In which Eden Celebrini is forced to spend a summer with her brother and his hockey friends.... irl x social media x text messages

𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒗𝒆 𝒉. 𝒙 𝒇!𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒆𝒓 "𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖 - 𝒔𝒖𝒅𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒍𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒖𝒏𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒆𝒅𝒍𝒚, 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆." -𝒎.𝒎 𝒎𝒄𝒏𝒆𝒆𝒍𝒚 ˏˋ°•*⁀➷ 𝙞𝙣 𝙬𝙝𝙞𝙘𝙝 𝘢 𝘨𝘪𝘳𝘭 𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘴 𝘶𝘱 𝘢𝘯 𝘶𝘯𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘩𝘢𝘸𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘴 𝘩𝘪𝘨𝘩'𝘴 𝘱𝘰𝘱𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘳 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘺 𝘣𝘰𝘺 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘢 𝘳𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘢 𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘺 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘥𝘪𝘥𝘯'𝘵 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘩𝘪𝘮 𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘭𝘴𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘧𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘥𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘴 . . . reminders! ➤ stranger things and it's characters belong to the duffer brothers & netflix, excluding [y/n] and all additional characters written originally by me in the story ➤ this xreader insert will be using she/her pronouns, but all are welcome! ➤ story will begin at s2 ✎ season two - ✓ ✎ season three - ✓ ✎ season four - ✓ ✎ season five - in progress ━━━ highest rankings #1 in steveharrington 9/23/2025 #1 in xreader 11/28/2025 #1 in strangerthings3 12/27/2025 #1 in friendstolovers 1/2/2026 #2 in netflix 10/29/2025

isabel parker has known will smith her entire life-best friends, shared memories, and years of unspoken feelings neither of them ever dared to act on. at boston college, everything shifts as familiarity turns into something deeper just as will's future as a top NHL prospect comes into focus. with the thought of will leaving soon and time working against them, they're forced to face the reality that loving each other might mean letting go, even when neither of them is ready to say goodbye.

You've been touring stateside for months. Sold-out arenas. Flashing cameras. Headlines that dissect your love life more than your lyrics. Your boots hit stage floors in New York, Nashville, LA - and every night you end up in a dim dressing room, phone propped against a makeup mirror, whispering goodnight to a boy thousands of miles away. Your Swedish boy. William Eklund wasn't supposed to be more than a summer thing. A training camp charity event. A night that blurred into laughter and a stolen kiss under California fairy lights. But now? Now he's the one you call when the adrenaline fades. The one who watches you through a screen and says, "You don't have to be that girl with me." Opening up makes headlines. Missing him makes songs. And somewhere between FaceTime kisses and cross-country flights, you both have to decide- Is love strong enough to survive being stateside?

Every summer until they were fifteen, the Cape was theirs. She wore Rangers jerseys over her swimsuits. He swore allegiance to Boston with sand between his toes. Their families' neighboring beach houses in Cape Cod turned childhood rivalries into shared secrets, midnight swims, and the kind of friendship that always felt like more-though neither of them ever admitted it. But the summer they were fifteen, her family sold their house on the Cape. No warning. No last night on the dock. Just one final look back-and years of silence. Now, she's twenty-one, tagging along to a San Jose Sharks season ticket holder event with a friend, when she locks eyes with someone she thought she'd never see again: Will Smith. Taller now, sharper jaw, wearing the teal of the Sharks-but still the boy who once made every summer feel like magic. He's on the rise in the NHL. She's trying to figure out what comes next. And suddenly, every sun-drenched memory and unfinished feeling crashes back into view. Because the thing about first love? It doesn't always stay in the past.

He's got two minutes in the box-and he's using every second to win her over. When she lands her dream job as the San Jose Sharks' new social media manager, she expects early mornings, late nights, and maybe a few awkward run-ins with players. What she doesn't expect? William Eklund, golden boy forward with a jawline sharp enough to cut through playoff tension, who suddenly can't seem to stay out of the penalty box. At first, it's coincidence. A tripping call here, a roughing penalty there. But soon, it's clear: Will's racking up minutes on purpose-and he's using every chance to flirt with her through the glass. He's all charm, cheeky grins, and broken-English pickup lines. She's all rules, boundaries, and trying not to get fired. But when feelings start to blur with content strategy, and TikToks turn into real moments, one thing becomes obvious: She's so off-limits. And he's so into her.

When your childhood best friend brings home his new teammate... For your entire life, you grew up next to the Celebrini's on one side, and your best friend Addy's family on the other in North Vancouver. All of your parents were best friends from before you were born. From that, the "Core Four" started, with you, your twin Miles, Macklin, and Addy. Growing up, Miles and Macklin played hockey together before Miles switched to soccer, and Macklin's older brother (Aiden) was best friends with your older brother (Max). But, in 2020, Max gets into a fatal car crash while in college. Now, four years later, you are finishing your first year at being roommates with Addy at Stanford University, while Miles plays on the Stanford men's soccer team. Mack's NHL draft is coming up shortly where he gets drafted to the one and only San Jose Sharks.

Eliana Arellano and Will Smith have always been close, best friends with a complicated past and feelings that never seem to go away. From high school prom night and almost-kisses to college breakups and quiet heartbreaks, their story is full of missed chances and unspoken words. Years later, Eliana becomes a sports reporter and ends up covering the NHL team Will just got drafted to. He's distant, and she's still hurt. But old feelings don't just disappear.. and neither do the "what ifs." For the Record, I loved you is a story about love that doesn't go away, timing that never feels right, and two people who keep finding their way back to each other. ___ Beginning is end of high school then there's a time skip to their time in Boston, and ofc the NHL.

Winona Smith is the younger sister of Will Smith. At a party she goes to toward the end of her senior year of high school, she meets a boy with the name Macklin Celebrini, things go well during the party and they end the night with a kiss. When her brother announces to his family that he's gonna try his luck in the NHL after being drafted the year prior, the choice is easy - she'll apply to a college close to where he's playing. This is when her brother reintroduces her to the boy she met at a party earlier that year. Her brother knowing nothing of their previous history is oblivious to what kind of tension this can create. started: April 10th, 2025 finished:

Come kiss me, convince me... ━ William Smith x Fem!OC © KissLeclerc , March 2025