Vanessa Rubio has more interest in a career-ending injury than she does in falling in love. At least your body gives you an explainable reason for slipping away, because she has learned the hard way that love does not. Unfortunately for her, Dean Di Laurentis was inevitable. With her father being the assistant coach of his hockey team, she sees enough of him as is. Of course it was going to be her turn to be on the receiving end of his oh-so charming smile one day. With an Olympic dream, she already had a lot stacked against her. The last thing she needed to add was 250 lbs of muscle in the form of a blonde hockey player- 350 lbs if you count the girl that was probably on top of him as we speak. But their frequent encounters and his persistence has her a little more invested than she originally intended... and now she's keeping secrets from her friends. Vanessa finds herself in an awkward position (literally and figuratively). Dean Di Laurentis finds himself with a crush (at least he thinks, he's new to this). But are they willing to abandon their old ways for a shot at love? The better question is, are they able to? s1-tbd

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐄𝐂𝐑𝐄𝐓 | Andrea Maxwell is done with athletes. Growing up as Beau Maxwell's little sister meant spending her whole life around post-game parties, locker room egos, and boys who treated love like a temporary distraction. After catching her high school boyfriend cheating on her, Andrea becomes convinced college athletes are all the same: charming, emotionally detached, and incapable of loving anyone for longer than a night. So when her film professor assigns a semester-long documentary project, Andrea decides to expose them. The Secret Lives of College Athletes starts as a cynical look into the culture she's spent years resenting - the hookups, the ghosting, the performative affection girls mistake for something real. What Beau and his best friend Dean Di Laurentis don't know is that Andrea already has her conclusion before filming even begins. But the more time she spends embedded in their world, the more her carefully built theories begin to crack - especially when Dean becomes the person helping her most. Late nights editing in her dorm turn into laughter, lingering glances, and moments of sincerity Andrea never expected to capture on camera. Because Dean Di Laurentis is supposed to be everything she hates in a college athlete. And falling for him might ruin every belief she's ever had about love.

No I don't hardly know her! DEAN DI LAURENTIS ©yutarikas 2026

Dean Di Laurentis doesn't do complicated. Ivy Bennett doesn't let people stay long enough to become important. So when one reckless kiss turns into a friends-with-benefits arrangement, it comes with rules: no feelings, no jealousy, and absolutely no expectations. Simple. At least, it should've been. Because somewhere between late-night drives, hockey games, stolen hoodies, and quiet moments that feel a little too real, Dean and Ivy start blurring every line they swore they wouldn't cross. And the more they pretend it means nothing, the harder it becomes to ignore the truth: some mistakes are impossible not to make. --------- !NOT EDITED!

*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.

Everybody at Briar has a story about Genevieve Laurent. Dean Di Laurentis wishes he didn't have one too.

Lorelai Daisy Slater was a quiet girl. She worked hard for what she had, put a lot of effort into her studies, and was ready for the real world. She worked hard to transfer from a little community college to Briar U. She thought it was gonna be an easy two years, work at Malones, get a scholarship, and get a stable job once she graduates, but the Briar U boys seem to be interested in her. Rory had thought she left it all behind, but when Dean DiLaurentis recognizes her, she knows it's gonna be hard to avoid him. She sneaks around him at Malones, the Hockey rink, when she sneaks in to skate, and even on campus. But how long until the boys succeed and get Rory to finally talk to them?

She was never supposed to end up in his world. He was never supposed to look twice at her. Emera Graham has spent her life fighting for control-over her studies, her future, and the parts of herself shaped by a past she refuses to be defined by. At Briar U, she finally has a space that feels like her own...until a leaking ceiling, a broken apartment, and one very inconvenient brother change everything. Now she's living under the same roof as Dean Di Laurentis-Briar's infamous hockey player, certified problem, and her brother's close friend. Dean knows rules. He just rarely follows them. Especially not the ones that involve her. What starts as forced proximity turns into late-night arguments, accidental softness, and a tension neither of them can name without crossing a line they can't uncross. Because she is off limits, and he has never been good at staying away from things he shouldn't want. #1 in Dean Di Laurentis #1 Hockey Romance #1 frat #1 College Student #1 College romance

Garrett Graham is the golden boy of Briar University-captain of the hockey team, arrogant, and used to getting whatever he wants. Ella Monsen is his equal in every way-captain of the volleyball team, just as confident, just as untouchable. They don't believe in love. They don't follow rules. And they definitely don't fall for people like each other. But one reckless moment turns into a dangerous game neither of them knows how to win... Because this time, it's not just about playing. It's about losing control. All rights to Elle Kennedy for the characters!

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