Time to move on
By the end of the week, the car is fixed and Logan's ready to move on down the road.
It's harder to leave than he'd expected. Not because he had any deep love for Ohio, or for the diner, but because he's made a connection with Annie.
It's not anything he can name - it's not a crush, not really. But he feels at ease around her in ways he's never felt around anyone else in this world. In Milliways, perhaps, but not here. She's not interested in his Hollywood tragedy, as E!Entertainment Television likes to call it, but she likes his jokes and his teasing.
He almost wishes he could stay longer, to see if he can tease some of the sadness out of her eyes, or at least get her to tell him enough about her life so he'll know what her 'responsibilities' are.
She never opens up. He doesn't push. It's not like he's going to be a permanent part of her life, and now that his car's fixed, he shouldn't even care.
But on his last day at the diner, he finds every excuse he can to talk to her, tease a laugh out of her. He takes special note of the way her eyes crinkle up when she laughs and how the sunlight plays in her hair when she pours coffee.
And when the day is over, they grab a beer at the roadhouse, talk like normal, and part early, as she's got an early shift the next day.
He never tells her he's leaving.
And when the next day dawns, he's already on the road, determined to get to the city and forget he was ever in a that small town outside Dayton, Ohio.
It's harder to leave than he'd expected. Not because he had any deep love for Ohio, or for the diner, but because he's made a connection with Annie.
It's not anything he can name - it's not a crush, not really. But he feels at ease around her in ways he's never felt around anyone else in this world. In Milliways, perhaps, but not here. She's not interested in his Hollywood tragedy, as E!Entertainment Television likes to call it, but she likes his jokes and his teasing.
He almost wishes he could stay longer, to see if he can tease some of the sadness out of her eyes, or at least get her to tell him enough about her life so he'll know what her 'responsibilities' are.
She never opens up. He doesn't push. It's not like he's going to be a permanent part of her life, and now that his car's fixed, he shouldn't even care.
But on his last day at the diner, he finds every excuse he can to talk to her, tease a laugh out of her. He takes special note of the way her eyes crinkle up when she laughs and how the sunlight plays in her hair when she pours coffee.
And when the day is over, they grab a beer at the roadhouse, talk like normal, and part early, as she's got an early shift the next day.
He never tells her he's leaving.
And when the next day dawns, he's already on the road, determined to get to the city and forget he was ever in a that small town outside Dayton, Ohio.