A/N: As a reminder, this weird version of Star Trek is based on my life, so there's no telling what will happen because life is unpredictable.
Ode to A Starship by Lina Shay
Chapter Forty-Eight: Logs
Stardate: 43509.3 Shay Lina's personaly log. I was a little late going to pick up Kenned. I was surprised when he wasn't even watching for me. It took him some time to come to the door. We didn't talk all that much on the way to the holosuite. The program wasn't as good as I expected, though it wasn't terrible. Kenned and I discussed what we liked and disliked about it on the way back to his house.
Stardate: 43511.8 I slept in late. I had to hurry to get and get ready for work. When I arrived, my supervisor called me into her office. She said I wasn't learning the algorhythems as well as I should have. She told me that she just couldn't afford the kind of mistakes I made. I now have to look for a new job. I went to the market with my sister and ran into an old friend, Toas Anrew. I shall now have to distinguish he and my cousin Anrew by using last names. Toas Anrew came up to me and started babbling. I don't really know what on bajor he was talking about. But he sent a message to me that same day and asked how I was. He even said something personal, which is unsual for him. He speaks in generals and technicals, but not personals. Maybe there could be something between us.
Stardate: 43515.2
I found a job at Tyso's dad's shop. Mom thinks it will give me opportunity to ask him on a date. She's even trying to bribe me to ask him out. I don't think I will. Tyso's a very good-looking man and I am rather plain. Besides, I am becoming a Vedek and don't need the distraction of a boyfriend.
My old friend Teia has taken an interest in my cousin, Shay Anrew. She's over all the time snuggling with him on the couch. It's quite disgusting, but I can't say anything about it. It's not my place.
Stardate: 43528.4 My father keeps insisting that I'll be married before I can enter the Vedek order. To spite him, I went into the next phaze of my preparation. I went to the temple and had a vedek preform the next ceremony. It was more simple than I expected. He asked me to take off all my jewelry and shoes. He put me in a dark room full of strange fumes. I sat and breathed them a while, and then he came to get me. He said some strange words and annointed my face with sacred oils.
Stardate: 43588.7
Tyso gave me half of a kava fruit today. I don't know why. I have a lot more hours at the store than I did at the First Contact Commission. I just feel like I never have time anymore.
When I got home, mom said that Toas Anrew contacted me while I was gone and wanted to know if we could get together tonight. It was the most excited I've been in a very long time. I met him at the market, and we walked around and talked. I'm sad to say that there is no chemistry. I had fun and like to talk to him, but I just don't ahve feelings for him anymore.
Stardate: 43590.2 There's this boy at work, Bem, who I think is really cute. He has pale blue eyes and dark hair. He's tall and has a lovely smile. I thought he may be a couple years younger than I am, but thought it was overlookable. I finally asked his age today and found out that he's four years younger than me. Darn it! Nevertheless, I told him he was cute.
Stardate: 43592.6 My sister went with me to the schooling of the will of the prophets. She thought it was boring. I had to agree with her for that day. Though, me and my sister are not a good pair when it comes to paying attention. We rather like to draw funny pictures to make each other laugh. I spent the whole class trying to hide giggles instead of paying attention.
Stardate: 43594.9 Bem was at work today. He was helping me and we kept making weird comments to each other. I made fun of him quite a bit, but in a playful manner. I blamed him for a mistake I made. I told him he was too slow. He knew I was playing and laughed along with me. He's really helpful, and he seems to make work a lot more fun. Near the end of my shift, he told me that after I left the day I told him he was cute, he went looking for me all over the market. He said that he wanted to tell me that he thought I was cute, too. Tyso came up and talked to me a little about the vedek order. He paced oddly. Mom thinks that he was trying to ask me out. Mom asked me how all these guys can think I'm pretty, and I dont' believe it. I don't think their lying, I just don't see what they're seeing.
A/N: I'm sorry. I got really busy. I had so much to write, so I made a sequence of logs to summarize what's happened to me so far.