A Crystal Heart (Steven Universe x Reader, Fanfic)

Prologue

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     This is a non-canon AU where Steven is 17 (the MC is also 17), Steven is living in Beach City, he no longer works at Little Homeschool following the events in SUF. I will try to keep the MC gender neutral, but they will be crushing and in a possible relationship with Steven. I will keep this fanfic PG-13 as there might be mentions of substance abuse, self harm, and other triggering topics, I will have each chapter have a side note if there are mentions of triggering topics and have it so no big plot beats happen in those chapters. Wow, that was a run on sentence if I ever saw on. Lots of love !! And enjoy.
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     Every summer had been the same. Every year on the last day of school I packed my bags and then that afternoon we jumped in the car and drove right to Beach City. Though I lived in Empire City my entire life it didn't feel like home, Beach City did, the ocean breeze, the sand in between my toes, the people, it felt like nothing changed. Like I was visiting an old story book, the same repeating story but every time you fell in love again. It was hard to convince mom and dad to let me stay by myself this summer, they both were busy and couldn't go. I begged for weeks on end, I just wanted three weeks. Three weeks to fall in love with the town again. After weeks of asking them, they told me I could go for 2 weeks, but had I to call them every morning. That was better then I thought they were going to offer, so happily I agreed.
     The last day of Junior year was stressful, still had one more final, english. I knew that after that though, I would hop in my car and drive down to Beach City. The final took about three hours when it came down to it, but to me it felt like only a few minutes had past. I was out of there as soon as I had finished.
I took out my phone, I instinctively typed in my password and called my mom. It went to voicemail. So I left a message, "Hey Mom, it's me, just wanted to check in to tell you that I just got finished with school, so I think Im going to just go directly to Beach City, love you see you in two weeks, talk to you soon... Bye," I had never been good with phone calls but my parents had never been good with texting, so I always compromised and called them.
     The long twisty roads in the mountains, were a friendly welcome, contrasting the geometric streets of Empire City. It was just me and the road. I wanted to be a new person this summer, maybe dye my hair, get a new hobby, fall in love. I smile, it had been a long time since I thought about romance. It felt so out of reach for me. I had always been so focused on school and grades, wanted to make my parents happy. Didn't ask myself what made me happy. I didn't even ask myself if I was happy. It was weird to think that I was neglecting myself. I always preached to my friends about self care, reminding them to drink water, and take care of themselves. But I never did that for myself.
     I promised to myself, that these next two weeks were going to be the best time of my life.