Annelise Carter has always been the easy one to overlook. The responsible friend. The quiet one. The girl who follows the rules, keeps her head down, and doesn't make messes-literal or otherwise. At nineteen, she's new to San Jose, working long hours at a salon, building something for herself from scratch. It's not glamorous, but it's safe. Predictable. Controlled. Exactly how she likes it. So when her client-Quinn, effortlessly cool and impossible not to like-invites her to hang out, Annie tells herself it's just a one-time thing. Just a night out with people who feel a little louder, a little brighter than anything she's used to. She doesn't expect Will. Will is everything Annie has spent her life avoiding-confident, charming, and completely at ease in chaos. The kind of guy who fills a room without trying. The kind of guy who knows exactly what he's doing when he looks at her a second too long, smiles a little too slow. And the kind of guy who absolutely shouldn't be interested in her. But he is. From the moment they meet, something shifts. The teasing comes easy. The attention lingers. And somehow, beneath all the noise and laughter, Will softens-quietly, instinctively-like Annie is the only thing that can slow him down. That's what scares her. Because Annie knows how this goes. Girls like her don't end up with guys like Will. Not without getting hurt. Not without losing parts of themselves in the process. And no matter how gentle he is with her, no matter how different he feels when it's just the two of them- She can't ignore the voice in her head telling her it's a bad idea. He's too experienced. She's too careful. They're too different. Right? SPINOFF OF double fantasy- macklin celebrini

LILY JAMES WYATT has spent her entire life in a small town in Vancouver, Canada. She's awkward, shy, and hates being the center of attention. Shes the opposite of him. MACKLIN CELEBRINI was born for the spotlight. Drafted first overall, he was destined to be hockey's newest rookie. They grew up side by side, and somewhere in growing up too fast, their friendship became something deeper. MACKLIN CELEBRINI X FEM OC ୭ ˚. ᵎᵎ CHILDHOOD LOVERS 🧸

Finley Montgomery grew up with her father Jim Montgomery, who was a coach for the St. Louis Blues her whole life so she grew up around hockey and hockey players. What she didn't know was that she'd end up falling for one of her fathers players.

I want you to want me again... is it desire? - Olly Alexander "They were each other's first everything. First love. First heartbreak. First person they could never forget. But distance never really erased what they had. Because some people aren't meant to be forgotten."

In Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, Briar Chatham is about to begin her freshman year-a whirlwind of excitement, anxiety, and the unknown. Between settling into college life and preparing for her first year as a Boston College architect major, Briar has enough on her plate. But everything shifts the night she meets Will Smith-a laid-back, charming guy who seems to get her in a way no one else does. Will isn't just another college student; he's a campus legend. The fourth overall pick in the NHL draft, he's a hockey god with a reputation as big as his talent. Their first meeting is lighthearted, filled with teasing and unexpected common ground. One impulsive kiss at a party catches them both off guard-sweet, exciting, and something neither of them expects to mean anything but will that change over time?

Will Smith is a hockey player at Boston College. He moves in with a billet family the Larsons and meets their 19-year-old daughter name Sadie. Will and Sadie don't want to put a label on their relationship but they both can agree whatever they are it is not CASUAL. Smut Warning Tag Rankings #2 in Celebrini #10 in HockeyRomance #35 in NHL

The world knows her face. No one knows her voice. Tessa McRae is famous for standing beside her sister. To the public, she is Tate McRae's shadow-her younger sister by ten months, her backup dancer on tour, her favorite model for magazine covers and music videos. Beautiful, poised, always in motion, always half a step out of frame. No one knows she used to write music. No one knows why she stopped. When Tate begins dating NHL star Jack Hughes in the middle of hockey season, Tessa follows her to New Jersey like she always does-protective, steady, invisible in the ways that matter. She doesn't expect to meet Luke Hughes. Jack's younger brother is quiet where the world is loud, gentle where fame is sharp. While Jack recovers from a freak injury and the season barrels forward without pause, Luke becomes an unexpected constant-text messages between flights, late-night calls after losses, small truths exchanged in the dark. What starts as friendship becomes something dangerous. Because Luke sees her. Not the model. Not the dancer. Not the sister. The girl who still hears songs in her bones. Every lyric she writes in secret feels like betrayal. Every feeling for Luke feels like crossing a line that can't be uncrossed. Because loving him doesn't just risk her heart. It risks her sister. Their fragile balance. The life Tessa rebuilt after her voice was taken from her. And when the music comes back louder than her fear, she must decide: remain the girl the world recognizes... or become the woman her heart has been writing all along. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ updating every sunday :)

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

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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.