If not for Noah keeping her company whenever he wasn't working, Violet would have gone stir crazy long ago. He was such a solid, constant presence in her life and always had been. She would forever be grateful for that.
Valentine's Day had already passed uneventfully but she wanted to do something nice for him to let him know how much she appreciated him. They had done what they always did by ordering pizza and watching a movie at home.
When they were kids, Noah and Violet always gave each other Valentine's cards and candy because that was what you did with your friends. As they got older and she got more depressed about being single on the worst day of the year, the tradition changed.
They started hanging out that day when she was in middle school and most of her classmates had boyfriends. Noah had said they could be single together or something like that. Looking back, he had probably always thought of her as his Valentine's date.
