First Poly Date
Day 1 (Sunday, October 28th)-First Poly Date
(Lapis is nervous. Not so Much for the date, but for the meeting new people
@lapamedotweek)
Lapis was lying on her bed. She glanced at her phone and groaned. She really should start getting ready, but there was a churning in her stomach that wouldn’t go away. She knew she should be excited for tonight, but...
Tonight was the night Peridot was going to introduce her to her other girlfriend.
And even though she would immediately say she was joking whenever she said “Maybe you two will fall in love, and we can all date each other”, there was something in her eyes that told Lapis that was most likely her end goal.
She didn’t hate this other girl. And she wasn’t jealous of her either. She just hates...new people. It took her a long time to open up to Peridot, and she wasn’t really excited to start the process of slowly getting to know someone else. Slowly letting her guard down. Slowly revealing her tragic backstory. Getting the same pity looks she always got. The feeling that everybody around her is walking on glass. Sure sometimes it can be cathartic to cry in someone’s lap and have them tell you everything was going to be ok. But then the next morning, when you’re trying to act like nothing happened, they look at you...differently. Not necessarily bad differently. But differently nonetheless.
She heard her phone vibrate and saw a message from Peri.
‘Hey!’
‘I got here early’
‘To be in front of the line’
‘But SOMEHOW somebody else got here before me’
A selfie with the front of the line behind Peri, making a grumpy face.
‘Who gets here 2 hours before the movie starts?’
Lapis snorted ‘ya mean besides you?’
‘Well obviously!’
‘Nobody’s a big a fan as I am’
‘OH!’
‘Amethyst was able to bail work early’
‘So she’s here with me’
‘Meet us when you get here’
A selfie of Peridot and…
Lapis started laughing out of relief. She really should have looked up this girl earlier. They were in the same dorky art class in High School. Oh God! This girl knew all of her angsty teenage poetry. This girl already saw the absolute worst of Lapis already.
Maybe tonight wasn’t gonna be...awful.