𝐒𝐈𝐍𝐍𝐄𝐑𝐒 𝐋𝐀𝐖; 𝐎𝐧𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐯𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐯𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐰 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐰 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐚𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭. 𝐢 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐢 𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐦𝐲 𝐬𝐤𝐢𝐧 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐮𝐫𝐧. 𝐈𝐍 𝐖𝐇𝐈𝐂𝐇, ᴛᴡᴏ ʜɪɢʜsᴄʜᴏᴏʟ sᴡᴇᴇᴛʜᴇᴀʀᴛs ɢᴇᴛ ᴛᴏʀɴ ᴀᴘᴀʀᴛ ʙᴇᴄᴀᴜsᴇ ᴏꜰ ʀᴇʟɪɢɪᴏɴ ʙᴜᴛ ꜰɪɴᴅ ᴛʜᴇɪʀ ᴡᴀʏ ʙᴀᴄᴋ ᴛᴏ ᴇᴀᴄʜᴏᴛʜᴇʀ ɪɴ ᴄᴏʟʟᴇɢᴇ.

"I guess you'd say What can make me feel this way? My girl, my girl, my girl" Paige Bueckers x oc

Avery Lynnox is not your average basketball player. She's one of the best. But so is Paige Bueckers who just so happens to be on the rival team. But what happens when the two rival guards catch feelings? Avery has a lot of demons in her closet. She has a lot of walls she's built up to protect herself. Will Paige be able to break Avery's walls down and get through to her? Or will their love story end in tragedy? Authors note: This story is for all my Paige Bueckers lova girls. Everything will be proofread. I update pretty often. Normally many chapters at a time. Feel free to leave any comments. Especially funny ones because they have me dead. This story focuses on the type of love that isn't easy but is so worth it. DOES INCLUDE SMUT

THIS IS A SEQUEL TO THE BOOK don't save me, stay. Their love survived the first storm - but darker skies are rolling in. Arianna Torres and Paige Bueckers are no longer a secret to their team, to their world, or to themselves. But fame, fear, and a past that refuses to stay buried threaten to pull them apart just as they've finally found something worth holding onto. When a ghost from Arianna's past returns with a terrifying message, it forces old wounds to split open - and drags Paige into a battle she never asked for, but will fight for with everything she has. As Arianna spirals between survival instincts and self-destruction, Paige must become both anchor and lighthouse, even when it feels like the waves might swallow them whole. Their connection grows deeper, sweeter, and more dangerous by the day - stolen kisses turning into desperate clutches, soft moments turning into vows neither of them knows how to say out loud. But not all battles are visible. And not all promises can be kept. Love was the easy part. Now comes the hard part: Staying alive for it. ⸻ Trigger Warnings for the Story: • Self-harm (burns, scars, urges) • Mental illness (BPD, PTSD, anxiety, depressive episodes) • Abuse and trauma references (verbal, emotional, physical) • Mentions of sexual assault (non-graphic, but heavily emotional impact) • Emotional breakdowns, panic attacks, dissociation • Family trauma, toxic familial relationships • Violence (minor, mostly emotional/psychological threats) • Recovery and relapse cycles • Survival themes (fighting for life, not giving up)

Arianna Torres is used to surviving alone. It's not that she prefers isolation-it's that it's safer. After all, people leave. People hurt. And no one sticks around when they see the real her: the trauma, the mood swings, the scars from growing up with a drug-addicted father and a mother who overdosed in the bathroom while Arianna was the one to find her. Diagnosed with BPD and PTSD, Arianna is constantly balancing between craving love and being terrified of it. She plays for UConn now, but she's not there to make friends-she's there to earn her future and keep everyone at arm's length. Until she breaks. After an intense away game triggers a panic attack followed by a near-complete shutdown, Arianna is put on temporary leave and forced into a recovery plan that includes one thing she never asked for: support. And the one assigned to check in on her, stay with her, and-God forbid-care about her? Paige Bueckers. The golden girl of college basketball. Charismatic, soft-spoken, patient. Everything Arianna isn't. What starts as reluctant forced proximity becomes something far more complex. Paige doesn't try to fix her. She just... stays. She doesn't ask for Arianna's secrets. She simply offers warm silences, movie nights, and shared playlists. The closer they get, the more Arianna starts to crack-not in a bad way, but in the kind of way that feels like healing. Like maybe being seen doesn't have to hurt. Maybe touch doesn't have to burn. Maybe someone can stay. But falling for someone when you're still learning how to exist is dangerous. Arianna's self-sabotage runs deep. Her fear of abandonment is a wildfire. And Paige, despite her calm, carries her own quiet grief-injuries, pressure, and the weight of being everyone's hope. As they navigate late nights and raw confessions, tangled blankets and bruised hearts, Arianna must face the hardest truth of all: What if love isn't about being saved, but about letting someone stay even when you're at your worst?

❝ and love is a kaleidoscope. how it works, i'll never know. ❞ ꩜ .ᐟ ᯓᡣ𐭩 . . . ‎ paige bueckers x fem!oc (all fictional) vamptized 2024 enemies to lovers? rivals to friends?

ɴᴏᴡ ᴘʟᴀʏɪɴɢ: those eyes by poetschoas. ❝ cause all of the small things that you do, are what remind me why i fell for you. ❞ In which, Paige Bueckers and Jenessa Jayde used to be American basketballs worst nightmare. A dynamic duo both on and off the court. Until one drunken night ruined their friendship, and they both went ghost. Avoiding each other like the plague, not answering questions from the media, no contact. That is until Jenessa suffers a season ending injury her junior year, and realizes Iowa isnt her home anymore, so she enters the transfer portal and ends up at Uconn for the remainder of her college career.

what happens if UCONN's most popular basketball player finds herself searching for one person in the crowd? Jules knew who she was and what she wanted and when she gets offered a spot on the media team for UCONN's women's basketball team she takes it up immediately, finding herself infatuated by Paige Bueckers. Only problem is one is on the court and one is behind the camera.