Rising Tides (Human!lapidot)

Chapter 19

Peridot knew she had overreacted but the thought of Lapis, the only person she could really call a true friend, abandoning her had made her lash out. It wasn't her fault, it was how she was raised. Her mother never really treated her like a daughter. More like a random person who just so happened to live in the same house as her. In a way, Peridot had been fine with it, just doing her own thing until Jasper came. For a while she had acted like a good friend. And then she started making Peridot do things she'd definitely regret in the future. Thinking back on it, she regretted everything. But that was a whole other story.

Blinking, Peridot glanced at the alarm clock on her bedside table. Half an hour until she was scheduled to get up for school. It was early Monday morning, the blonde had spent most Sunday in her room procrastinating about stuff. The usual: homework, studying...talking to Lapis. She had apologised for her outburst but hadn't replied to any other texts. Lapis was probably worried. Probably.

Trying to close her eyes and fall back asleep seemed to not be working so, after a couple minutes of trying and failing, the blonde rubbed her eyes and got up. After doing her usual daily routine of brushing teeth and changing, she found herself on her couch watching cartoons with a large bowl of cereal in her hands. Her phone let out a familiar buzz from her pocket but she ignored it, instead shoveling another spoonful of cheerios into her mouth. Another buzz. Again, ignored. Peridot knew who it was but didn't bother answering. She could talk to her at school.

Checking the time, she realised that, for once in her school career, she was going to be late. Those damn cartoons were very distracting.

Rushing out of the house and into her car, she quickly pulled out of her driveway and off towards the school. If the traffic was good and she ran to class, she should be able to make it. Wait, what did she have first? German. She hated German, she couldn't speak any language other than English. But everyone was forced to take a language for their last year of school and German seemed like the best option out of the list as she could kind of understand it. Kind of. Plus, she sat next to Garnet who was good at literally everything so she did have the upper hand here.

Finally arriving at school, she sighed happily as she spotted several students still wandering around outside the car park. Peridot stepped out and ran into the main building, searching for the room number for her classroom and finding half the class waiting outside for the bell. She wasn't late.

"Peridot!" A familiar voice came from behind her and before the blonde could turn around, tanned arms wrapped around her torso.

Confused, Peridot gripped onto the arms and tried to prise them off, letting out a startled yelp that made some of her fellow students turn their heads towards the pair, as Lapis pulled her closer. The bluenette buried her face into the smaller girls hair, letting out a shaky breath.

"Lapis what the heck?" Peridot wanted to scream at her for making her blush but she looked and sounded upset.

"I.. You weren't replying to my texts, I got worried" she finally let go, turning the blonde so she was staring into her ocean blue eyes.

"Sorry" came the mumbled reply.

"Its fine" Lapis smiled. "But seriously I was trying to contact you all day yesterday, what were you doing?"

Peridot shrugged. She wasn't really doing anything. Just laying in her bed, awaiting death. You know, the usual.

"What does that mean?"

Another shrug answered the taller girls question before the bell rang and the teacher miraculously appeared from thin air.

"Oh, and Peridot?" Lapis grabbed the collar of her flannel shirt, pulling her out of the door and back into the corridor.