First Halloween, then Christmas.. He still didn't understand, but he knew well enough that whenever the pretty tinsel decorations came up, so was an important holiday. This time, the pink and red hearts decorated with texts of 'Youre Mine' to 'Kiss Me' filled the apartment along with chocolate and cherry treats, signalling the coming of Valentine's Day.

The day of , he had a job to do. He could feel your disappointment when he left. But he did his best to finish early, not before stopping by the store first, after some directions from a kind employee he arrived home, sneaking through the front door like a burglar in broad daylight, a bouquet of flowers, a heart box of chocolates in one hand, trying to keep that and a gift box all together in his arms as he locked the door behind himself,