"You- It's just-" She moved forward faster then she even thought she could, gathering up the red fabric and the box and everything else. "It's not important." She was trying to put it all back, to make it all fit, but it only worked one way and the filmy skirt seemed to spill from the box's edges.
She didn't want him to know- she didn't want anyone to know how much it meant. How special the few things she got really were. How much she never wanted to lose them.
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Date: 2008-04-14 05:58 am (UTC)The dress, and everything else-
"You- It's just-" She moved forward faster then she even thought she could, gathering up the red fabric and the box and everything else. "It's not important." She was trying to put it all back, to make it all fit, but it only worked one way and the filmy skirt seemed to spill from the box's edges.
She didn't want him to know- she didn't want anyone to know how much it meant. How special the few things she got really were. How much she never wanted to lose them.