So Many Birthdays

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Steven, Isabella, and the Gems walk around Amethyst's room, searching for something while Steven, Isabella, and Pearl pinched their noses.

"How can you live like this?" Pearl wonders.

It was fine 'til you guys started whining." Amethyst responds.

"Whining?! The whole temple reeks!"

Steven probes some garbage with a stick and retrieves something wrapped in tinfoil, "I found it!"

"What matter of magical alloy is this?" Pearl asks as Steven unwraps the tinfoil, a puff of green gas pluming out.

"Gross!" Isabella felt sick.

"It's a burrito." Garnet answers.

Amethyst takes the visibly rotten burrito from Steven, "It's the Tuna Burrito from Aqua-Mexican!"

"But, that place closed five years ago!" Isabella told her as Amethyst takes a bite of the burrito, Steven flinching in disgust as Isabella and Pearl look on in horror.

"Huh, what's this?" Steven notices a painting of Garnet, Amethyst, Pearl, Rose Quartz, and two other men in a boat while Garnet was punching a shark, "It kinda looks like you guys and our mom."

"Oh Steven, that is us." Pearl says excitedly.

"Really?" Isabella asks.

"The hard part was getting the shark to pose." Garnet says.

"Why is everyone dressed like old timey people?" Steven asks.

Pearl places the painting on top of a junk pile, "They are old timey people."

"Wait... But that would mean..." Steven trails off.

"How old are you guys?" Isabella asks.

"Much older than any human." Pearl told her.

"Does that mean you'll live forever?!" Steven asks excitedly.

"No, no. We don't age. But we can still get hurt and die." Pearl explains, Steven's large smile turning into a big frown. Amethyst starts moaning in pain, lying on the ground, "...But not from food poisoning."

"I just can't believe you guys are like a bazillion years old! How do you find a cake big enough for all those candles?" Steven wonders.

Garnet briefly looks at Pearl, "We don't really celebrate birthdays."

Steven gasps loudly, "Why not?!"

Garnet shrugs, "It's not our way."

"Well I can't just ignore this travesty of unjustice. I pledge that you will have your birthdays, with all the candy, cake, and ice cream you've been denied." Steven told them as Amethyst throws up when Steven mentions the food.

Later...

"Two of the usual please, I've had quite a day." A man walked up to the counter of the Big Donut.

"Ha, you must be confused pal, I work here everyday and I've never seen your mug before." Lars told him.

"Oh hardy har, Lars." The man replies, making Lars, Sadie, and Isabella look at him confused, "I used to make jokes, but you know what? I've had a lot of time to think today and sometimes you gotta smarten up, act like an adult. Because one day, if you don't, everyone you know is gonna grow up without you. And then you won't have little Steven to pick on anymore because I'll be a grown up too."

Isabella looked at him, anxiously, "Steven... who?"

The man's eyes widened at her in shock, "STEVEN QUARTZ UNIVERSE! YOUR BROTHER! And I want that doughnut, right there!" he points at the doughnut case and sees a reflection of himself in the glass, jumping back in fright, "Woa-wooaaahhhh!"

"Sir, are you okay?" Sadie asks.

"I'm... OLD!" the man exclaimed.

"Yeah, and nuts!" Lars told him.

"I'm going to have to eat fiber cereal, all my teeth are gonna fall out, and then, I'll have to eat oatmeal and it'll be sugar-free!" The man seemed to age further, "Sugar-free!" he wheezes and sits down at a table.

Isabella goes over to him, "Sir, it'll be okay." she pats his shoulder.

"I need to reverse this! I need, a "reverse birthday"... The king costume." the man says to himself before turning to Isabella, "Will you help me into my birthday suit?"

Sadie and Lars looked stunned.

"...Excuse me?" Isabella looks at him in horror.

Sadie then chases the man out of the Big Donut with a stool, "Yeah! You better run!"

"...I'm going home."

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