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Chiyo-chan's Pigtails
By Silver Sailor Ganymede

I have a lot of dreams about Chiyo-chan's pigtails. Typical of dear Osaka-chan, isn't it, to start a monologue with such a random statement? It's random but true; I have a lot of dreams about Chiyo-chan's pigtails.

I wish I had Chiyo-chan's pigtails; I could fly away then, just like I've seen Chiyo-chan do in my dreams. I really want to fly away; I'd be able to escape then. I'd be able to escape the world of hard tests and violent arguments that surrounds me.

It's no secret that I hate tests; I just can't perform well under pressure. But no one even bothers to wonder why I'm such a space-case; the reason is that my parents argue… they argue a lot. We moved to Tokyo from Osaka because they thought that things might sort themselves out if we moved; well, what they achieved was just the opposite; they argue more than ever now.

So, in order to escape from my awful home-life, I space-out. It's my way of escaping from things, just like using her pigtails to fly off is Chiyo-chan's way of escaping, or at least in my dreams it is.

There's another thing about Chiyo-chan's pigtails that seems true to me; in my New Years Dream, they were controlling Chiyo-chan's brain. That is familiar to me not because I have pigtails that control my brain (though that would be cool, even if it seems pretty scary), but because I feel I have to act in a certain way because it's expected of me. I have to be the dutiful daughter to make up for my lacking abilities as a student.

I wonder whether Chiyo-chan's pigtails funnel information into her brain; that could explain why she's so smart. Yeah, having pigtails like Chiyo-chan's would solve all my problems. They would tell me what to do, make me smarter and they would allow me to fly away from here when things get too tough.

But that's just another one of my daydreams. We all have problems in life, I guess, and a pair of pigtails won't solve those problems (although I've got to say that a pair of pigtails like Chiyo-chan's would be pretty cool).

Oh, it doesn't matter that they won't solve all my problems; I still want Chiyo-chan's pigtails.