Rising Tides (Human!lapidot)

Chapter 14

Lapis shut the door behind her as she entered her own house. She sighed happily, content with the fact that it was, in fact, the weekend and she had no homework. This was extremely satisfying to her.

The first thing she did was go straight to the kitchen to grab some snacks before heading up to her room to feast and watch YouTube until she passed out. This was like a daily routine now.

Unfortunately, her brilliant plan was stopped by none other than her father. He stepped in front of her, blocking the doorway out of the kitchen.

"Where have you been?" He sounded worried, his eyes were wide and eyebrows raised. Not just worried. Angry. "I've been trying to call you for the past two hours!"

Lapis blinked slowly, processing this new information and realising that she had turned her phone off when she arrived at peridots house.

"Oh" Lapis shoved her hands into her pockets, trying to act casual "I was with a friend".

Her dad sighed and ran both hands down down his face, his mouth turning down into a frown. He snatched the bag of candy from his daughters hands and stepped out of the way. "I'll talk to you later about this" with a long sigh, he stepped fully into the kitchen and began preparing some sort of meal.

Lapis was about to complain but stopped. She turned around on her heel to head to her room. Slamming the door shut, she went straight to her bed, diving in and instantly tangling herself in her duvet. Getting out her phone, she decided to check her social media. Her phone buzzed halfway through looking at her tumblr.

Sighing, she opened up her messaging app, knowing full well who it was.

Amethyst: heeey lapis, how's it going with peridot???

Lapis: she fell asleep

Amethyst: on you? Beside you? I need to know, L

Lapis: woah chill... She was on the other side of the room

Amethyst: laame

Lapis: and then I carried her to her room and left the house

Amethyst: hot

Lapis: Shut up

Setting her phone down and deciding to read instead, Lapis sat up into a sitting position and scanned her bookshelf. Picking a particularly large one, she lay back down and opened it.

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Lapis woke up to complete darkness. Startled, she sat up. The book she had been reading fell off of her face and she stared down at it with an amused smile on her face.

She looked at the time: 12:36am on a cold Saturday morning. It looked as it were raining and the pavement was enveloped in a layer of leaves. Or what used to be leaves but were now a strange grey paste-like substance.

Shaking her head, Lapis got up from her bed and changed into a simple blue tank top and shorts. Still barefoot, she made her way downstairs to see an empty kitchen.

There was a note on the fridge. Lapis took it. It read:

Hey sweetie, you mother and I had to go to work. Something came up and we might be gone for a couple of days.