The New Girl (on hiatus)

Chapter 17- The Bus Stop

((Lapis' POV))

I'm scared. I don't know how this is going to go at the bus stop. Will she ignore me completely? Will she try to talk to me?

I walk out the door to begin walking to the bus stop. I peek up the street and find that Peridot isn't there yet. I walk to the bus stop sit on the bench where I first met Peri. Remembering this moment, I felt my eyes burning, about to cry. I stopped myself quickly. I couldn't let Peridot see me like that.

I heard a noise coming from down the street. And that's when I saw her.
Peridot.

She looked up the road and saw me. She made a face at the sight of me. Not a disgusted look, not an angry look, but almost disappointed. She walked up the street closer to me while looking at the ground.

I'm nervous to know what'll happen next.

((Peridot's POV))

I can't do this.

This is the only thing I can hear in my head. As soon as I saw Lapis Lazuli sitting at the bus stop that one sentence repeated in my head nonstop.

I'm trying to fight off the voice, but it's not working. As I'm getting closer to her, the voice gets louder. My head is concocting millions of different ways that this conversation could go wrong.

The only thing I can do at this point is pray that all goes well.

I look up and see Lapis sitting where I would normally sit. I walked up to the bench and sat down next to her. I noticed she started shaking.

I gathered up all my courage and placed my hand in hers.

"I'm really sorry for what I did to you. You didn't deserve that. You didn't know any better. I was being a cloddy jerk, and I'm sorry. I hope you can forgive me, Lapis Lazuli." I spat out and looked up at her.

Her reaction was not how I expected. I expected her to just forgive me, with the old-fashion "It's okay" and almost brush it off like none of it ever happened. Like it wasn't a big deal. But nope. That's not even close to how she responded.

She started laughing, and buried her face in her hands. Then she stood up. "You really think that's it? Do know how much what you did hurt me? Peridot, last night I had a nightmare where you straight up said you hated me and never wanted to see me again. I was afraid of you, Peridot."

"Lapis, I-" I was cut off by her voice.

"Peridot. I want to forgive you. I don't want to be mad at you. But what you did...it wasn't fair-"

"I know! And I said I was sorry and that I overreacted! I didn't mean to hurt you!" I didn't realize I was yelling at her until I saw tears emerging from her ocean-blue eyes. I stood up and quickly pulled her in for a hug.
"Lapis, please. I know what I did was wrong. I know I hurt you. But maybe we can work this out later? I want to be with you, Lapis. I love you. And I feel terrible how I treated you. We just need to figure out how to make it work. And we'd need to work together. Okay?"

She was crying even more now.

"I love you too, Peridot. So you're saying you'd go out with me?" She asked slightly pulling away from me, but our arms are still around each other. "But what about your mom?"

"I guess we'll just have to keep this one a secret~" I said reaching up and gently kissing her on the lips. Her soft lips kissed back and pulled away.

"Are you sure you want to do this Peri?"

"Definitely. "

A/N omgggg this chapter. A little longer than the others. Yay. But zoo wee mama it's gettin to the good stuff 😁.  Hope you liked it! Thanks for reading and I'll update asap.
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