You're Pitiful, My Friend
Kristen was looking at him the way a person would look at a sick puppy. Noah could almost tell what she was going to say before she said it.
"Noah…this is the time of life when people fall in love. You might want to try finding someone who will appreciate you the way you deserve rather than waiting for something that might never happen."
He sighed. If only he could.
And it wasn't that Violet didn't appreciate him. She did. She told him so all the time. But it was in a best friends kind of way, which wasn't the way he wanted.
In fact, she probably appreciated him as a person more than anyone else in this world did. He always felt comfortable, needed, and important when she was around. It was how their relationship worked for longer than he could remember.
"You say that like I haven't tried," Noah said in a tone tinged with frustration. "I've been hanging out with other people lately trying to fill the void she left but it hasn't done anything."