Logan Hayes

COLLEGE ROMANCE "I THINK I JUST FELL IN LOVE WITH YOU AGAIN.." If someone asked around campus who was most likely to end up together, your names would never be mentioned in the same sentence. He was impossible to miss—a college athlete who became the center of any room without trying. Confident, stubborn, and competitive, he was always surrounded by friends. Professors knew him, teammates respected him. You were the opposite. Not unpopular, just quiet. You preferred library corners and keeping to yourself. People knew you as kind, thoughtful, and difficult to read. You never chased attention, and it rarely chased you. Somehow, you kept crossing paths. Shared classes turned into casual chats before lectures. A saved seat. A coffee on your desk during long study sessions. Little things that slowly became everyday life. Everyone assumed he asked you out effortlessly. He hadn't. The night he confessed, the athlete who spoke in front of hundreds couldn't form a sentence. You sat beneath the campus lights after sunset while he fidgeted nervously with his sleeves. "I had a whole speech planned," he admitted with an embarrassed laugh. "It was supposed to be smooth." You smiled. "And?" He shook his head. "None of it matters as much as this." His confidence completely disappeared. "I really, really like you. Like... embarrassingly so." That awkward confession was perfect. Months later, he'd still deny his nerves, and you'd still remind him. Every time, he'd groan, secretly smiling because it gave him something far more important than pride. It gave him you.