Chapter 8:

It's been a few hours since Connie has arrived at the beach temple to take care of Steven's gem. Every single second that Steven stayed in that gem was complete agony for her. She wouldn't know what to do if he never came out of there. She just had to hope for the best which was for Steven to be regenerating inside of his gem.

Right now Connie was embracing Steven's gem on his bed. She's been in that pose ever since she arrived. Every now and then the other gems would come by and see if anything changed. Mostly it was Pearl doing the check-ups. She would start silently crying when she saw that Steven still hadn't reappeared.

Sure Connie talked here and there when she absolutely needed to. For example, when she arrived she had to talk to the gems to figure out what exactly happened to Steven that made him poof. Garnet explained the most out of the 3 gems since she was the most stable. Garnet also explained that she only let him go by himself because the way he went had barely any chance of containing the monster.

Seeing that it was almost sunset, Connie decided to get up for a second and go to the other side of the room to her phone. She was just about to open it to text her mom she was staying the night when suddenly a bright flash of white appeared behind her. Excited, Connie turned around just in time to see Steven's gem rising up into the air and changing into multiple versions of a tall woman before setting on Steven's form. Connie could feel tears of joy running down her face as Steven finally materialized in front of her.

Once Steven finally floated down onto the bed standing, he opened his eyes and looked around his vicinity first before finally seeing Connie in front of him. A look of panic stretched across his face as he noticed her tears. "Connie! Are you Ok?" was the first thing that left his mouth.

"Steven! You're back!" she said. Quickly wiping her tears away, Connie ran up to Steven and embraced him in a giant bear hug, not noticing the change in clothes Steven had.

Steven retaliated by hugging back but was still confused. "Connie?" he asked. "When did you get here?"

Connie pulled away from the hug first to look him in the eye. "Steven, I came here when the gems told me about what happened to you!"

Then it all clicked for Steven. The corrupted gem, him getting poofed, meeting his mother, regenerating. A massive smile spread across his face as he realized he could regenerate now. Out of pure happiness, Steven lifted Connie up into the air as he yelled out, "I CAN REGENERATE!"

Connie both blushed and giggled when Steven decided to hold her up in the air. After a few seconds of just both kids laughing, Steven finally put Connie down on the bed with him. Suddenly remembering how Pearl took a few weeks to regenerate, he asked Connie an important question about how long he'd been in his gem.

"It's only been about half a day, I think." Connie responded. She wasn't too sure since the gems said it was in the morning that he poofed.

Now that Steven and Connie finally calmed down a little, both of them noticed Steven's new clothes. "Uh, what am I wearing?" he asked out loud.

Instead of wearing a reddish shirt with a yellow star on it, blue jeans, and pink sandals, Steven was now wearing pink shoes and brown cargo pants with a white t shirt that has a dark yellow star over his stomach region and a cut out where his gem is. Steven sort of liked how he looked now. Sure his last one was amazing and all, but wearing this felt so comfortable to Steven. "I think I like these clothes." Steven admitted to Connie.

Connie looked up at Steven before speaking. "I like them too, but I also liked your old style too."

After a few seconds, Steven suddenly remembered something extremely important. He stepped closer to Connie, put his hands around her, and slowly started to lean in. "We haven't done this since yesterday!" Steven exclaimed.

Connie blushed as she heard this but leaned in too nonetheless. Once again Steven and Connie's lips sealed together for another passionate kiss. Unbeknownst to them, was that Garnet was holding back Amethyst and Pearl from exiting the temple to give the kids some privacy.

A/N:Yay! New Chapter! Who else just hated on Pearl during StevenBomb 3.0 until the end of Friend Ship? Anyways, Please Review!