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Between Beats & Goals

Between Beats & Goals

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WpMetadataNoticeLast published Wed, Aug 5, 2026
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Fanfic
Football/Soccer
Original Character (OC)
Famous Figure: Athlete
Famous Figure: Musician
Everyone knows his name. Nobody knows hers... yet. Ava Richards has spent years chasing a dream that always felt just out of reach. Before the awards. Before the interviews. Before the world started listening. She was just a girl writing songs in her bedroom, hoping one day someone would hear her voice. Then one night changes everything. At the biggest awards ceremony of the year, Ava meets Jude Bellingham- football's golden boy, the player everyone loves, and the person she never expected to understand her. He's famous. She's becoming famous. He lives under stadium lights. She belongs on a stage. Two completely different worlds. But somehow, he's the first person who doesn't see her as a rising star. He sees Ava. And she's the first person who doesn't care about his trophies, his fame, or the millions of people cheering his name. She sees Jude. The boy behind the jersey. The person behind the headlines. But falling for someone the world watches comes with consequences. Because when their secret conversations become public, Ava's dreams are questioned. Is she successful because of her talent? Or because she's standing beside football's biggest star? Rumours spread. Old relationships return. Enemies appear. And suddenly, their love story becomes everyone's favourite headline. Ava has spent her whole life trying to prove she belongs. Jude has spent his whole life trying to protect his heart. Now they have to decide... Are they strong enough to love each other when the whole world is watching?
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"It causes your immune system to turn against you," I explained gently. The color terrifyingly drained from his face as he stared at his knuckles. "I have a spot," he whispered, his voice scraping like glass. "Right here." He let out a strangled noise as the stadium footage buffered. "Riley!" he shrieked, covering his burning face while peering through his fingers at his future self. "Those pants leave absolutely nothing to the imagination!" He went so unnaturally still I thought his heart had stopped beating. His charcoal-stained fingers curled into tight fists. "Fifty," he whispered, scanning the fatal summary on the glowing screen. "I am... I am gone at fifty." What if the only way to save your future was to completely abandon your past? In 1982, Michael Jackson is suffocating. Trapped behind his family's compound gates and drowning under industry pressure, the rising star just wants a life of peace and normalcy. The universe answers-violently ripping him from his timeline and dropping him onto the bedroom rug of Riley, a freelance graphic designer in the year 2025. Stranded forty-three years in the future, Michael must face a world that already knows his tragic history. But Riley fiercely refuses to let that history repeat. She offers him the anonymous, ordinary life he always craved, rebuilding his shattered confidence brick by brick and teaching him the radical concept of self-love. More importantly, she arms him with the ultimate weapon: the brutal truth. She gives him the exact names of the snakes hiding in his 1982 backyard, the upcoming betrayals, and the devastating tragedies he is destined to face. When the universe inevitably pulls him back, Michael is no longer the timid pop star terrified of his shadow. He is a king preparing to claim his throne, knowing exactly how to rewrite music history and what it takes to survive. But armed with the future, changing his fate might cost him the one person who taught him how to live.

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