Selah Arnold had always been passionate about sports medicine. Growing up, she spent countless hours on the sidelines of her cousin Kamorea "KK" Arnold's games, fascinated by the intricate dance of athletes and the dedicated professionals who kept them in peak condition. Now, as she transferred to the University of Connecticut to pursue her master's in sports medicine, she felt her dreams aligning with reality. She had applied to the Sports Medicine Student Manager program, an opportunity that allowed students to gain hands-on experience in collegiate athletics healthcare. The program would allow her to work side by side with the medical team of the UConn Huskies Women's basketball team and that filled her with both anticipation and anxiety.

❝ɪ ʙʟᴀᴍᴇ ʏᴏᴜ ᴀɴᴅ ʏᴏᴜ ʙʟᴀᴍᴇ ᴍᴇ. ɪ ᴘᴜᴛ ꜰɪʀᴇ ᴛᴏ ʏᴏᴜʀ ɢᴀꜱᴏʟɪɴᴇ.❞ there's a fine line between control and collapse, and Lorelei Campbell has always been both. But what happens when your world finally destructs and you're standing in the middle of it? When the calm you built becomes smoke in your lungs, and the person holding the match is the only one you ever let close enough to strike it. Paige Bueckers was supposed to be steady. Light. The thing that quieted the noise. Instead, she became the noise-louder, sharper, impossible to ignore. Now every glance feels like a challenge. Every word, a blade. The distance between them hums like static-too charged, too fragile, too dangerous to touch. And yet neither of them can look away. Because love like this doesn't fade. It festers. It rewrites you. It dares you to walk through the fire just to prove you can. Lorelei's always been good at pretending she's unshakable. But Paige knows better. She always has.

An ice rink separates two lives moving in opposite directions: one chasing greatness, the other learning how to survive without a safety net. Love lingers in unsent messages, viral moments, and choices made too late or too carefully. As ambition sharpens and distance stretches thin, what they refuse to name begins to cost them everything. When fate finally pins them in the same place, under the same lights, the question isn't who they love-it's whether they're brave enough to stop skating around it.

in which camille roman, a veteran small forward for the dallas wings, lets her guard down on draft night and finds herself in the one place she shouldn't be - paige bueckers's hotel room. torn between keeping things clean and giving in, cam has her work cut out for her, especially because the two of them can't seem to stay away from one another. [ paige bueckers x fem!oc ] cross-posted on tumblr @bucketbueckers

Paige Bueckers never expected to fall for Ila-the team's confident, magnetic new star-but late nights, stolen glances, and the comfort of home (and four cats) blur every line. Between the spotlight of the media and the fire of their connection, Paige learns that love can be equal parts soft and consuming. PAIGE BEUCKERS X OC! #3 paigebeuckers 09-17-25

Paige Bueckers, a star basketball player, and Jade Carter, soccer forward, have been rivals for years, thanks to the media fueling their feud. Their competition is always the talk of social media with every move they make being compared and scrutinized. But when a chance encounter off-campus sparks unexpected chemistry, their rivalry starts to turn into something more. What starts with insults quickly turns into secret DMs and other... moments. As their connection grows, they must keep their feelings hidden from the public eye, all while dealing with the pressure, jealousy, and media drama that comes with being a secret. With everything at stake, Paige and Jade must decide if love is worth risking their careers and reputations-or if it's just rivalry.

Zahara Castle plays defense like her life depends on it-on the soccer field and everywhere else. She's intense, untouchable, and never afraid to speak her mind, making it clear she doesn't have time for games, drama, or feelings. So when Paige Bueckers, a star on the basketball team, takes a dare from her teammates to try and date someone before the season ends, they point her toward the one girl no one's been able to crack. But Zahara isn't just a challenge-she's real, unpredictable, and maybe exactly what Paige wasn't ready to fall for. ✯ 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐝: 𝐣𝐮𝐥.𝟎𝟐.𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐝: 𝐭𝐛𝐝

Parting isn't for everyone, and for Paige and Ella, that was something they found out the hard way. Paige Bueckers and Ella Nelson weren't your typical best friends. Sure, they had all of the characteristics of one, but the denominating factor was their unsaid tension. After years of denying their feelings silently, they are confronted face first and spiral into a show for their entire grade to laugh at. When her dad gets a new job in California, Ella gets to do the easiest thing she's done in a while, walk away from her betraying "best friend" and never look back. Now, after not speaking for four years, Ella is back in town and "ready" for her first year back as a high school senior. Attempting to hide from not only her past but someone in it as well she is forced into an uncomfortable situation. Can two "friends" with a dense past like theirs forgive and forget, or will it all turn out to be something it's not like last time? Will Ella let her past filled with rejection and confessions hold her back from the love of her life or will she take the risks to regain it?

We often think, if we could change the past, We would be happy, content, no regrets. But changing past mistakes, only opens the door, For new and greater hurt, no more, no less. How often we think, we learned the lesson, That each mistake has taught. Only to repeat them again, and again. At which point is the lesson for naught? How many times must we go through this chaos? Until we learn, to alter old patterns of hurt? Why continue to make the same regrets, As each mistake is sure to bring? When do we see through lies, and deceit? To the truth that lies within? Are we ever to say, enough?! This is where my life will begin? Leah Sloan ~ Derek Morgan criminal minds - mid season two (some chapters are just from random seasons, that I altered)

BOOK 1/3 of A Painter's Guide To Happiness series. [ description ] ⤷ They met by chance. Jennifer stumbled upon an incident as she was driving home from the B.A.U. A couple of girls were in a middle of a fight when jj broke it up and decided to take one in particular home. That's where their epic love story started . . . Jennifer Jareau and Vanessa Reigns. 𝘚𝘈𝘛𝘜𝘚 - ONGOING 𝙲𝚁𝙸𝙼𝙸𝙽𝙰𝙻 𝙼𝙸𝙽𝙳𝚂 𝙵𝙰𝙽𝙵𝙸𝙲 ( 𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧 1-7 ) 𝐣𝐞𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐟𝐞𝐫 𝐣𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐮 𝐱 f!𝐨𝐜 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐦 𝐥𝐚𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐧𝐞 𝐣𝐫 𝐱 f!𝐨𝐜 cover by - @/ -novxscomet