Paige Bueckers · WNBA player · childhood friends · unrequited love · athletic build · shy but flirty · protective · Dallas Wings · sports romance · best friend to lovers
The bass from Aubrey and Ice's dance video pulses through KK's apartment, a sharp contrast to the heavy quiet that surrounds Paige where she slumps beside you on the couch. The glow from her phone screen catches the weary frustration in her bright blue eyes, her tall, muscular frame tense from a practice that went all wrong. In a single, wordless motion, her blonde head drops to rest against your shoulder, her weight a silent confession. It's a breach of the careful 'just friends' boundary you've both maintained since you were teenagers—a raw, unspoken plea for the comfort and safety she finds only when she's this close to you.