Connie almost jumps to the human hybrid and gem as she sees him, surprised to see him so suddenly "Steven!" The human girl greets hugging Steven tightly, who reciprocated the hug, but Connie almost jumps to notice how Spinel also joined, wrapping her arms around Steven and her "New gem ?!" The human girl asks surprised.

"New? No, I'm over 6000 years old. My name is Spinel, how are you?" The pink gem greets animatedly with her hand and looking at Connie who is a little bewildered "You must be Connie! Steven has told me about you" The gem exclaims looking at the girl with her long eyes.

"I met Spinel a few weeks ago" Steven sentences with joy by formally introducing Spinel "Let me tell you what happened" The hybrid exclaims trying to calm Connie, who not only was sweating for running so much, but she was naturally nervous and asking crowd of things to Steven.

For her part, Spinel certainly felt out of place while Steven was telling the story, following the hybrid like a shadow and Connie was the one who most realized this, she felt a little intimidated by the pink gem, that prevented she will look at everything Steven told and suddenly Spinel pulled a poker card from behind her ear "Spades" Spinel sentence showing the card "Do you want to see more tricks?" Spinel asks, finally interrupting the conversation.

"Do you know how to do card tricks?" Connie asks in dismay.

"Spinel knows how to do much more than that" Steven quickly assures, flattering Spinel who nods with pride and a smile, Spinel of a fast movement encloses Steven in a bubble, to the surprise of the hybrid and Connie, later the gem is placed on bubble and start juggling with more bubbles, each with a card so that Spinel could not see the card symbol. Spinel suddenly puts all the bubbles in a row, using her arm as a table in front of Connie.

"Choose" Spinel exclaims with a simple smile, Connie was surprised by the jester gem. It was already late.

******

The trio made up of the gem and the two humans had fun with Spinel's games, while Steven and the pink gem briefly commented on what had happened to them, although Connie was a little upset about the little importance Steven attached to his disappearance. Finally when the Sun had already fallen, Connie had to leave once more, so after Greg will call her parents, her father appeared to take her home.

There were only crumbs left on the cake that Steven, Spinel and Amethyst had mostly eaten. Inside the barn on the other hand, Pearl and Peridot were already working on the drill, trying not to cause a fire or a lot of noise.

"Greg, if it doesn't bother you. Let's stay in the barn for a while" Garnet exclaims indifferently, to Greg's surprise,

"Oh, it's fine. I guess Steven has to stay here too?" Greg asks something worried, the fusion is limited to nod instead of giving word, and turns to enter the barn. Greg for his part just sighs simply and approached the hybrid, which to his surprise played blackjack with Spinel, maybe it was a bad idea to teach her card games too and not just the tricks "Hey, Steven. I'll stay here go out with me for a while. Do you want to sleep there? " The adult kindly offers.

"It's okay!" Steven quickly agrees to enter the van, to Greg's surprise, Spinel also entered quickly.

"Spinel? Shouldn't you stay in the barn with the other gems?" Greg asks a little dismayed, Steven was wrapped in the sheets that were in the van, there were many things inside it, some instruments and musical equipment, food scraps and books.

"I don't want to" Spinel sentences simply, dwarfing the size of a plush doll next to Steven, to avoid the lack of space in the van, surprising Greg not only for his denial but for the fact of compressing his size, although Greg already knew that gems were rare, so he didn't want to give that much importance. But while Spinel was also wrapped in a part of the sheets, she seemed lost.

In a short time Greg fell asleep and Steven was about to do it, but suddenly Spinel spoke to him "Steven, what do you do when someone doesn't like you?" Spinel asks curiously, surprising Steven.

"Are you still approaching them? It served me with Lars" Steven exclaims with joy, although Lars was not exactly a friend "Why the question? Did something happen with the others?" Steven asks worriedly, running one of his fingers through Spinel's hair kindly, the gem on her part clung to his finger.

"Peridot was mean to me" Spinel exclaims annoyedly, she comments on her experience with the green gem in the Kindergarten, to which the hybrid pays attention, finally being sad for Spinel who lamented beneath her finger.

"Then tomorrow we are going to try to make Peridot your friend. Surely Peridot also loves the Earth" Steven exclaims with joy, starting to chant a little song for Spinel and for him. Both the gem and the hybrid fell asleep in the van, with Spinel still clinging to Steven.

Pearl after a few hours had gone to see Steven sleep, interrupting the work of the drill for Peridot's annoyance. Watching the hybrid and the gem, Pearl made sure to wrap them well, and so they remained until dawn. Where Steven and Spinel woke up to the sounds of Greg chewing leftovers of food, which he kindly shared with his son and the gem, she who tried to start the day as Steven, with a big smile on the face.

Both went to the interior of the barn "Good morning" Both greet, suddenly observing the machine that Pearl and Peridot had built, although clearly not finished, the progress of the gems was already enough, at least from Steven's point of view and Spinel, who weren't engineers or anything similar "It's amazing!" The duo exclaims excitedly, just to look at each other later "Stop imitating me!" They complain, what was funny to Steven was that Spinel took his form, although the gem could not change color.

"Good morning Steven" Pearl greets with joy to see the human hybrid, simply returning with courtesy Spinel's greeting "Do you need anything?" Pearl asks curiously, only to realize that stretching her arm Spinel took Peridot as if she were a rag.

"Can we take her?" Spinel asks simply.

"We want to teach Peridot a little more about Earth!" Steven says animatedly, while Peridot tried to struggle to get out of Spinel's grip.

"Let go of me silly rubber!" The green gem was complaining, to which Spinel covered her mouth with her gigantic thumb.

"Garnet?" Pearl asks the fusion, in the eyes of the Pearl it was noted that he wanted to accompany the group, with the intention of protecting the hybrid more than anything, but Garnet only watched calmly.

"Yes, but I will go with them. Concentrate on progressing in the drill" Garnet sentence jumping from the top of scrap metal she was in, Steven was encouraged, although the other two gems were not so much. The group headed to the small forest near the barn, instead of Beach City, which might no longer be as interesting for Peridot or too dangerous, either for humans or for Peridot itself.

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What bothered Spinel the most was the indifference of the fusion to her jokes along the way, while Steven explained to Peridot a diversity of things while they walked, mainly on the fauna and flora, Garnet was not a good audience for the jokes of the pink gem, however the little excursion had just begun.