(THIS IS SEASON 1 OF Caught Looking A Marz Story) Lara and Manon start paying attention to eachother more...🥹🤍

Lara.. didn't make it. She died from sickness. When Manon found out about Orlando it was already to late. Manon leads herself to suicide as she says life isn't worth it. (No smut)

This is a marz love story but it also includes crumbs of sodani and meichae -trigger warning tho

In the middle of messy college nights, loud friends, crowded kitchens, and the kind of exhaustion that settles deep in your bones, Lara Raj and Manon Bannerman meet by accident. Lara is the kind of person everyone leans on but nobody really looks at closely. Funny without trying, caring to a fault, and quietly drowning beneath self-hatred she hides behind tired smiles, she's convinced love is something meant for other people. Manon is impossible to ignore - loud, magnetic, reckless, and emotionally shut tighter than a locked door. She fills every room she enters with warmth and humor while secretly carrying grief she's never learned how to survive. What starts as flirtation and late-night conversations slowly turns into something deeper. Messier. Dangerous in the way real love is when two broken people begin seeing every beautiful and terrible part of each other. Through heartbreak, self-destruction, betrayal, grief, and the terrifying vulnerability of being fully known, Lara and Manon are forced to decide whether love can survive after seeing the good, the bad, and the ugly. A realistic slow-burn romance about healing badly, loving deeply, and learning that being loved is not the same thing as being saved.

Everyone thinks Manon has the perfect life. Perfect face. Perfect body. Perfect boyfriend. But perfection is a lie. Behind closed doors, her life is controlled, suffocating-her family demands it, and David... he destroys her in quieter ways. Charming in public, reckless in private, and drowning himself in alcohol, David is the kind of love that leaves bruises you can't always see. So when he gets her cast on Next Top Model, Manon thinks it's her escape. A fresh start. A new version of herself. But the spotlight doesn't save her-it exposes everything. The competition is ruthless. The girls are vicious. Jealousy burns hotter than stage lights, friendships shatter overnight, and every mistake is broadcast to the world. Manon quickly learns that beauty isn't power here... it's a weapon. Then Lara walks in. Confident. Unpredictable. Dangerous. She wasn't part of the plan-but suddenly, she's all Manon can think about. What starts as tension turns into something deeper... something forbidden. And for the first time, Manon feels seen. Really seen. But in a world built on betrayal, nothing stays pure for long. Because Lara crosses a line she can't uncross. And David? He's not just her boyfriend anymore. He's watching. Judging. Controlling. From the panel. Now Manon is trapped between the love that's breaking her and the one that might ruin her completely. In a game where everything is fake, emotions are real-and they cut deeper than any scar. How far would you go to be perfect... and what would you lose to get there?

Lara x Manon love story between katseye's lara and manon There is Smut and Angsts

Lara Raj is the face of the sport. As the 'Global Sensation', her life is a curated sequence of trophy ceremonies, high-fashion editorials, and flawless baseline play. She is the gold standard of professional tennis, but the perfection is a cage. She's spent her career playing it safe, staying quiet, and winning, until she faces the one woman who refuses to follow the script. Manon Bannerman is the variable no one can calculate. They call her the 'Force of Nature' for a reason. The Swiss standout doesn't care about sponsorships or grace. She plays with a raw, bruising intensity that makes the establishment nervous and makes Lara Raj lose her legendary composure. With her sharp Swiss-German wit and a refusal to back down, Manon is the only person on the circuit who looks at Lara and sees the person, not the icon. The world is watching. Every time they meet, the air in the stadium changes. It's more than a quest for the #1 ranking; it's a collision of two worlds. The press feeds on their frostiness, the fans dissect every cold handshake at the net, and the tension between them is so thick it's a distraction to the entire tour. But the real game is played when the cameras are off. Lara hates how Manon can read her every move. Manon is obsessed with being the only one who can make Lara snap. In the high-pressure bubble of the Los Angeles circuit, the line between wanting to beat someone and wanting to possess them begins to blur. They are supposed to be rivals. They are supposed to be opposites. But as the heat in L.A. climbs, they're discovering that the only thing more dangerous than losing to your rival is realizing she's the only one who truly understands you.

For eight years, Manon Bannerman was forged into a weapon, raised in the shadows under the mantra that emotional ties are a lethal liability. Trained by the man who became her true father, she returns to the glitzy, cutthroat world of Los Angeles with a single mission: to settle a blood debt and dismantle her biological father's empire. But the International Committee, a resilient group of girls who refuse to let her remain a ghost, begins to crack her tactical armor. Most dangerous of all is Lara, whose warmth forces Manon to choose between the cold satisfaction of revenge and the terrifying vulnerability of love. As the past and present collide, Manon must decide if she is willing to sacrifice the life she was trained for to protect the family she finally chose.

Lara is trying to get through university at Geffen without everything falling apart: her boyfriend, her friendships, and her own head included. Between house parties, dance society, and messy group dynamics, she keeps finding herself in situations she doesn't really want to be in. Then there's Manon. A bartender, film student, and Dani's best friend, Manon keeps showing up at the right moments, especially when Lara is overwhelmed or spiralling. It starts off small -- conversation, grounding, silence that feels easier than noise -- but slowly becomes something harder to ignore. Lara has a boyfriend. Manon is just a friend. At least, that's what she keeps telling herself. Loosely inspired by the Reneé Rapp album Bite Me :)

In the fiercely competitive world of elite handball, Lara Raj and Manon Bannerman are everything the other is not-and everything the other stands in the way of. As captains of rival teams climbing from regional leagues toward the national championship, they are locked in a battle for victory, pride, and control. To the outside world, their rivalry is electric. To Lara, it's something else entirely. They have a history neither of them talks about-and only one truly remembers. As their teams are forced into close quarters-shared practices, shared hotels, shared road trips-the line between enemy and something far more dangerous begins to blur. Every look lasts too long, every collision feels personal, every victory tastes like loss. Because some rivalries aren't born on the court. They're written long before the first whistle blows.