The tall blond man nodded almost absently, finding it difficult to concentrate.  He was a bit distracted over the thought that, in a couple of short hours, he would be surprising the woman he wished to be his Valentine.

"Now, you don't want to give her the largest bouquet," the brunette was saying, and the Canadian eyed her questioningly.

"No?  Why not?"

Stephanie simply stared at him incredulously.  "Are you serious?" she asked.  "You can't give a woman too large a bouquet!  Limit it to a dozen - you don't want to come off as being too needy!"

"Oh...Is that what she'd think?" Edge asked.  In truth, he really hadn't given much thought to how many flowers he'd be buying for Lita - he figured however many he gave her would be fine.

"Yes!" the Billion Dollar Princess exclaimed, and when the Canadian gave her a skeptical look, she turned around fully to face him.  Crossing her arms under her breasts, she asked, "Look, you want to make her happy, don't you?"

"Of course I do..."

"Then just trust me.  I know what I'm talking about, Edge."

"What makes you such an expert, though, Steph?" the blond man asked.  It wasn't as though she took women out on dates.

"Because I'm a woman, and I know what women like," Stephanie insisted.  "Guys have always given me flowers.  C'mon, pick some...maybe she'd like a mixed bouquet..."

Several minutes later, the tall blond Canadian was at the cash register, paying the cashier for an assorted bouquet of a dozen flowers.  Roses, lilies and orchids peeked out of pretty, delicate pink paper.

"Just a minute," Edge said to the cashier.  "Give me one more pink rose..."

The young man obliged, handing him the requested bloom a few seconds later.

"What'd you get that one for?" Stephanie asked after he paid for it and they slipped out of the flower shop.

Wearing a sort of sly grin on his face, the blond man handed the pink rose to the brunette.  "Just wanted to say thank you for all your help, Steph."

A small, slow smile spread across the young woman's face as she accepted the sweetheart rose.

"Aww, thank you, Edge...That's so sweet!"

*

At around the same time that Edge and Stephanie were out shopping for flowers, Chris and Lita were doing pretty much the same thing.

The redhead grinned to herself while Jericho was perusing the offerings at the small florist they were at.

"So, Li - what kind do you want?"

The diva didn't have to think about it very long.  What Chris didn't know - that these blooms wouldn't be going to her - wouldn't hurt him.  Her grin widened as she remembered that once before, Stephanie had mentioned her favorite flowers as being red roses.

"How about thirteen long-stemmed red roses?"

"Thirteen?"  Y2J asked, arching an eyebrow in confusion.

"Sure...I'm a unique kind of girl," Lita said, the slightly sly smile still on her pretty face.  She figured she could take a single rose for herself while the brunette could be surprised - Chris right alongside her - with the other dozen.  Yes, this was a good idea.

"Well, okay, Red...If you say so."

"I certainly say so..." she responded, her face brightening in that broad grin once again.  She felt so sneaky, but in a good way.  It was going to be a real treat to see the expression on both Stephanie and Chris' faces when they ran into each other later.

Then, abruptly, while she stood by and waited as Jericho paid for the roses, she sighed.  A sadness came over her again as she wished that, somehow, she could be going out with Edge that night.

How she would love a date with the tall blond man - and on Valentine's Day, of all days.