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“I’m not. I’m really, really not.”
“Well, you’ll have to deal with it for a little while longer.”
“Your surprise is in walking distance?”
“Something like that,” I say, shifting my hands so I cover her eyes with one palm while I open the door with the other one.
“It is! I heard the door creak.”
“Watch the steps.”
“I knew it.”
“Next time, I’ll put a scarf around your mouth.”
“You wouldn’t dare.”
“Try me, doll.”
“You could have just surprised me without all the secrecy, you know. I’m sure whatever it is you did is going to be amazing anyway.”
“Amazing, huh?” I ask, unlocking the door to my place. Thankfully she’s talking, so she pays zero attention to what I’m doing. “I thought you just said you don’t like surprises.”
“I don’t, but that doesn’t mean I won’t like it. And even if I don’t, I can…”
I let my hands drop as we stop in the doorway of my living room. I watch as Jade blinks her eyes open and stares at the room in front of her, her mouth wide open.
“You were saying?”
Jade just shakes her head as she moves further into the room, her eyes scanning the space as she takes everything in.
It looked nice; even I had to admit it. I lit a few candles, scattering them around the room. I made sure they were one of those vanilla kinds that didn’t make her nauseous. A few blankets and pillows are placed around the room, and there is a jumbo pizza on the coffee table along with some ginger ale that she’s been drinking lately to help her deal with the chemo side effects. Okay, and I might have gotten a bouquet of flowers.
Jade looks over her shoulder at me, a smile playing on her lips. “Deep down, you’re a romantic, aren’t you?”
A romantic?Yeah, right.
Just because I did something nice for my girlfriend—as an apology for being an ass, no less—doesn’t make me a romantic.
“I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
“It’s okay. I won’t tell anyone.”
“Good because there is nothing to tell.”
“Mhmm… Whatever you say.”
“It’s the flowers, isn’t it?”
I knew I shouldn’t have gotten them, but the lady at the store insisted I should, and I didn’t want to disappoint her. Besides, I don’t think I’ve ever gotten flowers for anybody before.
“Not just any flowers.” She goes to the bouquet I put in one big cup I found in the kitchen and takes a sniff of the red buds. “Roses, too. I told you. Romantic.”
Joining her on the blankets, I point at the box. “I got you pizza. If I were a romantic, I would have gotten you something better.”
“Is it a cheese pizza?”
I roll my eyes. “Is there any other kind?” She starts to open her mouth, but I point my finger at her. “And if you say I’m a romantic one more time, I’ll…”
