To Dream of Malachite (Human Lapis X Jasper)

Relatives... They Suck

Ah Thanks-giving
That time of year where you gotta put up with all your shitty relatives... and if your me or Jasper, all your shitty relatives and all your girlfriends shitty relatives in the same room.
Yep that's right. Our families merged our thanksgivings into one. It was both of our mom's ideas. Apparently they'd gotten together for tea a few times since Jasper and I started dating and managed to plan out a large-scale family dinner while doing so.
Now I wasn't complaining... at first, but heck am I sure complaining about it now! It was awful! Not the food of course, but the conversation was damn-right maddening!
Jasper, Amethyst, and I were trapped watching all 4 of my bratty cousins. Helio (Heliodor) and Aqua (Aquamarine) the fraternal twin kindergarteners, Emmie (Emerald) the smart-assed 7 year old girl, and Morgan (Morganite), the quiet book-nerd 10 year old boy. And Amethysts 12 year old sister Smokey for the majority of the night. It sucked ass! But surprisingly spending time with kids was better than the adults. Jasper didn't have an overly big family. She had her mom and dad, Amethyst, Amethysts mom, their aunt Rose, who I assume was also that friend of Pearls, another aunt and uncle, and her grandparents. I had a shit ton of aunts and uncles, but we were a very liberal family so there wasn't really many problems on my family's end.
It was when we were all seated around the table getting ready to eat that things went to shit.
"Jasper, when're you going to cut your dang hair. You look like confused hippie!" Jasper's uncle had said.
"No, no he looks more like a very ugly woman" his wife had replied.
I felt Jasper grip my hand tightly under the table. "I think she's very beautiful." I commented.
The aunt and uncle laughed "Look Jasper! Ever you're girlfriend thinks you look like a lady!" The woman said.
Jasper rolled her eyes "Yeah, that's because I am a girl. Like really... have you seen me?"
Now her Grandfather joined the conversation "Oh no. He is one of those confused hippies. Great."
Jasper's Mom spoke up "She's not confused, dad. Just a little different. She's felt strongly about this from childhood, it's who she is."
Jasper smiled towards her mother but frowned once again when her grandfather spoke again "He has a penis, he is male. A boy"
"I'm on a waiting list for that surgery. I'm sorry I wasn't born a cis-prick like you grandpa." She spoke for herself.
"Whoa... how about we uh...change the topic of discussion?!" My Mom said with a nervous chuckle. "Anyone here like sweet potatoes? We've got lots of sweet potatoes!"
"Yes please! I love sweet potatoes!" I said and my mother passed me the bowl. I offered it to Jasper when I was done
She shook her head "No thanks, you're the only sweet potato I need."
I rose a brow "What? Did you just call me a potato?"
"Yep. Face it babe, next to me you're basically a root vegetable." She smirked jokingly
I gave her a playful shove "You're terrible!" And let out a laugh.
Jasper's parents, Amethyst, Rose and basically my entire family awed as Jasper slung an arm around my shoulders. The aunt and uncle, and grandparents looked less impressed.
"If you want to be a girl so bad why do you still like girls? Shouldn't you like boys?" Her grandma asked in a nasty sounding nasally voice.
Amethyst joined in in trying to explain "No, no, Mima, sexuality and gender identity and two completely different things. Jasper's a girl who's gay. Kind of like me! I'm a girl, I'm bisexual, I like girls and boys."
I smiled "Speaking of, how's things with you and Peri going?"
Amethyst blushed "How'd you know?!"
I let out a laugh at her reaction "Peridot's my best friend! You don't think she doesn't tell me things?" Amethyst tried covering up her blush with her arm and I decided to worsen things "By the way, she thinks you're like super attractive, and is honestly really angry that you haven't asked her to be your date to Pride yet. Like seriously what's the deal with that? She really wants to be hella gay with you at the dance!"
"Whoa, whoa! Chill! I- fuck.... I'm going to ask her soon don't worry!" Amethyst said defensively. "I just got nervous or something, I dunno. I'll do it soon though!"
I smirked "Good, but you better hurry it up. It's in less than a week!"
"Yeah-yeah, I know. Don't worry, I got it." She rolled her eyes.
"Jesus fuck, you kids and your homosexual activity!" Jasper's grandfather shook his head "Anyone else here queer that we don't know about?"
Rose raised her hand. Everyone stared at her "I love all... equally..."
I sat up "So you're pan?! Right?" The woman nodded with a smile on her face "Cool! Me too!"
"Fantastic!" She clapped her hands together.
"No not 'fantastic'!" Jasper's uncle nearly shouted "What the hell Rosie? You too know? You're gay too? What's this world coming to?"
Rose looked away from her brother and then back towards him "I-I'm not gay... I'm pan. We just went over this." she glanced towards Jasper and I, Smiled and then looked back to Jasper's uncle "And I think this world is becoming a wonderful, beautiful place, where one is free to be and create who they are with minimalistic judgement from asshats like you."
Amethysts laugh cracked through the room "OOOHH SHIT! BUUUUURN!" She continued laughing.
Long story short Jasper's aunt and uncle didn't stay much longer, in fact they left right after dinner. The grandparents however stayed around afterwards.
It was after the meal, the kids all decided they were going to go out in the yard and have a snow ball fight with the fresh snow that had fallen last night. Amethyst offered to take full responsibility in watching them since it was actually her idea. Me and Jasper were off duty, so we had gone up to my room for some alone time. We laid on my bed, cuddling.
"Sorry about what happened..." I told her
She looked confused "Why are you sorry? You didn't do anything..."
"I know but I still feel bad..." I said biting my lip.
"Don't. I get it all the time. It's nothing I can't deal with..." she sighed.
I sighed as well "You shouldn't have to deal with it. It shouldn't be a thing... you shouldn't have to hide, you shouldn't have to fight... you should just be able to be you without the entire world ganging against you."
She chuckled "The entire world isn't against me.... I've got you on my side. That's all I need." She kissed my nose.
I let out a giggle "Yeah? How cute of you to say." I teased.
"Hey!" Jasper sat up. "I am not cute- you're the cute one!" She huffed
I smirked "You're cuter~" I continued to tease
"Don't make me-" she let out a playful sounding growl as she repositioned herself above me.
I blushed pretty noticeably, but kept my straight face. "Aww, did I make the cutie mad?"
That's when hell broke loose. Next thing I knew I was subject to tickle torture. Laughing and thrashing about I tried to weasel away. "JASPER!" I shrieked.
"F-fuck!" I heard her grunt as the tickling stopped. Her hands immediately went to her nether region, her face crashing down into my chest. Judging from the scene, in all my thrashing I had accidentally sacked her.
"Oh my god! I'm so sorry!" I apologized immediately going to pet her hair "I-I didn't mean to kick you- especially not there!" I let out an embarrassed laugh as I stroked her hair soothingly.
She groaned out a "Don't worry about it."
There was a knock at the door "Come in." I told them.
Jasper rolled off me as her grandfather entered my room. "Jasper your parents want me to tell you their-" he looked to us as Jasper plopped into a sitting position next to me, still holding her injury. " You fucking idiot..." her grandpa swore
"Uhh... what?" She asked confused
"I hope you were planning on using protection!" He said.
"Protection?! For wh-" her cheeks reddened suddenly "Oh my god! That is not what we were doing at all!"
"Yeah right it wasn't! You teenagers need to learn to keep it in your pants till marriage like we did back in the day- what if she got pregnant?! You're not mature enough to be a father!" The man said his arms firmly crossed.
Jasper face-palmed as my face burned bright red "We weren't fucking having sex- we were joking around and I got kicked in the fucking balls-" She said "Lapis getting pregnant is highly unlikely considering neither of us are sexually active but if the situation does occur by freak chance I'll be sure to step up and be the best QUEER MOTHER I can! Just- Get out of her room! Leave us alone!" Her grandfather looked as if he was about to say something more but Jasper harshly pointed him to the door "OUT!"
After the man left the room Jasper laid down, dragging her hand down her face in frustration "That man irritates the hell outta me..." she groaned.
I rolled to face her and kissed her cheek "Don't worry about him. You've got me to worry about."
"Psh- why would I have to worry about you?" She questioned.
In a swift movement I straddled her hips and tried to tickle he like she had tickled me moments before. It had no effect. She just smirked and just sat up a bit. "Nice try babe, but I'm not ticklish" she said before kissing my lips.