When We Meet Again | Ilia Malinin

Six years ago, Alina Volkova and Ilia Malinin were just two figure skating kids who trained harder than they socialized and understood each other better than anyone else. They were inseparable at competitions - trading secrets in empty hallways, daring each other to land jumps they had no business trying, and promising they'd always see each other at the next event.

Except the next event never came.

One missed goodbye turned into years of silence. New coaches, new countries, new circuits. And by the time they finally got Instagram, both were too sure the other had already forgotten.

Now Alina is seventeen, carving her name into the ice with a dark, magnetic style. Ilia is nineteen, a rising star with jumps that break records - and hearts. Neither expects to cross paths again.

But ISU calendar had other plans.

When Alina bumps into a very familiar someone at an American competition, everything stops. The boy she once knew has grown up. So has she. And the warmth that hits them both feels way too strong to be just nostalgia.