"Dude." Garrett kicked his shoe under the table. "You're staring." "I'm not." "You absolutely are." Logan ignored him and looked back over anyway. ---------- In a city full of noise, Logan's life has always been simple-hockey, friends, routine, no distractions he can't control. And then there's Melina. At first, she's just a face he notices sometimes. A girl in passing, in cafés, in lecture halls, always just out of reach of anything real. Nothing he acts on. Nothing that should mean anything. But somehow, it does anyway. What starts as a quiet, unimportant crush slowly becomes something that lingers longer than it should-something he can't quite ignore, even when life moves on around it. And when she finally starts to step into his world for real, it changes everything he thought was simple.

He was supposed to help her get the guy. She was supposed to help him get the girl. That was the deal. John Logan swears he only notices the things that matter because he's trying to help her. The way she twists rings around her fingers when she's nervous, the way she pretends not to care about things she actually cares about too much, the way she always looks over at him first after saying something funny like his reaction matters more than everyone else's. Madeline Blake tells herself Logan is just easy to be around. Easy to fight with. Easy to want attention from. But somewhere between fake dates, late night drives, and almosts that start feeling dangerously real, the line between pretending and something worse begins to disappear. Because the problem with teaching someone how to fall in love.. is accidentally doing it yourself. John Logan x FEMoc Off Campus ✎ᝰ