AMBYS 2025 FAVOURITE - NOVEL **** When Josephine takes up an offer to build and manage a discord server for a stranger, little does she know that it marks the beginning of the rest of her life

ONC 2024 shortlist and honourable mention

Main prompt - Prompt 19: <when you accidentally spill coffee on someone, the moment that should have ruined your day becomes the beginning of a surprising and life-changing friendship> 2nd prompt - prompt 24: <staying as friends feels safe, but that doesn't mean it's the path you're meant to take> *********** Ever since she was a child, May always had someone to rely on - her parents, her siblings, her relatives and most of all, her best friend. She's always never had to worry about anything until she and her best friend get into separate universities. Faced with a new environment with no friends, she's terrified. She doesn't know how to survive on her own. She's falling apart. What she doesn't expect is to find someone who'll teach her how to be independent and survive university on her own. And moreover, that person happens to be her best friend's older brother - Asher, the boy she's not familiar with but from what she's heard, he's controlling, annoying and takes life way too seriously. And maybe, just maybe, he might be the one May needs to survive.