RT

Y/N doesn't date—hasn't, won't, everyone at Briar's accepted it by now. Best friends Hannah and Allie are settled with Garrett and Sean; Y/N's still the one guys try and fail with. What nobody knows is that she writes—full drafts, notebooks stuffed with the kind of love she's still waiting on. Only Hannah and Allie are in on it. Then she loses one. Left it somewhere—she doesn't know where—and spends days quietly panicking, re-tracing every step, terrified someone's going to find out. Someone already has. Dean Di Laurentis picked it up outside Garrett's place, meant to give it back immediately—until he read the first page. Then the second. He tells himself he'll return it tomorrow. Tomorrow becomes a week. He reads it slow, a chapter a night, half in awe and half like he's found some cheat code to a girl nobody's ever actually gotten close to. By the time he finally hands it back, he's not just returning a notebook—he's confessing. That he read it. All of it. That he knows things about her she's never told anyone. And that somewhere in those pages, he started wanting to be the guy she was writing toward.