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Peridot nervously shuffled as she knocked on Lapis door. She was unsure, scared too. She didn't know what kind of reaction she might be met with, part of her didn't really want to find out either, but she came this far.. there was no point in turning back now.
So she knocked, and waited, and waited... Until finally the door lock sounded, and it slowly started to shift open.
Silence was the only thing that followed. Peridot mentally kicked herself, she knew she shouldn't have come, she kn-
"Peridot?! What are you doing here?" Lapis said, wasting no energy in trying to hide the shock on her face.
"I know I'm unannounced!" Peridot shouted, sparing no time to think.
She looked down at her feet before apprehensively looking back up at Lapis, "And I read your email," she said, taking one last deep breath before continuing on.
"I know you said you're trying to get over me but... I'm not over you." Lapis eyebrows had rose in an all too familiar way at that. Peridot came to associate that shock with feelings of endearment, however, reminiscing on the way she had looked at Peridot during their first kiss. She shook her head, there was no time for thinking about the past.
After an extended silence, Peridot finally spoke again, "Maybe this is selfish of me.. I was too afraid to see your face, to come talk to you. I was scared that doing so would bring back all the painful memories at camp, or even brand new ones." Peridot shifted, averting her gaze to the flowers next to Lapis' doorway before looking Lapis in the eyes once more.
"But the more I thought about it... the more I realized I'm even more afraid of losing you. And while I know we didn't start off on the best of circumstances, and you might not even want anything to do with me, I can't live for the rest of my life in regret knowing I wasted a chance to finally get to love you like I've wanted to the moment I saw you at camp." Peridot noticed a change in Lapis' face then, a wrinkle, but not one full of anger or even sadness. Almost.. wistful.
It took a moment before Lapis resolve fully broke, as she burst into tears right there in front of Peridot. Peridot panicked and quickly rose her hands, believing she hurt the girl even more than she already had. She was ready to change her mind, to tell her to forget what she said and how sorry she is for being such a clod, but it wasn't long before Lapis pulled her into a tight hug, and she felt her own shoulders relaxing into it.
"Oh, Per." Lapis sobbed, wiping a hand across her eyes, her voice uneven and hitched.
"I waited every day for you.. Wishing that you would email me... ask for my number.. just anything that implied maybe you wanted to see me too." Sniffling, she finally released Peridot from her grasp.
"I didnt think you wanted anything to do with me" then she smiled, even chuckling a bit as she thought of how stupid she might look crying in front of Peridot right then.
Peridot broke out into her own wistful smile at that, "Are you kidding? Who wouldn't want everything to do with you?"
"Oh, shush." Lapis said, lightly pushing Peridot's shoulder. She took a deep breath as she looked to the ground and settled into a more soft smile. She looked back up at Peridot, visibly blushing while tucking hair behind her ear in that beautifully shy way that peridot had fell so deeply in love with. There was those bag of bricks again, but this time, it was as if they warmly enveloped her heart instead of completely destroying it.
"Of course, I'll try again with you." Lapis finally said, and Peridot beamed at her so hard then, she was sure she could rival the brightness of the sun.
My stars. There wasn't anything else she could really say, so she didn't. Instead, she approached Lapis, softly brushing her bare hand against Lapis' forearm, she wrapped her grasp around it before giving it a light squeeze, until she finally pulled Lapis into her. Lapis yelped in surprise for a short second before her lips were finally met with Peridot's. Finally. After months of waiting, months of yearning, months of tears. She was going to savor every last second.
Lapis lifted her hands to get lost into Peridot's hair, and Peridot leaned further into Lapis to deepen the kiss in the little ways she actually could. It was as if a tiny thousand little strings wrapped around her heart had finally burst. There was nothing that could hold them back now, not camp, not the lies, not Jasper, though Peridot would never take Jasper for granted. It was just the two of them, whole, healing, and finally free to love.
When Lapis gently pushed away from Peridot, she couldn't help but feel a little disappointed, but Lapis gave her that shy tuck behind her ear again and she soon realized that maybe just getting to look at her is the second best thing anyway.
"Wait here," Lapis said suddenly, catching Peridot off guard as she ran inside the house, following was a loud shuffling of noises, almost as if Lapis was trying to rob her own house. Shortly though, she came back with her phone, it was a flip phone. Peridot mentally laughed at it. So outdated. Yet she smiled, somehow it fit Lapis.
When she looked back up at Lapis expectantly, she gave Peridot her phone and said, "Here. Write your number."
Peridot did so without a second thought, punching the ten digits into her flip phone before giving it back to Lapis. Lapis wrote her contact in, flipping the phone to show Peridot what she named it.
It was "Per. ♡"
Peridot's heart swelled, she couldn't believe she somehow made it as far enough to be labeled anything in Lapis phone at all. It was blissful.
"How long are you gonna be in town for?" Lapis said, breaking Peridot out of her thoughts. She was smiling back at her, and Peridot was sure staring at her for any longer might send her into cardiac arrest, she had almost forgotten how beautiful Lapis was.
"Maybe... we could go on a date?" Lapis asked, almost sounding unsure, as if Peridot would ever back down now. Not in one million years.
"Heh.. well, I was supposed to go back tomorrow but.." Peridot said, watching Lapis deflate a bit as she spoke, "But! I don't mind staying another few days. I don't have any classes for the next two days so.." Peridot lifted her hands to twindle her fingers.
"So, then I'll call you." Lapis said, grabbing Peridot's hand to squeeze it. "We could go to that diner.. Or we could do something more fancy, I think that new resturant down the street to my college opened up recently."
"Heh. Sounds like a plan to me," Peridot said, squeezing Lapis' hand back. "I can't wait."
"Me too." They shared another moment of silence, but peaceful and tranquil. "Well, I'm still finishing up some of my homework right now, but I'll try and plan something up before I call you."
"Right, of course, I wasn't meaning to stall you." Peridot chuckled awkwardly, she was about to walk back down the steps before Lapis stopped her.
"Wait!" She turned back at her, confused, before Lapis ran down the steps to embrace Peridot once more.
"Don't forget our goodbye kiss, dummy."
"Oh! Uh- sorry." Peridot said, but Lapis only giggled, "You're such a dork, y'know?"
"Maybe, but I'm your dork now." Peridot said, and Lapis beamed at her again, before finally placing one last kiss against Peridot's cheek. "I'll see you tomorrow, okay?"
"Okay." Peridot said, with nothing but newfound love and confidence. Lapis gave Peridot's hand one final squeeze, before retreating up the stairs and closing the door behind her.
Only two seconds had passed before Peridot squealed in delight. She did it! She did it! She whipped out her phone and immediately dialed Amethyst's phone number. It rang twice before the other line picked up, "Y'ello?"
"Amethyst, Amethyst!" Peridot buzzed with anticipation.
"Uh, what is it dude?" Amethyst spoke simply. Not annoyed, just chill.
"I did it! I finally fucking did it, Amethyst!" Peridot shouted, as loud as she possibly could, letting out that gnarly little laugh that only ever slipped out whenever she was the most excited. And she didn't care. She didn't care how loud it was, she didn't care if the whole neighborhood heard, or even the entire city. Hell, maybe she even wanted them to hear, because finally, Lapis was hers. And there was nothing on this planet that would ever change that, Lapis was hers and there was nothing more Peridot could have ever wanted. Lapis was hers, and Peridot would make sure that it would be so until the end of time.