She looked at me, like she wanted to say something, but instead distracted herself by thrusting the gift into my hands

"I'm freaking out about this. I've never really given you a gift, so I really hope you like it," she said.

I took it from her and gave her a kiss. Her eyes were wide and I could tell she was very anxious about the gift. It would be mean to torture her, so I started tearing into the wrapping paper, pulling it aside, to find an old Amazon box. I glanced over at her.

"I had to put it in something," she said.

I opened the box and...