Wrapping of the presents. Eric tries to wrap presents up in Ops featuring renegade tape and a helping hand. Neric. December 20th. Nell's point of view.
I walk into Ops to find Eric has beat me in this morning. He looks sheepish as I walk into Ops. He tries to hide what he's doing but I can still see the wrapping paper. He's wrapping presents.
'What you doing here so early?' I ask as I walk over to him and notice the half wrapped box on the table.
'I'm wrapping my mom's present but I keep losing the end of the tape and then the edges unfold and I'm back to square one.' He replies fiddling with the tape as he speaks. I quickly grab the edge as it unfolds and he attempts to find the end of the tape. He looks at me grateful ,smiling, as I stay there holding the edge in place until he finds the end of the tape and rips a piece and places it where it needs to go almost sticking my fingers to the present. I'm quick to move them before he does.
'Thanks Nell.' He looks at me. I can't read his expression.
'How long have you been trying to wrap this present?' I ask curious.
'About 10 minutes.' He rationalises.
'10 Minutes?'
'Yeah Nell.'
'Would you like a hand?'
'You'd help me?'
'Of course Wolfram… Plus I don't want you getting into trouble with Hetty wrapping presents on the job.' I smile back. He nods his head accepting my reasoning.
'I owe you.'
'I'll take payment in smiles.' I joke as He grabs me a chair and I sit down at the table.
'I'm sure we can arrange that, after all I do seem to smile a lot around you….'