Too short to Ride

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skipped a few chapters that had nothing to do with our boy

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You and peridot are in steven's house as he hands a gift to peridot 

Steven: Special delivery!

Peridot: Oh. Wow. Thanks. 

Peridot rips open the gift

Peridot: It's a... a rectangle.

Steven puts the ribbon from the gift wrapping on Peridot's hair.

Steven: And a tablet! 

Steven takes the tablet and turns it on

Steven: My Dad bought it, but he decided he didn't need it. He said something about over-saturation of media being a plague to one's mind, so I thought you might like it. Here.

Y/n: what..?

Steven starts demonstrating how to use the tablet, and Peridot is awe-struck while you just stare in bewilderment confused on how the strange metal rectangle works

Steven: You can use your fingers to work it.

Y/n: how though?

Steven shurgs

Peridot: Like my old finger screens!

Peridot scrolls through the screens of apps on the tablet.

Steven: But now you have the Whole Worldwide Web to hang out on.

Y/n: wouldn't that be a downgrade though?

Steven: wha?-

Peridot: Worldwide? Ha! I had the ability to search and retrieve data from across multiple star systems.

Steven: Hmm, impressive. But I can do you one better: TubeTube.

Y/n: tube? 

a thought bubbles is shown with two plastic tubes

Steven taps the TubeTube icon and it opens up to a cat video. Peridot watches it in perplexity.

Peridot: Why was this documented?

Y/n: must be a food channel, I've eaten many of these!

Steven looks at you horrified for a moment before shaking his head and continuing 

Steven: You can log your thoughts on the internet, too. You just have to keep it under 140 characters.

Peridot in awe again

Peridot: That's so many people!

Peridot continues watching the cat video, emitting clattering sounds and cat yowls.

Y/n: there doing it wrong you have to grab the cat by the neck, break it, then proceed to cook it over a fire

Peridot: they are humans perhaps they don't know that?

Steven: Alright! Enough about eating cats! 

You shrug

Y/n: ok

peridot continues watching the screen

Steven: I can make you an account so you can start logging as soon as you want.

Peridot chuckles in anticipation as Steven sets up a social media account for her.

Peridot: I really, really like this, but it's a shame it doesn't come attached to your body. 

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