Peridot-

That night, I stumbled into my dorm room, my arms full of books. The weight of the reference materials and my emotions was crushing me, so the obvious choice was to toss the books across the room. I did so.

As soon as Lapis, who had been listening to music on her phone, heard the crash, she took out her headphones. "Why'd you throw all the books onto the ground?"

I stood there for a few seconds, still very stressed.

Lapis stood up and picked up her cat Jasper, who immediately started hissing. "Is this about that girl in the cafe?"

I looked down at my feet, trying to hide my blush.

Lapis smiled and put her hand on my shoulder. "Hey. You should call her! She gave her your number, right?"

I reached my hand into my pocket. The slip of paper from before was in it. I immediately retracted my hand and shoved Lapis away from me.

"I'm gonna go shower!" I said in a rushed tone while walking away from Lapis.

"Ok." Lapis said. "Don't stay in there too long."

As the warm water hit my body, I started to think of her again.

I held myself.

My train of thoughts was interrupted when I heard knocking on the door.

I yelped and turned of the water. "LAZULI" I shouted. "IM STILL SHOWERING YOU KNOW!!!"

"Yeah, but you've been in there for like, half an hour. I need to was my hair you know!"

I quickly through on a t-shirt and sweatpants, then opened the door. "FINE I'M OUT. THE SHOWER IS YOURS NOW!"

Lapis smiled and walked into the bathroom, pushing me out. After a moment of collecting myself, I decided to work on an essay that was due soon in class. Nonetheless, I easily got distracted writing fanfiction for Camp Pining Hearts again.

Around twenty minutes later, Lapis came in, her hair wrapped in a towel. "Whatcha doing?" She said, looking at my laptop screen.

I immediately closed the laptop. "Nothing. What is it?"

"You should call her." Lapis said.

I blushed and looked down at my laptop.

Lapis turned her back to me and picked up her phone. "Well, if you aren't calling her, I am!"

"Wait... what? You don't have her number."

Lapis held up the slip of paper. "You left this in your pocket."

I jumped up from the couch and tried to grab the slip of paper from Lapis, but she held it above her head, where I couldn't reach it. She continued typing in the number, despite my repeatedly calling her a clod.

Lapis gave me the slip of paper, and I had two seconds of relief before she hit call.

The ringing sound filled the dorm room as we both fell completely silent.

Lapis handed me the phone.

I held it up to my ear, waiting for whoever was on the other end. What if it wasn't Amethyst? What if she gave me a wrong number?

Finally, the ringing stopped and someone on the other end picked up.

"Nyello?" They said. It wasn't Amethyst.

"Uhhh...." I stuttered. "I'm looking for an Amethyst?"

The person on the other line laughed and said. "Oh, so YOU'RE the one she's been talking about! I'll get her!" The person then turned away from the phone and shouted Amethyst. After a few moments of silence, another voice came on. "Yo."

I stood there for a second. "Hello. You're Amethyst?"

Amethyst laughed. "Yeah. Sorry Jay had to pick up the phone. Sisters, ya know?"

"Actually, I don't have any siblings."

Amethyst laughed again. "Oof. You're both lucky and missing out. Anyways... I never did catch your name."

I stuttered. "Oh.. I'm... uh... you can... I'm Peridot."

"Cool." Amethyst said. "Is it cool if I save your contact info?"

"Uhhh..." I said, for the millionth time in the conversation. "I'm actually using my roommate's phone."

"Did yours die or something?"

"Something like that."

"So... can I have your actual number?"

I gave her my number and waited while she wrote it down.

"Cool." Amethyst said. "So.... you work at the teashop?"

"Yeah." I responded. "Are you a University student?"

"Yeah. Art major. You?"

"Yeah. Uh. Not art. Computer sciences."

"That's really cool! I mean, I can't do shit with computers."

I awkwardly laughed. "Yeah...."

"So.... will you be at the cafe tomorrow?"

"No, I only work on weekdays. I'll be free the weekend."

"Cool. So... you wanna meet up then?"

"Y-yeah. Where do you want to go?"

"How 'bout the cafe? It'll be open, and you can get me a discount or whatever! Around 10:30, Saturday?"

"Yeah. That sounds.... adequate......." I struggled for the right word.

Amethyst laughed again. "Then it's a date!"

She hung up before I could respond.

I handed the phone back to Lapis and fell onto my bed.

It's a date.