Chapter: 2 Un-Connie-ventional Circumstances
Steven woke up feeling something heavy on top of his chest "mmm what's this?" he ran his hand over what was lying on top of him resting on a tear drop shaped gem and smiled remembering the previous day's events. "Lapis you awake?" she groaned softly and nuzzled her cheek into his chest some more making him smile and brush some hair from her face. Her hair brushed against her nose making her sneeze and wake up smiling up at Steven before sitting up "Good morning Steven" she picked him up and hugged him making both of them blush before she put him down. "M.. morning Lapis." The two walked down Stevens small staircase and headed towards the kitchen where Amathyst was busy sifting threw the fridge to find something to eat "Hey Amethyst, whats up?" "oh nothing much Steven" she looked back at the boy and noticed the roses on Lapis' dress. "Dang Steven I didn't think you two would be that close already" she laughed lightly before pulling out a sandwich and eating it as she walked back to her room inside the temple leaving a blushing Lapis and a confused Steven behind. "What's she talking about Lapis?" he turned around and finally noticed the pink roses where her Blue Diamonds once were "wow Lapis what happened to your diamonds?" "Well you see Steven.. Those showed I worked for Blue Diamond but now.. now I want to be yours Steven.." she blushed a deep indigo as she said this making the young boy blush a rose red himself. "so your going to join us then?" "if that's what you want Steven, I just want to be with you" this made him blush even more and look down at his feet. Before either of them could say another thing the front door flew open and Connie came running into the house panting and out of breath "S.. Steven w.. what happened?" Steven quickly ran up to her and held her close, connie responded in the same and started to cry "I was so worried after your call Steven I had to beg my parents to drive me here but after I saw all the wreckage on the beach I ran here as quickly as possible" Steven smiled and started to rub her back to calm her down "don't worry I'm ok in fact I've never been better I beat jasper, we lost Peridot though, and we even got Lapis back and she's going to join the Crystal Gems" Connie smiled and wiped away her tears and looked over at Lapis who was looking away from the two and blushing making her blush and realize she was holding onto Steven rather tightly and let go of him awkwardly stepping back. "S.. so Steven you defeated Jasper, how did that happen?" she rubbed the back of his head shyly "well she was going to force lapis to fuse with her so she could beat us up but I was able to see what would happen because of Garnet giving me her future vision" both of them stared at Steven not understanding. "Long story short Garnet is a fusion of Ruby and Sapphire, Sapphire has a sort of premonition/ second sight power she can pass on to others by kissing them on the forehead" Connie and Lapis looked at one another blushing lightly at the thought of someone else kissing Steven on the forehead. "so she gave it to me to find Pearl and Amethyst on the ship and after the crash I wasabi to see what would happen if they fused, I saw Lapis' plan to trap them both under the ocean" he turned around and stared into her watery eyes "I couldn't let her get imprisoned again so I used my shield bubble to move her away from Jasper and Lion opened a rift next to which we pushed her into, the rift kind of went to the moon so she's trapped there now" Connie hugged him from behind startling him "that's what I'd expect from my boyfriend" she giggled and realized what she sad and let go of him blushing brick red, Steven also blushed just as dark befor Lapis picked him up "no Steve is going to be mine not yours!" she yelled and blushed a lavender color as the temple doors opened up and the remaining crystal gems came into the room to hear the two girls fighting over Steven who's whole face was red from embarrassment making Garnet smiles and Amethyst break out into laughter "what's going on in here?" asked Pearl as she walked up to the three of them making Lapis and Connie stop fighting over him and making Lapis put Steven down. "W.. well I kind of called Steven my boyfriend without thinking.. a.. and lapis picked him up saying he was her boyfriend.. so we started to argue" said Connie as she rubbed her left arm "We're sorry for fighting but we both really like Steven and I don't think either of us is willing to give up on him" said lapis as she placed her hands on his shoulders. Steven was finally coming to grips at what just happened "well I'm flattered by both of you but I.. I'm not sure I can choose between you both, your both really close friends and I care about both of you so much" "why not just date them both" chimed Amethyst. "we can't do that that's normal" said Connie making the gems blush lightly, "well for gems its rather common for pairings of more than two gems to date or get married" said pearl "and Steven is still half gem so he can fallow our worlds laws and date you both" said a smiling Garnet as she walked up to them and placed one of Connie's and Lapis' hand into Stevens hands. "That is if you're all ok with that?" Steven looked at Connie than Lapis both giving him a hesitant nod before he nodded to Garnet "ok than, you are not officially dating both of these lovely Ladies Steven so be sure to treat them properly" h blushed and nodded again "o.. ok" both Lapis and Connie leaned in and kissed one of his cheeks making his face red again.