Event Private A Sweet Gift To Give

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Lebeda had never participated in a secret santa gift exchange before, and she signed up the very day she learned of it. Then, after receiving the name of her partner, immediately began brainstorming the perfect gift. The name Katie Korn was unfamiliar to her, but they were both students at the school, so Lebeda thought meeting at the courtyard would be perfect.

But what to give? Well, after many hours of thinking and writing down all her ideas, she came up with the perfect idea. Lebeda waited on a bench in the school courtyard, dressed in white ear muffs and her swan-feather cloak for warmth. On her lap sat a perfectly wrapped present. Rectangular in shape, about a foot long and five inches wide and wrapped in bright red paper with sparkly green ribbon. and finished with a shiny gold bow.

When Katie arrive Lebeda immediately stood and held out the present for Katie to take. "Oh, I hope you'll love it!" Lebeda said by way of greeting.

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Katie

Much like Lebeda, Katie had never done a secret santa before. Nevertheless, she was excited to see what her partner had gotten her, and hopefully they liked the gift Katie had picked out for them.

Walking into the courtyard, dressed in a pink hoodie, white sweater, jeans, and with gift bag in hand, Katie took a moment to look around, before walking over to Lebeda. "Oh! Umm.. Hiya! Lebeda, right? I really like your coat!" Katie said, a bit surprised when Lebeda held out their gift.

"You did a really good job wrapping this! I tried to wrap mine, but it didn't go all that well, so eventually I just decided a bag would be easier. Hope you like it!" She said with a smile, taking the present out of Lebedas hands, and replacing it with her bag. The bag itself was red, with white snowflakes, and the top was held closed with a green bow.

Inside of the bag, Lebeda would find a book on the history of dance, a sweater with a swan on the middle of it, and a knit beanie,
 

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Lebeda was so excited, but realized she should reign in her excitement just a little bit. "Oh, yes! I am Lebeda. It's nice to meet you Katie, and thank you." She touched one of the many feathers that made up her cloak and smiled. "A bag is perfectly fine." She assured Katie. "And I hope you like my gift as well."

Inside her present was a lovely wooden box and inside that, nestled on colorful wrapping paper was an assortment of adorable candy animals in all shapes, sizes and colors. There were several varieties of edibles from marzipan to gummy to chocolate to hard candy and marshmallow, but all equally adorable.

While Katie opened up her gift, Lebeda pulled on the bow holding the bag and gasped with joy as she pulled out the book, then the sweater and the beanie. "Oh! I love these so much!" She pushed her ear muffs down until they rested around her neck and put her new beanie on. "How do I look?"
 

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Katie

Slowly Katie opened her own present, and almost squealed when she saw that it was adorable tiny little candy animals. "Aww, they're soooooo cute! I love them! Thank you!" Katie said, quickly popping one into her mouth. "Omigosh these are delicious! Where did you get them?!" She asked, before quickly closing the box to avoid eating all of them right then and there.

At Lebeda's question Katie looked her over, before giving a quick smile and a thumbs up. "You look great!"
 

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Lebeda beamed, incredibly happy that Katie loved her gift so much. "I bought them from this lovely sweets shop over by town hall. It's the cutest little shop. I honestly had a hard time deciding, they had so much. Um, here!" Lebeda pulled a little notebook and pen from a pocket hidden in her cloak and wrote down the name and address of the shop.

"I'm so happy. My very first secret santa and it's a success!" Lebeda was very much the kind of person who lived to give gifts. Which made it all the more vexing that she couldn't give them freely to her fiance. She just had to be creative there, but it was very freeing to simply give.
 

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Katie

Kaite took a quick picture of the address on her phone, not trusting herself enough to actually keep track of the piece of paper. "Thanks! I'll definitely have to go check it out sometime!" She would have to be careful to not spend all of her money there.

Katie smiled when Lebeda said that her first secret santa was a success. "Yeah! This was great. I'm happy you liked my gifts so much!" Katie said. She hadn't been sure what to get Lebeda, so to see that she liked her gifts was a huge relief.
 

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Lebeda saw Katie take out her phone and had a big 'oh duh' moment that should couldn't help but chuckle. In her defense she's only had a phone for a few months and was constantly forgetting phone calls were often simpler than tracking someone down. She smiled at her small collection of gifts, then turned that smile onto Katie.

"I really do, perhaps we could be friends? If that is agreeable to you, I mean." There was a faint, embarrassed flush on her cheeks, but the offer was genuine. It seemed like they were close in age, and Lebeda always had a strong desire for new friends. "We could trade phone numbers!" She added, as that option occurred to her.
 

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Katie

Katie blinked when Lebeda asked if they could be friends. It caught her off guard. She hadn't really sure what she expected to happen at the gift exchange. but she wasn't going to say no to a new friend. "Oh.. ummm. Sure!"

She'd hand her phone over to Lebeda for her to put her number into, it would probably be quicker than waiting for Lebeda to pull out her phone. Once she was done, Katie would send her a quick text with her name. "And done! You should have my number now!" She said with a smile, hoping it could make up for any initial awkwardness from her reaction.
 

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Lebeda accepted the offered phone and held out hers in exchange. The phone was similar to her own, so she had no difficulty adding her name and number to the contact list. With the phones back to their proper owners, Lebeda smiled down at the text she received. "Yup! Got your message."

Today was wonderful, but this made it perfect. "Feel free to message me whenever. I work most evenings but I'm usually free during the day or mornings!" Lebeda hugged her bag of gifts close to her chest. "
 

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Katie

Katie smiled when Lebeda said she got her message. Never had she expected that she would become such fast friends with her secret santa.

"Yeah, it's been really great!" Katie said, not seeing the harm in helping herself to a few more of the sweets. "That's perfect! I'm more of a morning person anyways. Umm, Where do you work?"