Maeli Carter had one goal in life: to be known for helping people. That was it. She didn't want to be known for nothing else. She didn't want a spotlight. She wanted stable. And she most definetly will not let herself be defined by being someones girlfriend. So, she had her EMT certification, she was on her way to becoming a paramedic, and that's when she meets him. And at first its nothing, just a random guy saving her from a stuck zipper that won't budge no matter how hard she tries. But then the months go by. Suddenly he's not a random guy, he's Ilia Malinin. Olympic figure skater. And at some point Maeli Carter slowly finds herself changing her one goal. She finds herself the subject of TikTok edits and sports articles and a very not stable life. Because at some point Maeli Carter finds herself being called Ilia Malinin's girlfriend. And she's not mad about it.

⁀➷ 𝐄𝐃𝐆𝐄𝐒 𝐎𝐅 𝐘𝐎𝐔 ⛸️❄️💫 ❪ 𝐹𝐸𝑀 𝒪𝒞 𝒳 𝐼𝐿𝐼𝒜 𝑀𝒜𝐿𝐼𝒩𝐼𝒩 ❫ 𝐃𝐔𝐀𝐋 𝐏𝐎𝐕𝐒! ﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌ "𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘸𝘰𝘯," 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘪𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴, "𝘐'𝘮 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶." "𝘐'𝘥 𝘨𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘶𝘱 𝘪𝘧 𝘪𝘵 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘬𝘢𝘺." ﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌ ❝ 𝒶𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝑒𝓃𝒹 𝑜𝒻 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒹𝒶𝓎, 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒽𝑒𝒶𝓇𝓉 𝓌𝒶𝓃𝓉𝓈 𝓌𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒽𝑒𝒶𝓇𝓉 𝓌𝒶𝓃𝓉𝓈 ❞ ꒰⛸️ ꒱༄ ✧･ﾟ· 𝙁𝙍𝙄𝙀𝙉𝘿𝙎 𝙏𝙊 𝙇𝙊𝙑𝙀𝙍𝙎 ✧･ﾟ·༄ ꒰⛸️ ꒱

They say seasons change. They don't tell you that sometimes they collide. He was winter before I knew what cold felt like. I was autumn before I knew how to let go. We met once. Young enough to laugh, reckless enough to believe we would never see each other again. We were wrong. Now the lights are brighter. The stakes are higher. And the distance between us is thinner than ice. Some falls don't hurt until you land.

After a shocking fall at the Milan 2026 Olympics, the world's top-ranked figure skater ends up in a quiet Minnesota town. There, he crosses paths with a junior coach who's just trying to survive college after losing her own passion for skating years ago. * * *I know nothing about figure skating so there will probably be inaccuracies.