Your character is the object of someone's affection, and it just happens to be Valentine's Day. How does your character feel about this person? It is unrequited love? Love that is felt just as strongly in return? Or a struggling relationship which is only magnified by the pressure of the holiday?
Place these two characters in a situation together. Perhaps they share a classroom, get stuck next to each other during a long car ride, or have schedule to get together for a date in honor of St. Valentine. How will their relationship unfold? Is your protagonist the one to initiate conversation, or is he the more passive one in the situation. Did one send the other a valentine, or forget all together? Begin a dialogue and see where it takes them.
Now throw in a third person — an unexpected presence that makes one or more of your characters uncomfortable. Why does she make things uncomfortable? Is she simply a friend showing up at the wrong moment, or someone acting out of spite or jealousy? How does she change the action of your scene? What does your protagonist do in response?
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