A new school with unfamiliar faces, uncomfortable desks, and the uninteresting atmosphere wasn't new to Lapis Lazuli. She could not find anything in her class that she hadn't seen before, leaving her insanely bored and disinterested in the world around her. She only stared ahead, scratching her blue-dyed hair.

Her trance was broken by the random tapping on her shoulders. She looked behind her desk and saw a bespectacled girl with wide eyes looking at her, "Um, hi."

Lapis blinked, and turned away from her, "Wait! I wanted to ask you, uh. I wanted to know if you dyed your hair blue?"

"I did," she answered, not turning back to face her.

The blonde muttered to herself, "So, the school lets you dye it?"

"It's for religious reasons," she lied. She hated her natural hair color, so she lied to the officials of every school she went to that it was dyed to mourn a relative that was very much alive.

"Oh," Lapis hoped this would end their conversation, and she could resume her meditation of apathy. Again she felt her shoulders getting tapped, and looked back at the green-eyed girl, "Um, do you, uh-

Lapis rubbed her eyes before glaring at the girl, "What do you want? I'm trying to get some sleep I-

She looked down at a booklet with a cat-like creature on the cover. She stared it for a few seconds before shifting glances to the girl, "Um, do you like Klonoa?"

Lapis raised her eyebrows in confusion, "What's a Klonoa?" she asked, attempting to match how the girl pronounced the strange word.

She was disappointed with this answer, but still kept a hopeful smile on her face, "It's a video game where you play as this guy, his name's Klonoa and-

"Sorry, I don't really play video games," Lapis interrupted her.

"Oh," she muttered, "Um, well my name's Peridot! Peridot-

"Peridot! If you don't mind, we're in the middle of class!" the teacher admonished her, "Now pay attention.

She looked down at her desk in shame, avoiding eye contact with the rest of her class that had started staring at her. She looked on the floor for the booklet, getting nervous as she started thinking if she lost it.

For the rest of class Peridot couldn't stop thinking about how she might have lost the booklet to one of her favorite games. Every half-minute, she looked around the desks trying to find anything that vaguely resembled the booklet. When class finally ended, she was the first one to burst out of her desk as she scoured over the classroom, trying to find her lost manuel.

"It's Lapis," Peridot saw the Klonoa cover in her eyes and immediately grabbed it, "The cat looks cute."

Peridot adjusted her glasses and smiled, "Th-thanks. Um, you read it during class?"

Lapis and Peridot walked out of the class and into the mass of middle schoolers flooding the halls, "I've listened to more than enough lectures about the pythagorean theorem than a person should. I just tuned her out and read your little booklet," she explained.

The two walked together not speaking as they made their way through the endless waves of people, "So lunch is next, and, would you like to, sit with me?"

Lapis nodded, "Sure. Besides I don't know where the cafeteria is," she followed Peridot after they waited for the halls to fizzle out. While she was led, she noticed that Peridot was even with her in height.

Five Years Later

Peridot woke up, already telling that it was late in the morning by how the sun's light was coming straight down. She pulled herself to the edge of her mattress, pushing her hair out of her eyes while she yawned. She pulled herself off the edge of her bed, balancing herself on one foot, feeling the strain in her right leg.

"C'mon. It's just a few steps," she groaned to herself, "You can make it." She looked across the room to the swivel chair in front of her tv. She attempted one step before losing her balance. She fell on the floor, breaking her fall by catching herself on her mattress.

Peridot moved her toes to check if anything was broken, feeling her leg to feel if anything hurt. She could still feel the metal rod in her leg, guiding her finger over the long scar. She looked to her right and sighed to herself. She reached for her prosthetic leg and pulled it to her right knee, pulling the leg of her shorts up. Briefly, she felt the tip of her knee feeling the end of her leg with her fingers. Peridot pushed those thoughts away as she attached the prosthetic to her knee, pulling the socket over the residual limb. Once she felt that it was safely attached, she pulled herself up, standing straight and balanced. She walked across the room, and planted herself in her chair. And because she intended to spend the rest of her day in that chair, she removed her prosthetic and moved it to the side of her chair. Peridot turned on one of her video game consoles with the intention of wasting the entire day on that game.

As the game booted up, she checked her phone and went to one of the dozens of social media apps her mother had downloaded for her, going to Lapis Lazuli's page. Nothing out of the ordinary, but she liked her posts regardless. Her game finally loaded and she queued up for quick matches against randoms.

A few hours later after dealing with a garbage team, she cursed at her tv before quitting out. Peridot sat back in her swivel chair as it spun. She stared at the ceiling watching her view of the ceiling shift as she pushed her chair to spin. Her phone reminded her that it existed by vibrating a message from her mum, though she ignored her message and started texting Lapis.

"Hey. Do you wanna come over tonight?" she clicked send and resumed staring into the ceiling listening to the ambience from her tv. The instant her phone blared its ringtone, she checked to see if Lapis messaged her back.

But immediately, her mood soured, "Not today, Peri. Too much studying."

She hunched herself over and looked at the ground, "Yeah. I figured not today either," she looked at her phone and looked at the message her mum sent her.

"Did you take your GED test today?" followed by a few emoticons that were meant to show signs of hope.

Peridot checked the time on her phone, "Oh. It's five thirty," she muttered realizing that she was four hours late to her test.

A/N So this is a little story that I've been wanting to write for a while. To explain if any of you were confused by the format, the first half of this chapter is when Lapis and Peridot were in eight grade. And the second half is Peridot a year after she should have graduated highschool. Not every chapter will be like this, but I'll let ya'll know when it happens.

Please check out the wonderful artist chimu-ke on tumblr. She's the original artist for this fanfic's thumbnail art and her art is what inspired me to write this.