"Sydney, you bought a necklace that costs more than your rent!" Riley cried, as Syndey held the necklace up.
"So! You buy computers that are more then my rent and yours combined!" she shot back, swinging the necklace slightly on her finger.
Riley rolled his eyes and sighed, "I just don't think a necklace that looks like that, is worth $700 American dollars," he said, before flipping through a book on French Architecture.
Sydney pulled out the rest of her suvioners from her suitcase, and rolled her eyes and Riley's mumblings.
"If you keep mumbling like that, I wont give you your gift," she said, in a sing-song voice.
Riley stopped talking and looked up at her, mumblings aside. "Ohhh, you got me a present?" he asked.
Sydney frowned, "Why wouldn't I? We are best friends after all? How could I go to Europe and not buy my best friend presents?" she asked.
"When you say presents, that means there's more than one?" he asked, making her laughed.
Digging through the plastic bags, Sydney pulled out several different things and handed them over to her friend.
"Next time, I am kidnapping you and taking you with me to Europe. You'd love it there," she said, as she handed him a book on Roman art.
Riley was too busy, trying to open a bag of chocolate from Paris to even respond. "Coffee flavored chocolate, oh my god, Sydney I like, love you," he said.
Sydney snorted and grabbed the bag from him, before he sent the little chocolates flying everywhere. Handing the bag back, Sydney stood up from her bed and carried her new books over to her bookshelf.
"Don't eat them all in one shot. You'll get sick," she warned, as Riley bit into his first piece.
Rolling his eyes, Riley laid back against her pillows and sighed. "I think I love these gifts more than any other gift I've ever recieved," he stated.
Sydney walked back over to her bed, and moved her other large suitcase onto the floor and laid next to him.
"Good, because I'm broke now. Those are the last gifts you're gonna get for a while, "she said.
Riley snorted, "Well duh. That necklace didn't really help with your savings," he said.
Sydney sat up and grabbed the necklace out of the tiny box and held it up to her face. It was a simple gold pendent, with a red ruby in the middle. To her, the necklace was beautiful, no matter what Riley said. She had found it in a flea market in Italy, just laying on a table with other necklaces and bracelets. There was something about the necklace, that set it apart from all the others on the table. After setting her eyes on it, she knew right then and there, that she had to have it.
Placing the necklace on, Sydney got up and looked back at Riley. From what she could see, Riley was on his tenth piece of chocolate. Shaking her head, Sydney sighed.
"We have to get going, if you want to introduce me to your new friends," she stated, looking at the clock on her night table.
Riley groaned and got up, grabbing the bag of candy with him. Sydney looked in the mirror hanging above her dresser one last time, before she grabbed her bag, and followed Riley out of her apartment.