playing pretend (until it's real)

playing pretend (until it's real)

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Life has a very strange way of colliding paths that should never be able to cross. Hailey is just trying to survive high school. Battling a deep fear of crowds, she dreams of one day stepping onto a stage and becoming the musician she knows she could be, if only she can find the courage to face the world. Drew, on the other hand, has a name to live up to. With expectations, reputation, and pressure constantly weighing on him, he's quietly fighting battles of his own. Including addictions that threaten to pull him under. They already have more problems than they can handle, and the last thing either of them needs is to deal with their beef since middle school. But life rarely cares about what people want. Circumstances keep forcing them into the same spaces, the same moments, the same conversations. And the more they see each other, the harder it becomes to ignore the truth. Because sometimes the person you clash with the most is the one who understands you the best. And the one who might change *everything*. - - - I do not own any of the characters in this story (except for one male OC) or the world they are in, and everything belongs to RosyClozy. I have, however, taken creative liberties.
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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.

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