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When Gem woke up this morning, she realized what day it was. It was her ‘hang out day’ with Pearl. ‘Hang out’ because she knew Pearl wanted it to be a date. She also maybe wanted it to be a date as well. Because when Pearl had texted her two days earlier during her biology lesson. With a text reading
>HI! Pearl her, but you know that because I am texting you and I am in your contacts. Okay so you might want to know why I am texting you because we’re in class, but can you maybe possibly hang out Friday?< Pearl 1:23 pm
She blushed a little. The stumbling words of her friend making her laugh. When she looked up from her texts on her laptop she saw the professor look at her with a death stare in his eyes. Which made her close the tab and start to pay attention.
Walking home from her class she texted pearl back
>Ofc, what should we do?< Gem 3:02 pm
>Could we drink tea and talk at you house again?< Pearl 3:05 pm
>Yea definitely! 4 pm Friday?< Gem 3:05 pm
>See you then! Ly< Pearl 3:06 pm
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While walking home on Friday Gem remembered that she didn’t have any tea. She had used all the bags for a crafting project. It was 3:30 pm, she could still make it to the store if she rushed a little.
Gem walked to the nearest store, a REALLY big Target. Normally she loved big stores, but when you are in a rush trying to find a specific item. It’s quite annoying. She was in the store for 5 minutes already when she found the tea. O god their were so many options, ranging from strawberry to pumpkin spice lemon pie. Looking at all the teas she picked up a pack of green forest tea and a berry mix pack.
While paying for the teas she checked the time: 3:48. If she ran she might make it home in time too able to put on nicer clothes. Clothes that didn’t have paint stains on them.
So she ran, in the rush she didn’t realize that her hat which covered her elf ears had unpinned from her hair, this made the hat fly away. When she realized what happened she quickly covered her ears and she looked right into the eyes of a man standing next to her. He had seen her ears, the ears she had been hiding her whole life, the ears that were now out in the open. Without a warning the man pinned her to the ground. A college id card that hung from his neck read; XB Crafted. This was XB the dude in her English class who had tried to flirt with her. Gem hadn’t realised she had closed her eyes until she open them and what she saw made her flinch even more. XB was holding a gun, and the gun was pointed at her head.
“WHY ARE YOUR EARS LIKE THAT? WHAT KIND OF MAGIC DO YOU POSSES?” he screamed. It almost hurt Gem’s fragile ears.
“I..I” Gem said getting little to no air
“ARE YOU GOING TO KILL ME? BECAUSE I CAN DO THAT TOO YOU KNOW?” XB said still screaming. Gem’s wrists were turning blue and purple from still being under XBs grasp.
“I can’t kill anyone!”
“And how do I know that for sure?”
It was now 4:09 pm and Pearl was waiting on Gems doorstep. Pearl had sent 4 texts with no response.
>Hi, I am here!< Pearl 3:58 pm
>Where are you?< Pearl 4:03 pm
>Are you home?< Pearl 4:06 pm
>Are you okay?< Pearl 4:09 pm
Like all of Gem’s friends, Pearl didn’t know that Gem was an elf hybrid. The only people who knew were her mom, dad, and brother. Her brother Scar was also an elf hybrid, but he had special pills to hide his ears and other traits that elves had. He had gotten very sick and needed to get surgery. But hybrids can’t get surgery, if anybody knows you are a hybrid they have to report you to the police. The police can either put you in prison or murder you. So when Gem’s parents realized he needed surgery they went on the black market and found medicine that actually worked. But this medicine was expensive and one of a kind so only Scar had gotten it.
>if you didn’t have time that’s okay, I am going to my home< Pearl 4:26 pm
>See you on Monday< Pearl 4:26 pm
On the inside Pearl was screaming, she had looked forward to hanging out with Gem. And she finally had the courage to ask her. She might have tried to kiss Gem if she felt like the vibe was right. But now she was walking home without even a response from Gem. It stung.
“I would have done something to you already if I had the chance” Gem said.
“That’s valid, but why are your ears like that?” he had released his grip on gems wrist a little slowly putting the gun away.
“Thank you”
“so why are your ears like that?” Then Gem remembered that she could wipe memories. She hadn’t though of it in all of the mess. So she started to explain to XB
“Okay, I am an elf hybrid. So that’s why my ears are pointy”
“Wait, hybrids are real? I though it was just a myth taught in schools”
“nope its real, but you wont remember that”
“what-“ but he was cut off by Gem who put both of her hands on his head.
“You will forget” she said. She let go of his head and quickly stood up and ran away.
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When she arrived back home she opened her phone and immediately saw all the messages from Pearl, it was 4:40 pm already. Pearl had waited at her door for 30 minutes. And she wasn’t there. Gem felt so bad. So so bad. She had really looked forward to spending a night with her alone. And she had been the one to not show up, she pressed the call button on her phone but Pearl wasn’t answering, after calling 3 times Gem decided to go to Pearl’s house.
She stood on her doorstep for a solid 3 minutes before finally ringing the doorbell. She saw pearl open the door her eyes looked wet like she had been crying. But before Pearl could say anything Gem had pulled her into a hug, the taller woman accepted their hug and hugged her back.
When Pearl pulled away she could see that gem was crying. The head she always wore safely on her head.
“Hey, what is going on?” Pearl asked whilst stroking Gem’s hair.
“I… I..XB”
“What did XB do today?”
“He saw, he saw my”
“What did he see?” Pearl asked. Gem realized that Pearl didn’t know yet. And she couldn’t tell her either.
“He saw nothing it is okay. I am okay” Gem said taking a step backward.
“Do you want to come inside?”
“Yea, I would like that.” She could smell the brewing tea already.