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xiao_meimei) wrote2005-04-11 01:41 am
xiao_meimei) wrote2005-04-11 01:41 am
Most Treasured Possession
Oh, well this one's easy. One time we was on Persephone to meet a fella an' move some cargo with him. But to meet him we had to go to this fancy shindig. Well, Cap'n couldn't go alone. Fellas had to have an escort. Inara was already there an' Zoe and Wash had other things to do. So, Cap'n asked me to go.
He bought me the shiniest dress you ever did see. It's pink an' white an' all ruffled and just...it's gorgeous. Only things prettier I ever saw were some of the stuff Inara wears. So elegant an' refined. I felt like a princess wearin' it. Some girls tried to laugh at me, makin' me feel bad that it was store bought, but this nice gentleman came an' set them straight. Then all these other fellas came over an' we talked about engines an' ships for the rest of the night, 'til Cap'n went an' hit Inara's client an' I got dragged back to the ship.
They let me change outta the dress an' then Cap'n fought a duel while we planned to save him....
An' that has nothin' to do with that dress, 'cept it all came from the same time. Cap'n let me keep the dress. Don't think anyone knows it, but I keep it in my bunk an' pull it out to look at it sometimes.
It made me feel like a real girl, a lady, when I was wearin' it, an' that ain't somethin' I often feel like. I love what I do. Love my ship. Love my Cap'n. But most days I'm covered in grease an' my hair's all messed up. I know I ain't elegant. Wouldn't know how to act if I was.
But for that one night, in that dress, I was a princess. I walked in that world an' I met lots of mean folk an' lots of nice folk just like in my world. I pull out that dress, an' I look at it, an' I remember what it felt like to be Miss Kaywinnit Lee Frye, rather than just "Lil' Kaylee." Ain't nothin' wrong with bein' "Lil' Kaylee" but...it's nice to think about bein Miss Kaywinnit Lee Frye sometimes too.
He bought me the shiniest dress you ever did see. It's pink an' white an' all ruffled and just...it's gorgeous. Only things prettier I ever saw were some of the stuff Inara wears. So elegant an' refined. I felt like a princess wearin' it. Some girls tried to laugh at me, makin' me feel bad that it was store bought, but this nice gentleman came an' set them straight. Then all these other fellas came over an' we talked about engines an' ships for the rest of the night, 'til Cap'n went an' hit Inara's client an' I got dragged back to the ship.
They let me change outta the dress an' then Cap'n fought a duel while we planned to save him....
An' that has nothin' to do with that dress, 'cept it all came from the same time. Cap'n let me keep the dress. Don't think anyone knows it, but I keep it in my bunk an' pull it out to look at it sometimes.
It made me feel like a real girl, a lady, when I was wearin' it, an' that ain't somethin' I often feel like. I love what I do. Love my ship. Love my Cap'n. But most days I'm covered in grease an' my hair's all messed up. I know I ain't elegant. Wouldn't know how to act if I was.
But for that one night, in that dress, I was a princess. I walked in that world an' I met lots of mean folk an' lots of nice folk just like in my world. I pull out that dress, an' I look at it, an' I remember what it felt like to be Miss Kaywinnit Lee Frye, rather than just "Lil' Kaylee." Ain't nothin' wrong with bein' "Lil' Kaylee" but...it's nice to think about bein Miss Kaywinnit Lee Frye sometimes too.