"Solè, why'd you stay?" "Because, Zaire... you the first thing that ever felt worth staying for." ❀ 🝳 ❀ Harlem held the noise. Solè gave Zaire the quiet. Zaire Knox, Harlem's quiet storm, known for his ties to the streets and a gaze that read people faster than they could lie to him. Respected. Feared. Loved. With scars buried deeper than his tattoos, he never planned to love soft. Until a Harlem vinyl shop left behind by his late grandfather forces him to slow down, to breathe, to find his real purpose in the world beyond the streets. Solè Sinclair, soft but unbreakable, raised by her father after loss. By day, she serves warmth behind the counter of a café. By night, she disappears into her art, trying to paint the parts of herself no one ever sees. When their worlds cross, the city shifts. What starts off tense and unexpected turns tender. Together, they learn love can hold you just as fierce as the streets ever did, and softer, too. But love in Harlem always asks one question: what are you willing to risk when the heart wants more than the streets ever offered? A Harlem story. A hood love. A soft place to land. ❀ 🝳 ❀

*STORY IS 18+ AND CONTAINS MATURE CONTENT* Alana Graham doesn't do hockey players; they're strictly off limits to her. Except for the one that she knows out of all of them she should stay the furthest away from. John Logan is her brother's best friend and teammate. For years she denies her feelings, pushes Logan away in order to protect herself but also... To protect him from her past that she refuses to share with anyone. Not even her two best friends, Hannah and Allie. Although this hockey playing mechanic not only thaws the ice around her guarded heart, he fixes it as well.

▌𝘖𝘍𝘍 𝘊𝘈𝘔𝘗𝘜𝘚 ❛ oh, really? so you haven't been with anyone else? that's 𝘣𝘶𝘭𝘭𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘵, logan. ❜ ❛ i haven't. because they aren't the 𝘴𝘢𝘮𝘦, kalli. they aren't 𝘺𝘰𝘶. ❜ . . ⋆｡˚ 🏒 𝗜𝗡 𝗪𝗛𝗜𝗖𝗛 ━━━━ 𝙡𝙤𝙜𝙖𝙣 and 𝙠𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙞𝙤𝙥𝙚 have done their best at avoiding each other for years after their breakup, until a failing grade in ethics leaves logan one strike away from academic probation. when kalliope gets assigned as his peer tutor, their streak of ignoring each other is broken. john logan x fem!oc szn 1 ✔︎ szn 2 ... coming 2027 RANKINGS: #1 in hannah - 06/07/26 #2 in johnlogan - 29/06/26 #7 in deandilaurentis - 05/07/26 #2 in logan - 17/06/26 #4 in graham - 18/06/26 #3 in alliehayes - 19/06/26 #2 in icehockey - 04/07/26 #4 in thescore - 21/06/26 #2 in allie - 23/06/26 #6 in dean - 24/06/26 #4 in dilaurentis - 23/06/26 #5 in themistake - 04/07/26 #4 in briaru - 04/07/26 #2 in hannah - 04/07/26 #1 in icehockeyromance - 04/07/26 started - 14/05/26 finished- tbd ©luvsnaya2026