Pearl looked at the clock, it has been 2 hours since she locked Steven in the bathroom, and all that time she cleaned up Steven`s room. She had to deal with the mess Steven left behind, all of the trash filled up two of the big garbage bags, and the bed was not a problem except for the mouse that lived in Steven`s cushion, what really caused her trouble was the seagull.
After she finished with the room she decided it was time to check on Steven. She knocked on the door and called for the little boy "Steven? Are you done?"
The small child responded with a confident voice "Yeah… but I think the toilet clogged again!" Pearl took her palm to her face, everywhere Steven went he left a little bit of disaster, and even though Pearl enjoyed helping Steven, she wanted him to be responsible for his own actions.
"Oh.. never mind" Steven responded. Pearl sighted in relief, but then a doubt came to her mind. "Then what happened?" Steven opened the door and rubbed his eyes "I think I am seeing a little bit blurry"
Steven was finally clean and had a smell to, ironically enough, roses. The bathroom was completely dirty; all of the sweat and dirt that came from Steven took its toll on the shower.
Pearl ignored it and continued to talk to Steven "Look Steven, I don`t have anything against this little game you are doing but you must look after yourself." Steven nodded in agreement and responded "Yes, I know, it's just that… I really wanted to win this competition." Pearl got in her knees so she could see Steven a little bit closer.
"It`s ok Steven, now tell me, you said your vision was blurry?" It was then that Pearl noticed the bags that surrounded Steven`s eyes; she felt a little bit guilty for screaming at Steven earlier.
Pearl placed her hand in Steven`s shoulder and told him "You better get ready, we are going in a mission in 10 minutes" The little boy`s eyes shined with glee and then he ran upstairs.
Pearl headed to the door and entered her room, she always enjoyed her room, the huge waterfalls and the sound of them always relaxed Pearl, she especially went in her room after having a fight with Amethyst or after she went on a mission.
With a single jump she got to the tallest of the water towers in her room, she started meditating. She thought about Rose, and the letter she received from her, and then in a blink of an eye she felt like it was time to head out.
The tall white gem headed to the door and noticed her whole team preparing to go out.
Garnet was already ready to go, she never took anything non-important with her, she knew that it could get in her way, Amethyst prepared her favorite sandwich: bacon, ham and chips covered in car oil, and Steven packed several things in his cheeseburger backpack.
"I am ready Garnet" Pearl informed the red gem. Garnet and Amethyst looked at each other with a confused glare and then looked back at Pearl "What are you talking about?" Amethyst asked.
Pearl looked at the two gems in confusion and said "We are going on a mission…Right?" Garnet took her hand to the side of her face in signal of frustration and Amethyst said to the red gem "I told you she would forget".
Pearl felt offended at that statement, after all, she had an impeccable memory but for some reason she couldn`t recall the memory of that she had to remember. "You are not coming with us" Garnet said in her normal voice tone.
"But why? Is it something Amethyst told you?" Pearl turned in anger to the purple short gem. "Hey I didn`t do anything! This time it was you!" Amethyst protested at Pearl`s accusation while walking to the warp pad.
Pearl looked at Garnet asking for the reason of this discussion "Two days ago we agreed that Amethyst and I were going to take Steven on a fake mission so you could get a birthday present for Steven"
And then Pearl remembered, she felt slightly embarrassed and a little bit guilty, because even though Garnet spoke with her normal tone, Pearl could sense a little bit of disappointment on Garnet`s voice.
Pearl was not looking forward to this event, not only because she did not know what kind of present she must get for Steven, but also because the horrifying memory of old Steven in his birthday suit brought tears to her eyes.
"Steven`s birthday is tomorrow, there is no time to buy him a present" Pearl tried to escape from this quest fearing that she would get the wrong present for Steven, causing him to be disappointed in his big day.
"We will give you at least 5 hours to get that present" Garnet said to Pearl in a whispery voice fearing Steven would hear them talk. "But what about you? Did you get him a present?" Garnet turned around and showed pearl both of her gems "Oh… and what about you Amethyst?" Pearl directed to the messy gem. "Me? I got him a new controller for his game square thingy for him and myself."
This did not cleared things up for Pearl and just when she was going to say several options for the present Steven got close to the gems "I`m ready Garnet!" Pearl looked with worry at Steven "Good luck with finding that shoe!" Steven gave Pearl a hug and then directed to the warp pad.
Pearl looked at Amethyst, she shrugged with a grin in her face disappearing in the beam of light.
Pearl looked at the clock once again. "It's 10 A.M. I think if I`m going to look for a present I`d better start now!"
A/N- What? Two episodes in the same day? Well I`m inspired and I must thank the wonderful review from : "Guest" and well… I hope you enjoyed this long chapter! Yours truly –LumbarRouge8.