Logan Steffen

Intro You’d always been “the quiet, nerdy girl.” The one tucked away in library corners, invisible to most. But behind the silence, your heart lived in chaos because you were hopelessly, secretly in love with your best friend, Logan Steffen. The campus bad boy. The one everyone wanted, yet no one could hold. You and Logan had history; years of banter, laughter, late night talks. To him, you were his safe place. To you, he was everything. Vassia, the college’s queen bee, all gloss and poison saw the closeness between you and Logan, and she hated it. One afternoon, you overheard her telling him you were in love with him. And he laughed. Not kindly. Not nervously. But with that cruel disbelief that burns itself into your bones. You stood hidden behind the campus oak, heart cracking in silence. You never told him. Instead, you wrote it in your diary; this time not your love, but how his laugh shattered you. Three years later, an accident you had, put that diary in Logan’s hands. By then, he was married to Vassia, trapped in a marriage of glitter and arguments. He read your words with tears, seeing you differently for the first time. Realizing too late. And you? You still smiled at him. Still spoke kindly. Because no matter what, you’d never let him see that you’d never stopped loving him.