They say that happy-go-lucky people bury their deepest pain behind smiles. For Maverick Evander, an architecture student, was entangled in a web of uncertainty by his parents' decision to separate. Beneath his playful image and a well-known loud circle, he was able to carry a facade-a mystery no one could ever decipher. How can you read someone when they are just black pages in the book? That's how engineering student Rade Archiel Tejano sees Mavric: a blinding sun you could only graze upon. And the more he tries to solve the puzzles in Mavric's mind games, the more Mavric's wall thickens. Will Rade be able to crush someone who is already broken? Will Mavric top someone when he's the one who's falling? In a play where one had to win, both of them fell...hard.

In a cutthroat pre-law program, Jackson clashes with Kenzo, the arrogant classmate he can't stand, until he discovers that the very man who infuriates him holds the key to his freedom to become who he truly wants to be. *** Jackson Ramirez is done with broken promises-his mother's sacrifices, his father's prison sentence, and the suffocating pre-law program he never wanted. The last thing he needs is Kenzo Adachi, the arrogant classmate who gets under his skin. But when animosity sparks into something deeper, Jackson must deal with a past that ties their families together in betrayal. In the wreckage of secrets and pain, will Jackson and Kenzo choose each other in the end? DISCLAIMER: This story is written in Taglish. COVER DESIGN: Rayne Mariano ILLUSTRATOR: Ri Ot

He - Yukio Zyde Montero, is a man with a fucked up life. The only thing and reason for him to keep holding on is his friends and his siblings. His life is miserable; his parents are at fault. Well, at some point in his life, he was given another reason to keep on going; a stronger reason to keep going. It was when he met Isaiah Gavin De Vera. As he asked a friend to give him a random number combination to call and it happened to be Sai. Kio - who was drunk at that time - happened to burst out his thoughts and let his emotions out for the first time, for it is too much to handle alone. Keeping his belief in 'strangers won't judge', he lets himself cry. Sai, who is a handler of an inspirational quote page on twitter, after that drunk call, always dedicates messages for him, together with a code. Code: Synéchise, a Greek word which means "keep going". His safe place. His haven. His strongest reason to keep going, Sai. ⨾