And then he did this...

I arrived at work at 1 today, because I worked from home this morning on articles and then went and did my next interview for the magazine article due this week. When I arrived at work, I noticed that all of my files had been moved to S's sofa. A bit annoyed, I started digging through them, and then realized that they were covering a box.

Inside the box is a brand new HP laptop. With a warranty and MS Word package on the outside of the box.

S knows that I've been saving for the past few months to get a new laptop and I was sharing my glee at the fact that the title work that I just did (and half killed myself over) was going to pay the difference.

I know that this is his way of apologizing, too, about last week. I'd already forgiven him and decided that his friendship meant enough to me that I wasn't going to obsess over his inability to honor my wishes that he keep silent.

He didn't have to do this.

I kind of wish he hadn't.

But, I'm also unbelievably touched by it and more than a bit weepy now.

He's not even in the office, so I don't know for sure what the hell is going on, but everyone else seemed fairly gleeful about it, and said he'd left it there for me to find. I just...

I don't even know.

I really don't even know.

I'm going to go cry into a tissue now.