Azzi Fudd has the perfect life, the perfect team, the perfect city, the perfect girlfriend. The only problem is that perfect stopped feeling like enough a long time ago. When rookie Deja Cole walks into training camp late, unbothered, and asking all the wrong questions, Azzi's carefully ordered world starts coming apart at the seams.

At UConn, a cheerleader and a basketball star fall in love under the pressure of championships, secrets, and personal growth. Through heartbreak, healing, and unforgettable moments, Y/N and Paige fight for each other-on and off the court. A story of queer love, team bonds, and choosing each other every time.

Getting drafted was supposed to be the hardest part. When Paige Bueckers hears her name called by the new expansion franchise, the Golden State Valkyries, she's ready for everything that comes with being the face of a new team-training camp, media attention, expectations, and the pressure of helping build something from the ground up. What she isn't ready for is the woman living across the hall. Marlowe Bennett is twenty-five, fiercely independent, and raising seven-month-old twin girls on her own. Between diapers, bottles, sleepless nights, and balancing work with motherhood, romance is the last thing on her mind. Her daughters, Sunny and Sailor, are her entire world-and that's exactly how she plans to keep it. At first, Paige and Marlowe are just neighbors. A borrowed package. A shared elevator ride. Late-night conversations in the hallway when neither of them can sleep. Before long, Paige finds herself looking forward to the sound of tiny giggles coming from across the hall and the sight of Marlowe's tired but beautiful smile. What starts as friendly check-ins turns into bottle feedings, stroller walks along the bay, and afternoons spent making Sunny and Sailor laugh until their cheeks hurt. For the first time since turning professional, Paige discovers a life beyond basketball-one filled with baby blankets, messy kitchens, and a family she never expected to find. But falling for Marlowe means more than falling for a girl. It means falling for two little girls who slowly begin to see Paige as part of their world. As Paige navigates the pressure of her rookie season with the Valkyries and Marlowe struggles to trust someone with her heart again, they'll have to decide if what they're building is worth the risk. Because sometimes home isn't a place. Sometimes it's the apartment across the hall. And sometimes the family you never planned for becomes the one you can't imagine living without. 🏀💛🍼🌊

A sequel to 'Choosin' Texas'

At the start of Paige Bueckers' rookie year with the Connecticut Sun, the league is already watching her every move-but nothing prepares her for Olivia Santoro. Olivia is a Brooklyn-born woman with a sharp tongue, faster comebacks, and a presence that fills every room without trying. She works a high-powered, "how is she even doing that at her age?" kind of job in media strategy for a major sports brand, always in motion, always five steps ahead. From the outside, she reads like pure confidence-straightforward, unbothered, a little intimidating in that New York way, dropping phrases like "deadass," "you good?" and "don't play with me" without thinking twice. What almost no one sees is that Olivia is autistic-something she's learned to mask so well that even people close to her rarely notice. Her world runs on structure, patterns, and intensity, even when she hides the effort it takes to keep up with everyone else's pace. When Paige meets her, it isn't some instant fairytale moment-it's friction first. Olivia doesn't get impressed by fame, doesn't soften her edges for anyone, and treats Paige like just another rookie trying to prove herself. But Paige can't stop noticing her: the way she thinks differently, speaks honestly, and never performs for attention in a world built on it. As rookie season pressure builds, media noise grows, and Paige struggles with her own expectations, Olivia becomes the one person who doesn't ask her to be anything but real. And somewhere between late-night conversations, Brooklyn honesty, and the quiet understanding neither of them can explain, Paige starts to realize this isn't just admiration anymore-it's something deeper, something grounding, something that changes the way she sees everything.

for the love of god comment and vote This will have smut This will be good This will be a story Yes Characters: • Paige Bueckers - WNBA star, confident, teasing, and very dominant in her personal life. • Emery Quinn - Top-level equestrian specializing in 3-day eventing; soft-spoken, graceful, and used to structure and rules, but secretly curious about stepping outside her comfort zone.

Paige and Joss have been inseparable since fifth grade. Two halves of a whole, bound by basketball, shared routines, and unspoken promises. But as they grow, so does the imbalance between them: Joss mistakes survival for love, while Paige mistakes responsibility for devotion. By senior year, their relationship is a careful dance of dependency and control, passion and fear. Paige holds Joss together with routines, protection, and quiet vigilance, while Joss teeters on the edge, seeking escape in recklessness and self destruction.

To raise the funds necessary to repair their devastated locker room, the UConn Huskies basketball team organizes a grand masquerade ball. While Azzi is swept up in the romance of the idea, Paige harbors nothing but disdain for the event and vows to boycott it entirely. Yet, driven by a restless curiosity, Paige finds herself slipping into the gala under the shroud of a disguise. There, shielded by the anonymity of their masks and oblivious to the identity of the person before them, Paige and Azzi fall deeply for one another. Haunted by the magic of that night and unable to forget her mysterious encounter, Azzi begins a desperate quest to track her down. The irony, however, is cruel: she hasn't just fallen for the masked stranger, but has also begun to develop profound feelings for the real Paige... ------------------------------

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IN WHICH- Sloane Oceni ends up tutoring her childhood crush and hopes for something more. IN WHICH - Paige Bueckers get tutored by her childhood crush and hopes for something more. NOT A SLOW BURN AT ALL but does have some angst I don't own anyone except for Sloane, her family and her friends this is also a work of fiction and nothing that happens here is related to reality at all! enjoy lea #58 in collegestories sept 2 #16 in old friends sept 3 #3 in wlw sept 7 #2 in old friends sept 10, sept 24 #10 in smart sept 21 #11 in basketball sept 23 #22 in smart sept 30 #20 in smart oct 7 #76 in wlw oct 12