River stared up at the ceiling in her room. She was painting with her mind the Sistine Chapel on the ceiling. She was about to finish her favorite part when her stomach growled. It was almost dinner time. Dinner was River’s favorite time of the day. Not so much because she was hungry, but because she knew that everyone would be there. And for five minutes, 300 seconds, 300,000 milliseconds, 300,000,000 microseconds, 300,000,000,000 nanoseconds everyone on Serenity would be getting along. That was always until Jayne said something dumb, the captain called Inara a whore, Simon would say something to upset Kaylee, Wash made a sarcastic remark, Zoë not really saying much of anything, and Shepherd Book would always be the one to bring order back to the table. Despite his hair River thought he had calmness about him that she liked and feared at the same time.

Everyday before River would go to dinner she imagine different scenarios of what would happen at dinner. River would go play by play each scenario in her head. She even did it in her crewmates voices.

Simon was helping Kaylee cook dinner. She handed him some veggies to cut up. She smiled when Simon gentled brushed her hands as she handed him the veggies. Simon just gave her a nervous grin. In her normal cheerful voice, “Let’s play truth or dare.”

Simon looked a bit uneasy. “Truth or dare…I don’t know.”

“Oh, stop being such a fuddy duddy.” Kaylee playfully threw some food at Simon. “Truth or dare?”

“Truth, I guess.” Simon took a deep breath.

Kaylee turns around and faces him and smiles, “Name three things that you like about me.”

Simon’s face turned three shades of red. He was totally caught off guard. “Hmm…let me think…I like your…” Simon paused for a moment. He didn’t want to say anything wrong. He graduated top 3% of his class, a genius some called him, but for the life of him he couldn’t think of three things he liked about Kaylee. “I like…I like your…you have nice…”

Kaylee was growing impatient. She could list thousands of things that she liked a