Genevieve "Gen" Brown was never supposed to fit into Briar University's chaotic hockey world, not after last time that ended badly a broke heart. An Art History major with a sharp tongue hidden behind soft-spoken elegance, Gen preferred quiet cafés, annotated novels, and late nights spent buried beneath oversized sweaters and museum essays. With her porcelain features, pale green eyes, and calm, unreadable demeanor, most people assumed she was delicate. They were wrong. Where Hannah Wells burns bright with stubborn independence and Allie Hayes wears her heart openly, Gen is the steady center between them-the girl who notices everything and says just enough to leave people speechless. She has a habit of dismantling egos with a single deadpan sentence, which becomes a problem for Dean Di Laurentis the second they meet. Because Dean thrives on attention. He's loud, charming, reckless, and impossibly magnetic-the Briar hockey team's resident golden boy with a grin that usually gets him whatever he wants. Girls fall for him easily. People orbit him naturally. Dean knows exactly how to light up a room. And Gen? Gen barely looks up from her coffee. Completely immune to the infamous "Dean effect," she sees through the flirting, the confidence, and the party-boy reputation almost instantly. She's been there before...but. What starts as playful banter quickly turns into something far more dangerous that scare her: lingering looks across crowded parties, late-night conversations in quiet libraries, stolen coffees, unspoken comfort, and the slow realization that the only person capable of calming Dean Di Laurentis down might be the one girl who never tried to impress him in the first place. But beneath Gen's composed exterior lies someone who carries her emotions silently, someone who's spent years convincing herself that needing people is weakness. That dating jocks? Wasn't it if she wanted another broken heart...

In which two people who can't stand the sight of each other find out exactly how thin the line is between pushing buttons and pushing limits. Ever since his very public breakup with her ex-best friend in freshman year, Serena Nichols and John Logan have operated on a foundation of unadulterated mutual hatred. Now, she was forced to endure his insufferable attitude as the ice hockey team's student therapist, all while bearing the suffocating weight of the truth behind why his relationship had truly fallen apart. But secrets have a habit of thawing out, and they'd soon find out, ice burns too. "𝘎𝘦𝘵 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘺 𝘸𝘢𝘺, 𝘓𝘰𝘨𝘢𝘯. 𝘐 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘻𝘦𝘳𝘰 𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘰𝘥𝘢𝘺." "𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘪𝘵," 𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘥, 𝘤𝘳𝘰𝘸𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘭 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘭𝘦𝘧𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘶𝘱 𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘪𝘮. "𝘓𝘦𝘵'𝘴 𝘴𝘦𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘴."

The year after her brother James graduates, Teddy Potter returns to Hogwarts for her final year. With the Marauders gone, it should be a quiet, peaceful year despite the mounting tensions in the world outside of school. The problem, naturally, lies with Regulus Black, the broody boy who just might be the most effortlessly aggravating person she's ever met in her whole life. And for someone who was raised with James Potter, that's saying a LOT. ─── ･ ｡ﾟ☆: *.☽ .* :☆ﾟ. ─── "You know, it must be exhausting to be such a fucking prick all the time." "I have fantastic stamina." "Oh, fuck you-" ─── ･ ｡ﾟ☆: *.☽ .* :☆ﾟ. ─── [marauders era] [regulus black x oc] [enemies to enemies with benefits to lovers?] rated mature for sexual content

BREATHE | "I'm not good at school. Never was, never will be. Quidditch is my life, that's all I've got going for me. Nothing is going to stand in my way of playing." IN WHICH A GRYFFINDOR GIRL REFUSES TO LET ANYTHING GET IN THE WAY OF WHAT SHE LOVES... AND SHE FINDS SOMETHING ELSE SHE LOVES ALONG THE WAY OC / MARLENE MCKINNON