Radio Free Roscoe Fans -- Dear Aunt Elladora presents:

Purple-y, Flow-y Thing: a Ray / Lilly fic about growing up

set "About a Girl"

You've seen her with scraped knees and two broken arms, knotty hair and scuffed tennis shoes. She's slept in your bed before you knew anything bad of it; she's told all the monsters under your bed to "bug off." She's beaten you in a spitting contest and you know all her smiles.

But the one thing foreign to you about Lilly Randall is she as she is now -- make-up and a dress. And somehow everything you know about her was just beaten down and your friend just changed completely -- this is something you won't forget. And somehow, amidst all your confusion of her in that flow-y, purple-y thing, it makes sense.

Lilly Randall is a girl and you are a boy, and somehow you looking at her in that way you've never looked at her is okay. Her smile as she brushes Lee John's arm is one of those smiles you've never seen -- and you've seen all her smiles.

For the first time in the history of your friendship, which is quite a long time, you can't recognize her expression.

But it coincidentally matches all the other girls' smiles -- their flirty smiles that they shot to people like you. And now, this flirty, purple-y Lilly was something standing feet away from you, and you couldn't breathe.

You can't breathe and it's scaring you - your best friend, Lilly Randall, is a girl.