Rising Tides (Human!lapidot)

Chapter 11

Peridot stopped the car outside Lapis' house and turned towards the blue haired girl. Lapis herself raised an eyebrow, which made Peridot scowl.

"Get out" Peridot said as politely as she could. She was tired and aching and just wanted to go home and sleep. But Lapis...Lapis was preventing all that and she was getting impatient.

"Okay" Lapis said slowly, unsure of what to do. Her hand hovered over the handle, debating whether or not to open it or to see what happened if she didn't. "I'll text you later, you need to rest" she had concluded that it would be best to leave Peridot to rest, she seemed angry.

Peridot nodded, watching quietly as Lapis stepped out of the car, picked up her bag and walked up to her house. The lights were on inside, telling the blonde that people, supposedly her parents, were inside. As if on queue, the door opened, revealing a tall dark skinned man wearing a suit. Lapis greeted the man with a hug and shut the door. Sighing, Peridot pressed down on the gas pedal and made her way back to her own house.

It was a cold Thursday afternoon in early Autumn. The leaves were beginning to fall off the trees that lined the streets towards her house. Trees were covered in pretty oranges and deep reds but Peridot was too distracted by the sudden pain in her head to admire them. She swerved slightly, thankful that no one else was on the road and parked her car, stumbling out of it and into her house. Inside, she managed to sit down, pulling her broken glasses out of her pocket and squinting at them. She could barely see without them, driving was risky, sure, but there was no other way to get home. She had no money.

Beginning to regret not owning contact lenses, she searched through the drawers in her kitchen, trying to find something to temporarily fix the glasses. Her head throbbed with each movement of her eyes. She squeezed them shut and sat down on the tiled floor, slowly rubbing her eyes with her palms. It hurt, this wasn't fair. She had no money for new glasses, she had to fix them. She looked back up and was surprised to see her vision was even more bleary. Blinking, a tear ran down her cheek and she angrily rubbed it off with the sleeve of her flannel. Placing her glasses on the counter, she continued searching through the drawers and finding nothing that could help her current situation, she gave up.

Peridot was lucky her injuries weren't that bad. Jasper had beaten her up before and one time she had been hospitalised. Shaking the negative thoughts out of her head, Peridot began to slowly make her way out of the kitchen and into her living room, using the counter to lean her weight on. Her head was still throbbing, a little worse now that she had entered the bright room.

Raising her hand to rub at her eyes, she stopped when she felt her phone buzz in her pocket. Realising Lapis had promised to text her, she got it out and sat down on the couch, after pulling the curtains shut, leaving the room dark. This made her head feel a little better. Before she had left the kitchen, she had taken some pills and it had helped a little.

When opening up her phone, Peridot flinched as the sudden bright light hit her face, illuminating the room with a blue hue. She checked her notifications. Yup, it was Lazuli.

Lapis: heey Peri, how ya doing????

Peridot: First of all; I told you not to call me that. And I'm doing fine, thanks.

Lapis: good to know :D rest is the best way to feel better tbh

Peridot: Yeah, I'm heading up to bed now, though I might need new glasses...

Peridot glanced back at her broken glasses, laying on the counter. Sighing loudly to no one in particular, she strode up the rest of the steps and into her room before hearing her phone buzz in her hand.

Lapis: aww that sucks :( ever thought of getting contacts?

Peridot: Yes but no.

Peridot dropped her phone onto the bed before falling next to it. She was tired and her whole body ached from Jaspers punches. Closing her eyes, she drifted off to sleep, not hearing the buzz that came after her phone had hit her bed.

- - -

The blonde woke up feeling even worse than the day before. Her head was ten times worse than it had been and now her whole body throbbed with it. She couldn't move without being in immense pain and she felt like she was about to throw up. Groaning, she slowly turned to her side, propping herself up on her elbow and picking up her phone. Lapis had texted her last night. Multiple times, in fact. Swallowing down the sickly feeling in her throat, she opened up her phone.

Lapis: why not?? Contacts are awesome

Lapis: peridot?

Lapis: Peri

Lapis: eh, you probably passed out...

Peridot: Morning.

Peridot waited for the reply, stepping out of bed and immediately feeling light headed. She wasn't sure why she felt like this, Jasper hadn't hurt her that bad, she just felt... Sick and gross and her head hurt because she now had no glasses. Her phone buzzed.

Lapis: good mornin'

Peridot: I'm not coming to school today, I feel horrible...

Peridot: Just a heads up, I know we have maths today.

Lapis: that sucks... its the first week back lmao

Lapis: want me to pop round after school to help?

Peridot: You say that like you know my address.

Peridots lips twitched upwards into a small smirk. Lapis could be so cute sometimes. Wait....

Lapis: oh yeah... Well, I want to help!

Peridot: No, I'm fine

Lapis: I'll get it off amethyst then ;)

Peridot: Wait what??

Peridot: ...

peridot: Lapis?

Frustrated and slightly worried about the fact that Amethyst knew where she lived, she slammed her phone into her bed and growled into her pillow. She didn't need help. She was fine. Having friends was so frustrating.

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