LI

She was already a Briar legend before she ever became part of the hockey boys’ lives. Y/N lives for crowded parties, temporary distractions, and never staying long enough to get attached. But when Hannah starts dating Garrett Graham, Y/N suddenly finds herself pulled into the Briar hockey circle — late-night hangouts, road trips, inside jokes, and Dean Di Laurentis. Dean is annoying, arrogant, way too observant, and somehow impossible to avoid. What starts as sarcastic banter and unresolved tension slowly turns into something neither of them knows how to handle. Because Dean and Y/N are the same in all the worst ways: emotionally unavailable, commitment-phobic, and experts at pretending they don’t care. Too bad everyone else can see right through them.