Options

Today is Willow's fourteenth birthday, and his meagre allowance only gives Xander two options: To buy a flower or Tic Tacs.

If it's a flower, it wouldn't be a rose. Only girlfriends get roses. Willow is a girl and his friend, but to catalogue her as a girlfriend would diminish everything else she means to him. Lilies, maybe, or those big marguerites she loves.

If it were Tic Tacs... Willow doesn't like them, never did. Shouldn't he have remembered? He'd have to apologise, invite her over for movies and leftover pizza to compensate... Hmmm.

Xander takes the small box.