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   Backstroke by opencasket

   Fandoms: Men's Football RPF  

   • Explicit
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   08 Aug 2026

   Tags

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   • Jamal Musiala/Michael Olise
   • Alternate Universe - College/University
   • Mutual Pining
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Social Anxiety
   • Jealousy
   • Swimming
   • Injury Recovery
   • Not Actually Unrequited Love
   • Childhood Friends
   • Boarding School
   • Semi-Public Sex
   • Hand Jobs
   • Multiple Orgasms
   • Coming of Age
   • Underwater kisses
   • very light barely there feminization (but its there)

   Summary

   “Are you scared?” When Michael looks at him, Musiala’s sorry ass looks like he really believes this: that Michael is scared of the water, not his age-old infatuation with Musiala. “I promise, it’s okay.” Musiala’s expression is so unfailingly earnest, his eyes warm and tender. “I’d never let you drown.”

   Nothing in Michael’s life has really ended up how it’s supposed to, but at least Jamal Musiala is teaching him how to swim.

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