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.

"You're going to miss me, you know that right?" "I've never missed any fling I've had, Quinn. Don't get your hopes up." Where Scout and Quinn get off to a rocky start and make some choices that make it even rockier. ************* quinn hughes x fem!oc enemies (?) to lovers mature language CONTENT WARNING: implied sex and references to sex (no smut), drinking and drunk activities, general rowdiness vagueish timeline with a vague nhl season loosely inspired by Make You Miss Me by Sam Hunt

"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.

When the Hughes little sister decided to take a road trip down to Chicago before heading off to college in Michigan. Who will she run into and what will fate hold.

After Carolina signed to play for Barça, she reunited with her best friend Fermín...and her best enemy Gavi. They had been enemies since they were 5 years old but destiny refused to let them be away from each other for long.

This is a spin-off series of my Fermín López series "Anyone but you". If you want to read Fermín's story as well, I'd advise you to do it before reading "Lifeline", since this new series will contain major spoilers of "Anyone but you". But this is for those who, like me, loved Alicia and wanted to know more about her. Here is her series and I hope you love it <3