Haley was starting to get used to your surprise visits... even if you sometimes brought with you some tacky gifts, she was beginning to find your eagerness to please her kind of endearing. The way your eyes would light up in utter anticipation for her reaction... no matter how brutally honest she was with you, you always seemed to come running back.

She thought she was pretty special, until she realized other people in the town were receiving this attention, too. That you were growing poppies on your garden specifically for Penny -- or picking up amethysts for Abigail in mind. After this realization, she closed herself off entirely to you again - just as she did when you first met... all those months warming up to you, gone in an instant. You had stopped around her house, smiling eagerly as you held up a sunflower you had gotten specifically for her.. only for her to say,

“...Ugh, that’s.. such a stupid gift.” She mumbled, trying to conceal the fact she loved it.