Stevens eye lids fluttered open as he started to wake up, his head pounding a little when he tried to sit up. The male brought his hand up to his forehead, and he held his head before giving a groan. He couldn't remember exactly how much he drank last night, but he did remember some bits and pieces of last night.  He remembered dancing with Spinel in the parking lot, he remembered how Spinel became extremely pissed off at a receptionist lady, which he figured he was in a hotel or something of that matter since he didn't recognize the bedroom he was in, he then remembered that Spinel told him a bedtime story. Steven realized that he was alone in the darkened hotel room, the only light shining was through the divit of the curtains, which lead out to the balcony, and there was barely any light since the sun barely grazed over the horizon. The slightly hungover male sat up from his spot on the bed, and then stood up before making his way to the balcony's sliding door. He poked his head through the opening and observed the balcony, his brown eyes landing on the fuchsia color haired female, she was leaning against the railing while smoking a cigarette while she observed the upcoming sunrise. "Spinel? What are you doing out here?" Steven asked as he slowly approached her side, gently laying his arms on the railing as he stood next to the female. "I couldn't sleep, I needed a smoke so I came out here...." Spinel answered softly before taking a drag of her cigarette, "what about you?" She asked, smoke escaping past her lips when she spoke. "I just woke up, and I'm already to wide awake to go back to sleep. I also noticed you weren't next to me unlike last night when you told me that sad story...." Steven mumbled his answer, glancing away to look at the scenery below, "hey, did anything happened last night? Besides the little dance, you scaring the stars out of the receptionist, and the story" he asked gently. "N-No...." Spinel lied, if it wasn't for her stutter, Steven would've believed her words. Steven frowned a little, "Spinel, what happened? I really want to know...." He explained, his voice quite stern as he talked. Spinel huffed in annoyance, a light blush dusted her cheeks when she was caught in her own lie, "fine..... before you danced with me a little in the parking lot, you.....well....." She paused a bit before taking another drag of her cigarette, "you gave me a kiss...." She finished, a cloud of smoke escaped from her mouth. Steven stared at the female and blushed heavily, in which Spinel had noticed, and that made her blush deepen a bit. "I-I'm so sorry, I-I didn't mean to...." Steven stuttered, obviously flustered from his action from last night. For some reason, this caused a pang to throb through Spinel, which caused her to glance away to the side out of annoyance. "I-I don't know what came over me, I definitely do know I won't be drinking again..." Steven continued his apology, but for some reason, he didn't want to say sorry.

    
     "Whatever, just fucking drop it....." Spinel grumbled, extinguishing her cigarette on the railing, luckily the railing had a metal bar on the top. Steven sighed a bit out of annoyance, "Spinel what's wrong?" Steven asked, he hadn't seen the crazed female this.....well.....upset is an understatement but it was close to her actual mood. "Nothing...." Spinel answered, but it was obvious that she was lying since she heard Steven huff. "Spinel I can tell there's something wrong, now tell me. Now." Steven spoke up, his statement was more of a command, which prompted the annoyed female to look at him. "I said nothing, now fucking drop it!" Spinel spat, the tone in her voice rose out of anger. "No I won't, you're getting all riled up because there is something bugging you, and you are hiding it from me because it involves me doesn't it?!" Steven asked, his voice raising a bit while he questioned his friend. Spinel sneered, her pink colored eyes looked like she was about to stab the curly haired male, however, she resorted to attempting to punch him. Yet Steven was to quick, and he grabbed her wrist before her knuckles connected with his face, but he did flinch for he thought he wasn't quick enough. Spinel wasn't expecting her punch to fail, and she soon found herself being pulled towards the male that blocked her attack. Steven pulled her closer to him, his face mere inches from the female's as he set her hand down gently on the railing, his hand now resting on top of hers as his brown eyes looked into her eyes. Spinels pink colored orbs studied Stevens brown, and she noticed that his eyes were full of frustration, but also sadness, her heart thumped hard in her chest from being this close to the male like this. "Talk to me...." He spoke softly and sweetly, his eyes still looking deeply into Spinels eyes as the sun began to rise higher. Spinel continued to stare before letting out a defeated sigh, "the story.....the one I told you about..... doesn't it strike you odd..... about how quickly I thought about the story?....." She asked softly, even though she knew the answer as she looked down while clutching something in her other hand. Steven thought about her question for a couple seconds, then it was at if someone kicked him in the head as he realized who the story was about. It was about Spinel, it was about how she lost her parents, how she was raised into who she is now, and he realized the thing she was clutching was the wristband from the story. Spinel looked away out of embarrassment from revealing her history, she looked at the break of dawn as a way to distract herself from the disappointing feeling that arose when Steven slowly slide his hand off of hers. "That.....was you? The little girl in the story, you are her aren't you?...." Steven asked gently, he was feeling concerned, sad, and..... something else he didn't find familiar. Spinel bit her lip as she continued to look away, she used this opportunity to turn around, her back facing the male as she held back tears. Her body fought back the urge to cry, which made her tremble a bit, "don't cry don't cry don't cry don't cry....." ran through her head on repeat as she refused to look at the male. Suddenly she felt something snake around her torso, and felt the familiar comforting arms wrap around her body and arms, and those arms could only belong to Steven. Her body continued to shake, even when Steven pulled her body into a hug, even when he nuzzled her neck from behind, even when he whispered "Spinel it's ok to be upset, it's ok to be sad, bit it's not good for you to bottle up all your frustrations for so long....". Steven then felt a couple warm drops falling on his forearms, he didn't realize it at first, but then he noticed that Spinel was crying when she gave a saddened laugh. "I don't know what you're doing to me Universe, it's weird and strange, but it's.....I don't know.....nice?" She tried to explain as well as she could. The feeling Spinel was, well, feeling, was very foreign to her and for the first time in a long time in her life, she felt scared. Scared of what? She didn't really know, and some part of her didn't want to know. But she was to curious to back away now, and she felt like she was stuck in something that she didn't want to leave.

(Quick announcement everyone, I'd like to thank mrperidot1 for collaborating with me on a new Human Stevinel Fanfic called "Learning Curve" please keep an eye out for it since it'll be appearing very soon in your notifications)