Steven Universe Of The Creek

Chapter 11 Glowing Truth

After the day with the Williams family, Craig and his family left their grandparents. They were more than happy to see Craig enjoying his time, rather than how he acted this morning. As if he appreciated the value of Steven himself. Unfortunately that's far from the truth. Steven parted ways with the family as he headed straight back to his apartment to pack up. However Bernard, throughout the entire day wanted to see Steven one last time before he left. But it's anything but positive that he's been showing to him since meeting him several days ago.

Right when he got home, he texted Alexis to meet him in the front yard to pick her up. Upon doing so, he also took Craig along to where Steven is staying which is in a different apartment to where she lives.

"Bernard." Alexis spoke. "Not that I want to say goodbye to him, but you never told me why you wanted to meet him."

"It's hard to believe, but my brother Craig turned into a happy person even though he wasn't like that this morning." Bernard answered.

When Alexis turns to Craig, he holds onto his head, getting a headache ever since he returned home. "I don't even remember how I got happy at first." Craig retorted. "I still have something in my ear."

"I wish he was crazy since Steven got here, but since he couldn't communicate with me all day, It had something to do with Steven."

"Steven wouldn't do something bad to your brother." Alexis replied.

"That is...if my brother wasn't shaking with him from behind. If you were there today, you would know how empty he was before it happened."

All that Alexis remembered of Craig over the past couple days is the incident at the restaurant yesterday. Her boyfriend told her everything other than the reason why Craig did it since he didn't understand until today.

"Well we can agree what happened yesterday wasn't Steven's fault." Alexis replied.

"Yes, but what happened today had something to do with him that made Craig different." As he looked through the indoor car mirror, Craig looked straight at him.

"All I can tell you is that last night, he wanted to keep it a secret from everyone, including you." Craig answered.

"Well tonight, we're gonna find out since he showed it to you."

Craig sighed, since he can't take control of protecting the truth of how his brother caught on as quickly as he did. Bernard found the apartment Steven is staying at as he parked his car next to Steven's. After he got out along with Alexis and Craig, he took a look at Steven's van from the inside. With many personal belongings, he has a lot of questions, but only the biggest ones of them need to be answered.

Inside the apartment itself, Steven washed up his dish after having supper. Bernard walked up to the apartment door and knocked on it, catching Steven's attention. Upon putting his dish away, he made his way to the door and unlocked it. He witnessed Bernard and Alexis standing in place, without saying hello for the final time, but also noticed Craig still getting a headache after the sparkle effect wore off.

"Bernard?" He spoke.

"Can we please come in, we need to talk."

Steven invited the three in as they all sat in the living room of the apartment. "Is this mostly a goodbye before I leave tomorrow morning?"

"Technically yes, but this is serious."

"It's between you and Craig." Alexis added.

"Oh." Steven took notice while sitting down.

"Last night after we had the family meeting to sort things out, you took him out." Bernard replied. "At first I didn't care and defended you, but during the whole bean bag thing, you did something to his ear."