Chapter 1

"You'd love me even if the star doesn't shine?"
"Even then, Nova. Even then."

This is a reverse grumpy x sunshine, childhood ex best friends college hockey romance.

Maeve Nova Leigh-Foster.

She's the girl I've known since I was five years old. The only thing I knew that was right at such a young age.

But when we're forced apart and reunited over seven years later, nothing's the same.

She hates me as much as I love her.

She can't even look at me when all I can do is stare.

She doesn't even breathe in my direction when all I want is her.

But do I take the hints that she doesn't want me around?

No.

I plan on earning her back even if it opens things from our past that leaves us both even more heartbroken than the start.