makes her smile

chapter three

Bonnibel sighed, putting her key into the knob of her home's front door. Peridot was already home, so neither of them had an excuse not to study for their finals. Work had been unusually taxing today, though, because of a group of rowdy teenage boys that had been harassing her. Flirting excessively, and, when she didn't react, shouting slurs at her. She'd dealt with this before, but not recently. They ended up kicked out of the restaurant, of course.

Peridot was sitting at the kitchen table when Bonnie walked in. A copy of her neat, color-coded notes was spread on the. table in front of her, and her hair was back in a sloppy attempt at a ponytail. Owl City was playing softly from her phone, but she turned it off and looked up at her roommate. "Hey, Bonnibel!" She sat up straighter, looking more energized just from the presence of someone else.

Bonnie laughed. "Hey, Peridot. What's up?" While she talked, she headed towards the fridge, hoping they'd have something caffeinated. Coke, maybe. (She wasn't supposed to touch Peridot's Mountain Dew, but that would've been best.)

"Oh, you know, the usual. I haven't moved from this spot for two hours." Peri didn't look like she was kidding.

"Wow. Do you want a soda?" Bonnie grabbed both a Coke and a Mountain Dew, already knowing her roommate's answer. She was proven right by Peri's enthusiastic nodding.

"How was work?" Bonnie sat down next to Peridot, sighing at the question.

"Bad. Some teenagers started flirting with me, and I asked them to stop, so they called me a, um, slutty, good for nothing, uh..." Bonnie frowned up a bit more, trying not to get emotional. "Several slurs, actually. The N-slur, and a 'lesbo.'"

Peridot patted the other girl's shoulder in an awkward attempt at being comforting. "That sucks. Did they get kicked out?"

"Yeah," Bonnie said, smiling slyly as she continued, "and some other customer cussed them out. She told them where they could go in very impolite terms, and she gave me a fist bump when we had to remove her, too."

"Nice!" Peri grinned and opened her drink, took a long sip, and sighed.

"You're gonna die from caffiene overdose someday." Bonnie opened her own coke and took a much smaller sip, smiling.

"So are you!" Peridot jabbed Bonnie in the shoulder with a ballpoint pen and got a laugh in return.

"Yes, but I'll have government officials and scientists at my funeral. You'll just have a bunch of dudebros and gamers."

Peridot just sat there trying to think of a comeback for a moment. "Yeah, you win this one. Watch out, though!"

Bonnie laughed and took her laptop out of it's case, ready to work on her calculus paper. "Whatever, we need to work. Have you got the notes for Chemistry?"

((lmao i wrote this entire thing in band (we had a 1.5 hour class today bc finals week) while my fren gin looked over my shoulder. i had to yell at them abt the difference between exposition and filler. anyways its fully canon that one hour of the two that peri was just sitting there was spent on her phone. also its fully canon that the first song lapis and marcy played together was ill make a man out of u from mulan bc of marcy sayin "lets get down to business" at the end of chapter two.))