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(Based off the writing prompt "Girls who are cheap" (Eternal Sapphtember #17).)
She only ever asks for a fresh box of computer paper every two months. Nothing else - no treating her to a restaurant in the city, no fancy new equipment, no upgrades.
I didn't even fully know why - it's not like she does anything much that uses it, considering she works in local telecom line maintenance and I bake bread and pastries and neither of us use the print output on our big old home computer much, but every two months, without fail, she rolls over in our bed when I wake up and asks me "honey, while you're out on delivery, could you pick me up a new box of computer paper?", and I used to ask why, but she just said it would be really nice, and eventually I just went along with it. She never asks for anything else - and even when I offer to get her another gift, she simply shakes her head and says she has everything she could ever want.
"Except more computer paper?," I reply every time.
"Not yet," she always nods, "but maybe soon."
( Warning: memory issues/memory loss. Continue beneath the cut. )
She only ever asks for a fresh box of computer paper every two months. Nothing else - no treating her to a restaurant in the city, no fancy new equipment, no upgrades.
I didn't even fully know why - it's not like she does anything much that uses it, considering she works in local telecom line maintenance and I bake bread and pastries and neither of us use the print output on our big old home computer much, but every two months, without fail, she rolls over in our bed when I wake up and asks me "honey, while you're out on delivery, could you pick me up a new box of computer paper?", and I used to ask why, but she just said it would be really nice, and eventually I just went along with it. She never asks for anything else - and even when I offer to get her another gift, she simply shakes her head and says she has everything she could ever want.
"Except more computer paper?," I reply every time.
"Not yet," she always nods, "but maybe soon."
( Warning: memory issues/memory loss. Continue beneath the cut. )