Chapter 1: First Date

Two young kids sat down on the couch in the Beach House. One was a short, slightly chubby 14-year-old boy with light skin, short, curly black hair, and a pink gemstone embedded in his stomach where his belly button should be. The other was a short, skinny 13-year-old girl with medium brown skin and long, puffy dark brown hair. The girl was slightly taller than the boy. The two children, Steven and Connie, were best friends, although they both had fallen in love with each other. Problem was, neither of the two knew how the other felt about them.

But that was about to change…

"Connie, I… I have something I'd like to ask you." Steven was blushing; trying to gather up all the courage he had. "Yeah, Steven?" "Do… do you want to… b-be… um…"

Connie blushed. She already knew what Steven was trying to say. Smiling, she leaned over towards Steven slightly. "Y-yes, Steven… I would love to be your girlfriend…"

The two smiled brightly, still blushing, and leaned in to kiss.

"WOOOO! You get 'er, Steven!"

"AMETHYST!" Both of them quickly pulled away as they were blushing so much you'd think they had a bad sunburn while the purple gem fell on the ground laughing hysterically.

"Amethyst! That was uncalled for!" Pearl was giving a look of annoyance and disappointment to Amethyst for ruining the moment. "I'm sorry about that, you two. Why don't you go out instead?"

"Okay. Thanks, Pearl."

As the new couple walked out of the house, they could hear Pearl start to lecture Amethyst about interrupting important moments in other people's lives. Connie spoke up. "So, want to go to the movies or something? I heard Dogcopter 4 is out now."

"Sure. Hey Lion!"

A pink portal appeared, and Lion hopped out shortly after. "Lion, take us to the movies, please." Lion crouched down so they could climb on, and he then roared, creating another portal to go through. "He seems to listen to me a lot better now," Steven told Connie, as Lion hopped through and they came out in the movie theater parking lot.

...

After the movie, the couple walked out of the movie theater smiling and holding hands. Basically, in the movie, Dogcopter had found a female and they fell in love, and joined forces to drive the invading robots out of town. It had some interestingly accurate parallels to Steven and Connie's lives.

They then returned to the beach house, still holding hands. When they got up to the door, Steven opened up the door and held it open for Connie. "After you, milady."

Connie both giggled and blushed at Steven's gesture. "Why, thank you, Steven."

Connie walked in, with Steven following, and saw Amethyst making a sandwich with lettuce, cheese, tomatoes, pickles, mustard, and engine oil. She then proceeded to eat the entire sandwich – and the plate it was on – in one bite. Amethyst looked over and saw Steven and Connie just getting back. "'Sup. So how was the movie?"

"Wait… how did you know about the movie?"

"Eh, I heard you two talking about going to see a movie after you left." Amethyst responded casually.

...

"Checkmate."

"Wow. How are you so good at this, Connie? That's, like, the third game in a row you've won!" After returning from the movie, Steven and Connie decided to simply hang out at the Beach House playing board games and eating snacks. After Connie beat Steven at chess again, they decided to watch another movie, but on Steven's TV instead of at the movie theater.

They decided on watching "Jurassic Park" at Connie's suggestion, though Steven had no idea what that was exactly. Since Connie had seen the movie several times before, she was expecting most of the 'jump-scares', as she called them, from the dinosaurs, but Steven would scream and cling on to Connie for dear life at each one. At first, the plan was to watch Jurassic Park 2, 3, and Jurassic World afterwards, but they decided against it after Connie noticed how the movie had ultimately left Steven traumatized and may have even changed his entire view on dinosaurs.

"T-those dinosaurs were scary, Connie! They were not nice at all!" Steven said, still trembling.

"Sorry about that, Steven. I forgot to think about how you would react to the movie." Connie said, with some sympathy in her voice. She also figured it would be a bad idea to show Steven her favorite game, "Five Nights at Freddy's".

"It's okay. I just got scared half to death about a dozen times." Steven said with a nervous chuckle.

"I liked it."

The kids turned around at the unexpected voice to see that Garnet had been sitting behind them watching the movie as well, her tone and expression calm as always. "You should probably get going, Connie. It's almost dark out." Indeed, the sun was just over the horizon, the sky slowly darkening. Both kids sighed in disappointment, but got going, nonetheless.

Not much later, a portal appeared in front of Connie's house. Connie carefully climbed down off of Lion and walked towards her house. "I'll see you tomorrow after school, Steven." Connie called back as she walked through the door to her house.