The gems walked inside of Amethysts room, Pearl visibly winced at the mess, sticking her nose up at every other pile of trash. Amethyst gasped grinning as she saw the moldy burrito from months ago. She shot a mischievous glance at Pearl.

"Amethyst that was from five years ago!" But it was too late she'd already eaten a piece of it. Steven turned around from the sight and caught sight of a picture with the gems and...His mom. "Whoa..You guys look so old." Steven said with fake surprise. Garnet took note of this, she had been more observant lately of Steven.

"That's because we're much older than humans ever live! Of course it was old!" Pearl said, remembering the fun times with Rose and their adventures back over 5000 years ago.

"Does that mean you never age?!" Steven cried, grinning. Pearl smiled.

"No no! We don't age, but we can still die-" She was cut off as Amethyst groaned and fell to the ground. "But not from food poisoning." Pearl commented, rolling her eyes.

Steven thought about this, could Amethyst get poofed from something as simple as this, he caught a bit of worry in Pearls eyes, but was unable to see Garnets to confirm if she could, if Garnet had some kind of worry on her face, even for just a second it would confirm she might. Steven thought about it a little more before shouting,

"Do you guys ever have birthdays?" He asked, knowing the outcome this would bring, but still, he could control it this time and he would make sure they would have fun birthdays.

"No, it's not our way." Garnet said a little too hastily. She shrugged, Steven nodded, a grin plastering over his face.

"Then I'll make sure you all have the best. Birthdays. Ever!" Steven pledged. The boy grinned, stars forming in his eyes as he went to his dad's shed to gather materials.

After gathering all the needed materials for the birthdays Steven decided he'd have it inside this time, as later on it would become foggy and he wouldn't want the gloomy atmosphere to ruin the party, he hung up streamers and balloons all along the ceiling and stairs, handing Garnet a birthday cape and crown. He also saw something on the couch looking like a small purse with a strap, he was tempted to peek inside it, but remembered Pearl had been wearing it and would scold him for going through her things, and then blame Amethyst for being a bad influence.

He thought back, or in this case, forward? To when he'd found out Garnet was a fusion and decided to use red and blue balloons for Garnets party, saving the purple and pink ones for Amethyst's and the yellow and white ones for Pearls. The streamers didn't have as many colors, just red, blue, and yellow, Steven just picked those at random, putting them up in a pattern. Red, blue, blue, yellow, blue, red, red, yellow. He also covered the couch in a thin purple sheet with presents he had just gotten out of Amethysts room, colored to match the respected gem.

For Amethyst was a purple present with a bright pink bow, inside was a small sculpture which Pearl had agreed to help make, or the wrestling ring Amethyst always, or used to always go to, mostly because it was the only thing he should know about Amethyst that gave her individuality around this time, but there was one thing he was proud of about it, the sculpture was edible, even if it wasn't he was sure Amethyst would have ended up eating it, but now it at least tasted good.

For Pearl was something he remembered she said she'd liked, well she'd shown interest for it many times and he always remembered this one thing she'd liked, pie. No, not consuming pie, just the process of making it, so he gave her some baking appliances and an apron along with some pie crusts and several different pie ingredients, like sprinkles, whipped cream, pudding, cake mix, and so on.

For Garnet he honestly had no clue what to give her, so he simply got her a punching bag and some gym equipment since he knew she liked to be working a lot. He also got her a pillow with her face on it, just because, this time he let Sadie do the design and found her being fairly good at it.

Steven beamed a grin at all the preparations scanning everything and then allowed Garnet in. She looked at everything and Steven saw the faintest smile appear on her face before changing to stotic, he guessed it was because of the red and blue balloons, although she had thought it was pure coincidence how it resembled Ruby and Sapphire it was perfectly planned to suit her.

The cakes Pearl had also prepared, taking great care into detail and not even letting Steven look at it in fear of him eating it, she herself found a great desire to taste it, which she admitted, baffled her to no gazed at the many designs, scanning over each of them, Amethyst of course wolfed it down, Steven noticed people coming, and also that Amethyst had already eaten the first cake and was going for seconds, and quickly stopped her.

Steven saw almost the whole town was here, Greg, Sadie, Lars, Sour cream, Onion, Jenny, and a few others he had no desire to list off any others as just, 'the whole town' he guessed was good enough. He quickly scanned to see if Connie had showed up, he had invited her, but it took him almost a full minute of staring at the invitation before he mailed it off pondering whether or not it was actually a good idea, so with the knowledge that he invited her he continued scanning, and every time a new person had entered the beach home he had instantly turned his full attention to who it was, but to no avail. He sighed, maybe she was busy, he couldn't remember if Connie had tennis practice today or not.

After a while he gave up looking, throughout the whole experience he noticed that they had moved to Amethysts party next, switching out about half of the balloons and set the cake on the counter. Before Amethyst could wolf it down Pearl, Garnet, and Greg all started cutting pieces of cake and setting it on a platter for people to eat.

Steven was genuinely surprised so many people had come, it wasn't really a big event he had simply ask a few friends to come just so it would be more lively and he guessed his friends had brought other friends.

After they cleaned up everything, everyone having gone home and about half of Pearls cake and half of Amethysts cake left they put it in the fridge and cleaned up the party decorations, Steven sighed in relief, it was an uneventful day this time, but who knew how many of those he'd have left once the gems found out..? It wasn't fair...It wasn't like Steven wanted this to happen...So why...

Pearl led Garnet and Amethyst to her room and began, "Alright lets just jump into the subject at hand. Who else has noticed Stevens odd behavior?" Pearl asked, the two were mildly shocked by this, but they knew eventually it'd become more apparent that the situation at hand was becoming more and more of a problem, and of course since they were his guardians they would notice. That was their job after all, they'd never failed him before, and now it seemed like they already had somehow.

The duo nodded in unison.

"I think..I think I might have found something that may lead us to the answer." Pearl began, rummaging in her pocket and pulled out a shining purple gem shard. "I found this in the heaven beetles temple, Amethyst has already seen it." Pearl commented, bringing the shard over to Garnet who merely gasped, but regained her stotic composure.

"You said you found it in the heaven beetles temple correct?" Garnet asked. Pearl nodded.

"Do you know anything about-" Pearl was cut off as Garnet raised her hand up and pocketed the shard, she left the meeting and went to her room hastily.

"What was all that about?" Amethyst asked, Pearl simply shrugged and sighed, going deeper into her respective room, Amethyst went the opposite direction and through the temple doors.

Mostly filler, nothing too special, but I went back and added the meeting scene just to give the chapter something worth reading.