Garnet is full on laughing now. It's impossible not to with how Pearl squirms and laughs and twists in her hands. She gasps a little from the squeeze of Pearl's legs, and this time she moves one of her hands to Pearl's neck, where she knows she's the most ticklish.

It's completely different from the sight she was greeted with, a solemn Pearl reading in the darkness. Pearl's breathless laughter is intoxicatingly comforting.

But even she's getting out of breath, and she instead wraps her arms around Pearl. Their faces are so close she feels Pearl's breath every time she laughs. "But just a few minutes ago you said I was the best."