Little Gem Thief

The new routine

Just as Sage had promised, the borrowers only really ever emerged when Steven was home, but they were known to take stuff without the gems knowing, mainly when they were out on missions or when they were all in their rooms and Steven was asleep, the only one that ever caught them during these moments was Pearl, seeing as she never kept her promise to stop watching Steven as he slept. She often got odd looks from the borrowers when they were on their way back to their home, but she knew that it was impossible for them to understand why she was watching Steven sleep. Also just as Sage had said, Grimm had always attempted to communicate with the gems and Steven whenever she saw them, not that they ever understood what she was trying to get across.

Today Connie was going to sleepover, and according to her she had learned sign language in its entirety, just to translate for Grimm, seeing as Sage was never enthusiastic about speaking English anymore, mainly because she had reverted back to sign language along with Grimm, except for times when they could speak in private, only then would she use her voice, but Grimm was still never persuaded to speak English with anyone, except for Sage occasionally, but those were rare occasions. Very soon Connie arrived at the home, seeing that the borrowers were still out gathering necessities, she walked over to the counter to start a conversation. Pearl was about to warn her about the unenthusiastic replies they had been greeted with anytime they had wanted to start a conversation, but was interrupted by Garnets hand pulling her back. "Hello Sage, Grimm." Grimm smiled up at Connie, quickly signing a greeting, and though she knew that Connie would probably not understand she still did so "It's good to see you too!"
"What." Sage went slack jawed, had she been serious when she said that she was going to learn sign language to communicate with them? "You were serious?"
"Of course I was, I figured that this would be a first for you two to have a human understand you. But I also thought it might be a little easier for you to not constantly have to translate for Grimm."
"Grimm, can we start making a new language? We need at least one secret here." Grimm shook her head in response, telling Sage that they didn't need secrets anymore "Of course we still need secrets! These 'Gems' have secrets, don't they?"
"Wait, how did you get that? She didn't even sign anything." Connie's question was quickly ignored as Grimm nodded, only for Sage to get more infuriated, "Then why can't we have secrets! Know what? I don't care anymore!" At those words, Sage grappled down the counter and ran to the borrower's quaint home under Steven's couch. Week two of the new routine was going great.