Ch. 1 The Preface

It is a beautiful morning at Beach City, Delmarva, USA, on Monday, August 26, 2013. Further from the town is a lovely, majestic beach where a seventeen-year-old female named Diana Crystal Universe is standing there, admiring the scenery in front of her. Her long wavy pale pink hair swayed to the left and right as the ocean breeze happily greeted her with its soft, salty, wet kisses.

" Hey, Diana!" A feminine voice calls out, with a car's honking sound coming afterward.

Diana turns around and opens her eyes, revealing a deep pink color. A soft smile graced her pearl pink-colored lips, and she began to walk toward her childhood friends.

" Hey, Diana," A seventeen-year-old female named Jennifer 'Jenny' Pizza happily greets Diana.

" Good morning, Jenny. Bucky. Sour Cream. I hope I didn't make you guys wait that long." Diana kindly smiled at Jenny and two seventeen-year-old males named Sour Cream and Buck Dewey.

"You're cool. It's still early," Sour Cream merely responded while sitting in the driver's seat.

" Get in, Pinkie," Buck leans forward while pulling his seat back to let Diana enter.

Jenny holds her hand out to Diana, who takes it, and she carefully gets inside the car and sits down next to her friend.

" Gurl! I love your outfit! You look so rad!" Jenny widely smiled.

Diana looks down at herself. She is currently wearing a short-sleeve blacktop, which shows off her toned stomach, and a unique Pink Diamond gem where her belly button should have been. She also wears a sleeveless jean jacket over the blacktop, black jeans, and red Vans.

" My Auntie Amethyst chose this outfit for me to wear since, you know, today is our first day of Senior year. I'm glad you like it," Diana kindly smiled.

" I swear! Your Auntie needs to give me fashion tips on how to look good every day," Jenny giggled. " I am finally a Senior, yet I don't have a boyfriend! Why is that?" She whined.

Buck puts his seat back, and he turns his gaze to his two female friends.

" You're crazy, that's why," Buck teases.

" What did you say-umph!" Jenny was about to strangle Buck but fell back against her seat once Sour Cream pressed the gas pedal to start driving.

Sour Cream begins to drive away from the beach towards their next destination, Beach City High School.

Diana amusingly stared at her childhood friends. Since she was a baby, she has known Sour Cream because her father, thirty-nine-year-old Greg Universe, is close friends with Sour's mother, thirty-nine-year-old Vidalia. She then met and befriended Jenny Pizza and Buck Dewey when she started school at age five. From there, the four teens have been close friends ever since.

" Hey! So, what did you guys do during the Summer?" Jenny asked, looking curious.

Diana hummed while subconsciously rubbing her Pink Diamond belly button with her right hand.

Diana has had this unique gem on her belly button since she was a baby. She thought it was normal since she recalled her mother, aunts, and younger brother had it. However, as she got older, she noticed that her father, childhood friends, and residents of Beach City didn't have it.

" Sweetheart. Suppose someone asks you about your gem. Say it is a rare genetic condition called Diamondis Syndrome, and it is not dangerous or contagious," One of Diana's maternal Aunts named Pearl, lovingly smiled at her.

" Not much. Going to political parties since you know Dad is a Mayor and all," Buck shrugged, which brought Diana back to the present.

" At least you had some fun! Parties are fun. As always, I got stuck working at my family's restaurant. But, then again, Dad gave me alot of allowances since, you know, tips and all. And you know what that means," Jenny widely smiled.

" Clubbing! Clubbing! Clubbing!" Sour Cream, Buck, and Jenny chanted.

Diana's deep pink eyes blinked, looking confused.

" Aren't some of the clubs in town eighteen and up? We aren't eighteen yet," Diana reminded her friends since they were all seventeen.

" Soon! We will be eighteen next year. All of our birthdays take place throughout our Senior year. By the time we graduate High School. We can finally go clubbing since we will be eighteen by that time. So, all we have to do is save a good amount of money before we can go clubbing and have some real fun," Jenny winks.

" Oh!" Diana's deep pink eyes sparkled in excitement.

" I know! I know! Your gurl is smart," Jenny beamed.

" Narcissist," Buck coughed.

Sour Cream snickered.

Jenny's forehead twitched. She grabs her purse next to her backpack and slaps Buck's head with it.

Diana and Sour Cream winced when they watched Buck's shades fall onto the carpet floor of the car after getting hit by Jenny's purse.

" Ow! That hurts, man," Buck mumbled while grabbing his shades and checking them to ensure they didn't break.

" And that is what you get for saying that," Jenny glares.

Buck puts on his shades, and he playfully rolls his brown eyes.

" Guys! Guys! We just started our Senior year. Can you two at least try to get along?" Diana asked, looking concerned.

" Diana. These two have known each other since we were in Kinder. I doubt they will have the guts to apologize to each other. At least you and I are the mature ones," Sour Cream commented.

Diana opened her mouth to say something but got cut off by Jenny and Buck glaring at Sour Cream.

" Hey!/Not cool, man," Jenny and Buck spoke simultaneously.

" We are mature-" Jenny and Buck stopped to look at one another, and they looked away with a blush on their cheeks.

" Tsunderes," Sour Cream snorted, glad his two friends didn't know his Anime slang.

Diana amusingly stared since, like Sour Cream, she also loves watching anime, so she knew what her friend was saying.

Thirty minutes later, the four teens arrived at Beach City High School. Sour Cream parks his car at his designated parking spot. Designated meaning, Buck's name is graffiti on the wall, and the school can't do anything about it since Buck is the son of their town's mayor.

" Alright. Let's get going," Sour Cream turns off the car, and he and the others get out of the vehicle.

" I wonder what our schedules are going to be like this year," Jenny grabs her purse and backpack and slings them over her right shoulder.

" I wonder, too, since the school does set our schedules up based on how we did last year," Diana mumbled while grabbing her backpack and slinging them over her right shoulder.

" Knowing you, Pinkie. Most of your classes are going to be AP. You are the most intelligent person in our friend group. With me second, Sour Cream third, and Jenny last," Buck grinned while walking beside the two females.

Sour Cream shrugged at being referred third in their intelligence in their group. Meanwhile, Jenny glares at Buck since it makes her think he is calling her stupid.

Diana amusingly shakes her head.

" All of you guys are smart in your creative way," Diana kindly smiled.

As they walked towards the school building, two teens, seventeen-year-old Laramie "Lars" Barriga and Sadie Miller, got out of their car and watched the four friends walk past them.

" Sadddiieee!" Lars dramatically gasped when he saw the four teens walk by him and Sadie.

" What?" Sadie raised an eyebrow.

" It's The Cool Kids! Do you think they will finally let me join their Squad if I ask them?" Lars asked, looking nervous. " I mean, this is our senior year! I have to make it to their Squad at least," He turns his gaze to Sadie.

" Why don't you approach them and ask them to be your friend?" Sadie asked while grabbing her backpack and putting it over her right shoulder.

Lars dramatically gasped.

" Don't you know who they are?!" Lars shouted.

Sadie didn't respond.

Lars pulls Sadie close, which causes the shorter female to blush in embarrassment.

" You know that girl!" Lars points to Jenny.

" Yeah?" Sadie's dark eyes blinked.

" That girl is Jennifer Pizza, but she likes to be called Jenny. She is the most fabulous chic girl ever! She knows the latest fashion trends and such. She also knows her way around social media platforms. So, I suggest not being on her bad side because once she says something about you on any social media platforms, everyone will know about it in seconds," Lars mumbled as he and Sadie began to follow the four teens to the school building.

" How do you know these things?" Sadie asked, looking concerned.

Lars ignores Sadie's question, and he blushes when he sees Diana turning her head back to stare at him, and she waves at him, causing him to freeze on the spot.

" Eeep!" Lars gulped, causing Sadie to raise an eyebrow at him.

" She! She! She just waved at me!" Lars widely smiled.

" I saw that," Sadie amusingly stared at Lars.

" I cannot believe the most beautiful girl of Beach City High just waved at me," Lars dreamily sighs while admiring Diana, causing Sadie to roll her dark eyes.

" Do you even know her name?" Sadie asked.

Lars dramatically gasped.

" I for sure do!" Lars defended. " Her name is Diana Universe. Even her name sounds so beautiful," He dreamily sighs.

" Universe?" Sadie's dark eyes blinked, looking and sounding curious. " Where have I heard of that surname?" She asked.

" Her kid brother likes to hang out with us at the Big Donut. Well, he started coming there once the Big Donut opened since we are the only place that sells his favorite dessert, Cookie Cat," Lars reminded Sadie.

Sadie's dark eyes widened in surprise since she started working at the Big Donut during the Summer, where she met and befriended thirteen-year-old Steven Universe.

" Really! Diana is Steven's older sister?" Sadie asked, looking in disbelief. " They don't even look alike," She whispered.

" If you don't believe me. When we see Steven in the afternoon, you can ask him yourself," Lars tells Sadie while letting go of her.

" Okay. Okay. I will. But, what do you know about Diana?" Sadie asked, looking curious.

Lars beamed.

" Diana is the sweetest girl you will ever meet. She is a fantastic person and puts others first and doesn't put herself first. She is very loyal and will have your back. And you can trust her with anything. And if you want someone to talk to, she will be there for you," Lars brightly smiled.

" Seriously! How do you know all of this?" Sadie asked, looking creeped out about Lars' obsession with The Cool Kids.

Lars opens his mouth to say something, but he gets cut off by the school's bell.

" Nevermind! Let's go! We are going to be late for our first day of Senior year," Sadie grabs Lars' hand and begins to run, dragging the taller male behind her.

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