"Special delivery!" Steven cries as he holds out a rectangular-shaped gift, wrapped in light green paper, to Peridot.
"Oh. Wow. Thanks." Peridot says before she rips open the gift. "It's a... a rectangle." She says looking at it confused.
Y/n picks up the ribbon from the gift wrapping on Peridot's hair. "And a tablet." Y/n says to her as he takes the tablet and turns it on. "There you go."
"My dad bought it, but he decided he didn't need it." Steven says now. "He said something about over-saturation of media being a plague to one's mind."
"Yeah...that sounds like somethin Greg would say." Y/n comments.
"I thought you might like it. Here." Steven starts demonstrating how to use the tablet, and Peridot is awe-struck. "You can use your fingers to work it."
"Like my old finger screens!" Peridot says as she scrolls through the screens of apps on the tablet.
"But now you have the Whole Worldwide Web to hang out on." Steven tells her.
"Worldwide? Ha! I had the ability to search and retrieve data from across multiple star systems." Peridot says.
"Hmm, impressive. But I bet you I can do you one better, TubeTube." Y/n says as he lifts the tablet up for him and Peridot to watch. Y/n taps the TubeTube icon and it opens up to a cat video. Peridot watches it in perplexity.
"Why was this documented?" She asks.
"TubeTube is filled with videos, some of which keep me up late at night questioning my sanity...But you know there's also some cool things on there like learning to make things." Y/n says.
"You can also log your thoughts on the internet, too." Steven says to Peridot now. "You just have to keep it under 140 characters."
Peridot looks up in awe again. "That's so many people!"
Y/n and Peridot continue watching the cat video, emitting clattering sounds and cat yowls.
"I can make you an account so you can start logging as soon as you want." Steven offers.
"Yeah and I'll be your first follower." Y/n says as he hands the tablet over to Steven. "It will be a better way for you and Lapis to get in contact with me than through Steven."
Peridot chuckles in anticipation as Steven sets up a social media account for her "I really, really like this, but it's a shame it doesn't come attached to your body." Peridot says before she gasps. "Oh wait!"
Peridot runs to the Steven's storage cabinet inside the steps and begins rummaging through it.
"Steven." Y/n whispers to him.
"Yeah?" Steven says.
"Pass the tablet here." Y/n says.
"Sure Y/n." Steven nods an hands it to him. "What are you going to do?"
"Put a childlock on it so she and Lapis don't find the weirder parts of the internet." Y/n replies as he changes some settings then hands Steven back the tablet.
"There's weird stuff on the internet?" Steven asks.
"Ah Steven...please remain as innocent and pure as long as you can." Y/n sighs.
Steven just looks at the tablet and shrugs as he begins to set Peridot up a profile. "I'm gonna leave the profile stuff blank for you to fill in later. There."
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Being Human
FanfictionWhen a Young Adult has to suddenly move across the country with his dad he ends up in the town of Beach City. Will his life be a mundane existence or will there be something in this town that turns his whole world upside down?
