A/N: Double-sized story today! I was about to go to bed when I checked the WOD, and I just had to write this. I hope you guys like it!
Rating: K
Disclaimer: I do not own any of Psych. At all.
Gimcrack
A showy but useless or worthless object; a gewgaw.
Tastelessly showy; cheap; gaudy.
It doesn't matter Juliet kept telling herself. The size wasn't important, not the color nor the cut either. The only significant thing was that it was there.
Yet, all the same, she kept finding her eyes wandering to her left hand, and wondering over and over why, of all the engagement rings, Shawn had picked this one.
It was big and showy, to gaudy for Juliet's tastes.
For heaven's sake, she was actually embarrassed by it.
Finally, the words just slipped out- "Why did you get me this ring?"
She saw the devious sparkle in Shawn's eyes as he replied. "So I could surprise you...with this one." As he spoke, one hand went to his pocket, pulling out a little black jewelry box. And when he opened it, she sighed.
"What? What's wrong Jules?" Shawn asked, his expression confused and anxious.
She allowed herself a tiny smile. "Thank God- I was worried this" she gestured to the tastelessly showy ring "would be on my finger for the rest of my life!" And she giggled along with Shawn when he began to laugh.
Later though, with the new, beautiful diamond glittering on her ring finger, Juliet slipped the other into her jewelry box, not caring about its appearance anymore.