What I IMAGINE (read: fictional, made up, not true, not real) happens behind the scenes. A series of unrelated one-shots featuring A&M. Cover photo © mainedcm on IG

Nicomaine Mendoza, twenty, had always secretly dreamed of becoming an actress. Richard Faulkerson Jr., twenty-four, adopted the screen name Alden Richards and lived quietly in all his four years in showbiz. Fortunately, fate played a game with destiny and brought the two of them together, involving Cupid in the process. It was easy, of course, since they were naturals. To smile and laugh in front of the cameras. To act like they were in love. To pretend they really cared for the other that deep. To say romantic lines, to swear they could make it to forever and prove it really exists. The hard part is determining whether they're still acting... or not.

Maine Faulkerson had just started to be finally happy again. She has a great kid, a caring suitor and a peaceful life. There were no more fans following her, no more media people to face. People had forgotten about AlDub. So did she. But then news came. He has been found. Six years after Richard Faulkerson Jr., her husband, left and disappeared, he was suddenly found. And just as he made a full turn on Maine Mendoza's life in that faithful afternoon of July 16 14 years ago, he was about to do it again.

Cover by @letskird :D :D Blurring the lines between real and reel.

They say that the first year of marriage will define if you really are for each other. 5 Years Later is a story about the married lives of Alden and Maine years after the finale of Kalyeserye. Disclaimer: These are fictional stories about real people that I do not personally know.

OFF THE RECORD is a collection of one-shots and on-the-spot drabbles centered around Richard Faulkerson, Jr. and Nicomaine Mendoza. Do not take what is written here as truth; the stories in this collective are all purely made up by the author's highly imaginative mind. Although OFF THE RECORD is tagged as a completed work, the author will continuously update the story with one-shots upon making more.