"So you're just always waiting for the other shoe to drop?" She laughed a little, because he was fairly true. Often gifts came with pranks involved, like this one.
"Well I felt like you might not deserve to show off whatever you've got under for the rest of the day... mostly because then you'll go home and I'd be left all by my lonesome."
But she still wished that he would let her hear his works in progress. It wasn't like she'd be rude about it, but she wanted to hear them while he was working, see the progress he'd made so far. "I still think you should. I'd like to hear the process. Someday, I'll convince you to let me."