After the movie me, steven, and the crystal gems walked to my place as me and steven went on about the movie. "it was awesome how they managed to stay faithful to the book unlike most movies I watch" I said as we were walking and then we arrived at my house. I knocked on the door and said "mom! Dad! I have something I need to tell you!" Then my mom opened the door and said "yes what is it conni-" she stopped mid sentence seeing steven and the crystal gems with me "oh come in" she said with an awkward smile and they did come in and they sat down on the couch but steven stood next to me.
"Um misses maheswaran connie has something she needs to tell you" steven said gesturing me to show them my gem. I pulled down the collar of my shirt a bit so that they could see the topaz gem and they gasped. "What does this mean!?" My parents exclaimed in unison "I guess it means im a crystal gem like steven" I replied. "Listen we think connie should stay with us at the temple now that she is a gem considering the temple provides quite a bit of protection for gems considering that anything that would want to hurt her would have to go through us" pearl said to my parents
"Would we still be able to see her?" My mom asked "oh of course you would" pearl said "yeah I live with the crystal gems but I see my dad all the time" Steven added. "Im not sure if this is the best idea" my dad said "dad please let me do this if im a crystal gem it would be best if I could stay with them in case their is an emergency mission or something like that" I begged. "Ok connie you can move In with the crystal gems but you ar still going to school every day" my mom said then Stevens face lit up as I said "thank you mom!" "I'll help you pcak connie we can just bubble your stuff and send it to the temple" Steven added as we went to go pack up my stuff.
I was so glad that connie could move in and I helped her pack everything up. As we were packing I saw a photo album labeled "my time with Steven." I asked connie what it was and she said "oh well I never wanted to forget anything we ever did so whenever we took a picture of something, I put a copy of it in here." I smiled and said "that's cool" I opened it and we started looking through it while the crystal gems were helping connie pack. I kept pointing to pictures saying things like "oh I remember that" or "I cant believe I almost forgot that"
after a bit we finished looking at the album and the gems were currently out of the room. We looked at eachother "man we've been friends for a long time connie" I said "yeah..." she said staring into my eyes our faces got closer and we almost kissed but then amethyst came in saying "hey ste-man we've got everything packed lets bubble it up and send it to the temple" then pearl came in and said "dang it amethyst you ruined their moment" me and connie were blushing intensely and I just walked over to her stuff and started sending it to the temple without saying a word after I was done connie was saying goodbye to her parents
When she was done we left and went back to the temple. After we got back garnet got Connie's stuff for her and unbubbled it. She unpacked her stuff and then she came over to me as I was finishing the preparations for my mission tomorrow "what are you doing steven?" She asked and I replied "well before the thing with that monster happened the gems said now that im getting older I can go on a mission by myself and im preparing for that" she pooked down and said "oh..." then I had an idea "do you want to come with me tomorrow!?" I asked excitedly and she said "sure! I would love to" and after that we took our showers and went to sleep luckily she had a sleeping bag that she placed next to my bed and that was Connie's first day living with us
I woke up to the sound of Connie's alarm clock "what the-" I said not realizing what it was then connie hit the snooze button and said "sorry for waking you up Steven but I need this to wake me up for school." I smiled and said "no its ok now I get to hang with you before you head off to school" I said rubbing my eyes. We got out of bed and went to the kitchen to have breakfast. I made some waffles and me and connie started eating after we put butter and syrup on them. "Hey Steven" connie said looking up at me "what is it?" I asked looking back at her "um there is going to be this dance at my school next friday and I wanted to ask you to come as my friend" I smiled and said "of course that sounds awesome I would love to go" Connie's face lit up and she said "thank you Steven there are some people who bully me and if I didn't bring someone they would probably bully more" I looked at her in surprise "whaaat! Why would people bully you you're so awesome, and funny, and talented, and pretty, and smart!" I exclaimed she smiled and said "thank you Steven but I guess not everybody thinks that" she looked at her watch and said "oh I've got to go Steven I'll see you after school" and she left I walked out of the house to the place by the beach where the crystal gems had gotten the bus driver to be able to stop at for me. I got on to the bus and sat down at the very back and then my main bully Alyssa came over and said "hey four eyes do you have anyone to bring to the dance" then she laughed and said "what a stupid question of course you dont, you don't have any friends" I got really mad at her and without thinking said "well as a matter of fact im bringing my boyfriend Steven she smirked and said "you never mentioned a boyfriend before" and I replied with "that's because I would only mention it to a friend I wouldn't just randomly say it to someone like you." She looked at me probably thinking 'god connie is so pathetic' and after a second she said "ok if he is real then tell me some things about him" I got even angrier and said "well his mother died giving birth to him because she had to give up her physical form to give steven her magical gem, he can summon a magic shield and a magic bubble, he has a pet lion, and he lives with the crystal gems who protect the earth and as far fetched as that sounds it's all true She laughed for 10 seconds and said "god you hve to stop reading all those fantasy books because you are forgetting what reality is" I grited my teeth and said "I'll prove it I'll bring him to school tomorrow" she smirked and said "okay then" in a sarcastic voice then we stopped talking and I got through school as I heard everyone whispering About what I said on the bus and after I got home I went inside with tears in my eyes and hugged steven. "Steven I need to talk to you" I said wiping my tears "what is it?" He asked and I explained what happened on the bus and he said "it's ok connie I'll take you to school tomorrow and say im your boyfriend and I'll do the same at the dance" I hugged him again whispering "thank you so much Steven"
I woke up to Connie's alarm clock again and I hit the snooze button for her and shook her "Connie get up" I said as I shook her and she slowly got up and stretched her arms "oh good morning Steven I can't wait to show everyone that you're real, thank you again for doing this" she said as we got up and went over to the kitchen. I smiled at her and said "it's no problem Connie it will be fun pretending we're a couple I mean people already assume we are one so it should be easy but connie I need to ask... are you planning on telling your school about your gem" she thought for a second and said "maybe soon possibly even today if I really feel like it but probably not"
I frowned in disappointent "aww why not? You can just tell everyone about me if you want them to stop bullying you, you got to show them how awesome you are too" she smiled and said "I'll think about it Steven for now lets just head to school on lion" we went to the beach where lion was "lion take us to connie's school through a portal please" I said as we climbed on to lion then he got up and roared a portal and jumped through it then we arrived in front of connie's school with everyone looking in awe and I simply said "sup." Then the girl connie told me about walked up to us "you must be Alyssa, Connie has told me about you. Im connie's boyfriend Steven universe"
"Yeah right none of that was real the portal was probably a parlor trick and this lion is probably painted pink" I took a dep breath if there was one thing I learned from what I knew about my mother is that I can find beauty in anything as long as I have the patience so I was sure I could get alyssa to be nice to connie or at minimum act nice. "Alyssa it's not fake let me show you something else" I got off lion with connie and said "watch this" I reached into lions mane and pulled out my mother's sword and pulled it out then stabbed it into the ground "see? You cant fake this."
I looked at my watch and said "oh connie I've got to go I promised garnet I'd go on a mission with her today and im gonna be going soon" I kissed her on the cheek and said "see ya later" and I climbed onto lion and I went back to the temple he got back to the temple and garnet said were did you go I had to take connie to school and stop a bully from being mean to her than he said that he could not go on the mission tomarow she asked way he said that he was taking connie to her school dance because she asked me very nicely to Me and Steven were getting dressed in fany outfits for the dance he was wearing a tux and I was wearing a sky blue dress with an elegant lilac purple flower pattern on it. When Steven saw it he was having trouble finding words but he got there and finally said "y-you look beautiful connie". Then the warp pad activated and the crystal gems appeared "what are you two dressed all fancy for?" Pearl asked then Steven looked at them and said "oh, there is this dance at connie's school and she invited me" garnet smiled and said "the big dance, dont do anything I wouldn't do" she looked at us and added "anyways if you guys want I can bring you there my way is fast and fun" she said with a thumbs up like she does.
"Sure we are ready to go anyways" I replied then garnet picked us up and walked outside and jumped all the way to my school and she set us down "I'll be back at 10:30" I looked at her and said "how do you know when the dance ends" then I remembered "oh yeah, future vision" she jumped off and we went inside to the dance and saw alyssa and her friends.
She came over to us and said "oh look it's connie and her FAKE boyfriend" I got mad and said "he IS my boyfriend" "yeah I am" Steven added. Alyssa's friend hannah smirked and said "really then prove it" "yeah prove it" alyssa added and I was turning over to ask Steven what we should do but before I knew it his lips were on mine and we were kissing and I kissed him back blushing intensely. We went all out Making it look real and passionate we even embraced each other and I thought 'I really wish Steven was my boyfriend then we could do that all the time' and after a few seconds we stopped
"See what more proof do you need?" She stomped her foot "this is impossible! How can a guy as awesome as this be dating a loser like connie" and for whatever reason she was almost tearing up and then she ran away "connie stay here" steven said and he tried to leave but then I couldn't help but ask "why are you going after her?" And Steven replied "this may be my chance to get through to her and get her to stop bullying you and possibly even be your friend" that's how Steven always was, wanting everyone to be friends so I let him go talk to her and waited for him.(Stevens pov)I found alyssa crying by the entrance "I can't let a loser throw me back in to unpopularity and have me be bullied again" so he said "is that why you bully connie?" I ask "because you're afriad that if she becomes popular you will become unpopular and people will end up bullying you?" She looked back and said "Steven?" I walked over to her "listen that won't happen connie is a nice person so even if she did become popular im sure she'd be nice to you and make sure you stayed popular because connie is cool like that. She doesn't hold a grudge, she just wants friends." I said then she looked at me and silence.
"I'm gonna be honest we are pretending that we're dating but I do love her but im too afraid to tell her" she looked down and said "are you sure I could be friends with connie ater all I've said and done to her" I smiled and said "of course as long as you change your ways im sure she'd love to be your friend." She turned to me "then can you come with me as I apologize to her" I started walking back into the school saying "of course, lets go" and she followed me in we went and told connie that she was going to be nice to you then he took her to the side and said "Connie, I've really liked you for a long time. I understand if you don't feel the same way. Who'd like a freak like me." Steven told her, looking down. "I- I like you too Steven it was 10:30 and Garnet did not show up so Steven sat down and meditated and connected to garnets mind and he said that they were ready to be picked up 5 minutes later she showed up and he asked her if she got his mind message she said yes I did then they went back home