The apartment door clicks shut behind them, but the world doesn’t quiet.
Not really.
Carlos has been pacing for ten minutes.
Not dramatic pacing, not theatrical pacing...
but the kind where someone’s entire worldview is dissolving and they’re trying to put the pieces back together in some kind of order.
Any order.
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Carlos, a single father, moves into a new apartment with his son, Luke, and unexpectedly runs into his college friend Max, the grumpy neighbor he hasn’t seen in years. Luke immediately decides Max should be part of their little family, dragging him into dinners, playtime. As Max spends more time with Carlos and Luke, old feelings resurface, and he slowly learns to trust love, family, and himself again. And one day, maybe it’s finally time to finish the love story they never got to start.
Max and Carlos were never meant to fall in love; they were meant to fight, to burn, to rival. But one night, one touch, one kiss behind a paddock truck rewired their entire world. Years of secrets followed, hotel rooms, stolen moments, jealousy, fear, and everything they never said. Until hiding hurt more than losing, and love finally demanded to be seen. Now the world knows what Max and Carlos knew all along: some fires refuse to die.
In 19th century setting, Max and Carlos fall in love young but are forced apart when Carlos breaks off their relationship to protect Max’s future. Years later, a decorated Navy Captain Max returns, believing Lord Carlos abandoned him, only to discover Carlos’s unanswered letters were stolen by Max’s father. After confronting the truth, they reunite, heal, marry and build a life together by the sea. Tropes: Second chances, "What letters?", Miscommunication, Angst with a happy endingg
Carlos and Max are university roommates who swear they hate each other. A very unfortunate drunk confession, overprotective jealousy and zero emotional self-control ruin their plans. They accidentally fall in love and make it everyone else’s problem. 💗
Carlos is a brilliant literature student. Max is a star hockey forward who is failing a class. Max needs tutoring. Carlos needs someone to pretend to be his fake boyfriend so his annoying ex, Matt backs off. So: Carlos tutors Max. Max fake dates Carlos. Problem solved. Right?
To secure peace between their kingdoms, Prince Carlos is wed to Prince Max. What begins as a duty-bound union slowly blooms into a love neither expected, fierce, tender, and impossible to ignore. And all it takes is an assassination attempt for a love confession.
Max discovers Carlos' love for romcoms and with the help of his friends, orchestrates a series of absurdly romantic “accidents” to make Carlos notice him.
Carlos drags a very grumpy, very stubborn Max through every Christmas activity known to mankind. Somewhere between ugly sweaters, gingerbread wars and quiet nights under soft lights, feelings sneak in. By Christmas morning, Max learns he doesn’t hate the holiday… he just needed the right person.
When Max’s flight to Monaco gets cancelled, he has to share a rental car with Carlos. Four days, three border crossings. What Max didn’t consider? How saying yes to Carlos Sainz’s plan would lead to: Sharing beds. Fake-dating. Piggyback-carrying. And something far more terrifying: Feelings. But that was Future Max’s problem.
Rivals for years, Max and Carlos accidentally fall in love between arguments and late-night flights. Keeping it secret at Hogwarts proves impossible especially with nosy friends and dramatic professors. One near-fall forces Carlos to confess in front of the whole school. In the end, they weren’t enemies, just idiots in love.
Max was supposed to be the perfect crown prince, until he started sneaking out in hoodies to spend real, quiet nights with his bodyguard Carlos. Carlos never imagined the Prince he swore to protect would one day show up at his door on his knees, holding flowers, begging for a chance. Between secret hangouts, accidental feelings and one life-changing kiss, the two of them rewrite every rule they were raised to follow.
When Pierre tells Max that, Carlos(Max's ever-patient assistant) is trying to resign(Spoiler: It's the wrong Carlos), Max launches a dramatic mission to win him back. What follows is two weeks of suspicious niceness, sugar-daddy-level confusion, and one very public love confession in the cafeteria. In the end, the office’s favorite “Mom and Dad” finally admit what everyone already knew, they were hopelessly, hilariously in love.
Every Christmas since 2019, a group of F1 drivers gather in a snow-dusted Monaco cabin, between burnt cookies and Polaroids, Carlos learns what it means to love in silence. While the years pass and couples form around him, his heart remains caught between Max and Charles. By Christmas 2025, after years of pining and near-misses, love finally finds its way home, by the glow of a fireplace and the click of a Polaroid.
Max, Charles and Carlos end up as roommates on a Netflix reality spin-off, where playful chaos and flirty banter turn into something dangerously romantic. Carlos soon discovers he can’t choose because his heart belongs to both Max and Charles.
When a fake prophecy claims that “the son of the sea and the son of the forge must stop denying their feelings,” the entire Camp Half-Blood decides Max and Carlos are destined soulmates. Between love spells, fake dates, and one very dramatic hydra battle, the two go from “we’re not into each other” to “accidentally confessing their love.” Turns out, the prophecy was never real, just the Oracle’s revenge prank, but the love it sparked definitely was.
Two strangers Max and Carlos, scammed into sharing an apartment meant for couples, fake a marriage to keep the apartment but somewhere between the fights, the lies and acting, they accidentally fall in love for real. Because sometimes, the best love stories begin with a mistake… and a lease signed twice.
Max and Carlos swear it’s just casual, no strings, no feelings, until distance, jealousy, and a locked RV force them to admit the truth.
After a crash, Max loses six months of memory, including the fact that he and Carlos had broken up. To spare him the pain, Carlos pretends they’re still together. Will this be a chance for happy ending?
Carlos never meant to lie, yet when his mother asked if Max, his boyfriend was coming to his cousin's wedding, he said yes. But forgot to mention one detail: They broke up six months ago. Now, a weekend of pretending has them forced together, revisiting old habits, stolen glances and lingering touches. Proving that some connections never fade....they just wait for a second chance.
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