Chapter 5

Later that evening just before the children went to bed Deanna slipped into her daughter's room. The swishing of the door pulled Lily's attention away from her book. Deanna smiled and sat down on her bed.

"What are you reading Lily?"

Lily closes her book and looks up at her mother.

"Hi mom, it's "A Mid Summer's Night Dream" it's a wonderful story."

"Captain Picard spoke highly of it, I never read it myself but your father has. Maybe you can talk to him about it."

"Nah I am going to take a wild guess and say you wanted to know how school went today."

"Yes I was, so how was it do you still want to go back a level and stay with your other friends?"

"I have been thinking about this for a really long time and I decided that I want to stay where I am. I mean I can still see my friends when ever I wanted to and there are a lot of other people who are cool too."

Deanna starts to smile at her daughter. She new it wasn't just "cool" people who caught her daughter's eyes there was something more.

"It wasn't just "cool" people am I right?"

Lily smiles sweetly and looks at her mother almost embarrassed by her remark.

"Who's the boy?"

"His name is Shane, he's a betazoid, and he has these big black eyes, like you, that if you look in them you disappear into the darkness. Man I could just stare at him forever."

Lily says dreamily as she looks to her mother. How Deanna loved puppy love, and seeing it in her daughter's eyes made her smile. Her first love how special it would be.

"I was like that with your father the first time I saw him. Of course I didn't let him know how he made my heart jump. I loved everything about him but my mother didn't like him at first she thought he wasn't good enough for me. I never listened to her and look where we are today."

"You know what mom, I'm going to marry Shane someday I just know it."

Deanna smiled and stroked her daughter's cheek.

"You're only 13 years old Lily, I'm not in a hurry to let you go. How old is this boy any way Lily?"

"He's 16 and he's perfect mom and I will marry him."

Deanna decided to let her daughter dream; it's such a wonderful dream.

TBC…Chapter 6