Situationship. Best friend. One-night stand. Y/N Y/L/N has always known two things: football comes naturally to her, and love doesn't. Born and raised in London, Y/N grew up in Arsenal's youth academy alongside her best friend, Leah Williamson. While balancing a neuroscience degree at King's College London and a rapidly rising football career, she's built a life she can be proud of-one filled with loyal friends, late-night study sessions, and dreams that seem within reach. Relationships, however, are another story. When charming university student Callum Smith enters her life, what starts as friendship quickly becomes something far more complicated. He's everything she thinks she wants-funny, attentive, and impossible to stay away from. Yet no matter how close they become, he never seems willing to take the next step. Then there's Alexia Putellas. A rival on the pitch. A stranger off it. A single night that neither of them expects to matter as much as it does. Caught between the person who's always been there, the person she can't let go of, and the person she never saw coming, Y/N will learn that not everyone who says they care intends to stay. And sometimes the person you've been searching for has been beside you the whole time. But before she can figure out who deserves her heart, she'll have to survive having it broken first. 🥇alexiaputellas 🥇situationships

Book Three of the Sidelines Series. Five years ago, Leah Williamson thought she'd closed the door on football forever. She was wrong. When an unexpected opportunity brings Arsenal back into her life, Leah is forced to confront the one place she never thought she'd return to. But this time, everything is different. She isn't just a former captain. She's a wife. A mother. And home is waiting for her at the end of every day. As Leah navigates a new chapter with Yvonne, Liv, and their growing family, she discovers that chasing a dream looks very different when the people you love come first. Because sometimes life gives you a second chance. The hardest part is learning how to take it without losing everything you've already found. Home is a story about love that lasts, family that grows, and discovering that the greatest victories are never won on the pitch.

Book Two of the Sidelines Series. Leah Williamson thought the hardest part would be falling in love. She was wrong. Because loving Yvonne and Liv had become the easiest thing she'd ever done. Now came the next chapter. A ring. A wedding. A future. And all the beautiful, messy moments that come with building a life together. After a whirlwind year that changed everything, Leah, Yvonne and Liv are finally home. The house is theirs. The proposal has been answered. And for the first time, forever no longer feels like a dream. But forever isn't made of grand gestures. It's made of school runs and Saturday mornings. Of wedding plans and family traditions. Of unexpected challenges, impossible choices, and learning that love isn't just something you find- It's something you choose. Every single day. Together. A story about family, commitment, and the life that begins after happily ever after. Because sometimes the greatest love story isn't falling in love. It's choosing forever.

Book One of the Sidelines Series. Leah Williamson has spent her entire life knowing exactly who she is. England captain. Arsenal defender. Leader. Professional. There's no room for mistakes in her world - not on the pitch, not in the media, and definitely not in her personal life. Then Dr. Yvonne Keegan arrives at London Colney. At just twenty-seven, the brilliant Irish doctor already has a reputation that follows her through football circles. Calm under pressure, impossible to intimidate, and carrying far more than just an Arsenal medical bag on her shoulder. Because Yvonne doesn't arrive alone. She arrives with two-year-old Olivia curled against her hip, dark curls tangled from sleep and tiny hands clutching an Arsenal teddy bear. And suddenly Leah's carefully controlled life starts to feel very different. Between late-night injury assessments, whispered conversations in empty stadium corridors, and a toddler who accidentally steals the heart of an entire football club, Leah finds herself wanting things she's never allowed herself to imagine. But in a world where every move is watched, some lines were never meant to be crossed. Especially not the sidelines.

*short story (maximum 5 parts)* It was never loud. Just something that settled between them, in quiet touches and unfinished moments. Something that almost became real. Until it shifted. And in the space that followed, one choice mattered more than anything else, staying.

not seen many lauryn mccabe stories and I love her so much so wanted to make one! 🤍

There were signs. Apparently, everyone missed them. Pretty Random, don't you think?

A young English footballer named Mila Monroue has always dreamed of one day playing in the red and blue shirt at Camp Nou. Now that dream is coming true. But will it always feel as easy and wonderful as it did at the start? Football won't stand in her way, but who might will?

Drusilla at 26 isn't extraordinary in the way the world usually measures it - fame, money, headlines - but she is extraordinary in the way that actually matters. She has built a life around surviving, adapting, and refusing to let anyone else define her limits. ADHD, Autism, and non‑epileptic seizures aren't footnotes in her story; they're part of the architecture of who she is, the rhythm she's learned to move with rather than fight against. And through it all, there has been football - the one constant since she first stepped onto that pitch at age ten.

Darcie Summers was never supposed to make it this far this quickly. After being promoted from a smaller club and signing for Arsenal, she walks into London Colney with wide eyes, shaky confidence, and the weight of everyone's expectations already sitting heavy on her shoulders. She is young, talented, and full of potential, which is exactly why everyone assumes Leah Williamson will take her under her wing. And Leah does. Just not in the way Darcie expects. Leah is sharp. Demanding. Impossible to impress. She corrects Darcie's positioning before anyone else notices the mistake. She calls her out in training. She pushes her harder, watches her closer, and never lets her hide behind nerves or self doubt. To Darcie, it feels like the Arsenal captain has decided she is not good enough. But Leah does not hate her. Leah sees her. She sees the player Darcie could become if she stopped shrinking every time the pressure got too loud. She sees the talent, the fear, the fight, and the girl who is trying so hard not to fall apart in front of everyone. Then one bad match changes everything. Darcie is found alone in the empty dressing room, boots still on, tears threatening to spill as the noise of the stadium fades around her. And for the first time, Leah stops being the captain demanding more. She becomes the person who sits beside her and tells her she is already enough. Between tough love, quiet moments, training ground tension, and feelings neither of them are ready to name, Darcie begins to realise that maybe Leah was never trying to break her. Maybe she was trying to help her become impossible to ignore. And maybe, beneath the captain's cold control, Leah Williamson has been feeling far more than she ever meant to show.