Steven

The Lights

Garnet then walked over to the side of my bed at looked at me.

"I'll be right back Steven." She said and then she walked out the door and down the hall. Now it was just me and Amethyst stuck in a tiny room together - alone. There were a couple seconds of silence but then Amethyst walked over by my bed and said

"So Steven. Wanna here the juice?" I had no idea what she was talking about. But I was going to find out.

"What Juice?" I emphasized the word 'juice' to make it sound like I've never said it before.

"Ya know.... What happened?"

"What happened when?"

"Your little accident." Uh oh. This didn't sound like it was going to be too good.

"Oh. Ok. Tell me."

"Ok so, Garnet, Pearl, and I were just heading back from a mission and we noticed that Lapis and Peridot were in the kitchen. So, we walked over to them and talked , yada yada yada... I noticed that there were cookies sitting on the coffee table so, you know me, I got me some of them babies and gobbled 'em up. Then Connie slammed the screen door open screaming 'Stevens hurt!!!' With tears streaming down her face. All of us ran towards Connie wanting to know what happened. She said 'Follow me.' She then led us all down the stairs to where you were lying unconscious. You were breathing but just weren't moving. Garnet scooped you up and we ran to the nearest hospital, and here we are now." I was so baffled by what she had just said to me. I don't know why I asked this, but I said

"So where's Connie?"

"Oh... She didn't follow us here so....  I don't know." Before I could say anything I could hear yelling down the hallway. We both turned our heads towards the door and decided to tune in.

"We've already talked about this Pearl! You don't talk about Rose around Steven. It gets him very upset."

"I know Garnet. I can't help it! I didn't mean to say it on purpose. It just... slipped out." A couple seconds went by. And then this time Pearl whispered very faintly

"I miss her Garnet."  I then heard crying and then I couldn't stand listening to them anymore so I turned my head away. 'Am I not good enough?' I asked myself. I then heard -what I guessed to be Pearl and Garnets footsteps coming towards my room. Except it sounded that  there was another pair of footsteps. Pearl and Garnet showed up at the door a few seconds later as I expected but the other pair of footsteps hadn't arrived yet. Pearl and Garnet stepped into the room, this time Pearl didn't speak to me and sat down in a chair farther away from me. The unknown pair of footsteps were still coming closer and closer to my door. Finally the footsteps stopped and a nurse appeared in front of my door.

"You can leave now sweetie. Just let me unhook you and you can leave after that." She then walked over to the side of the bed and unhooked me from the tube connected to my arm.

"You're free to go." She then gestured towards the doorway. I sat up and dangled my feet over the edge. I felt very dizzy as soon as I did that. I hopped off the bed and headed towards the door, followed by the Crystal gems. We all walked outside of the hospital and headed back towards the beach house.

*time lapse*

About 10 minutes later we arrived. The house was completely dark with no lights on. Weird. We never turn the lights off. Garnet was the first to step into the house and turn on the closest light. As she did so,a dark figure was sitting on our couch.

"Connie?!"