"If you feel it too... then maybe we were never just friends." Luke Hughes has never come home without Bailey Parker waiting. Michigan summers were always the same: Luke, Jack, and Quinn flying back the moment the NHL season ended. Lake days. Late nights. Inside jokes that never faded. And Bailey-his childhood best friend-right there in the middle of it all. She was his constant. His safe place. His. But not in a way that complicated things. Until this summer. A lingering look by the bonfire and a sudden shift in the air change everything. Suddenly, the boundary they spent a decade building feels fragile. As the summer heat turns friendship into something consuming, Luke has to decide if he's willing to risk the most important relationship in his life for the one thing he's always secretly wanted.

Connor Bedard's life belongs to the public-every game, interview, and mistake picked apart by millions. Madi Bennett's life is the complete opposite: quiet, private, and normal. but when the two meet, what starts as a secret quickly becomes something real. the problem? Connor's world doesn't allow secrets for long, and once their relationship is exposed, everything they've built threatens to fall apart.

She spends years looking for love everywhere except where it's waiting for her. In crowded train cars. Across dinner tables. In songs playing too loudly through cracked phone speakers. In the way her parents still reach for each other without thinking after thirty years. She watches it bloom, break apart, disappear, return again. Quietly collecting evidence that real love exists. Then she meets Luke Hughes. At first, it's nothing dramatic. Just late-night drives after games, shared coffees gone cold during study sessions, and conversations that somehow last until sunrise. But somewhere between missed calls, winters apart, and all the tiny moments nobody writes songs about, Luke becomes woven into the fabric of her life so gradually she hardly notices it happening. Each chapter traces a different glimpse of love: messy, fleeting, devastating, ordinary. And as the years pass, she begins to realize the thing she's been searching for her whole life may have been growing inside her all along.

The world knows her face. No one knows her voice. Tessa McRae is famous for standing beside her sister. To the public, she is Tate McRae's shadow-her younger sister by ten months, her backup dancer on tour, her favorite model for magazine covers and music videos. Beautiful, poised, always in motion, always half a step out of frame. No one knows she used to write music. No one knows why she stopped. When Tate begins dating NHL star Jack Hughes in the middle of hockey season, Tessa follows her to New Jersey like she always does-protective, steady, invisible in the ways that matter. She doesn't expect to meet Luke Hughes. Jack's younger brother is quiet where the world is loud, gentle where fame is sharp. While Jack recovers from a freak injury and the season barrels forward without pause, Luke becomes an unexpected constant-text messages between flights, late-night calls after losses, small truths exchanged in the dark. What starts as friendship becomes something dangerous. Because Luke sees her. Not the model. Not the dancer. Not the sister. The girl who still hears songs in her bones. Every lyric she writes in secret feels like betrayal. Every feeling for Luke feels like crossing a line that can't be uncrossed. Because loving him doesn't just risk her heart. It risks her sister. Their fragile balance. The life Tessa rebuilt after her voice was taken from her. And when the music comes back louder than her fear, she must decide: remain the girl the world recognizes... or become the woman her heart has been writing all along. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ updating every sunday :)

emmy edwards has spent her whole life in the shadow of the rink - as a michigan student-athlete, a lacrosse standout, and the twin sister of defenseman ethan edwards, she's used to navigating a world full of hockey boys, chirping, and chaos. the one thing she isn't used to? feelings. especially not the feelings she's been secretly writing down in a collection of unsent letters addressed to her brother's best friend. luke hughes is supposed to be off-limits - the golden boy of yost, the quiet-hearted hockey star who always looks out for her, the one person she should never fall for. but when he accidentally discovers the letters she never meant for anyone to read, everything changes. and instead of walking away, he starts writing back. she doesn't know he's reading. he doesn't know how to stop. told entirely through letters both hidden and unsent, this is a slow, aching story of friendship, trust, late-night practices, unexpected confessions, and the terrifying possibility that the person you're falling for... might be falling too.

"I KNOW EVERYBODY CHANGES, BUT I HOPE WE DON'T" which connor bedard can't help but fall for his friends sister again, like every summer.

in which, willow raye stops in new york for her world tour, and meets someone she just can't get out of her head. "𝘿𝙚𝙖𝙧 𝙂𝙤𝙙, 𝙩𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙠𝙞𝙨𝙨 𝙧𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙢𝙮 𝙗𝙧𝙖𝙞𝙣 𝙏𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙢𝙮 𝙥𝙖𝙞𝙣 𝙏𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙖𝙮 𝙝𝙚'𝙙 𝙪𝙨𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙨𝙖𝙮 𝙄 𝙡𝙤𝙫𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝘿𝙚𝙖𝙧 𝙂𝙤𝙙, 𝙜𝙚𝙩 𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙞𝙢𝙥𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙩 𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙢𝙮 𝙗𝙚𝙙 𝙏𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙖𝙢𝙖𝙯𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙨𝙚𝙭 𝙏𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙖𝙬𝙖𝙮 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙖𝙮 𝙄 𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙢𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙬𝙖𝙣𝙩 𝙩𝙤" 51,864 words highest # 1 - mattrempe (6/11/2025) 1 - nationalhockeyleague (6/11/2025) 2 - newyorkrangers (6/11/2025) 2 - lukehughes (6/11/2025) 5 - songwriter (6/11/2025) 6 - popstar (6/11/2025) 6 - newjersey (6/11/2025) 9 - matt (6/11/2025) 16 - quinnhughes (6/11/2025) 24 - newjerseydevils (1/11/2025) 27 - hughes (26/10/2025) 40 - nhlfanfiction (29/10/2025) 56 - hockeyplayer (1/11/2025) 61 - singer (6/11/2025) 62 - jackhughes (25/10/2025) 63 - hockey (6/11/2025) 69 - newyork (6/11/2025) 88 - nhl (25/10/2025) 548 - fanfiction (2/11/2025)

in which connor bedard spends years loving the same girl in all the wrong ways - quietly, fearfully, and never enough out loud - until losing her becomes the only thing scarier than finally letting her stay. or five years of almosts, mixed signals, emotional spirals, and one hockey player who only learns how to love properly after the girl he's always loved finally walks away.

Bella Hughes had become a well known name within the hockey community. For her skill and talent, but also because of her brothers. Connor Bedard had become a well known name as well, because of his talent, and ability to put the puck in the net. The two had been selected to go to the World Junior Championships (wjc), for their country's, and the two old friends meet in person again. Feeling's begin to fly around, some new, mostly old. But by liking a Canadian, is she betraying her team? Or is love stronger than that? i'm lazy so the lowercase is on purpose!! C.Bedard x oc

Connor Bedard FanFic