CLOSE TO YOU- dean diLaurentis

✨ 𝒞𝓁𝑜𝓈𝑒 𝓉𝑜 𝓎𝑜𝓊 ✨

Athena Graham is the exact opposite of her older brother, Garrett. While he's loud, competitive, and lives and breathes hockey, Athena is quiet, focused, and disciplined-her world revolves around two things: excelling in her studies and perfecting every jump, spin, and routine as a dedicated figure skater. Reserved and careful with who she lets close, she has one hard, unshakable rule: never get involved with hockey players. In her eyes, they're too chaotic, too much drama, and far too complicated-everything she avoids.
But rules are made to be tested, and everything shifts when she starts to notice Dean DiLaurentis. Dean has his own set of boundaries, and the biggest one of all? He doesn't do complicated. He likes things simple, straightforward, and easy-nothing messy, nothing tangled.

What begins as quiet glances slowly turns into late-night conversations that stretch into the early hours. Bit by bit, Athena's walls start to crack. She finds herself thinking that maybe Dean isn't that bad after all-maybe he's different from the others, and perhaps her hard-set rule was wrong from the start. Or so she thought.

Because when their mutual interest deepens, they both realise they've walked straight into a huge problem. Athena, with her guarded heart, trust issues, and the weight of her father's control, and Dean, who swore he would never deal with anything complicated, are exactly the kind of messy, difficult situation neither of them ever planned for. And with Graham, his best friend, and everyone they know watching closely, what started as a simple curiosity quickly becomes something far more dangerous-proving that sometimes, the people you let in are the ones who can break every rule you ever made.