All for One

A few years had passed since Steven and Connie fused for the first time, Steven had saw more instances of fusion since then: seeing Opal a few times, seeing Pearl's and Garnet's fusion twice, and Alexandrite once.

And he saw Garnet everyday, after all she was a fusion as well.

But he had not fused with Connie since that night.

Nervous, maybe, Connie was very frightened(but excited too) of being a fusion, and they had rarely brought up that night because of Kevin, that weird guy that harassed them at the dance.

Steven and Connie were both 15. Well, Connie's 16th birthday was tomorrow, they were throwing her a surprise party at her house. Amazingly, her parents had allowed it...along with the talk of "don't touch anything" and "hug Connie for no more than 2 seconds."

Steven, as he grew older, wanted to do much more then hug her. He learned about the birds and the bees years ago and admittedly had done things while thinking of Connie. Knowing that they could be doing more things then hugging if he had just told her how he felt was agonizing.

But training and his fears of rejection had gotten in the way all these years, he loved the times he spent with Connie. But sooner or later, he had to tell her how he felt. There were times he was sure she felt the same, but times where he felt like he was nothing more than an embarrassment she had to put up with.

It was nothing she did, it was just Steven's fears taking over his common sense.

Also, her parents scared him a little.

Connie had only dated one guy during these years, he was nice and Steven was happy for them. It was bittersweet, until this guy had cheated on her for another girl and dumped Connie the day before Valentine's day. The next day Steven had spent the whole day trying to cheer her up, but never told her how he felt that day.

Too soon after he broke up with her, he had thought.

Connie and the jerk that shall remain unnamed did no more then hold hands because of her parents. Maybe it was her strict parents that made the guy start cheating on Connie.

Steven shook his head in anger, that's no reason to cheat on a girl, especially one as special as Connie.

"Bedtime, Steven." Amethyst walked into the room with chip crumbs escaping her mouth.

"15, and still forgets when he should be going to bed sometimes." Pearl smiled faintly in amusement, then looked down at Lion as he walked past her and onto Steven's lap.

"Haha, good Lion." Steven petted his mane and nudged him a little. "But they're right, I got to go to bed."

"Hey Steven." Garnet came up to him and put her hand on his shoulder and moved in to whisper. "Good luck with telling Connie."

"Wha? How did you...oh, right." Steven blushed a little, he forgot about Garnet's future vision. "Do you know how it'll turn out?"

"You will just have to tell her yourself to know the outcome." Garnet smiled. "Goodnight, Steven."

"Night, Garnet." Steven climbed onto his bed and it took an hour before his worries tired him out and he fell asleep.

"Steven!"

Steven got up and realized he was dreaming, standing on huge pink clouds and before him was a big silhouette.

"Mom?"

"You have many paths to choose from, you can be a Crystal gem by yourself and lose all those you love from old age."

"That would be terrible!" Steven gasped.