Don't Let Me Down

First Date

"Oh man! If only Steven were here to see this!"

Amethyst ran ahead of Peridot in the local movie theater they were in and pointed to a movie poster of the No Home Boys.

"Too bad it's going to be two months before it comes out." Amethyst added. "Peridot? You seem pretty quiet."

"Oh, I'm just listening to what you're saying." Peridot stammered.

She was looking at Amethyst in her tux with her lavender hair in a bun, Peridot cheeks had been dark green for half an hour now and she was glad Amethyst didn't take a close look.

But then she noticed Amethyst looked at the poster for quite a bit of time and Peridot was scared that she was disappointing Amethyst.

"Oh! I'm sorry! It's just well, I've never been on a date-"

"...date?" Amethyst whispered, still looking at the poster.

"Y-Yes." Peridot stuttered, playing with her new long hair. "Is there something wrong with that?"

"I...I had a rough time in my last relationship." Amethyst admitted.

"Oh my stars, who hurt you?!" Peridot growled.

"Peri it's fine!" Amethyst reassured her, looking at her with worry. "It was more than a decade ago, so I've had time to get over it. Maybe we should go find a movie to watch and talk about it over dinner ok?"

Peridot nodded and they ended up watching Inside Out. When they introduced Disgust, Amethyst nudged Peridot and teased her about their similarities. Peridot was tempted to roll her eyes and play it off, but instead gave a nervous smile.

Despite that, Peridot's mind was wracked with worry. Despite Amethyst's reassurance, she wanted to plant a fist in the face of whoever hurt her. She felt extremely angry till Amethyst put her hand on her green arm.

 "You're still thinking about it."

"I'm sorry." Peridot gasped at her touch.

"Dude, quit apologizing!" Amethyst giggled in a whisper as the movie was still playing. "I never disagreed with you that this was a date. I just said I had a hard time with my last girlfriend, that's all."

"That's what worries me." Peridot leaned in closer and held Amethyst's hand and looked into her eyes. But oddly enough she didn't feel like she was performing acts that have been seen on so many romances.

She felt like it was real.

"I don't want anyone to hurt you." Peridot added. She was about to kiss Amethyst when they noticed Joy and Bing Bong fall into the abyss and looked back to the movie screen.

Who was this last girlfriend? What'd she do to Amethyst?

Peridot eased her tense shoulders and tried not to think about it at the moment for Amethyst's sake.

...

"Great movie Amethyst." Peridot gave a shy smile as her and Amethyst left the theater. "Where are we eating?"

"Well, do you mind getting your new long hair dirty?" Amethyst asked with a wink.

"Um..."

"I have no more money." Amethyst admitted. "So, let's go to the garbage behind the Italian restaurant and see what we find hmm?"

"Whatever you want Amethyst, heh." Peridot was actually liking her new appearance a little, and didn't really want to get it dirty.

"If you really don't want to get it dirty, you can always take it off and shapeshift your hair back into it's normal shape." Amethyst put her arm around Peridot and played with her pale green curls. "And I can shapeshift back to normal?"

She shapeshifted the tux and bun in her hair?

"Oh, OK." Peridot took off the dress and shapeshifted her hair back into it's triangle shape.

Amethyst smirked and shapeshifted back into her normal attire and the two of them headed off to the dumpster.

...

"Look Peri! There's still two slices of pizza in the box!"

Peridot was climbing into the huge garbage container when she saw Amethyst's head pop up from the garbage heap holding up a pizza box.

"I'm...not usually used to getting dirty." Peridot said, making Amethyst snicker. "What is it?"

"Oh nothin'" Amethyst seemed more flirty than usual. "Come on in, these shall do before I look for more."

"Are you going to tell me about your last relationship?" Peridot asked.

"Oh...I was hoping you would forget about that." Amethyst sighed. "I was a young gem when Rose, our former leader passed. Then Pearl...she didn't take it well."

"She went to me, said she was lonely. Said she needed me. It seemed like a romance that sprung from tragedy, seemed innocent enough." Amethyst explained. "Then...then she wanted me to shapeshift into Rose. Claimed it was roleplay."

"I refused, said it was too soon." Amethyst admitted. "She didn't take that well either. She broke up with me...."

Amethyst looked down hurt and Peridot held her face with comfort.

"She's a fool, you're too amazing and...beautiful for her." Peridot reassured Amethyst.

"Thank you." Amethyst replied. "Why do you care about me so much?"

"Because...I love you." Peridot admitted.

Amethyst looked surprised at her bold confession and even had cheese hanging on from her mouth, Peridot lightly brushed it off her lips and smiled nervously.

Almost instantly after that Amethyst's lips were on Peridot's, and Peridot couldn't believe that it was happening. And how great it felt as well.

Peridot buried her hands in Amethyst's long hair as she fell on top of Amethyst and they stopped kissing to look at each other.

"So...heh." Peridot chuckled nervously for what seemed to be the hundredth time that day. "How was this date? It was my first date so I couldn't be that good the first-"

"I loved it."

"Oh, same here. Even if it was dinner in human garbage." Peridot joked, making Amethyst smirk. "I'm sure Steven will be overjoyed. He's been gushing about me asking you out for a while."

"Of course he'll be, Garnet will be happy and if anything Lapis will be indifferent." Amethyst explained. "Pearl, I honestly don't know."

"If she tries anything I'll punch that clod into Homeworld!" Peridot growled.

"It'll be fine, most exes aren't ridiculous enough to punch someone out of jealousy." Amethyst reassured her. "Pearl's probably over it by now. Oh, and Peri?"

"Yes?"

"Love you too."