He awoke to the smell of bacon sizzling on the stove. And coffee. It made waking up without her wrapped in his arms a little better, but only a bit. It took longer than it should have for him to lift his head up and read the clock. 9:30am, later than he was used to but he was grateful for the extra rest.
He pushed himself out of bed, not bothering to put a shirt on, instead following the smell of bacon into the kitchen where Emily was pulling two plates out. "You made breakfast he mumbled" giving her a peck on the cheek before reaching across for a coffee mug. He needed coffee.
"Yeah, well, it's been a while and I just wanted to…" she hesitated and he studied her carefully for a moment. Even half asleep he could tell when she was hiding something, and she was most definitely hiding something. He was opening his mouth to question her motives when his eyes fell on something on the counter that made his stomach drop.
"What's that?" he asked, walking towards the cause of his panic, how could he forget…what the hell was he even forgetting.
Emily cocked her head to the side, confusion setting on her face, "What? Oh, it's nothing, just…you know, a just because kind of thing." Damon could tell that was a lie and that fact made him feel even more guilty than he was already. He reached out, picking the card off the kitchen counter, his name written in neat print on the outside, a little smiley face next to his name.
It was a card. Cards meant birthdays and anniversaries and valentine's day and all the other special days in between. It wasn't her birthday, or his, that much he was sure of. It wasn't their anniversary. It was the middle of June, they had made jokes about June not being an important month for them, so why was there a card.
"Hey…" she said, her hand touching his face and turning it towards her, "You didn't forget anything, like I said, it's just a spontaneous thing. I promise." She gave him one of those smiles that lit up her whole face and made all the weight lift off his shoulders. He nodded, feeling himself calm down gradually, glancing at the card with curiosity. "So if it's not a holiday that I'm forgetting, what is it?" Emily's face lit up with excitement but she hid it as well as she could, "Why don't you open it up and find out?"