Realization
“Come on Lapis,” Peridot moaned, not unpleasantly, “We’ll be late to our classes.”
Gently, the blue haired girl made a shush sound, and placed a finger to silence her lips. “Just appreciate the moment.” Lapis went down Peridot’s neck, and the blonde felt the weight on top of her shift.
Peridot was in the middle of saying “okay,” when she caught herself. “Wait, seriously. We have maybe fifteen minutes to get there, and you’re not even dressed.” The blonde had woken up before her girlfriend and went to the bathroom to shower and change. When she got back, Lapis was awake, completely nude, and beckoning Peridot over to her own bed.
“And that’s a problem?” Lapis smirked. “You don’t have to pretend you don’t enjoy it.”
“I… You’re putting me in a predicament,” she said as her girlfriend continued to massage her chests.
“Well, it just means we’ll have to finish this faster,” Peridot beat Lapis to her kiss, as she pulled her head from behind and held it firmly against her own.
“I suppose you’re right,” the pale girl said somewhat choppy. It was hard to make her sentences flow normally when Lapis was grinding her leg on just the right spot.
Peridot made a face which indicated to Lapis she was getting closer.
But then she stopped, which made Peridot groan. “Lapis, why?” Her body begged to keep the motion going. “Why did you stop?”
“I want to try something,” Lapis cupped her face with her hand, a thumb stroking her red cheek. She could feel her hot breath.
“Anything, just, please.” Her own body was going crazy. She felt like she might explode. To encourage her girlfriend on, Peridot felt up the girl’s tan waist and grabbed her hips.
It worked. Lapis moved down Peridot again, but this time she kept going. Finally she was completely off of Peridot and at the foot of her legs.
Wait. What is Lapis going to do?
Swiftly, Lapis pulled down Peridot’s shorts and underwear, much faster than any average person. Throwing them on the ground, she opened and spread her short legs wide, and partially over her slender shoulders. Suddenly, Lapis’ hot breath turned cold against her inner thighs.
And then it happened.
It was relief and want at the same time. Spending a few moments sucking and making circles with her tongue, Lapis wasted no time plunging two fingers inside, once Peridot’s hips bucked. It was an experience, a feeling Peridot had never felt before. It was indescribable.
She covered her mouth with both hands as she let out a silent scream.
At that note, Lapis kissed her way up to Peridot’s mouth again. “That wasn’t so bad, was it,” she smirked.
“Geez,” Peridot regained her breath. “That was pretty good?” Really, Lapis was amazing.
Chuckling the blue haired girl traced paths with her fingers along Peridot’s chest and visible, well-defined collarbone. “I don’t think I tell you this enough, but you are so beautiful.”
Peridot covered her reddening cheeks like a dork. If she returned those same words to Lapis, it would sound counterfeit and fake, even though she fully believed them. She scooted up in a sitting position, burying her face into the crook of Lapis’ neck.
“Well, I suppose we should get going then,” Lapis said casually, playing with Peridot’s slightly above shoulder-length hair.
“Can we lay here, just a bit longer?” For once, Peridot wanted to pretend she did not have any other obligations besides her girlfriend.
From the side of Peridot’s room, Gunther yawned and stood up from her mat sleepily. Ever since they found her during their vacation at Lake Obsidian, her fur coat turned much fuller and darker. At first glance she looked like a black ball of fluff.
Each night, Peridot and Lapis would take turns bringing Gunther home, splitting the responsibility evenly. Not only that, but sleepovers became a recurring theme each night since their vacation. Had it already been a month since then?
Gunther trotted over to the two girls, jumping up to prop herself up at the side of the bed. She needed to go outside, and they needed to get going.
“Alright kids, who’s going to take Gunther to school today?” Lapis poorly imitated an overly enthusiastic parent.
“I took her to my classes two days in a row.”
“So it sounds like it’s my turn then. I’m surprised the only person who’s discovered her is the guy who sits next to me during my second class.”
“It’s convenient that she’s quiet the majority of the time. Usually she just sleeps in my bag. I’m amazed no one has asked about it yet.”
“What’s inside your brightly colored duffel bag?” Lapis was buttoning up her high-waisted jeans, while pointing to the corner where a pile of Peridot’s things were. “Well they probably know you don’t play sports, so likely everyone just thinks you’re a drug dealer.”
“Thanks a lot Lapis.”
“But we both know that’s not true,” she came over to Peridot who was throwing on a t-shirt, kissing her neck.
“Would you still date me?”
“What do you mean?” She hummed.
“If I was a drug dealer?”
“No,” Lapis said right away.
Peridot remembered. That’s right. Lapis had seen many people throughout her life, including family, deal with drug abuse. “Well you’re lucky I’m too innocent for that,” she joked. Lapis already knew she had faults in other places, like the money she took when she left Diamond. But even with that, she did not know if it was necessarily bad.
Her girlfriend continued, “Dating you is pretty refreshing honestly. When you mentioned while we started dating that you weren’t into drugs, it was a huge relief to me. Do you know how prevalent it is here in Beach City? Especially in the environment I worked in and with LGBT people here. I was fairly surprised you weren’t into the whole scene, when we first met. Not that you look like a druggie or anything. That’s how common it is.”
“Maybe it’s because I’m not from around here,” chuckling, turned around to return Lapis’ kiss before putting a doggie sweater on Gunther. They were so fortunate that she was such a low-maintenance dog, and potty-trained, who would have thought. “There you go, one paw at a time. Blue is going to flip out when she sees her new sweater.”
The taller girl swooped to pick Gunther up in her arms, after she finished dressing. “You ready?”
Peridot swung her backpack over her shoulders and nodded, “Yep!”
Because it was her last semester, classes were either blatantly dull or high-key stressful. Each day of classes took her energy level for a roller coaster ride. Typical senior year. Fortunately for her, she thought ahead and took action to complete her homework for the next few weeks. That way, she could focus on work, and on figuring out a plan to escape her mother’s threats.
After the morning they had met for brunch, Peridot drove home as quickly as she could. When she parked along the street she ran from her car and into her house. Once she got to her room, she slammed it shut, locking herself inside and closing the blinds to her window. From her shirt she took out a little device, her tiny friend, a recorder.
It was a device Peridot had created, which was the size of a penny. Whipping out her phone from her back pocket, the recorder was connected wirelessly to an app she programmed from scratch. All she needed to do was turn it on and off, and from her phone she could manage the controls discreetly. Even though her phone did have a voice recorder pre-installed, it worked like shit. Plus there were perks with her own device. She could hide it anywhere at any distance, and would capture high quality recordings, even if she was miles away.
But she set limits on its usage. Not once had she used it with Lapis, or any of her roommates. Sure she was very tempted. The thought of gaining any sort of private knowledge enticed her. But she restrained, knowing that’s not what friends did to each other and certainly not girlfriends. And besides, she would not want it to happen to herself.
She hid it inside a miniature safe, where she kept all sorts of tools she created for her own use. She uploaded the recording on a locked USB drive and threw it in the safe as well. The combination was something only she knew.
Peridot fully realized, at least in the tech industry, CEOs and executives made secret deals or threats all the time. Even though she was lucky to capture Yellow Diamond blackmailing her, it was a matter of how she was going to use the material. She had not thought that far.
Sitting on the edge of the bed leaning over, she broke the silence in her room with a groan. “How was she going to get out of this? All she wanted was her pay’s worth for all the work she put in at Diamond, to go to college, to live her own life. And with her mother on her tail, she might only have a taste of that freedom. Lapis did not deserve to be dragged down by her own issues. It was not fair. She at least deserved to know, after they promised to not withhold anything from each other.
And Lapis accepted it, was fully supportive of her in fact. Maybe she did not understand the severity of Peridot’s situation. That was okay.
Since then Lapis continued her support whenever the topic came up. The blonde did not talk about it that much.
During her time in class, along with taking notes Peridot would brainstorm ideas of how to turn the tables on Yellow Diamond. She was not the most creative thinker, to her realization. Perhaps it was because it stressed her out. Maybe an idea would appear out of the blue.
Days had passed, and then weeks. She was tired, stressed, and completely done with dwelling over it. It was only today in her third class when she devised a flawless idea, a surefire way to get Yellow Diamond off her back, and out of her life completely.
She was so excited, she ran all the way to the front of the library, up the concrete steps, and through the automatic sliding doors. During a group text message Sadie had initiated earlier, Peridot promised to meet her, as well as Lapis and Lars at their usual study spot.
But it was only Lars and Sadie who were there at the table, minus her girlfriend. Lars was completely out, dead asleep on the table and using his backpack as a pillow. Sadie had a mountain sized stack of books, and looked much more responsible.
Panting, Peridot bent over, putting both hands on her knees. Looking up, she greeted, “Hey guys! Is Lapis here? I have to tell her something!”
As Lars continued to lay motionless, Sadie pointed, “Oh hey Peridot! Yeah she’s right over there in aisle…” But Peridot had already sat her bags down, and zoomed away.
“Lapis, are you over here?” Peridot whispered as loudly as she could, scanning the rows of endless books. “Miss Lazuli!” It was quieter than usual in the library. So when a hand placed itself over her mouth, Peridot nearly jumped right out of her skin.
“Shhh,” Lapis indicated, failing to remove the hand from the blonde’s face.
“I hope you never do that again,” the pale girl muffled into her palm. “If you do I’ll…” But Lapis ignored her, guiding the smaller girl down the hallway. She had a serious expression and did not look her in the eye.
“Huh?” breathed Peridot confused, as Lapis pushed her against a wall.
But it was not in the way she thought was going to play out.
“Don’t look around,” Lapis ordered Peridot as she neared the corner of the wall. “Wait.”
They stood in silence until Peridot realized there was a source of noise coming from the other side of the wall. “What?”
There were two distinct voices speaking, or, rather murmuring back and forth. The first she did not recognize though it clearly sounded feminine. But the second was too familiar. Pearl?
She was curious and tempted to look around. But Lapis stopped her before she could, and that’s when it hit her that her roommate was hooking up in the library. She did not even need to see to know what was happening.
Ferociously blushing, Peridot walked away, pulling along Lapis’ hand. Why did her girlfriend bring her here in the first place? They had no right to survey their friend like that. Why did Lapis even care? “Let’s go.”
“Peridot wait.” Lapis pulled her over to the other side of the library basement. “I didn’t mean to make you feel embarrassed. I was just thinking of Blue. I thought she and Pearl hit it off during our vacation, we both did. And not only that. You have to admit, they’ve been really flirty with each other ever since, and going out all the time.”
The shorter girl looked the other way and nodded. She was trying to process what she experienced. What was going on with her housemate anyway?
“I thought it was only a matter of time before Pearl would ask Blue out officially,” her shoulders slumped.
Peridot thought so too. Pearl was always put together, somewhat conservative acting but not at the same time, and not very rash at all in general. And she considered hooking up in a library to be a fairly risky situation. It just did not seem like her.
“Pearl’s been going through a lot.”
Lapis nodded.
“So, maybe she doesn’t want to be serious or date right now?” Peridot suggested.
Massaging her chin with her fingers, Lapis responded, “Perhaps. Anyway, I don’t like it.”
“I wonder how Blue will react when she hears.”
“She’s not going to,” shot Lapis quickly. “We’ll just strongly, but casually, suggest leaving Pearl alone and finding someone new to fangirl over.”
“But Blue’s going to wonder why we are suddenly not supporting her feelings for Pearl.”
“I don’t know what else to suggest,” Lapis shrugged. “It’s weird, because it’s technically not cheating, but at the same time,”
“It’s misleading.” Peridot finished her sentence.
“You’re exactly right,” Lapis instantly affirmed her words.
“I guess that’s the best way to handle the situation,” Peridot came to conclusion. “But, if she for whatever reason asks about it, we have to tell the truth about what we heard.” The blonde looked at Lapis straight on with her green eyes. “We promised to each other we would be honest right? Well, I think in these kind of cases, our friends deserve that too.”
“You’re right,” Lapis echoed. “It looks like we’re on the same page.”
For some reason, knowing she and Lapis had similar opinions made her feel a bit better. “We really should get back to Sadie and Lars. I’m sure they must be wondering about us.”
“I need to find a couple books a few aisles down there,” Lapis indicated to her left.
“We should have done that in the first place.” Just then Peridot remembered what she was doing herself, after running to the library and looking for Lapis. “Speaking of which, I finally have a master plan.”
Already knowing what Peridot was referring to, Lapis replied with a sigh, “Let’s hear it.”