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Why not both? | sam & sebastian

Eventually, something had to give. They both wanted you. They both knew the other wanted you. And sooner or later, you were supposed to choose. Sam or Sebastian. Except you didn’t. You chose both.

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sebastian | stardew valley

The new farmer was never supposed to become Sebastian’s problem. At least, that’s what he keeps telling himself. Somewhere between chance encounters, rainy evenings, and late nights outside the mines, indifference turns into curiosity…then something much harder to ignore. Now he’s always finding excuses to be around you, pretending he doesn’t notice who you’re spending time with—even when it’s obvious he does. A slow-burn romance with a quietly possessive Sebastian who insists he’s just “passing by.”

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secret gardens | sebastian stardew valley

The four of you had one rule growing up in Pelican Town: no dating within the friend group. Now, years later, you and Sebastian are secretly breaking it. Stolen kisses, midnight motorcycle rides, and sneaking into each other’s rooms are easy enough to hide. The hard part is pretending you’re still just friends—especially when Sebastian has to watch everyone else treat you like you’re single.

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jealousy, jealousy | sebastian stardew valley

You’ve been friends with Sebastian, Sam, and Abigail long enough to become part of their little group—and long enough to fall hopelessly for Sebastian without him knowing. So when Sebastian spends the night at the saloon wrapped up in conversation with Abigail while Sam tries his luck flirting with you, you’re too busy hiding your jealousy to notice Sebastian might be dealing with some of his own.

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Sebastian | Stardew Valley

Sebastian was supposed to hate working on your farm. Three weeks later, he’s still insisting he hates you, despite riding his motorcycle to your farm every morning, showing up wherever you happen to be, and developing a painfully obvious soft spot his friends won’t stop teasing him about. But when a bonfire in Cindersap Forest ends with you getting a little too close to Sam, Sebastian’s carefully hidden jealousy finally starts showing.

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Before you were Rooster

You knew Bradley Bradshaw before anyone called him Rooster. You loved him before the Navy, hated him by the time you left, and spent years convincing yourself you’d never see him again. Then you got orders to Top Gun.

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Nick Nelson | Maybe

Years after childhood pulled them apart, {{user}} runs into Nick Nelson at university—and discovers he still remembers everything, including the feelings neither of them ever got to name.

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Good enough… until

You thought Bradley Bradshaw was firmly in your past. He broke your heart before flight school, and years later, you’re engaged to a man who is stable, successful, and good enough. Then Bradley walks into your workplace near Top Gun, and one look at the man you never really stopped loving makes the life you settled for suddenly feel impossible to ignore.

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Back to Pelican Town | Sebastian Centric

Every summer as a kid, your parents dropped you off at your grandfather’s farm, and for a few months the valley became your entire world. You spent your days running through Cindersap Forest, swimming at the beach, getting grass stains on your knees, and disappearing into town with the other kids until Grandpa eventually came looking for you. Then you turned twelve. Your parents divorced, summers at Grandpa’s stopped. Pelican Town became a place of childhood nostalgia encapsulated in photographs. Years passed. You grew up. So did they. But unlike you, they never left the valley.

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kit connor

A year and a half after your breakup, you unexpectedly run into Kit—with a baby whose age and familiar eyes reveal the secret you never planned to tell him.

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Family Tree | Jack Abbot

You’re Dr. Robby Robinavitch’s 22-year-old daughter, someone Jack Abbot has heard about for years but never actually met until you show up in the ER needing stitches. Robby asks Jack to patch you up because he can’t stand the thought of hurting you himself, unknowingly setting off a slow-burn attraction Jack knows he absolutely shouldn’t have. As Jack grows more protective and increasingly drawn to you, Robby assumes it’s all just loyalty to his friend and concern for his daughter.

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dirty little secret

You’re Garrett Graham’s freshman little sister, which should make you completely untouchable to his junior-year roommates. Unfortunately, Dean Di Laurentis notices you anyway—and the more time you spend around the hockey house, the harder it becomes for him to remember why Garrett’s one rule matters.

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Liquid Truth

You and Rhett Abbott have always insisted you’re just friends. But when you get called to pick him up after a bar fight and find him drunk on an entire bottle of tequila, he’s a little too happy to see you—and a little too honest about how much you mean to him.

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ghosts

When Garrett finds out your boyfriend has been hurting you, he moves you into the hockey house without hesitation. Surrounded by four fiercely protective guys, you finally have somewhere safe to land—but Garrett has no idea this isn’t the first time someone you trusted has hurt you.

Stealing the Spotlight | Dean Di Laurentis

You’re a marketing major and micro-influencer hired to fix Briar hockey’s terrible social media presence. The job gets complicated fast when Dean Di Laurentis turns every piece of content into an excuse to flirt—and fans start noticing the chemistry before either of you does.

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one of the boys

You’re the mystery player Briar’s hockey team has been obsessing over for weeks—except they all assumed you were a guy. Once you prove you belong on the ice, the team quickly takes you in, but Dean Di Laurentis gets a little more protective than everyone else when opposing players start making sexist comments.

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f**k my baby daddy

You’re Garrett Graham’s little sister, and Dean Di Laurentis is the one guy who was always supposed to be off limits. One secret hookup at a party was supposed to stay buried—until a positive pregnancy test makes pretending it never happened impossible.

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a life worth living

You and Rooster have been married for three years, and now have a new baby boy, Nicholas “Nick” James Bradshaw.

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nobodys soldier

You and Bradley Bradshaw meet in flight school and quickly become each other’s biggest competition. Somewhere between trying to outfly, outscore, and outsmart one another, the rivalry turns into something neither of you is willing to admit.

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ride it out

You and Rhett Abbott have always turned bull riding into a competition, trading scores, insults, and just enough flirting to keep things interesting. But after one bad ride leaves you shaken, Rhett’s usual cocky teasing hits harder than he realizes—and the argument that follows exposes just how much he actually cares.

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call me when you’re drunk, call me what you want

You and Rhett Abbott have been best friends for years, always brushing off the moments that feel a little too close to be just friendship. But when you get too drunk at the Handsome Gambler and call him to come get you, lowered inhibitions make it a lot harder to ignore what’s been there all along.

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Plus ones | dean di laurentis

A year after one anonymous night with Dean Di Laurentis in New York, you transfer to Briar for graduate school with his baby in tow. Dean is blindsided when he sees you again—and even more shocked when you tell him the child is his.

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