"I want you to have this."
JJ sighed as she opened the front door. It had been a rough week and she was glad it was over. As she stepped through the threshold, she checked her watch confusedly. It was just after eight and the house was dark already. Emily had to be there because Lenore's car was gone, Emily's BMW parked in its customary place.
"Em?" JJ called into the house. "Are you home?"
"In here!" came the reply, which JJ followed through to the living room.
There were dozens of candles lit around the room and the coffee table had been moved off to the side to make room for the soft blanket that had been spread out over the floor. On top of the blanket was a plate with cheese and grapes arranged around it and a chilled bottle of white wine.
"What's going on?" JJ asked cautiously, wondering if she'd forgotten something. She crossed the dimly lit room to where Emily was standing and hugged her girlfriend.
"I want you to have this, is all." Emily replied, leading JJ to sit on the blanket.
"And what, exactly, is this?"
Emily shrugged and handed JJ an empty wine glass before starting to fill it. "We haven't had time for a date night in a while and you've been staying later at work, so I figured this would be a good idea since we can't go out."
JJ smiled over the rim of her glass. Before they'd started dating, JJ wasn't sure that she would have ever pegged Emily as such a hopeless romantic, but she was always surprising her.