* Book 2 in The Us Series* Three years after Suddenly, Us, Leah Williamson and Esmee Blom are balancing the chaos of football careers, school runs, and the everyday joy of raising their daughter. Between Arsenal training sessions, West Ham fixtures, and bedtime routines full of giggles and questions too big for small voices, they're quietly holding onto a hope they don't speak aloud too often: growing their family. As the demands of the pitch pull them in different directions, the pull of home keeps bringing them back together. Through teasing teammates, missed moments, and the tenderness of ordinary days, Leah and Esmee are learning that love doesn't just live in the grand gestures; it's built in the steady rhythm of family life, and in the quiet courage it takes to keep hoping.

After the roar of stadiums fades and the lights finally dim, Cassie and Leah are left with something neither of them has ever been particularly good at: stillness. Leah's recovery brings an unfamiliar pause, her body insisting on patience after years shaped by motion and certainty. Cassie is learning how to live with the weight of knowledge already carried, time no longer something to assume, but something to hold carefully. With the pace of life softened, conversations once deferred begin to surface. Gently. Hesitantly. In the spaces between jokes and late nights, an idea takes root: fragile, unfinished, impossible to ignore. What follows is not simple or linear. It is a season of waiting, of recalibration, of hope measured against reality. Of choosing each other again and again, even when the future refuses to offer reassurance.

*Book 1 in The Us Series* A name held close like a secret. A life tethered to a past neither fully understood nor fully escaped. When Leah Williamson is unexpectedly entrusted with a child she never knew existed, the world she thought she knew shifts beneath her feet. Between the echoes of love lost and the relentless pace of the present, she must navigate a delicate balance; between grief and hope, between duty and desire, between what is given and what must be earned. In the quiet spaces where the stadium fades and the spotlight dims, a new kind of family begins to take shape. Fragile, uncertain, but real. Some stories don't end with goodbye. They begin there.

Maeve Linton's transfer from Manchester United to Arsenal was supposed to be a fresh start - new city, new teammates, and no unnecessary drama. Two years on, her career is thriving... but her personal life is a mess, thanks to her parents' relentless questions about her love life. In a moment of desperation, Maeve blurts out that she's already seeing someone. And when they press for details, she drags in the only person she trusts enough to fake it with - her best friend and teammate, Leah Williamson. Leah agrees, because that's what best friends do. They hold hands at family dinners, post the occasional carefully-staged photo, and laugh through awkward questions. But the longer they play pretend, the less it feels like acting. Jokes turn into late-night confessions. Staged kisses feel alarmingly real. And suddenly, Maeve and Leah are caught in a game neither of them prepared for. With the season heating up and feelings threatening to derail everything, the two must figure out if they're willing to risk their friendship for something more - or if love, like football, sometimes requires the boldest moves of all.

Follow Cassie and Leah as they navigate the quiet, complicated beauty of loving someone an ocean away. What began as soft, uncertain hope has grown into something real; stretched across time zones, training grounds, photoshoots, and the small moments that make their lives feel unexpectedly intertwined. Between long-distance calls, unexpected challenges, and the biggest opportunities of Cassie's career, the two of them learn what it means to build something steady, even when life refuses to slow down.

She's built a life out of beautiful moments, a camera, a city skyline, and the illusion of control. But when a spontaneous trip to Ibiza throws her into a blur of sun, music, and late-night confessions, she begins to realize that what she's been chasing might not be what she needs. Between the glow of the island and the quiet spaces in between, she finds herself standing face to face with the one thing she's spent years avoiding, what it really means to be seen.

This is my fourth one shot book, by popular demand I've continued to make a fourth one. I'll be writing one shots. It's all gay here so no men x player. Also no player x player unless 'reader' is involved. Everything I write is fictional, ALL OF IT.