Senior year was supposed to be simple. Win games. Get scouted. Graduate. That’s how Shane Hollander sees it structured, controlled, predictable. Hockey is the one thing in his life that always makes sense. It’s where he’s respected, where he’s safe, where no one asks questions he doesn’t want to answer. Then there’s Ilya Rozanov. Loud, reckless, impossible to ignore. The kind of person who breaks rules just to prove he can and somehow gets away with it. On the ice, he’s chaos and brilliance all at once. Off the ice, he’s worse. They’ve been teammates since junior year. Friends, technically. Rivals, definitely. And something else neither of them ever talks about. It started as nothing. Late nights after games. Empty locker rooms. Sweaty nights. Stolen moments that didn’t mean anything at least, that’s what they told themselves. No labels. No expectations. Just something easy in between everything else. But a year later, it’s not easy anymore. Because now it lingers. In the way Shane notices when Ilya’s quieter than usual. In the way Ilya looks at Shane like he’s trying to memorize something he might lose. In the silence after when neither of them leaves right away anymore. Ilya doesn’t say anything because he doesn’t know how. Because back home, things are complicated family, expectations, a life that feels like it’s already decided for him. Caring about Shane feels like stepping into something he might not be able to keep. Shane doesn’t say anything because he’s scared. Of what it means. Of what people would think. Of what happens if this whatever this is becomes real and then disappears. So they don’t talk about it. They just keep going. Same team. Same locker room. Same hookup routine. Same unspoken tension that builds with every passing game, every shared glance, every almost-confession that never quite makes it out. Because falling in love was never part of the plan. And neither of them knows what happens if they finally admit that they have.
working on a new film was supposed to be just another role until you’re cast alongside hudson williams. between long shoots, quiet moments, and scenes that feel a little too real, the line between acting and reality starts to blur. in an industry built on pretending, not everything stays scripted.
he’s an detective solving a case of an powerful dead man, you’re the ‘grieving’ spouse. did you kill him? did you not? that’s what simon is solving right now.