She'd hoped it would - which was why she wasn't mentioning it. But she'd seen it in an artisan's market in Baltimore and it had just been such a perfect confluence of things that she'd had to get it for him.

She wasn't going to say how long she'd had it for, waiting for a good reason to give it to him.

"I take it back," she said, holding the kigu up and grinning. "This is the most adorable thing I've seen all night. If I wasn't eating barbecue, I'd put it on right now to match."

Except she was also very pleased with her outfit today, straddling the line between flirty and sexy with absolutely no regard to the temperatures outside.

"Thank you, Ez, I love it. Also, you have the honor of being the first person to give me a present, making you better than everybody else in the room." Beat. "You know, moreso."

Since she knew what he'd say to that.