Shopping in New York with Geller had been ten kinds of exciting. Jenna took to the adventure with more gusto than usual. They were tired, strung out from the constant emotional roller coaster and traveling here to there in a matter of hours, but it seemed just the thing to pick them both up.
Today, Jenna was at the Geller house, leaving packages for several before taking off to see to business at Paix. She was almost shaking with excitement. In these moments, she wasn't a tigress queen, she was a girl in love with a boy, and had delighted in picking out gifts for those important to him. As each gift was placed carefully on the kitchen counter so the Geller family could find them, she recalled the moment she purchased each one. Geller had assisted greatly, giving her clues about the personality of each of his loved ones.
She selected, wrapped and delivered those of his family, he did the same for hers.
Each package had a note with a Big Apple sticker on the wrapping to denote where it was obtained, and each note ended with Love, Jenna & Geller.
Save one:
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Prior to leaving New York, she'd sent a gift to Edward Geller by way of courier, to be delivered directly to him. It was a stainless steel watch from Tiffany's with an engraving on the watch's back that read:
It had been in an antique shop in the center of the city itself that she found the hair combs for Nike. They were wonderfully preserved, uniquely beautiful and seemed to suit the lady perfectly. The note attached read.
'Classics for a beautiful lady. Love, Jenna & Geller.'
The Christian Louboutin shoes were especially spicy. After what Jenna knew of Zoe, and with Geller's promptings, they selected the shoes that fit the girl to a tee.
'Get your runway stride, Zoe. Love, Jenna & Geller.'
Trent. It made Jenna smile to think of him. Shy, unassuming, but kind, she was grateful for his acceptance of her into the family. The signed copy of the classic comic by Stan Lee would most certainly bring a smile. Jenna found it in a comic shop she'd walked in on a fluke.
'For the guy who knows what matters most. Love, Jenna & Geller.'
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Dee's gift was unique only to her. A Starbucks card loaded with money for coffee.
'To spare Mister Coffee and to keep you in caffeine the easy way. Love, Jenna & Geller'
Popping out of the house, Jenna's black on black Viper pulled away and headed toward Betwixt and Between. She hurriedly left the gifts there and dashed out. While she was by no means a wilting flower, she had no desire to be around when Steve and Adam opened their gifts. This one, she attributed solely to Geller.
'Use them wisely. They're also easy to share; but not with us. Love, Jenna & Geller'
As usual there had been a lot to attend to lately and the full moon waited for no man, or wolf. Until the time came to go meet the pack though he had training to do with Laney as well as helping Alex with the house and helping Llidya to move in. Actually the work was pleasent. None of it was obligatory. For the first time in a long time it was all stuff that he actually wanted to do with people he actually wanted to do it with. Somewhere in the commotion he found the gift that had been left for him.
Lifting the tie from the box, he let the silken paper fall to the floor. Holding the tie up the hard lines of his mouth curled in the ghost of a smile that never quite made it to his eyes. Turning towards Llidya he showed her the gift, letting her look at it draped over the front of his shirt where it blended with the black fabric.
"You know what this means pet. We're going to need another excuse to make you wear a dress."
-Damn. Just when the house was on sobriety lock down that's when people started giving the booze away. Milo picked up the bottle of Johnny Walker Red and hugged it to his chest like a long lost child. Goodbye old friend. Laney was packing up to move over with Ash into Alex's house so Milo slipped into the young wolfs room and set the bottle of Johnny on top of a box of her things.-
"Give it to Sil. Tell her to hold it at the Hookah for me."
-Mournful he let Laney take the whiskey and keyed in a text message over his phone to both Geller and Jenna.- "Celebrate with me at the Hookah sometime. We'll polish off the bottle and lift a glass to the new city and new friends."
Not too far from the kitchen, Dee was ready to wrestle with Mr. Coffee again before her morning jog when she found a present on the counter with her name on it. The gift was small compared to the others left on the counter, but it was still wrapped the same with the Big Apple sticker on it. She opened the gift quickly, and smiled brightly when she saw a Starbucks gift card loaded with money.
"Well Mr. Coffee, it looks like we won't be wrestling this morning. Geller and Jenna just saved your ass once again."
It seemed like she was speaking outloud to herself, which most would consider crazy, but she was really speaking to the coffee pot.
"Oh my god, I'm talking to a coffee pot."
She gladly stuffed the gift card into her pocket and headed out the door for her jog, and after her jog, she would stop at Starbucks and put some damn good use to it.
-Ohmigod! Maya LOVED presents! When she saw the black gift bag with hot pink paper poking out the top she made a noise so feminine and squealy it would have ashamed her if she wasn't already so excited. Leaping on the bed she ripped the paper out and pulled the books from inside. Flipping through the pages she giggled and just said 'cool'. Her phone was pulled from her clutch purse and she sent off a quick text to Jenna and Geller.-
"Books=awesome, u 2 r amazing, THANKS!"
-Falling back onto her bed she opened up the hot pink cover of the journal and reached over to her bedside table to find a pen. Popping the lid off the pen she started to write in her new diary, spilling her thoughts out on the page. The journal would be kept under her mattress and the little pink book would be carried in her purse. Perfect!-
+Geller wasn't much for shopping in general but he certainly loved buying special things for people who were close to him. That last day in New York City he and Jenna had spent a lot of time enjoying themselves and running through the city from store to store laughing and picking up things for the people in their lives. Showing Jenna his hometown and watching her delight at all the secret places was a pure delight. Once they returned to New Orleans he put the same Big Apple stickers on each of the packages and left them in rooms at the tiger house where their intended recipients were sure to find them.+
+F.A.O. Schwartz had been too good to resist. They had spent a long time wandering around the store, feeding one another candy, and even testing out some of the more unusual toys. One of the things they found was a gift left on Avery's bed with a note+
"For the best blue monster ever! Love, Jenna & Geller"
+Another F.A.O purchase was left in Caspians room along with a snazzy hat they'd picked up at a milliners shop in Brooklyn. The hat was of course for Caspian and the lazer tag set was something for the son Caspian had told Jenna about. The lazer tag set had been particularly fun to test out in the store much to the amusement of the other patrons.+
"Something for the new addition to your family. And a little something for you. Love, Jenna & Geller"
+Santanna's gift was chosen from the Hermes boutique on Park Avenue. Geller had suggested flea dip to which Jenna had given him a playful swat. The scarf was a much more suited gift.+
"Santana, don't stay such a stranger. Come play house with us. Love, Jenna and Geller"
+And last but certainly not least Kaikou's gift was left for him at the room he was supposed to be visiting at the tiger house. His gifts had been bought from China Town. The rice maker was Jenna's idea and the Statue of Liberty lighter was just something Geller thought Kaikou would find confusing and interesting. Hopefully he wouldn't light the house on fire.+
Twenty four hours in, he was becoming addticted to this game system called an xbox. William never had such things growing up. He was an adult but didn't mean he was a child a heart, his eyes stared at the tv screen as he cursed at the people all over the world who kept killing him and sneaking up on him on the game named Call of Duty. He shook the contorl violently, jumping up and stomping his feet from as he wanted to drive his fist through the television screen but had to remind himself, it was just a game he grabbed the cardboard box of Sugar Babies up from the table, stuffing some of the carmel goodies into his mouth as he seen he was out huffing he picked up his cell phone to text Jenna and Geller. He was high on a sugar rush and the advantage of game play.
"Hey hey! thanks for the world of game play. These bastards keep shooting me, oh oh oh also pick up some more sugar babies ;)"
-Trent was holding one of the holy grails of comic book collecting in his hands, and it was signed. Eyes wide he carefully held the comic book by the plastic covering so it wouldn't get damaged. Careful, careful. He took it straight to his room so he could put it somewhere safe. Only after the comic book was in a secure location did he pull out his phone and text Jenna and Geller.-
"How did you know? It's what I always wanted. You guys rock!"
