⚠️Trigger warning: sexual content, sa, physical and sexual abuse⚠️ *YOUR MENTAL HEALTH IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN HOW MANY PEOPLE READ THIS STORY* I wrote most of this at like 2am and I dint edit it or revise it yet so..yeah They did everything together, the power duo of uconn. Best friends always lingering onto something more. Until the unforgettable happens. The thing neither of them can come back from. Kevin and Azzi become the new power duo, while paige sits in the shadows. But there's always something else bubbling beneath the surface. Can paige and azzi swim back up before it's too late?

Two UConn basketball stars, Paige and Azzi, have chemistry-on and off the court. While rumors swirl online and every moment feels risky, they try to keep their secret relationship hidden in a world that's always watching.

baby it's now or never we gotta love each other right now cause we ain't got time forever you a star, come on let's shine together - lil tony

Paige Bueckers and Azzi Fudd grow up a thousand miles apart, bound only by basketball, ambition, and a feeling neither of them has language for yet. Paige, raised between two households in Minnesota, learns early how to be adaptable - how to love people across distance, how to exist in the in-between. With a blended family on both sides, she grows up observant, guarded, and driven, carrying quiet questions about herself she's never dared to ask. Azzi, grounded in Virginia by two loving parents, loud brothers, and dogs that always greet her at the door, grows up confident on the court but uncertain about her heart. She's never lacked support - only clarity. They meet as teenagers at USA Basketball and AAU camps, where chemistry crackles instantly but goes unnamed. Over the years, tournaments blur into summers, texts stretch into nights, and admiration deepens into something heavier - something that feels like longing. As distance, injuries, expectations, and self-discovery pull them in different directions, Paige and Azzi must navigate who they are becoming - not just as athletes, but as women learning how to love, how to want, and how to choose each other.

Azzi Fudd, the 21-year old princess and second in line to the throne after her elder brother, Thomas, always seems to find herself in some fit of mischief. At least, after years of being confined between stone palace walls, she's finally living her American-dream and causing all that mischief. Paige Bueckers, the 22-year old bodyguard that the King and Queen hired for Azzi when she turned 18, always seems to get right in the way when Azzi is just trying to enjoy herself. But that's her job. As the tension between them grows and grows over the years, and resisting it only gets harder, what would happen when Azzi and Paige finally decide to make a move? Would they ever make a move, or would they keep running in circles around each other, like they are supposed to for the rest of their lives? Paige & Azzi Fanfic AU Includes: Violence, smut, NSFW, cursing, death, angst

Paige has had feelings for Azzi since the moment the met at Team USA. There was simply just something about her. They clicked. Became best friends. Now, years later, Azzi is dating Caleb, the starting PG for UConn's men's team. Paige despised Caleb with everything in her, not just because he took Azzi from her, but he was abusive, manipulative, controlling. Paige wants nothing more but to protect Azzi from Caleb's grasp, and that is what she'll do. Little does she know, they'll fall in love during the process.

They've always been close-too close to ignore, too close to let go. Paige wants her in ways she can't admit, Azzi fears feeling more than she should. Every look, every word, every silence stretches longer than it should, pulling them closer and threatening to break them both. In a world full of expectations, pressure, and unspoken truths, love isn't instant-it's terrifying, fragile... and slow.

They've always been best friends. Until they weren't. Secrets weren't a thing between the two. Nothing was too personal, too embarrassing, or too sad. They told each other everything except for one extremely important thing. The thong that could either destroy their friendship or turn it into something more. A realistic take on a Paige Bueckers and Azzi Fudd love story-built one real moments, real teammates and real emotion.