A/N: This chapter is shorter than the last two because I just think that it would be completely out of character for most guys to have some lengthy conversation with other guys about their relationship woes. Somehow, I just can't imagine that happening.
Sometime earlier in the guy's dorm (which was one of the few buildings not yet remodled)….
Michael and Chase were playing a video game when Logan came back in.
"Dude, where have you been? You said you were going to drop by the girl's room, that was like four hours ago," Michael immediately questioned.
Logan took a seat in the chair next to the couch and decided it couldn't hurt to reply honestly, "I was just out thinking, and making sure I avoided Dana."
Chase lost so he dropped his remote and asked, "Dana's back, how is she?"
"Hotter," Logan immediately replied and continued, "I didn't even think that was possible but she's all…hotter."
"Logan Reese is avoiding a hot girl? Did I miss hell freezing over?" Chase asked sarcastically.
Logan reached over and socked Chase hard in the arm and explained, "Well, she's gonna blame it all on me and I'm thinking she'll be pretty pissed too, which means she's gonna hit me or worse."
Chase continued to taunt, "She's been back less than a day and you've already managed to get her mad at you."
Logan was quickly annoyed, "Shut up Matthews, you've got no room to talk when it comes to relationships. Were going on what? Year three of you being in love with Zoey and not doing anything about it?"
Chase wasn't going to let it slide and retorted, "Relationship? You and Dana have a relationship?"
"Dude you really don't pay attention to anyone but Zoey do you?" Michael asked but didn't bother waiting for a response, "Who did you think he was e-mailing all year?"
"You knew?" Logan asked surprised.
Michael replied simply, "Wasn't that hard to figure out."
Logan was confused and asked, "How so?"
With a role of his eyes Michael answered, "You were all mopey, except when you were on your computer and not like I was spying, I couldn't care less what you were doing, but with just a glance I could see Dana's name on it. And before she left it was pretty obvious you liked her."
"Yeah, I thought that too," Chase commented.
Logan wasn't going to bother denying it. Instead he replied, "So you used to notice something other than Zoey."
Chase wasn't going to let that one go either, "So how'd you manage to mess things up with Dana?"
Logan was defensive, "She's going to say that I took things too far, but it's entirely her fault. She was all hotter then she goes and wears a little red mini skirt and tight white tank top. No black and a skirt, she was up to something."
Michael offered, "Maybe she's just changed, it's been a year."
Logan was determined, "Nah, she was like that for a reason. She knew the effect it would have on me."
"What effect was that?" Chase asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Couldn't move, couldn't think; I was standing there staring at her like an idiot," Logan replied honestly.
Chase had a realization and asked, "Oh, yeah how's their new room? Is it nice?"
Logan was dumbfounded, "You actually think that I noticed the room after what I just said?"
Chase shrugged and said, "Yeah, I mean you were there you must have noticed something about the place. How is it different?"
"I dunno," Logan responded. Then with a light blush and wide smile he said, "I know it has a wall."
Chase not noticing Logan's odd expression said sarcastically, "Walls in a room that's so unusual."
Michael, however did notice Logan's strange expression, "What is that look about?" Logan said nothing, but his smile did unwillingly get bigger. Michael went wide eyed and said accusingly, "You said you went too far. What was that supposed to mean?"
Logan was slightly managing to control his smile as he said, "That I can't tell you because I'm pretty sure Dana would kill me if I did."
Remembering what Dana was like Michael conceded quickly and changed topics, "Okay, fine. So what are you going to do to fix things with her?"
"I don't really know. I just went over there to ask her out for tonight so we could start moving our relationship forward. I mean I don't want to become like you Chase and just keep waiting. Though, I kind of see why you haven't done it yet. Kind of scary to tell a girl that you love her," Logan admitted.
"You love her!" Chase exclaimed.
"Did you really think Logan Reese would become a one woman guy for a girl he just liked?" Logan asked like it was obvious.
"You love her," Michael repeated like it was just a fact.
Logan tried to explain, "Yeah, I mean I've liked girls before, but I've always been able to like other girls at the same time, if you know what I mean. With Dana though… I don't want anyone else but Dana."
Chase, over his initial shock, commented, "Well finally, someone gets why I haven't told Zoey."
"I didn't say that exactly," Logan quickly informed. He clarified, "I understand the fear involved, but I have a lot more to fear than you. Let's say both of us get rejected, all Zoey's would probably do is hug you, cry, and say she's sorry. If Dana rejects me it's going to come with a knee to the groin, a punch that will probably break my nose, and then some stuff that I can't even imagine. And the big difference between me and you is despite Dana's potentially violent reaction I'm still going to tell her by the end of the day."
Chase was silent, stunned that suddenly he wished he was more like Logan. Michael, however, was slightly confused, "I thought she's mad at you though."
Logan had spent a lot of time thinking about this already and said everything he came up with, "Yeah, I'm pretty sure she is, but I'm just going to have to tell her the truth. I don't know what else to do, I'm just going to have to tell her everything. I don't want to waste more time trying to think of some way to fix things. I'm just going to tell her the truth and hope that she understands."
Michael decided to ask the obvious question, "So why don't you go find her and talk to her?"
Logan knew why and quickly responded, "I'm probably going to say the wrong thing and mess this up or mess it up in some other unknown way, but I can at least have the right setting. I'm going to text her around five-thirty and have her meet me on the beach at six, that way we can be there for sunset and at least the setting will be perfect."
A/N (again): The next chapter will be a short little chapter about Zoey and Chase. Then will come the final chapter with Logan and Dana's meeting at the beach, which is definitely something you won't want to miss. Unfortunately, I have absolutely murderous finals coming up and probably won't have anything up until the end of next week at the earliest.
Also, I meant to put this at the bottom of chapter two, but to all of the Fall Out Boy fans out there, I'm sorry for altering the title of one of their songs for the "song title conversation". With the alteration it was more suggestive, which is what I was going for, so I hope you understand.
Thank you for reading and please review!
