Ever since she was a child, Sidney loved going to the park. She loved being surrounded by nature about as much as she loved being surrounded by books in the library.

One of her favorite things to do while at the park was to pick flowers and create flower crowns with them. The way that you could take a bunch of one type of flower or several types and craft them into a beautiful crown that you could wear just blew her younger self's mind and it became something she enjoyed even now as a teenager.

Sidney sat on the park bench, putting the finishing touches on the flower crown she made herself. When she finally perfected her creation, she set it carefully upon her lap and gazed down at it with a smile.

For her flower crown, she used three different flowers: white lilies, red roses, and thyme. The flowers were arranged in a pattern of white lily, red rose, thyme, white lily, red rose, thyme, and so on until it made a complete circle design on the piece of wired floral twine. Not only were they three of her favorite flowers, each of them had a meaning that Sidney felt described her well.

White lilies represented virginity, purity, and heavenly things. Given that Sidney was still a virgin and practiced Catholicism with her family, white lilies were an excellent flower to begin constructing her crown with.

Red roses were the universal symbol for romantic love. Sidney was deeply in love with and devoted to her boyfriend Billy. He was her first boyfriend, her first kiss, and she wanted him to be the one she gave her virginity to. To allow him to take such a sacred part of her screamed volumes of her trust, commitment, and passion for the brooding bad boy who captured her attention the second he arrived at Woodsboro, and red roses had the same effect. Adding such a flower to her crown seemed to be a no-brainer.

Finally there was thyme. Thyme wasn't exactly a flower, more like a plant, but its soothing and earthy scent, deep green color, and meaning of courage and strength prompted her to include it in her trio. She wasn't always the bravest or most outgoing of her group (Stu, Tatum, and Billy were the ones with those traits), but she did have moments in which her inner strength could surpass her friends'. Each time she saw a bully, despite her shyness, she couldn't help but step in and defend the victim. She remembered the day she became friends with Stu when they were kids; he was getting picked on and it made her angry. Sidney couldn't tolerate bullying then and she couldn't tolerate it now. She supposed that that memory was what compelled her to choose thyme to complete her crown.

A pleased giggle fell from Sidney as she held up her flower crown to place it atop her head.

"I suppose I should call you a Queen now instead of a Princess?"

Turning to the side, she smiled warmly at Billy, who had finally looked up from the auto magazine he was engrossed in. His eyes were soft and so was his smile as he gazed at her. There was also a reverence to his expression as if he was staring at an angel on Earth.

"If you want to, but I think I should make it even and make you my King," she replied.

"Sid, I don't like flower crowns."

"Nonsense. A Queen needs her King and there are plenty of flowers to go around. I even carry extra floral twine, so it's no big deal."

"Sid," he groaned, but she knew from his tone that he wasn't frustrated with her insistence in the slightest. In fact, she could even hear the amusement that was practically dripping from her name as she rose to make his flower crown after securing her own.

Sidney could feel his eyes on her back as she walked over to the flower beds, but when she looked over her shoulder, he had returned to reading his magazine, the gentle smile he only allowed her (and his mother) to see still painted on his handsome face.

It took about an hour of careful searching and deliberation, but Sidney's keen eye finally spotted the flowers that accurately described Billy Loomis: gladiolus, borage, and red camellia.

The gladiolus was one of those flowers that came in a variety of colors, including white, cream, yellow, orange, rose, red, lavender, purple, and green, but the shade that Sidney selected for her boyfriend was burgundy, a dark, reddish-brown hue. It symbolized integrity, strength, and victory, all three things Billy had in spades. He was on the football team at school and every time he was on the field, whether it was practice or an actual game, he was determined to win and wasn't afraid of taking a few hits or causing a few hits to ensure one for his team and their school.

The borage flower was a sky blue and represented bluntness and directness, two things that Billy was. Billy was rather reserved and aloof, never offering more information than necessary or showing much emotion unless you were close to him, but he was also very sarcastic and said exactly what was on his mind. So many times her boyfriend got into arguments and spent time in detention due to his remarks. As much trouble as it caused him, it was a part of him and she still loved him for it.

The last flower she selected for his crown was the red camellia. As is the case with most flowers, the camellia came in various colors, but red was perfect for Billy in her opinion because of its meaning, often referred to as a phrase: you're the flame in my heart. Despite his composed and often distant attitude, Billy was very passionate and devoted to those that were important to him. She saw it in the way he worked with cars, the way he gave football everything he had, the way he talked about his mother, and the way he treated her. He treated her as if she was a Queen every day of their relationship. He was a flame that never burnt out and it made her feel things she never thought she'd get a chance to feel.

Once she finished putting together his flower crown in the same design as she made hers (gladiolus, borage, red camellia, etc), she got up from her seat on the grass and walked over to him. Standing before him, she grinned when he looked up.

"Are you ready for your crown, my King?" She asked.

Billy grinned up at her, closing his auto magazine and setting it down beside him. "Of course, my Queen," he replied.

Sidney set the flower crown on top of her boyfriend's dark blonde hair and stepped back to look at him. "You look so handsome," she praised.

"Even with flowers on my head?" He teased.

"Oh, come on. You'd look good even if you wore a paper bag on your head."

That earned her a loud, full laugh as he pulled her closer to him by her wrists, so close that she practically fell into his lap.

"I love you, my flower Queen," Billy said, leaning in to kiss her.

"I love you, too, my flower King," Sidney returned, closing the gap between their lips. Both of their crowns stayed in place on their heads as they kissed, the flowers bright and beautiful like their love.

Sidney found yet another reason to love nature, the park, and making flower crowns.