Home Was Always You
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Paige Bueckers and Finley Brooks have been best friends for as long as they can remember. Even when basketball took Paige to UConn and dance took Finley to LSU, nothing ever managed to pull them apart. What Finley doesn't know is that Paige has been in love with her since high school-and Paige has no idea Finley started falling for her during her sophomore year of college.
When Paige gets drafted to Texas, Finley moves with her, and the two best friends get an apartment together. Suddenly, years of hidden feelings are a lot harder to ignore when they're sharing a home, stealing each other's clothes, spending every night together, and basically acting like a couple without realizing it.
They've spent years being each other's person. Now they just have to figure out that maybe they were never meant to be just best friends.
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