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Hadley Taylor is the kind of girl everyone thinks is okay. Outgoing, dramatic, a little too loud sometimes-she lights up every hallway she walks through. But what they don't see is how much energy it takes to pretend. After losing Chloe Harrison, the one person who truly understood her, Hadley's been holding herself together with glitter, coffee, and denial. And no one notices she's unraveling.
No one except Logan Anderson.
Logan's always been the opposite of Hadley-quiet, calculated, and emotionally guarded. He likes rules, structure, and being left alone. Especially by people like her. But when the two are paired together in chemistry class, sparks don't fly... not at first. It's more like friction, and a lot of eye rolls.
Still, something shifts. Slowly.
Logan starts to see past Hadley's too-bright smile. He notices the missed assignments, the zoning out, the silence behind the laughter. And Hadley, in return, sees the cracks in Logan's carefully put-together shell-the pain he hides behind his headphones, the tension at home, the pressure he never talks about.
What begins as annoyance turns into understanding. And what grows from that might just be the kind of love that doesn't ask you to be perfect-it just asks you to be real.
But falling for each other won't magically heal them. And as their bond deepens, so do the fears. Because when two people who've spent years pretending finally see each other... what if the truth is too much?