah, right, uh where's Garnet and Pearl?" I think Garnet went on yet another mission and Pearl went to go and get breakfast, she didn't want to make anything this morning." "Pearl never eats though" I say confused. Amethyst shrugs. "Yeah I know she just said that she wanted to today for some weird reason." "Any clue where she went?"

"Yeah she went to that breakfast place just right down the road, you know the one with two palm trees out front?" "Alright" I say standing up "I'm going to go down there." "You sure that's such a good idea?" Amethyst says finally looking up from the game." Probably not, but I got to keep trying you know? Pearl will probably always hate me, but were a team now and I have to try and have some sort of positive relationship with her. Besides I'm really craving waffles." I say with a smile. Amethyst lets out a laugh, "Well hey there you go that place has some of the best waffles in town in my opinion." "Great!" I exclaimed. "I'll see you in a little bit then Amethyst."

I step outside and get immediately hit by the warm sunlight and the smell of the salt air. "One of my favorite smells" I thought to myself as I walked down the stairs. As I walk up the beautiful white sandy beach towards town I get flashes of that reoccurring nightmare in my head. I quickly push it away. I see the restaurant in the distance and immediately make a "B-line" towards it.

5 minutes later I'm at the door and the aroma of waffles, eggs, toast, and hash browns immediately goes up my nose and makes my stomach growl even harder. I grip the rusty door handle, swing open the door and immediately see Pearl siting 5 tables away with her back turned to the entrance. "Lets see if this will work out better this time then it has the past few times" I say with a sigh and walk towards her.

"Hey Pearl!" I exclaim with a smile mind if I join you?