No matter how much he'd tried to tell himself that he didn't need to be, he was nervous as hell. This was different from that one time they'd gotten together to talk.
This was exchanging Christmas presents.
This was damn near a date.
But he was damn well capable of doing this, and he kept telling himself that. So he gave himself a couple minutes of nervously standing outside her door before knocking -- and when she answered the door, he couldn't help but stare for a second. "You look beautiful," he said with a smile as he walked inside.