Steven quickly made his way into the house that he lived in. His house was small but large enough to house several people if necessary. Steven sighed as he hung his back pack up on a hook by the door and made his way to the living room after locking the door behind him.

   Steven plopped onto the couch in exhaustion before checking his phone, he then saw he got a text from Connie which said "hey, how was your first day?". Steven smiled and replied with a "exhausting to be honest, a lot of things happened today. What about you?". Connie replied after a few minutes with a "as well as any school day can be, to bad we don't go to the same high school." Steven gave a yawn before Connie sent an additional text, which read "so what happened? I'm dying to know~". Steven then proceeded to type a very long text about what happened during the day, in which he sent. About a half hour went by before Connie responded, and during that time Steven turned on the TV to watch an old dogcopter movie. The text read "That's freaking crazy, you didn't get hurt did you?". Steven smiled a little from Connie's concern over his well being. "Yea I'm alright, I don't get hurt so easily remember?" Steven chuckled to himself before hitting send. Steven didn't get a reply back and laid his phone on his chest.

    Soon his tummy grumbled, indicating that he wanted a snack. He got up and made his way to the kitchen where he opened up a bag of chaps and began to snack on them. Soon the click of the front doors lock sounded, and in walked a tall female that was wearing very dark sunglasses and had a very large afro. "Garnet! How was your day?" Steven called from the kitchen, excited to see a familiar face. Garnet gave a small chuckle "it was good, you had quite a day didn't you?" She asked, placing her purse on the table before sitting down at the table. Steven gave a large sigh before sitting across from Garnet "very, can I tell you if you promise to not tell Pearl?" He asked gently, scratching his scalp. "You know I won't tell" she replied, her face emotionless but her voice filled with care. Steven then proceeded to tell her the crazy day he had, he also explained why there might be the smell of smoke on him which he didn't notice till he told Garnet about the events of today. "Mmmm, that is quite the day, and you gave this girl Spinel your number?" Garnet asked. "Yea I did....I think she needs a friend, Pink Pearl is her only friend...." Steven explained, resting his forehead on the table. "Well we should probably get that smell off you, or we can tell Pearl that you sat next to me while I was smoking, she doesn't mind me doing that anyways" Garnet shrugged. "Let me just get this jacket going in the wash and I'll take a shower ok?" Steven explained, taking his jacket off. "Very well, I'll go make dinner" Garnet replied, getting up from the table and heading to the fridge.

   Steven got up from the table and went to the laundry room, he threw his jacket in the washer along with a few other clothes, and started the washer. Steven then made his way to his bathroom, which was connected inside his bedroom.

A few streets away....

   Spinel entered her small, two bedroom house. She new that Pink Pearl wouldn't be home for a while since she had to to go to work right after school. Spinel sighed as she closed the door using a back kick from her boot. She then walked to her bedroom and shut the door. Spinel plopped down on her bed and stared up at the ceiling. Her mind started to replay the events of today, in the end she snapped at Steven, she hadn't snapped in a long time. Spinel sat up and grabbed her pigtails in frustration, shouting to match her mood. "WHY WHY WHY WHY?!?!" she screamed at herself.

   Spinel's mind shot back to what happened in the custodians closet. She had meant to intimidate Steven into leaving her and Pink Pearl alone, but instead Steven scared her. Steven saw right through her built up walls through a little crack that wasn't filled in, and his words were like a giant mallet. The mallet didn't do much except make that crack larger. Spinel began to giggle to herself maniacally, she'd had to fill that crack before it became even larger and soon fall down. She then removed her leather jacket in which a piece of paper fell out from. Spinel saw the piece of paper fall out from the pocket and subconsciously picked it up quickly. She shook her head before unfolding the piece of paper, Steven's phone number written in his slightly cursive handwriting, with an adorable smiley face at the end. Spinel looked at the phone number, her thumb rubbing the smiley face a little. She sighed and figured it wouldn't hurt to have his phone number in her phone, she probably wouldn't use it anyways for along while. Spinel chuckled to herself as she put Steven's contact name as "Ass Star".