Play Pretend || Marz

In the fiercely competitive world of elite handball, Lara Raj and Manon Bannerman are everything the other is not-and everything the other stands in the way of. As captains of rival teams climbing from regional leagues toward the national championship, they are locked in a battle for victory, pride, and control.

To the outside world, their rivalry is electric. To Lara, it's something else entirely.
They have a history neither of them talks about-and only one truly remembers.

As their teams are forced into close quarters-shared practices, shared hotels, shared road trips-the line between enemy and something far more dangerous begins to blur. Every look lasts too long, every collision feels personal, every victory tastes like loss.

Because some rivalries aren't born on the court.
They're written long before the first whistle blows.