On the Monday morning after everyone picked who they would be playing Santa for Riley opens her locker to find a gorgeous flower crown made up of real flowers in various whites power blues and lavanders A tag artfully tied on with a matching silk ribbon reads A beautiful crown for a beautiful girl your secret Santa
Her heart swells at the gift and the compliment Its the exact sort of small but meaningful gesture they were hoping people would go for as they organize the gift giving event
Riley undoes her pigtail braids and starts doing her hair in an undo that'll showcase the crown so she can wear it all day it's too beautiful not to and hopefully her secret Santa will see and know she appreciates it
Maya- You should have told me we were going to woods work today
Maya comments she arrives just as Riley is putting the crown on and using a few extra Bobby pins to fix it in place
Maya- I would've busted out my macrome vest
Riley- It's from my secret Santa
Riley hands her friend the removal tag
Riley- I love it
Maya smiles as she reads the tag and then passes it back
Maya- I'm sure they knew you would
Riley- I wonder who it is
It's the best part of doing a secret Santa The mystery and excitement build until the final moment when everyone gets to share who they had
Maya- Obviously someone who understands that at heart you're a beautiful flower fairy princess
Riley wears the crown for the rest of the day she doesn't stop smiling and proudly tells everyone who ask or comments that it's a gift from her secret Santa when her mom gets home and sees she promises to show Riley how to press and preserve the flowers so she can have a keepshake of what would otherwise be a gift with a shelf life
After her homework is done Riley gets to work punching up her list of planned gifts for her recipient even though it's unlikely that she is giving to the very person who is giving to her she wants to make sure that her person feel as special as she did today
