Look At The Princess
Julie, Season One, PG, 388 words, Title from Farscape

Everyone looks at Julie like she's the new princess of Dillon. They smile at her, wave, try to make polite conversation because they don't want to offend the coach's daughter.

And Julie can't stand it.

It's not bad enough that she has to have the coach of the football team as her father, but she has to deal with people sucking up to her, wanting to be her friend just so they look cool. It happens every time she moves to a new town. And Dillon has been no different. Actually, it's been worse. They look at her dad like he's some Kings of Kings. It's sickening really.

People look at her at school, and whisper things when she walks by. She doesn't know if they're good or bad and she doesn't want to know. She wishes she could be a normal teenage girl. Maybe in Seattle or somewhere in Florida. But she knows it's never going to happen.

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Julie tries to ignore Matt whenever she can. He's just a dumb jock who wants to get with her. Then he throws her that Jackson Pollock line. It makes no sense to her, but damn, she's pretty impressed.

After a while she wants to spend as much time with Matt as possible. There's something about him that makes him different. He doesn't suck up to her, isn't nice to her because of who her dad is, he's just Matt. That's just how he is.

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Matt makes fun of her feet because of how big her toes are. Julie tells him it's because she's royalty (it's something her dad told her way back when and it's always stuck). Matt calls her "The Royal Duchess of Dillon". Julie wants to correct him, but on second thought, she really rather not. Duchess has a nice ring to it and Matt will only make fun of her for it.

She gets home way late that night and in her frantic search to find her keys Matt tells her that he loves her. Just comes right out and says it. Like he'll do it everyday for the rest of his life.

Julie says it back and walks towards her house with the biggest smile on her face.

She may be "The Royal Duchess of Dillon" but she's a princess in Matt's eyes.