Brooks sort of harumphed under his breath. He hadn't given it to her, she'd just taken it, but what else was new? He had a terrible time of saying no to her, so what was he to do?

However, the very last thing he expected her to offer him was a pocket watch. Well, he hadn't know what to expect at all, but he thought something kitschy, a book, something along those lines. She had always been good at gifts, at least for him, but this was too much. His throat tightened and his chest felt fuzzy. He hadn't been given a pocket watch on his seventeenth birthday like most wizards were; his parents did not know that was a tradition and they had stopped providing for him, so why would they get him a gift of that magnitude? He would have never expected his friend's parents to do it either, as he was not their responsibility and had already done so much for him.

"I can't accept that." He finally managed, looking at her with a stricken expression. It was too much. Effie had just commented recently on his beat up one that he'd bought for himself when he could afford it. There was no way he could hide it from her and then lie to her about where it had come from.