Paper cranes -John Logan

"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.

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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.