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yes please share with the class!

Soon. Maybe…

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always! would read everything and anything you write!

Your a real one

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So I wanted to quit writing… and I did for a little bit but then I went on a trip and was stuck in a car for 14 hours and ended up writing 11 chapters…

Now imma have to go through it and edit it and shit but do yall want them at some point? Like warning: there REALLY short, there’s not much plot or detail, and it may not make a lot of sense since I happened to be writing this shit while I was fucking exhausted and running on an hour of sleep. But it’s something. That’s all i gotta say. 😂🤦‍♀️

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can we have more of paige being babied? like maybe she shuts down and the whole team is worried and azzi has to bring her out of it?

Let Me Take Care of You

Note: I tried.

The gym was too quiet.

Not in the usual way not the post-practice kind of quiet with music still echoing off the walls and teammates joking around, tossing stray balls into the net.

This was… still.

Unsettling.

Everyone felt it.

Paige hadn’t said a word in over twenty minutes. Not since Coach wrapped up the team huddle. Not since they’d run that last brutal defensive drill. Not since she’d missed three shots in a row and no one even said anything not because they didn’t care, but because the look in Paige’s eyes didn’t leave room for feedback.

She sat alone now, at the edge of the bench. Elbows on her knees. Staring straight ahead.

No music.

No talking.

Even KK didn’t make a sound.

Ice glanced at Jana with a raised brow.

Caroline whispered, “Should we say something?”

“No,” KK murmured. “Not yet.”

Because they all knew something else too:

If Paige Bueckers shut down, there was only one person who could bring her back.

And right on cue, Azzi stepped back into the gym sweat still clinging to her skin from the extra shooting reps she’d taken in the side gym, unaware of what had unfolded in her absence.

But the moment she saw the team huddled in uncomfortable silence?

The moment her eyes landed on Paige?

Her whole body tensed.

She walked straight toward her.

No hesitation.

⸻

Paige didn’t look up.

Even when Azzi dropped to a squat in front of her, gently resting her hand on Paige’s shin.

“Hey,” Azzi whispered, voice warm. Careful. “Baby, look at me.”

Nothing.

Paige’s eyes stayed fixed ahead. Blank. Wide. Lost in something Azzi couldn’t see.

Azzi swallowed.

Then placed both hands on her knees and leaned in closer. “Talk to me. Please.”

Still no response.

So Azzi’s voice softened further barely above a whisper now. “I know you’re overwhelmed. I know it’s too much right now. But you’re not alone, okay? You’re not.”

Paige’s jaw clenched.

Azzi reached up and cupped her face, thumbs brushing gently along her cheeks. “You don’t have to be strong right now. Just be with me. Let me hold you.”

The first tear slipped from Paige’s eye before she even knew it was coming.

Azzi moved instantly.

She pulled Paige forward into her arms, holding her like she was something precious like she was made of glass, not muscle and fire and pressure.

Paige sank into her.

Folded.

Buried her face into Azzi’s neck and gripped the back of her shirt like she was holding on for life.

The sobs didn’t come loud. They came quiet and raw and broken like her body had forgotten how to release anything until right now.

Azzi didn’t say a word.

She just held her.

One hand in Paige’s hair, the other rubbing circles into her back, her own chin tucked against Paige’s shoulder.

Across the gym, the team slowly turned away giving them space.

No one questioned it.

Because Azzi had this. She always had her.

⸻

Later, in the locker room, Paige sat with her head in Azzi’s lap, curled up on the bench like a child too tired to sit on her own.

Azzi ran her fingers through her hair, over and over. “You’ve been holding too much in again.”

“I didn’t mean to,” Paige whispered.

“I know. That’s why I’m here. You don’t have to carry it all.”

Paige blinked slowly, her voice hoarse. “I don’t know how to stop.”

Azzi leaned down and kissed her temple. “You don’t need to. Just let me hold you when it gets heavy.”

Paige didn’t reply but she reached for Azzi’s hand and gripped it tight.

And that was answer enough.

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I am so gay…

Oh yes please

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Right like whatttttt

HOW IS THIS REALLL RNNN

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HANG IT IN THE FUCKING LOUVRE

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Oops… sorry y’all but also I’m still on vacation so don’t expect much😂😬

So real of her

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Fr also thank you 😂

So real of her

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So real of her

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Please tell me I’m not the only one that’s see the disrespect to Lucy Olsen bc wdym when literal players on the mystics say “ALL OF OUR rookies are doing great” or when announcer say it and name everyone except Lucy and how literally none of them bring her up and how she barely got posted after dropping 19 in the lynx the #1 team like please tell me I’m not the only one that’s sees this

No definitely not. It’s such bullshit fr

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fix tn?

I’m on vacation yall. I’m busy sorry

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my favourite romcom of all time is 10 things i hate about you so definitely recommend that if you haven’t watched it already!

I just watched that a week ago I thought it was pretty good. Idk how I hadn’t watched it sooner but loved it. Have yall watched how to lose a guy in 10 days? That’s my favorite rom com of all time

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They’re like comedy shows, but they’re also put into like acting if you understand what I mean

Huh ok

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Or if you like comedy, there’s Miss Pat and then Mr. Iglesias

Are those like actual comedy shows?

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There a movie in Netflix it’s like a Lego movie it’s called peace by peace

Idk if that’s my kinda thing. I like action, comedy or like rom coms. That kinda thing. Not that I don’t like animated movies or anything cause I mean cars is one of my favorites all time but do yall got anything like that?

Thank you for the rec tho

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this might me too immature/silly for your taste but the lego batman movie is genuinely one of my favourite films… it’s too funny it acc got me crying laughing i HIGHLY recommend

Idk if that really my vibe rn but I have watched it and it is pretty funny ngl 😂👍