[Steven's expression falls, gradually being forced to address the bad parts of getting to see Pearl again. He doesn't know what he'd ask of her right now if it weren't for the fact that he thinks there's a good chance that it'll end up already having been a done deal, anyway. Pearl was probably the best at actually paying for things out of the gems, but...]

Did you...

[He trails off, and rethinks how to phrase it.]

If you didn't do anything that would make you have to stay too... you should go home, if you want to. We're just going to be killing time here anyway, and it's kind of stressful sometimes, so...

[He probably shouldn't have told her it was stressful if he wanted her to leave, but oh well.]

I know the others would be really happy to see you! But... we... we should check to make sure you didn't do anything to get in trouble. It's really easy to make a mistake, here..."