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Napalunok ako ng laway. Ang laki pala talaga ng Clifford's Hotel. Ilang palapag kaya ang meron dito? Talaga bang nasa Pilipinas ang hotel na'to? Bakit ba ako nandito? Simple lang. I am invited to see him in person. Yes, to see the renowned business man, named, Rance Clifford. He is in the top three of the most rich and handsome business-entrepreneur in the world. He got the looks and money that every cinderella girls have dreamt of. May chance na... ako ang cinderella na hinahanap n'ya. Let's just hope so. Malaki na rin ang naiambag ng social network sa ating buhay. At isa na sa part nito, ay ang makilala ang 'nobody na katulad ko.' Maraming nagsasabing maganda raw ako. At dapat maging proud daw ako. Proud? Proud naman ako... hindi nga lang halata sa suot kong jeans. Hihihihi! Eto bang hakbang ko papasok dito eh, may kahihinatnang bago sa buhay ko? O baka, isa lang sa mga palpak na date na pupuntahan ko? Alona Ygrassil, FYI, wala ka pang napuntahang date. Virgin ka sa lahat ng bagay! V-I-R-G-I-N!

Imogen Harrison has been dating campus heartthrob Parker Yapchengco. But no one knows about it. Bagaman pumayag si Imogen na ilihim nila ni Parker ang kanilang relasyon ay hindi nawawala ang kanyang mga agam-agam tungkol dito. Buti na lang at madalas siyang damayan ni Shiloah Suarez, ang bagong transferee sa kanilang eskuwelahan na kabaliktaran ang ugali kay Parker. Will she be selfish and stay with Parker while keeping Shiloah by her side? Or will she break up with him for good and choose someone she can be with in public?

"Didn't I promise you? I'll destroy anyone who dares hurt you." But then he left-taking my heart with him.

All her life, Mary Imogen Suarez was led to believe that she should end up with Parker Adrian Palma. Na dapat, kay Parker lang siya. Na si Imogen ay para lang kay Parker. But the problem was, Parker never looked her way, at least, not the way she wanted him to. For him, she's just the best friend-and a reminder of something he badly wanted to forget. For years, she lived with the knowledge that Parker would never like her back. Akala ni Imo, hindi na siya makakaahon sa naraaramdaman niya para kay Parker-until she met Saint Iverson Gomez de Lianño. Saint was a breath of fresh air. He's attentive, and he made Imo feel loved and appreciated-something she never felt during all the years she loved Parker. But when things started to fall in their right places, Parker decided to finally look her way. What would Imogen do? Would she brave the storm to be with Saint? Or would she tread the strings that connect her with Parker?

When her longtime boyfriend proposes to her, Nari does not seem happy. She rejects him, hoping he would understand. But two years, seven days, three hours, five minutes, and thirty seconds later, Nari enters a church and watches him get married to someone else. *** At 21, Nari Miranda graduates from college wanting to complete her bucket list-being independent, visiting the US, traveling Europe, and adopting a dog-so when Benny, her longtime boyfriend proposes and surprises her with a house-their own house--she doesn't feel right. Until she follows the first thing she thinks of that moment: she rejects him. Nari hopes that everything will still be okay between them, but seeing Benny with another girl becomes too much for her. Feeling broken, she goes to a bar to drink her pain away and meets Preston, the man she always coincidentally crosses paths with, not knowing her life will take a whole new different turn. DISCLAIMER: This story is written in Taglish COVER DESIGNED BY: Louise De Ramos

Genesis thought she already found the love of her life. Bakit naman kasi hindi? They've been together for so long that she couldn't remember a time when she didn't know him. Akala niya sila na talaga. Malaki ang tiwala niya. She even put her life and dreams on pause para sa kanya... innocently believing that for him, she's the end game, too. Mali pala siya. But then she met Parker... who's probably the most broken soul she's ever met. Against better judgment, she fell for him. She was hoping that he'd fall for her too. She did everything right... or at least she thought she did. Pero mali na naman pala siya. Kailan ba siya sasaya? Just this once... sana naman.

Ang entry na ito ay nakabase sa pabalat/canvas na nakikita ng mga mata mo. Ito rin ang naipasa kong entry sa Romeo Forbe's Children Wrting Competition noong Oktubre, 2015. Credits to the owner of the canvas.

[Written in Filipino and konting English] Kompilasyon ng mga mahahabang maiikling kwento, mga anik-anik, mga suka ng isa talagang bored na otistik, mga pighati habang naglalaslas, at iba pang mga walang kwentang kwento. Palakpakan!