He had only a couple of stops to make that day, though he didn't know if either of his targets would be around, and he didn't feel like texting them to find out. If they were home, they were home, and if they weren't they might find their door locks picked open (the benefits of paying close attention to Ripley anytime he did it) and their gifts left on the floors of their dorm rooms, just like they had been dropped there and definitely not placed neatly in a pile.
Chel's room came first, because it was the closest. Laden down with boxes, he left three that were wrapped in bright, eye sore orange for her, again, whether or not she was around to receive them. If she was, she'd be given a typical cold smile, nothing out of the norm from him, and a "Happy belated Birthday." Before he would go along his way.
If she ever deemed the gifts safe enough to open, she would find in one a pair of bookends, which he did not for one second believe would actually be used for books, but hoped instead she could use them for whatever video game collection she had. In the next box, a lunch box that he had come across in some nerdy little shop (actually the same one he had gotten the bookends from), which of course along with the previous gift, reminded him a lot of her. He didn't even know if she liked the game associated with them both.
Still, he had tried, and he hoped she enjoyed them both. Birthdays and their gifts were just one of those things that he actually took seriously.
The third and final gift that he had left for her were a pair of shoes, the soles of which lit up bright pink while walking.
These also reminded him of her and the purchase really couldn't have been helped. He wondered idly, when he dropped them off, if she'd ever bother to wear them or if they were just a gigantic waste of his money.
He told himself that for next year, he would do more research on what kind of thing she would actually like instead of all of this guess work. It actually rankled on him quite a bit that she might not appreciate a single thing that he had gotten for her.
chiickadee
just doin a thing I meant to do like a week ago <3 if you want to reply/react feel free but u don't need to!
