Well that was a weird, if not somewhat pleasant, surprise.
I was playing Dofus, waiting for the slightest nudge of drowsiness to give me an excuse to sleep early. Oblivious to everything else except for the explosions of light on the screen, that was when my sister unceremoniously opened the door, stuck her arm in, and handed me a yellow, fresh-from-the-store plastic bag. "Pamasko ko na sa'yo yan," she mumbled. ("That's already my Christmas gift for you.")
I reached for the package without taking my eyes off the ensuing battle and grunted something monosyllabic to the door. I was in the middle of making three 15th level sheep explode in temporal dust so my brain kind of only half-registered what just happened. Maybe that's why I couldn't figure out if the faint Hallelujah at the base of my stomach was because of winning against said sheep or because I had a copy of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince in a plastic bag on my lap.
Suffice it to say I was quite stunned. This is the first gift I received from a sibling. EVER. I mean, I would remember if it happened before, but it hasn't, and this is the first time. Intimacy doesn't really have any bearing in our family. We're just... here. Any situation stepping on and beyond that line is already just a notch away from strange. Quite honestly, I don't think any of us would know how to react if any form of intimacy -- no matter how remote -- was shown!
So yes, I'm still stunned, but maybe I'm just thinking about it too much. Maybe I'm acting just like Prue, in that Charmed episode when they challenged her intimacy issues. Maybe I'm the only one who has intimacy issues in the family... and I don't even know it!
Or maybe I just need to start getting gifts.
