Inside at the Maheswaran's mansion (10:48 A.M)...
"Connie! Would you come here for a brief and important moment?" shouted the mother of Connie, Dr. Maheswaran.
"Coming!" said Connie. Then Connie walked downstairs and saw a bunch of baggages lying on the floor.
"Why is there so much baggages?" asked Connie.
"Connie dear, We are going to visit your grandmother!" said his father, Mr. Maheswaran with an excited yet sarcastic tone.
"Really?! Thats wonderful! But still, why they are a lot of package?" asked once again Connie.
"We are going to visit her, and stay in her house to spend all summer vacation as a family." answered Dr. Maheswaran.
"WHAT?!" shouted a surprised Connie.
"Whoa, whats with that reaction? Aren't you excited to see your grandma?" said a confused Mr. Maheswaran.
"Uhmmm... to be fair, I'm really glad to see my grandmother again, but what about Beach City? Am I going to still visit Beach City after we return from the trip?" asked Connie, a little bit worried about her friendship with Steven.
"Oh darling, after the family trip we are going to a new town!" said Dr. Maheswaran with a smile.
"WHAT?! No! I don't want to go to a new town! I want to stay here and visit Beach City!" said Connie with a little bit depressed tone.
"Hold on Connie, whats with that loud responding and that tone?! I never seen you like this before." added Mr. Maheswaran.
"I completely agree! I don't think its very appropiate of you by responding us like that, young lady!" said Dr. Maheswaran with a strict voice.
"But its not fair! We always move after a family trip or dad getting a new place to do his security guard job!" argued Connie.
"Young Lady, stop this right now! I believe that now is the best for you to never return to that place again!" argued back Dr. Maheswaran now getting a little bit angry.
"Calm down darling." said Mr. Maheswaran trying to calm down his wife.
"Don't interfere!" said Dr. Maheswaran.
"MOM! I don't want to leave forever Beach City! What about Steven?!" said Connie blushing a little bit by bringing Steven into the heated argument.
"A-Ha! So its the Steven's influence that is making you act like this?! Well its decided then! You are never going to see him again!" said Dr. Maheswaran.
"WHAT?! BUT, I thought both of you decided after the meeting with his dad and the Crystal Gems that I'm permitted to see him!"argued Connie now getting more angry and getting tears in her eyes.
"Crystal what?" added a confused Mr. Maheswaran.
"LISTEN HERE CONNIE! Ever since you have met that little boy you have been acting very strange! You even said that it won't be neccesary to check your eyes again! In fact, Its been at least one year and six months after you weared those glasses!" argued back Dr. Maheswaran.
"ITS BECAUSE I DON'T NEED THEM ANYMORE!" shouted Connie with all of her strengths.
"What?!" said both Connie parents.
"LOOK! MY GLASSES DON'T EVEN HAVE LENS! STEVEN HEAL MY EYES! NOT ONLY THAT, BUT HE ALONG WITH PEARL AND TEACH ME HOW TO SWORD FIGHT IN CASE SOMETHING HAPPENDS TO HIM AND I'LL BE ABLE TO PROTECT HIM ALONG WITH BEACH CITY!" shouted a very furious Connie now with tears on her eyes.
"That would explain those bandages from her left hand and her face." added Mr. Maheswaran.
"So... you have been lying to us all this time?! WHAT KIND OF STUPID AND DANGEROUS FANTASY IS THIS?! I WAS BEING STUPID ALL THIS TIME! I let my own daughter get influenced with some stupid dreams and fantasies about saving the day with one of his friends! THATS IT! I'M NOW COMPLETELY SURE THAT WE WILL MOVE FAR, FAR, AWAY FROM BEACH CITY AND NEVER RETURNING AGAIN! I'M EVEN GOING TO TAKE YOU TO THE OCULIST WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT, YOU HEAR ME YOUNG LADY!" shouted a very furious Dr. Maheswaran.
Mr. Maheswaran was very shocked since it was the first time in his life that he had seen how his own daughter and her wife was arguing... and worst of all, its a very heated arguement.
"BUT I DON'T NEED TO SEE THE OCULIST! CAN'T YOU UNDERSTAND?! NONE OF THIS IS A FANTASY! I HAVE BEEN DOING MAGIC STUFF WITH STEVEN EVER SINCE I MET HIM! I EVEN FOLLOW HIM AND OFFER MY HELP WHEN THE OCEAN DISAPPEARED! I KNOW NONE OF YOU WOULDN'T UNDERSTAND BECAUSE YOU ALL ARE IGNORANTS!" argued back Connie. This had surprised both of her parents. It was the very first time that Connie had insulted them.
"Thats it... I had enough of your rebel phase." said Dr. Maheswaran with a calm tone. Of course Mr. Maheswaran knows that she is still angry at Connie, and soon enough she will immediately explode again.
"YOU ARE GROUNDED FOR ONE WHOLE MONTH! NO TV, NO GOING OUTSIDE, AND YOU ARE PROHIBITED TO SEE YOUR LITTLE FRIEND TODAY! AND WE ARE GOING TO VISIT YOUR GRANDMOTHER AND MOVING TO A DIFFERENT TOWN, WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT! NOW GO TO YOUR ROOM THIS INSTANT!" screamed Dr. Maheswaran with full of rage, and angriness.
"I HATE YOU! I HATE YOU!" shouted Connie while crying very sad tears and running upstairs towards her room.
Connie's Room...
Connie was laying down on her bed still crying over the heated arguement between her and her mother. Then she looked up and saw a picture of Steven and she smiling on the beach. She took it and gaze over the picture of she and Steven.
"Oh Steven... I want to be part of your universe." said Connie still crying. Then she began to remember all her times she spent alone before going to Beach City and how she felt all alone without any friends at all.
"*sob* *sob* I don't want to be all alone again. I don't want to be a weirdo. I want to have friends, and live my life with fun and excitement; not all alone and be considered a sociopath." cried Connie while still letting her tears flow on the picture of Steven and her.
Then she began to remember all the times she spent on Beach City and then she remembered when she first met Steven. How he took her on accidental, wild, adventure with his bubble shield and how he returned back her bracelet on the bottom of the ocean... or at least deep in the ocean. Then she remembered how she use Lion to save Steven from falling down from the Ocean tower that Lapis made after it began collapsing. But her biggest and happiest memory was when she first danced with Steven and it didn't cause her any kind of embarrasment or kind of strange feeling with him; and how they accidentally fused into Stevonnie. Then Connie stopped crying and got a determined face and wiped all her tears from her eyes and face.
"Hmph! Its decided! I will escape. I don't want to leave my home, but also I don't want to leave my only friend in the whole planet. Steven... you mean so much to me." said Connie while getting out some paper and a pencil.
Then she began to write something on her paper that she took out. After writing a long, and big note she fold it and left it on her bed along with her glasses without lens. Then she began to put some books of Unfamiliar Familiar, and some clothes. Then she opened a window from her room.
"(I'm sorry mom and dad, but I don't want to be miserable again. I'm sorry if I shouted and screamed. I love both of you, mom and dad.)" thought Connie while smiling and jumped from the window of her room. Then she began to climb down from the mansion very carefully and descending slowly.
"(I'm glad that those sword lessons from Pearl are helping on this situation.)" thought Connie while sweating nervously and still climbing down the mansion. Then she noticed from a window of her mansion that Dr. Maheswaran was sitting on a couch grabbing her forehead with one of her hands seemingly that she was having a headache.
"(Come on! Please don't look at me...)" thought Connie while climbing down faster trying to prevent that any of her parents discover her escaping the mansion and disobeying her mother orders.
Finally she made it just a few inches above the ground of the entrance of the mansion. She jumped and landed on the ground without anyone noticing her.
"(Yes! Now towards Beach City.)" thought Connie while running at full speed on a sidewalk.
Inside Steven's House (11:08 A.M)...
"And then I said, that was unRAISINable!" said Steven as he made a pun. Steven's pun joke made Lapis laugh, but Peridot and Jasper sitted there without flinching.
"I don't get it..." said a confused Jasper.
"Neither me... according to my investigation I made the correct and appropiate word it would be unreasonable, and besides the raisins can't talk." added a confused Peridot.
"Heh, heh, its a joke. When you tell jokes they mostly doesn't make sense and we can use it to do puns." responded Steven clearing the misunderstanding.
"Oh... Humans have a weird sense of spending the time." said Peridot.
"So... what other kinds of puns you have in your mind, kid." said Jasper.
"Hmmm... what about... Oh! Theres a strange street on the side of the house, so that would make it mySTEERious!" said Steven as he putted the same face he did when he told a pun about his together breakfast.
"I got another pun. Peridot? More like Peridork." said Lapis while smiling and gave Peridot a teasing smile which obviously annoyed Peridot.
"BWA HA HA HA HA! Thats a great one!" said Jasper as she began to laugh very hard.
"(Clods... I'm surrounded by lumpy, clumpy clods...except Steven of course.)" thought Peridot.
Then the warp pad activated and Garnet came from it.
"Garnet is back!" said Steven with a big smile.
"Soooo, did you find anything we can smash?" asked Jasper.
"I manage to find a corrupted gem, sadly this gem grew digged very profundly and manage to escape." said Garnet.
"Where do you think it could go?" asked Steven.
"I don't know. But once I found it then I would immediately go after it." said Garnet while entering the her room.
"Oh yeah! That reminds me... what happend to the slinker?" asked once again Steven.
"You mean that thing who hided between tight spots? I took care of it." answered Jasper.
"How?" added a confused Lapis.
"I just smash it with one of my training devices (That reminds me that I need to make another one)." responded Jasper.
"Why didn't you tell them before Amethyst retreated into her gem?" asked Peridot
"Because I noticed that it was in my room after she got vaporized into her gem!" responded Jasper.
"At least, she tooked off that weird shoulder shirt design." added Lapis.
"Well I think it looks very awesome with her new black shirt." said Steven.
Then someone knocked the door of the house.
"Coming!" said Steven as he standed up and walked towards the door.
"If its that weirdo asking for stupid questions about conspiracies and nerd stuff again, then I'll slap his face!" added Jasper.
"(Or throw him into the ocean.)" thought Lapis while smiling. Then Steven open the door and saw that it was Connie who was tired and was breathing heavily.
"Oh. Hello Connie!" said Steven with a big smile and full of excitement.
"Hey...Steven..." said Connie as she try to recover her breath.
"Whoa Connie, are you okay?! You look like you run on a marathon!" said Steven with a worried face.
"*heavy breath* Don't worry...Steven. I'm fine... just a quick run from my parents." said Connie.
"Your parents?" said a confused Steven. Then Connie realized that she mentioned her parents and began to remember the whole arguement of her mother and her.
"Don't worry about that... its nothing." said Connie a little bit depressed. Steven noticed this and decide to ask anyway.
"What happend Connie? C'mon... you can tell me anything, I will understand." said Steven trying to help his best friend.
"Its a long story." said Connie with a sad tone.
"I have time." said Steven.
"Well..." said Connie as she began to tell what happend.
Meanwhile at the Maheswaran's House (11:10 A.M)...
Dr. Maheswaran was still sitting on the couch along with her husband.
"Arghh! This headache is killing me." said Dr. Maheswaran.
"Honey, you know that screaming isn't good for your health. You even know that since you know... you are a doctor yourself." said Mr. Maheswaran.
"I know, I know... its just... it really ticked me off the way she responded at us." said Dr. Maheswaran.
"Listen... I know it was very wrong of Connie to lie to us. But I think its time to settle this. You know you hate seeing our daughter like this." said Mr. Maheswaran.
"...Yeah. I guess you are right. Besides its almost time for lunch." said Dr. Maheswaran.
"Okay then... I'll go get Connie and we will solve this like the family we are, all right?" said Mr. Maheswaran as he went upstairs towards Connie's room.
When he got upstair he knocked the door hoping for Connie to answer. But nothing happend. He didn't heard any response. He try to knock the door once again.
"Connie, sweetie are you okay?" said Mr. Maheswaran. Still no response from the room. He began to worry so he decide to open the door.
"Connie come on I kno..." said Mr. Maheswaran but he stopped as he saw the room of his daughter all empty. He began to get worried sick and got very scared by seeing that no one, not even his own daughter was in her room. He began searching, but to no avail. He didn't find anything, then he looked at her bed and saw her glasses and a note saying,
If either Mom or Dad are reading this then you will notice that I'm gone. I escaped because I didn't feel it was good to feel miserable again. So I'm leaving the mansion so I won't get on a life I don't want to live. I don't want to feel alone ever again so I escaped. I'm sorry if I disobeyed the orders, but I had to. Sayonara...
-Connie.
Mr. Maheswaran was completely horrified after reading the note left on the bed.
"DARLING!" shouted Mr. Maheswaran as he runned downstairs.
Five minutes later...
"HOW COULD SHE DO THIS?!" shouted a very frustrated Dr. Maheswaran.
"ITS DEJA-VU! She did the same thing when we meeted the guardians and father of Steven!" said Mr. Maheswaran who was freaking out too.
"Wait... THATS IT! I have an idea where could Connie went. Come on! We need to get to the car as fast as possible!" said Dr. Maheswaran as she rapidly went to the garage.
"Wait for me!" added Mr. Maheswaran as he did the same.
Author's Note: Uh-oh, it looks like Connie is in big trouble, but what will happend to her and Steven friendship?!
Check out "Family and Guardians" to check out!