After they ate their pizza for lunch, Greg returned to work. They bid the gems goodbye and took off to Sour Cream's house. Vidalia was working on a commission and happily waved them up to Sour Cream's room without question.

They asked the mirror questions about Garnet and Amethyst. But the mirror didn't seem to be able to tell them anything more. A few confusing images of gems fighting each other that didn't seem to make sense.

"Is that Garnet?" Buck asked.

But the mirror didn't reply.

So, they gave up. They talked with the mirror some more, Rolando talking over the rest of them a lot. Eventually they let him hold the mirror as they played a game of Citchen Calamity.

"Hey! What are you doing! You're going to break it!" Jenny said suddenly. Jumping up and grabbing Rolando's hand. Stopping him from pulling the gem out of the mirror.

"She's been trapped in it by the enemy!" Rolando said. "If she's released, she'll be stronger than ever before!"

"Ugh!" PeeDee groaned "You're embarrassing us!"

Jenny wrenched the mirror away from Rolando "You're going to break her. Look at how cracked she already is."

She backed up behind Kiki holding the mirror to her chest.

"I think it's time for you to leave." Buck said.

"What? No! You can't kick me out! This is the coolest thing that's ever happened to me!" Rolando cried.

"Oh, let him stay! He wasn't trying to hurt her!" Steven said. The older kids looked between each other.

"Fine." Sour Cream said. "But if you try anything again. I'm calling Mom."

Rolando gasped in horror, and the children's eyes widened at the severity of the threat.

Jenny set the mirror between her and Kiki as they went back to their game of Citchen Calamity. Steven happily set about explaining all of the rules to the mirror as they played.

It was Steven's mirror, so he brought it home with him at night and tucked a blanket around it as he curled up with his father in the van.

Every day he met up with the other kids. Normally at either Vidalia's house or the car wash, they asked the least questions about what they were up to and all of them were worried about the gems finding out about the mirror. They had all pinky promised not to tell any of the adults about the mirror. The mirror didn't want to be known about after all. Steven felt bad about lying, but it was exciting to have a secret with his friends, it made him feel important and included with all the older kids, so often the older kids made him feel like a lame tag along, but with the mirror he was special. He was cool. He was included.

They brought the mirror everywhere with them, Steven said he would read her the dictionary so she would know every word, but he only got about two pages in before giving up out of boredom. It didn't matter, the mirror was picking up words rapidly just from listening to them. She was easily responding to them in full sentences, but now she fell quiet when asked about the past. Who she was and gem history. She preferred to live in the moment, making jokes and playing mild pranks, enjoying when they took her on walks to see the town.

Rolando hung around them, and they tried to not be rude for PeeDee's sake. Steven didn't want to make him uncomfortable, but it was clear that the mirror didn't like him. She was always falling silent when he hounded her with questions. And they had told him to stop but he just didn't. Steven wished he would leave them alone, but he didn't want to hurt his feelings either.

The mirror was their little friend. Kiki had taken her on a run as fast as she could to show her what the world looked like flashing by, Jenny had tied a blue ribbon around her handle, because blue was her favorite color. Steven and PeeDee tried to explain what different food tasted like to her, French fries and bits and cookie cats and pizza. "Maybe she wouldn't even like food." Sour Cream pointed out. "Pearl doesn't."

"Everyone likes Pizza." Steven argued.

"Peal doesn't." Sour Cream said again.

"The mirror would." Steven said.

"We shouldn't call her that." Buck said. "It's not cool. She needs a name."

"Yeah." Steven agreed. "How about…Sophia?"

"No." The mirror said. "My name is Lapis." She flickered through different people and voices to speak, ending with the old image of Pearl.

"Oh…sorry we didn't ask." Steven said.

"The gems know that though," Buck pointed out. "That you're a lapis mirror. You need a code name." Buck had been really into spy books lately.

"How about Lucy?" Jenny asked. "It's close. But the gems wouldn't put it together."

"Yeah, what do you think, Lapis?" Steven asked.

"I like Lucy." Lucy answered.