"he's so tall and handsome as hell" Olympic figure skater Andromeda Celebrini meets her brothers best friend. Is it the right time to fall for a boy? Is mack going to approve?

They grew up together. Fell in love like it was inevitable. And lost each other in a way neither of them saw coming... Now, years later, they're back in the same place...same city, same memories, same everything. Except this time, they're strangers. And some memories...never really leave, no matter how hard you try to forget them. ❝𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘰𝘯 𝘧𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘴 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘨𝘰. 𝘍𝘶𝘯𝘯𝘺 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘥𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘮𝘦.❞ - childhood best friends to lovers, to strangers -

Quinn Taylor has made a career out of looking calm. On the ice, she's America's favorite kind of pressure-proof-bright smile, steady answers, the skater everyone wants to root for. Off the ice, she's an only child with a perfectionist's brain and a habit of carrying too much alone. The cameras love her. The country expects her. And the one place she can't afford to fall apart is the one place she's dreamed of since she was little. The Olympics. Macklin Celebrini has always made things feel lighter. He was the new kid at a Northern California rink at twelve-Canadian, polite, a little lost-until Quinn decided he was hers to keep. He became her best friend in the cold air and early mornings, the person who could make her laugh mid-breakdown and never ask her to perform for him. Then life did what life does: seasons changed, schedules got brutal, distance widened, and the kind of friendship that felt unbreakable turned into occasional texts and quiet missing. Now they're both back where the world is loudest. At the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics, Quinn is chasing the skate of her life for Team USA. Mack is carrying his own weight for Team Canada hockey. When reporters find out they grew up together, the story writes itself-childhood friends reunited, smiles caught on camera, a thousand strangers deciding what they are to each other. The only problem is... the strangers aren't entirely wrong. Between past chapters at a small California rink and present days in the Olympic Village, Quinn and Mack have to figure out what they really meant to each other then-and what they're allowed to be now, with medals on the line and the whole world watching. Because it's one thing to love someone quietly from a distance. It's another to have them show up in your life again and make everything feel possible.

At eighteen, Park Sun-Ho is standing on the edge of the world. As the youngest member of the powerhouse group E.Motion, he is the Golden Maknae, the face of a generation, a Korean-Australian talent carrying the weight of a multi-million dollar industry on his shoulders. He's supposed to belong to the fans. He's supposed to be perfect. But before the cameras start rolling, he meets her. June Adams is eighteen, foreign, and refreshingly unaware of the posters of Sun-Ho's face already lining the subways. She's in Korea to study art, her head full of history and her heart set on a new beginning. To her, Sun-Ho isn't a superstar; he's just a boy with a secret smile. From the frantic energy of debut stages to the lonely luxury of world tours, Sun-Ho must navigate the rivalry between his duty to his group and his desperate need for the one person who truly sees him. Can a love hidden in the lyrics of a song ever survive the light of day? *UNEDITED* ____________________ ✩ rankings: #1 MAKNAE (24/03/2026) #2 ARTSTUDENT (27/02/2026) #10 ASIAN (05/02/2026) [Word Count: 102,897] Copyright ©2026 by Annabella May

❝𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘮𝘦, 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴 𝘩𝘦 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘴?❞ the story in which the girlfriend of jack hughes starts having doubts about their relationship the moment his older brother steps into the picture.