The black-haired was in the south of the garden, running towards the center dodging the various plants that were once alive, Steven was now sweaty and a little tired, but suddenly in front of him was a hand that touched him with a finger the playfully nose "You bring them!" He heard Spinel say, whose elongated arm drew back, while Spinel was hiding in the shadows and parts of the garden.The black-haired was in the south of the garden, running towards the center dodging the various plants that were once alive, Steven was now sweaty and quite tired, but suddenly in front of him was a hand that touched his nose with a finger playfully "You bring them!" He hears Spinel say, the long arm of the gem backed away, while Spinel was hiding in the shadows of the garden.

"Spinel! I'm tired. Can we get some rest?" Steven says lying on the ground, the sun was almost at its highest point, the gem appeared with some disappointment in front of the boy.

"Let's play a little more Steven" Spinel declares promptly, but a strange sound caught her attention, a roar from Steven's hungry stomach "What was that?!" Spinel asked surprised.

"It was my stomach, it means I'm hungry, I guess it's almost time for lunch" Steven explains wearily, getting up from the ground but being stopped by Spinel, who again violated his personal space getting too close to his stomach, listening to the strange sounds that produced hunger in the black-haired.

"How do you make him silence? Do you hit him or something?" Spinel asks curiously, but before Steven can say something the gem bends her finger like a trumpet "I can do this" Spinel exclaims excitedly, using her finger to produce a powerful sound when blowing into the mouth of the makeshift instrument.

"That was amazing! Can you make other instruments with your fingers?" Steven asks excitedly, but then his stomach interrupts again "Oh, returning to the subject of my stomach. Well, I have to fill it with food. All humans need to eat to a greater or lesser extent," Steven explains kindly, although Spinel seems not to understand the concept, or not in its entirety "I will go for some snacks to my house and I will be right back" Steven says cheerfully going to the portal, but he was stopped by Spinel.

The black-haired one looks worried backwards, finding the eyes of the gem staring at him, although it didn't help much, the spirals in Spinel's eyes turned directly, diverting his attention "I don't want you to leave here" Spinel sentences seriously , the silence ate away the atmosphere that both shared recently, where they had games and jokes. Steven had fun with Spinel's shape changes, her tricks and somersaults, both could create bubbles, Steven had also shown her how he could create a shield and lock himself in a big bubble.

"You can come with me" Steven offers quickly, although a few drops came down his forehead from nervousness.

"... I must not leave the garden, Pink would not like that" Spinel sentences without releasing Steven, in fact the arms of the gem narrowed more around the black-haired.

"I'll be right back! Just a few moments ... I'll bring some food to you too!" Steven exclaims quickly, Spinel's interest grew rapidly, the gem watched Steven's little smile as she seemed to think about it.

"But I don't want you to go," Spinel frowns, releasing Steven, the gem sat up grumbling as Steven returned to the portal. Spinel stayed to watch as Steven was going through the portal beam, while she remained in The Garden. The gem rose to walk, Spinel reasoned. How much time had passed? She had counted the seconds, the seconds had become minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years, decades, centuries and eventually millennia "How is the world out there? How is your world?" Spinel wonders, she stretches her neck to look outside The Garden, but then she shook her head "No, Spinel! You have to wait for Pink, when she comes back then you will come back to ... play, laugh and you can go see Pink's colony ... Yes, of course "Spinel sentence, however there was something she didn't like" Steven! How long are you going to take ?! " Spinel's patience had broken easily, waiting for Pink Diamond was enough, but the new playmate was another matter.

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Steven had quickly arrived at his house "Lion! Do you want to come meet a new friend?" The boy asks as soon as he arrives, but now Lion was not under the stairs "He will have gone to hunt lizards ... I keep wondering where he gets them" Steven exclaims curiously, but his stomach roared again, so the human move to the refrigerator to remove the leftovers from the fries and some pizza.

It was at those moments when Steven came up with an idea, the black-haired ran to his room for his Ukulele and charged more leftovers of food, like some donuts, as he went to the portal to return to The Garden. There as soon as he entered that structure again, Spinel was in front of the portal, patient, like a kind of lost dog, the eyes of the gem quickly looked at those of the black-haired.

"Hello Spinel! ... Ehh, I brought you some food to see if you like it. Amethyst loves to eat, Pearl and Garnet not so much" Steven says with joy, although Steven was uncomfortable with the stare of the gem , which was fixed on the black-haired instrument.

"What is this?" Spinel says curiously taking Steven's Ukulele, who before he could say anything saw Spinel vibrate the strings with a simple movement of her fingers, Spinel is surprised and drops the instrument, but Steven would drop the food to save the Ukulele that his father gave him.

"This is a ukulele, I use it to make music" Steven sentence checking that the instrument was well tuned "I thought that after eating we could play something. I brought leftovers of fries, some donuts and some slices of pizza" Steven exclaims sitting on the Stairs in front of the portal, the dismayed Spinel only looks the strange things that the black-haired had brought, and as he took one of the "donuts" to his mouth. Stretching out her hand, Spinel decided to try some of the french fries.

In a short time, Spinel had liked the food that the black-haired had brought to offer, chewing on fries and donuts in big bites. "I'm glad you like it." Steven smiled, and Spinel nodded.

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"Steven, how do you live?" Spinel asks after finishing his meal, the black-haired was looking for inspiration to sing since the meal was already finished a few minutes ago. The black-haired looks at the gem with curiosity. How long had Spinel been waiting for "Pink Diamond"? Steven had no way of knowing, so he decided not to ask the important questions, as always.

"Well, Beach City is between a beach and a kind of ... meadow, I suppose, there is sand, grass, a cliff. I live under a gigantic statue, which contains the temple, there live Pearl, Amethyst and Gernet. In the Lars, Sadie, my dad, Connie, Onion and many others live "Steven explains with affection, Spinel's eyes look at him with some interest, but the gem had also stuck her tongue out.

"Everything very well Steven but ... What is a Garnet? What is a dad? What is a Connie?" Spinel asks once again, to which Steven sighed, he had to explain many things to Spinel if he wanted to have a conversation with her. In those aspects it was very similar to Pearl, Amethyst or Garnet, but the gems were mostly away from reality and humans, Spinel simply didn't know anything.

"They are my family and friends" Steven sentence, he starts playing his Ukulele then, Spinel silently observed what the black-haired was going to do "We are ... The Crystal Gems! We'll always save the day. And if you think we can't. We'll always find a way. That's why the people of this world believe in ... Garnet, Amethyst and Pearl and Steven! " The black-haired hum, Spinel did not understand everything Steven was talking about, but the limbs of the gem began to dance with a fun and cartoonish rhythm because of this.

"... You sing well, Steven, but that doesn't really explain me much," Spinel says simply.

Steven kept playing and singing some songs for Spinel, although this could not continue forever, Steven's mouth had dried and he had to rest a little, Spinel was at his side, lightly playing the instrument's curds as Steven had done a few moments The silence was comfortable for both of them, it was more like a meeting of old friends, rather than strangers who knew each other. Spinel made Steven laugh and Spinel asked Steven several questions.

But finally Steven asks a question "Who is Pink Diamond, Spinel? How is she?" Steven asks, to which Spinel was startled in amazement, stretching to a large size.

"How can you not know ?! Your "mother" was a quartz Steven, she was a soldier of Pink, as I was a friend of Pink" The gem exclaims excitedly, but Steven gives Spinel a particular look of bewilderment , the same one that Spinel was directing to Steven because of his answers "Pink was the youngest of the Diamonds, the diamonds are the leaders of the gems, we were all made to serve them. White Diamond gave me to Pink to be her playmate ... this was our place. We played games, we made jokes ... I made her laugh Steven, I made her smile, a special smile, that only gems like me or her sisters could get"Spinel narrates dazzled, her eyes seem to travel to times far away.

Spinel remembered when the garden was green, not brown and dry, but leafy and well kept. As she traveled the columns to appear next to Pink, 1.8924e + 14 seconds, a total of 6000 years, the gems did not age as such, but instead followed their forms of light indefinitely. There was no way that Pink had forgotten her, perhaps her diamond was simply too busy taking care of her colony, a colony that had already produced quartz soldiers.

"Spinel ... you're crying" Steven draws the gem's attention to the underworld, Spinel then ran her hands over her face to wipe away her tears "Are you alright?" Steven asks worried, to which Spinel did not respond immediately.

"That doesn't matter. Let's play Steven again!" Spinel exclaims stretching around Steven and returning to the depths of the structure, Steven looked a few seconds at the sidelong portal, but quickly decided to chase the gem between laughter and smiles to continue both their games. Playing cleared Spinel's mind, so in doing so Steven felt good, did a good deed to help someone, especially a troubled gem like Spinel.