Freya's a figure skater who never believed in love, because of what happened to her parents and she swears she'll never experience love or fall in love, until she meets Malachi who makes her happy and feel free. Will she believe in love or will she push it away?

𝐀𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐚 𝐭𝐨𝐮𝐫, 𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐲𝐚'𝐬 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐤𝐞. 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐦? 𝐒𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧. 𝐒𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐠𝐮𝐲, 𝐌𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢 𝐁𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐨𝐧. 𝐇𝐞'𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐨𝐰𝐧𝐬 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫. 𝐒𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐡𝐨𝐰, 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐮𝐩 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐤 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐠𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐨 𝐚 𝐝𝐮𝐞𝐭.

Credits to @fralachi_lover for the awesome title page which I love so much thanks girly love you 💞 Everyone thinks Malachi has the perfect life. He's popular, charming, talented - the golden boy everyone wants to be around. He smiles at the right moments, says the right things, and hides the shaking in his hands before anyone can notice. Because at home, nothing is perfect. Behind closed doors are screaming matches, slammed doors, and nights that leave Malachi counting breaths just to make it through. The panic attacks, the fear, the exhaustion - he hides all of it from everyone. Everyone except Freya Skye. Freya is known as the quiet girl. The one who keeps her head down, avoids crowded hallways, and never lets anyone get too close. Nobody knows that after losing her parents, she's been living alone with grief too heavy to talk about. She understands silence. She understands fear. And somehow, she understands Malachi before he even says a word. What starts as shared glances and late-night conversations slowly turns into something deeper - something neither of them expected. But as their connection grows stronger, so do the secrets between them. Because loving someone means letting them see the broken parts. And neither of them knows if they're ready for that.

𝐅𝐑𝐄𝐘𝐀 𝐒𝐊𝐘𝐄 has always been used to running alone. Volleyball captain, track star, and the kind of girl everyone admires from afar, she thrives on control-both on the court and on the track. But at home, her parents' wealth can't mask the cold, suffocating cruelty that defines her every day. She's learned early that no one will show up for her... and that's exactly how she likes it. 𝐌𝐀𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐇𝐈 𝐁𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐎𝐍 has the opposite problem: everyone shows up. Football star, track sprinter, and all-around golden boy, he's surrounded by friends, family, and a little sister who worships him. He's used to support, praise, and having people rely on him. Life has always been... easier. They're both popular, in the same tight-knit friend group, and everyone expects them to get along. But Freya and Malachi don't. They clash at every practice, tease each other relentlessly, and can't seem to sit still in the same room without tension sparking between them. What happens when the girl who's learned to survive on her own meets the boy who can't stop trying to protect her? When rivalry becomes something more, and shared spaces-late-night practices, team hangouts, and races that leave them both breathless-force them to confront what they're really running toward... and from? A slow-burn, rivals-to-lovers story about resilience, family, and the courage it takes to finally let someone in. #1 field (08/02/26) #4 freyaskye (08/02/26)

At Blackwell Preparatory on the Upper East Side, power is everything. Freya Skye Jones-cheer captain, rich, untouchable. Malachi Barton-football captain, rich, ruthless. They hate each other. Everyone says they're the same. At a school where status rules and secrets spread fast, falling for your rival could cost you everything. Two crowns. One throne. And a collision no one sees coming.

Freya Skye and Malachi Barton have been inseparable since they were kids-late-night phone calls, shared secrets, and a bond that never really needed words. Somewhere along the way, everything changed. Now, in their junior year, they're still close... just not the way they used to be. Not when Freya is always glancing over her shoulder. Not when Malachi's smile never quite reaches his eyes anymore. Not when the people they're supposed to love are the ones slowly breaking them. Freya is stuck in a relationship that feels more like a cage than love. Malachi is fighting battles he never talks about. And everyone around them can see it-everyone except each other. But little things start to slip through. A flinch that shouldn't happen. A silence that says too much. A look that lingers just a second too long. And when the truth finally comes out-messy, painful, and impossible to ignore-it doesn't just break everything apart. It forces them back together. Because maybe they were never meant to be just friends. Maybe they were just waiting for the moment everything else fell away. But healing isn't easy. Trust isn't simple. And love... love doesn't always come at the right time. Especially when the people who hurt you the most are the ones who refuse to let you go.

𝐈𝐍 𝐖𝐇𝐈𝐂𝐇... Freya Skye became too famous to fall apart in public. And Malachi Barton became too good at pretending he was okay. Two years after a breakup that inspired an entire Stardust EP, the former golden couple are forced back together when they're cast in ZOMBIES 5 to reprise their roles as Nova and Victor. The internet calls it iconic. The cast calls it fate. Their fans call it the reunion of the century. Freya calls it a nightmare. Because now they have to act in love again. Stand too close again. Touch again. And worst of all- kiss again. But the more time they spend together under stage lights and cameras, the harder it becomes to remember why they ended in the first place. Especially when Malachi still looks at her like she hung the stars. Especially when Freya realizes she never really stopped loving him either. And especially when, moments before filming the kiss scene, Freya quietly asks the director if they can change it- only for Malachi to grab her waist, lean close enough to break, and whisper: "Please kiss me." ━━━ A messy, emotional, fame-filled second chance romance about first loves, heartbreak songs, panic attacks, jealousy, growing up in public, and trying to love each other correctly the second time around.

Freya Skye lives quietly, posting without expectation until one accidental like from Malachi Barton turns her world upside down. What starts as a flirty, late-night DM conversation becomes something deeper, as Freya navigates attention she never asked for and Malachi struggles to show her the real person behind the fame. Between tour buses, backstage chaos, and quiet, stolen moments, they'll have to decide if a connection born by accident can survive reality.

She adored him from behind a screen. He noticed her when he wasn't supposed to. Freya Skye runs the biggest fanpage for superstar Malachi Barton-cute edits, late-night live tweets, and way too many heart emojis. But when Malachi discovers the fanpage and becomes hooked on the person behind it, both of their worlds get tangled in a way neither expected. Because sometimes the biggest fan... becomes the one person you can't live without.

Before the scandal. Before everything - there was a tour. The Descendants/Zombies Words Collide Tour gave the world something it didn't know it needed: Malachi Barton and Freya Skye sharing a stage, a spotlight, and something that looked dangerously like more. Fans lost their minds. Fralachi trended for weeks. Everyone was certain. Then the tour ended - and so did everything else. No more liked posts. No more late-night stories. Just silence, and the kind of distance that only means one thing. The rumors filled in the gaps fast. Malachi and Kylie Cantrall had been together since the start of the tour, apparently. A secret relationship, confirmed by someone who should have kept quiet. And the reason it ended? Malachi had been caught - with Malia Baker, Kylie's best friend, of all people. The photos made it real. The internet made it permanent. Freya never said a word. She didn't have to. Her EP, Stardust, said everything - at least that's what her fans believed. Golden Boy. Silent Treatment. Two tracks, one very obvious story. People moved on. Accepted Malachi and Malia. Let Fralachi become a what-if, a almost, a footnote. Until the Zombies 5 trailer dropped. There they were again - same orbit, same undeniable pull. But something had shifted. The easy chemistry was gone, replaced by something heavier, something unresolved. What really happened on that tour? And why does it still feel unfinished?