Once morning rolled around, you decided that you really did like Steven, you had spent an extensive amount of time contemplating it as you tried to fall asleep last night, he was a one in a billion type of guy, and no way in hell were you going to miss out on this guy! So you decided that you were going to ask to travel with him for a while and see what he says.
"Yes." He said yes. Why did he say yes so easily? Because he loved you, which is why he always called you "gem", it was his way of saying beautiful, you were like a rare gem to him, and there was no way that he was going to let you slip out of his grasp so easily.
Yeah, you had a pretty sweet boyfriend, who you eventually found out was the Champion of Hoenn before a guy named Wallace beat him, but you didn't care about that, you just loved your little stone-obsessed dork of a boyfriend