A Valentine's Surprise...

I received flowers at work on Friday for Valentine's Day... from a guy for the first time ever...! How it all happened was actually pretty embarrassing, because I am not a person that likes attention and this definitely attracted alot of attention. I was at work sitting in the front office area with a client and her Support Coordinator when a guy walked in with a bouquet of flowers. He walked up to the Secretary's desk and then glanced back over his shoulder to where I was sitting. When he looked at me I realized it was Weston. He pointed to the flowers and mouthed to me, 'these are for you,' with a pleased smile on his face, noticing my shocked expression. I got up and went over to talk to him for a minute. He handed me the flowers after telling me he was just going to leave them up front for me, not expecting to see me when he came in to deliver the flowers. I thanked him and he walked out the door as quietly as he had entered.

I asked the Secretary, Tara, if I could keep the flowers at her desk for the day, not wanting to be questioned or to make a scene by carrying them back to my office. Well it was too late for that... immediately Tara asked, 'is that your boyfriend? I didn't even get a good look at him.' I replied, 'no, he is not my boyfriend. We have only been out on two dates and I hardly know him.' Then Dana, the accountant, stepped out of her office to inspect the flowers and the hand written note in the bouquet. She quickly put her hands on her hips and looked at me inquisitively to pose this half question/half statement of accusation 'I thought you were dating Chad?' I replied 'no we were dating, but he and I are not dating anymore.' Then Bill, the residential coordinator (and a friend of Chads) poked his head out of his office after watching the whole scene and remarked, 'Chads going to be so jealous,' with a smirk on his face. Wow talk about being the center of attention... I was so embarrassed! I think my face turned six different shades of red during that extended inquisition, but that was very thoughtful of Weston and the flowers are beautiful! What's life without little surprises every now and again... :)