Quinn Taylor has made a career out of looking calm. On the ice, she's America's favorite kind of pressure-proof-bright smile, steady answers, the skater everyone wants to root for. Off the ice, she's an only child with a perfectionist's brain and a habit of carrying too much alone. The cameras love her. The country expects her. And the one place she can't afford to fall apart is the one place she's dreamed of since she was little. The Olympics. Macklin Celebrini has always made things feel lighter. He was the new kid at a Northern California rink at twelve-Canadian, polite, a little lost-until Quinn decided he was hers to keep. He became her best friend in the cold air and early mornings, the person who could make her laugh mid-breakdown and never ask her to perform for him. Then life did what life does: seasons changed, schedules got brutal, distance widened, and the kind of friendship that felt unbreakable turned into occasional texts and quiet missing. Now they're both back where the world is loudest. At the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics, Quinn is chasing the skate of her life for Team USA. Mack is carrying his own weight for Team Canada hockey. When reporters find out they grew up together, the story writes itself-childhood friends reunited, smiles caught on camera, a thousand strangers deciding what they are to each other. The only problem is... the strangers aren't entirely wrong. Between past chapters at a small California rink and present days in the Olympic Village, Quinn and Mack have to figure out what they really meant to each other then-and what they're allowed to be now, with medals on the line and the whole world watching. Because it's one thing to love someone quietly from a distance. It's another to have them show up in your life again and make everything feel possible.

"i was perfectly content before you came along." "sure, that's why you lost control after every minor inconvenience." "yeah, including you." paul lahote x oc

❝ 𝘠𝘰𝘶'𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯' 𝘮𝘦 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘪𝘯' 𝘮𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯 '𝘵𝘪𝘭 𝘸𝘦'𝘳𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘣𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘥 𝘖𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘥𝘨𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘬𝘯𝘪𝘧𝘦, 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘺𝘪𝘯' 𝘥𝘳𝘶𝘯𝘬 𝘰𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘭𝘴 𝘶𝘱 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘭𝘰𝘶𝘥𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘫𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘪𝘯' 𝘸𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 ❞ ~ 𝔬𝔯𝔡𝔦𝔫𝔞𝔯𝔶, 𝔞𝔩𝔢𝔵 𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔯𝔢𝔫 ── in which, isabella swan's childhood best friend, hadleigh 'honey' parker falls in love with her other childhood best friend, jacob black just like they were always destined to. their love blooms and in the midst of it, honey's secret is revealed. a secret that may help the cullens against the volturi. ── .✦ Twilight: New Moon ─ Breaking Dawn ── .✦ Hadleigh Parker × Jacob Black ── .✦ Cover made by harleyQuinnfan17 ── .✦ Wattpad only / No Translations ── .✦ Do Not Plagiarise ( 17+ ) 𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚎𝚍: July 13th 2024 𝙴𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚍: June 21st 2025 © 2024 | -ruffierosefanfics / -rosiescomet I do not allow my work to be used or adapted in any way without my permission.