"I told you I had a gift for you. Remember? Before you mentioned anything about food." She glanced at him and studied his reaction. "Or you can always just think of it as another gift." She shrugged and smiled.
Putting both arms around his neck, she continued. "Well, technically, it's not here." She bit her lip, wondering what he was thinking, and then kept rambling on. "But see, with what I'm going to give you, it kinda... can't be physically here for me to actually hand over to you.