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Annie Halden was the exact definition of a wallflower. She lived on the sidelines, didn't like attention and worried too much. 

She wrote letters to herself as her way to get her thoughts out. She never told anyone or let anyone see. 

Leo Smith, one of the school star athletes and most popular boys, found one of her letters. He started breaking into her locker to read the letters every time there was a new one. 

He grew concerned about her and wanted to protect her, he wanted to know why she was so broken and who hurt her, he wanted her to know he was there for her - be her shoulder to lean on. 

How would this friendship work out with Annie being as shy and quiet as she is, never getting close to anyone? How would this friendship last if Annie came to find out the truth about Leo stealing and reading her personal letters?
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Letters

It's been seven years since I met you in the parking lot of our high school and now I share your last name.

You're at work right now so I'm writing you a letter for old times sake because it's our two year wedding anniversary today and I thought I'd bring back the thing that put us in each other's lives in the first place - letters. This time, I'm not writing to myself but instead to you because you're my rock.

The funny thing to me was how I found you when I wasn't even looking.

I never knew I needed you in my life until you had already come into it and left a dent I couldn't get rid of.

I knew you had a spot in my heart when I looked forward to seeing you every day at school, missed you if I didn't. I never had a person like that - a person I would glance around the halls hoping to see, in fact I hated attention so I'd always keep my head down and stay out of the way.

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