12 Roses

Summary: Elena goes to work and finds out that she has a secret admirer. Who could it be?
Pairing: Reno/Elena (ReLena)
By: Adi/Dai
Date: Feb. 14, 2008

The petite blonde was sitting snug on her tan suede couch, with freshly made hot-cocoa in her hands. Her slender legs were crossed; her soft, blue eyes gazing at the pages of words on her recently favorite book.
She kept reading; and reading; and slowly her mind began to wander. They say some people can concentrate on a specific thing for an amount of time; maybe she was one of those people. Her eyes slowly glanced from the clock, to the calendar on the wall by her computer desktop. Today was the thirteenth of February.
She sighed.
Tomorrow was Valentine's Day; for her, it was "Singles Awareness Day".
Oh, how she despised that national holiday. Of course, she loved the chocolate that she always would receive from her women-coworkers. Tseng, Rude, or even Reno don't bother giving out chocolate or those "money-wasting piece of shit they call cards," as what Reno would call it.
Elena didn't really care for the chocolate, or the cards.
"Does that mean that I'd rather have a man in my life?" she thought.
But, she wanted to not care for that either.
So with that thought for fodder, she checked the clock (it was half-past 11 pm) and decided to go retire for the night.

Her alarm clock rang at exactly 6:15am. She hit the snooze button, and covered herself with her warm blankets.
Boy, she didn't feel like getting up today.
But she had to.
She jumped out of bed; got the clothes she prepared the night before, and headed for the shower.
Her slacks were neatly ironed; her shirt as white as it can be; and her blazer that fit perfectly against her lean body. She looked at the mirror once more to check for any missed imperfections, and headed out the door.
First thing when she opened her door was that there was a bouquet of red roses on her doorstep. Elena picked it up, and saw that there were no cards.
A SECRET ADMIRER?

(Just kidding, she wasn't THAT excited.)

The roses.
The red roses that she had put in the vase on her coffee table.
THOSE roses.
The thought of it made her crazy. She wanted to know badly who it was from. FOR SURE, she knows it was not from a woman (otherwise, that'd be scary).
From morning, to afternoon lunch, to near the end of the shift, nobody had spoken to her about the roses and or the secret admirer.
She could feel herself, just beginning to "crack".
'FINE,' Elena thought. 'WHATEVER; maybe someone placed it on the wrong doorstep at the wrong apartment. Yeah, that's what happened…yeah…'
No, it was too hard to believe that. She grabbed her purse, and got into the nearest elevator and pressed 'GARAGE' on the list of buttons you normally see in elevators (sometimes).
She walked swiftly out of the elevator, and towards her car. As she got nearer, she can see…
ANOTHER BOUQUET OF ROSES.
It was on top of the hood of her car.
Red.
AND…to no surprise now, it had no cards either, but had the same number of flowers as the last. Six. So in total…she had…Twelve? "What is THAT supposed to mean!?"
Elena's ears perked up as she heard faint footsteps coming behind her. She turned around, and to her amazement, she saw a familiar red-headed man, with his usual smirk.
"It means," he started. "Dinner; tonight; with moi; and then my place," Reno grinned.

She had just felt as if she was on cloud nine.

A/N: AH, I had fun writing this XD Happy Valentine's/Singles Awareness Day!