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“What are you thinking?” he asked.
I threw my arm around his neck to pull him in closer to me, and I whispered to him what I was thinking. The more I talked, the happier his expression got, until finally, he looked at me and said, “I’m in.”
***
“Oh, wow, Dean!”
Lexi gushed over the gift she’d just opened, a blue cashmere scarf that matched her coat perfectly.
“It’s perfect,” she said.
It was an hour after we drank out champagne, and we’d come back inside to warm up by the fire before exchanging presents. Jenna had given Dean a watch I was sure she couldn’t afford—something he was sure of, too, given how he got a little teary-eyed when he opened it.
We were finally down to the last present, which turned out to be a bracelet for Lexi that, by total chance, happened to match her new ring. The girls hugged, with Lexi thanking Jenna profusely.
Jenna stood up and stretched. “Well,” she said, “what do we want to do now that that’s done?”
“Done?” I said, looking at Dean in confusion. “Did she say she thinks we’re done?”
“I think so,” Dean said, shaking his head like he was disappointed.
“What are you two talking about?” Jenna said, sitting back down and eying us suspiciously.
“Well…” I said. “Dean and I have one more gift. Kind of a last-minute thing, but…”
“For me?” Jenna asked, even more wary.
“For both of you, actually,” Dean said, grinning at Lexi.
I pulled out my phone and navigated to my mail app, where the email I’d just gotten about an hour earlier was sitting in my inbox.
“Sorry it isn’t wrapped, but it would be kind of hard to do that, anyway.”
I handed it to Jenna, and she and Lexi put their heads together to look.
“Dean,” Lexi said, looking up at him. “This can’t be right.”
“What do you think it is?” he asked with mock innocence.
“Itlooks,” Jenna said, “like an airline gift certificate. For five thousand dollars.”
“Well,” I said, “I was hoping that would be enough for you two to come visit once a month. Dean and I can do the same on a different weekend, so we’ll see each other pretty often.”
Jenna’s mouth dropped open.
“You mean it?” she asked.
“Yeah,” I said. “I want to see where this goes, because I think there’s really something here. What about you? Do you want to give this a go?”
She smiled and leaned forward to kiss me.
“Why wouldn’t I, you lunatic?”
Epilogue
Jenna
Ithadbeenexactlyone year ago that Gabe and I met, and I had to admit that my current accommodations were definitely a lot fancier than they had been back then.
