Have you ever fallen for someone you weren't supposed to? Someone who was meant to be just a friend, but somewhere along the way, your heart decided otherwise? Did you take the risk and tell them how you felt? Or did you keep it to yourself, wondering- hoping- that maybe, just maybe, they felt the same way too? And if you never told them, what was that like? Carrying that secret, pretending they were just a friend when, deep down, they had already become so much more. How did it feel to smile through conversations, to act as if nothing had changed, when in reality, everything had? Thirdy and Bea had been friends for almost ten years. Somewhere along the way, unspoken feelings started to grow - too deep to ignore, yet too risky to confess. But unlike Bea, Thirdy had tried. Twice. Twice, he gathered the courage to court her, to finally turn their friendship into something more. And twice, Bea had to turn him down-not because she didn't feel the same way, but because she wasn't ready. She had too many priorities, too many responsibilities, and a relationship wasn't something she could give herself to at the time. And so, Thirdy waited. He stayed. Now, years later, something feels different. The timing, the circumstances, the space between them - it no longer feels like an impossible gap. For the first time, they both feel like maybe, just maybe, they're finally ready. Ready to take the risk. Ready to cross the line. Ready to turn what could have been into what should have been all along. Will they finally have the courage to admit what's been there for so long? Or will their story remain a waiting game, stuck in the space between almost and forever?

A best friend. Thirdy Ravena was only a best friend to Bea de Leon. At least that's what she kept telling everyone. It's not until she reads this thread her fans made about them. Confused? Why is she confused?

Yvonne Maica Lim is an aspiring UAAP court side reporter for UST, she was so close to getting her football player crush after plotting on him for almost a year...but everything fell apart when she had to fake date the infamous star basketball player of the UST Growling Tigers instead. Book cover by cottonbro studio in pexels