Even without having the slightest idea how to define their relationship, there's no denying that Spike is someone special to her, which her smile says plainly enough. "Yes," she says. "But it's complicated. I guess it always is."

Sometimes she wonders if it doesn't have to be. If maybe she just found some courage and talked to him about it, the complications would just disappear, but she isn't sure how to do that anymore. Not since Dale.

"They're always the hardest to buy for," she says, nose wrinkling. "The someone special."