[At this point she knows what battles to pick to win the overall war. If he wants to take the bags he can, she's had everything wrapped so that he can't possibly see what she got him.] That sounds better than fighting with the crowds. I knew I should have been a little more organized with all of this.

[What that really means is 'I should have used Amazon Prime'.] Would your parents have wanted a strange girl around, though?

[What did he even tell them about her, again? She was kind of nervous about meeting them so she'd tried to steer clear but ... Well. That could only work for so long.]

But! Since you aren't opening anything until tomorrow that means I can trust you to do the same to my gifts, right? Oh, I got your dad a really beautiful tie and your mother a bracelet so I wanted to show them to you before I wrapped them ...

[Whether that would be before or after them messing around in Ethan's room kind of remained to be seen.]