Mac spotted the arrangement even before she opened the door to her office. Much more elaborate, there was a bigger vase with 10 roses. The white, pink and orange ones were in a larger vase with four fully opened yellow ones that joined the bunch. The card was attached to a yellow ribbon which was wrapped around the upper half of the vase. 'Yellow for friendship and joy.'
"I see Don Juan struck again?" Harm came up behind her and plucked the card from Mac's fingers. "Friendship and joy, huh? That's nice."
Nice? That's all he could say? "Honestly, this is a bit...much, don't you think?"
Harm placed the card on her desk and slid it towards the arrangement. "Why? Someone likes you and is putting effort into showing it. Don't you girls like these kinda things?"
"I ah… I guess." She wasn't immune to jewelry or flowers, it was always nice to receive a gift when a man showed interest.
"C'mon Mac how long has it been since you've gotten flowers?" When she didn't speak right away he blurted out an answer before Harm could stop himself. "Mic used to send you flowers every Friday until you switched that ring over." Her eyes widened in surprise that he would have noticed that small fact. "Yeah, I noticed."
Mac thought back to the countless flowers and gifts Mic showered her with some too extravagant for her liking, including the ring. Once the engagement was final and they had set a date the gifts seemed to stop save for a few flower arrangements if they fought. It was like Mic got the prize so the need to work for it ceased to matter. "Did you ever buy Renee roses?"
"Only when I needed to grovel, they didn't really do much for her." He spent a few hundred and none were really admired. Then again, the reasons why he'd given Renee flowers in the first place was to right a mistake - like that one day he called her Mac.
"Lemme guess, was jewelry more her speed?"
It had been. "Yes. Not that it mattered...I wasn't in love with Renee." He took the vase, reorganizing the flowers so that the yellow ones were up front.
"I loved Mic…" She stated and then her eyes dropped away from his. "But, I wasn't in love with him...It shames me to admit that...I didn't want to lead him on but…"
"I know, Mac...You didn't want to be alone…" Harm finished for her and then wiped the solitary tear that slid down her cheek. He understood, of course, it was the same reason he and Renee lasted as long as they did. "Soooo, are you a jewelry or flower kinda girl?"
"Flowers...I prefer flowers."