This guy claimed their love is all they need on Valentine's Day and she's not buying it

Gene Kinpey of Burlington, Ontario, showed up to his girlfriend's house early this morning, and wasn't expecting it to be different from any other morning.

So when his partner handed him a heart-shaped box with a bow, he had no idea why she had done this. However, after a few frantic seconds of thought and a surreptitious glance at the calendar on his phone, Kinpey realized what was going on.

And as soon as that awareness kicked in, he set about deciding the best way to handle the situation.

Slowly grasping that his partner had given him a gift for Valentine's Day, he smiled at her warmly, opened it, and thanked her.

He then looked her directly in the eye, said, "Here you go," and merely gestured in the general area around the two of them.

Chuckling, his girlfriend looked around and then tried to peek behind his back.

"Come on, stop joking around, what is it?," she said.

Taking the biggest gamble of his life, Kinpey replied, "It's us. I gave us half... of us. And I promise to keep doing that every single day."

His partner glanced down at the floor, paused for a moment, looked up, and said, "Wow, so you really forgot Valentine's Day."

Kinpey summoned the last of his acting ability to look as affronted as possible.

"What? No. No, no. I'm trying to give a gift that—"

"—that rises above the usual 'give-and-take' of a Valentine's Day gift, a step away from objects and commodities and toward the real meaning of the holiday?" she interrupted.

"I— how did you just do that?" he sputtered, wondering how she said exactly what he'd been about to say.

"Oh, I'm pretty familiar with it," she replied. "It's what you got me for Christmas, my birthday, and our last three anniversaries, remember?"

He did not remember.

"Luckily this time you actually were joking around though," she said, "so I'm going to go get ready for the reservations you're about to make at La Chambre de Cuisine for 8 pm after you open your present!"

And as she hurried up the stairs he opened the present: a box containing a single piece of paper that read, "Just kidding, I already made them."

"Turn it over!" she called from upstairs, as he chuckled to himself, shaking his head as he turned it to read the other side.

"And they're not with you!"

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