I Saw You
Rating: G, Words: 5K, Tags: Tooth-rotting Fluff, Alternate Universe - University/College, First Kiss, First Dates, Love Confessions, Secret Admirer
Summary:
ISawYou: The newspaper column that has made every student on campus look each other in the eyes.
Dean has never paid any attention to the messages posted on the newspaper, but everything changes when Charlie finds one that she insists just has to be about him.
Or the one where Dean has a secret admirer.
Saturday. Leather jacket, plaid shirt, bright smile. You looked like you were having a lot of fun with your friends at the park. Nice car by the way.
Dean blinks down at the newspaper Charlie has pushed into his hands with so much excitement she can barely keep herself from jumping around.
“It’s about you!” Charlie declares, clapping her hands together. “You have a secret admirer.”
“I don’t.” Dean pushes the newspaper back to her, going back to his studying. With midterms around the corner he doesn’t have time to waste on a message on the school newspaper that may or may not be about him. And Dean is, like, 99.8% sure the message is not about him anyway (not 100% because his Impala is a damn nice car. She is a beauty, thank you very much).
Sure, Dean was at the park on Saturday with Charlie and Benny but so was half the campus. This could be about anyone.
Charlie pouts at him from across the coffee table they have commandeered for their study session today. She has spent the last two semesters poring over the ISawYou column every day diligently in the hopes of finding a message about her, or at the very least about one of her friends. Charlie lives and breathes for drama, and what better drama than a secret admirer that chooses such a public platform to declare their interest. Dean is not going to play along with her illusions just because it’ll make good gossip.
The message is not about him, because he says so, and that’s that. He taps his pen on her textbook, showing her exactly what she should be doing right now instead of daydreaming, then he follows his own advice and buries himself in numbers and equations again.
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