Example of a Secret Crush Reveal Scene

It was the notebook that betrayed her. She'd left it on the break room table — the one with the blue cover, the one she carried everywhere. He picked it up to return it. He didn't mean to look. The page was already open. His name. Written in the margin beside a meeting agenda from three weeks ago. Not once — scattered like punctuation. His name with stars around it. His name with a question mark. His name next to the words "stop it, stop it, stop it." He was still holding the notebook when she walked in. The color drained from her face, then came flooding back in the worst possible shade of red. "That's mine." "I know." "It's not what it looks like." He held up the page. "My name is written eleven times." "It's a — common name." "My last name is Vähäkuopus. It is not a common name." She reached for the notebook. He let her take it. She clutched it to her chest like a shield, and he watched her cycle through every stage of mortification in about four seconds. "I'm going to transfer to a different department," she said. "Or a different continent." "Or," he said, and something in his voice made her stop. Something warm. Something that sounded a lot like relief. "You could let me buy you a coffee and we can talk about why my name has stars around it." She stared at him. "You're not — horrified?" He pulled out his phone. Opened his photo gallery. Scrolled to a screenshot: her work profile photo, saved eight months ago. "Not remotely," he said.

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