Spinel Returns

Lets play a Video game?

Spinel sat next to Greg to await Stevens return, focusing her attention to the low tec monitor Greg was watching.

"Whatcha doin~?" asked the pink gem, Greg nearly spilled his cola at the sudden question.

"Uh um..Checking how the weathers gonna be for the rest of the day" Greg explains a lil uneasy

Spinel narrowed her eyes at the screen "Says its gonna rain, dose that matter to you Humans? Us gems dont care if Armageddon is falling around outside Id still be up for a game of tag back in the day" The girl sighed and half frowned

Greg chuckled "You know playing inside isent so bad either, me and Steven do that all the time playing with his favorite game system"

"Game....system?" Spinel asks looking perplexed "how do you play that? is it like a word game or one where I gotta bend over and put my hands and feet on colored dots?" Spinel continues to fire off questions before Greg can properly answer them.

"Tho..Toughs are all ways of playing games but Um a Video games different, here let me get it started for you. Greg changes the input on his TV and then powers on the gaming consul removing two small different colored parts of it each sporting some buttons to press, He handed the orange one to Spinel, she accepted the controller still unsure of what to do with it, this bugged her to no end since she was a gem designed to be the embodiment of PLAY like a BEST FRIEND should be, But hey maybe her transformation messed her up in that regard as well as her emotional state? she hoped not.

"Ok Im gonna get us to the character selection screen" Greg would say as the game finally showed up on the TV screen, it depicted characters Spinel wasent familiar with a few humans and Turtle monsters, even dead looking things it seemed like anything goes with this game and they were all in small karts racing around a colorful track, Greg demonstrated how to choose one of the weirdos on screen with his controller and then Spinel after a few mins of debating with herself which character felt most like her was drawn to a blonde lady in a pink dress, and then as soon as she selected Greg quickly picked a course out and they were at the starting line.

After a few loses to Greg, Spinel was a tad bit Miffed, but stubbornly demanded the game to continue. This was unheard of she expected to adapt to this game and be laughing her ass off at Greg by now but that wasent happening, What could she be missing all the game was is holding one button down and then cruising left and right on the joystick, she beat all the CPU's easily but when it came to Greg, it didnt seem to matter what character he choose shes always be about a lap and a half behind by the end of the race.

Greg snickered on the inside he taught Spinel the basics of the game not the tech's that make you a competitive player so Until she figures something out on her own or he caves and tells her everyone in the house will certainly kick her butt for a few days.

"AWWW get out of the WAAAAYYYY" Spinel was now Practicing if you could call it that on the 200CC difficulty and now the CPUS were bullying her hard, she huffed and grinded her teeth 6000 years of standing still maybe that was it she thought about Pink and pretended the CPUS were controlled by her which only made her more mad when she ended up in 9th place.

"He..hey Maybe you should take a brake, ill make some popcorn and you can settle down with a movie?"Greg was worried if the girl threw a tantrum the house might get wrecked and then the gems would freak out and there would be a fight.

"Pop...corn..is that food?" Spinel dropped her controller "Steven Gave me rings of something sweet before I think he called them doughnuts, I really dont understand taste all that well since Gems dont need food but.. it made me feel good...is Popcorn like that?" she asks with a hopeful glimmer in her crimson eyes.

"I keep forgetting that with you gems, but ah yeah at least i feel all warm and happy when I eat it" He says as he pops a bag in to the microwave. Spinel watches as the device flickers to life and rotates the bag inside and then a popping sound fills the room as well as a buttery aroma.

"Dose Steven.. like popcorn?" Spinel asks her eyes still transfixed on the inflating bag of popping corn.

"Loves the stuff, all kids do I think" Greg reply's as the microwave beeps and shuts off, He retrives the pipeing hot bag and pulls it open "Careful its really-" Spinel takes a fist full the heat not registering with her for a moment "Yikes! its burning my hand" she takes a quick nibble before dropping the rest on the floor "Mmm...MMMmmmm....."

"You like it?" Greg asks as he cleans the small mess she made

"Its weird but I dont hate it" she would say picking at the bag a little more, life on Earth sure is..different.. what else do the natives do that she will have to cope with?

((still working on art at the same time xD wanted to do more story though so this happend ))