STATUS: COMPLETE Highest Rank: #2 in Teen Fiction Growing up always being ridiculed for her mother's night job, Sarisa Ophelia Aloria was determined to prove everyone wrong by becoming the top of her class and graduating with the highest grades possible. But her dreams slowly shattered when Marx Gian Hernandez, the school principal's son, became her classmate in highschool. Always being second to Marx, Sarisa was determined to steal the top spot before graduation comes--even staging a public love confession and pretend to have a crush on the one person she hated just to distract him. What started as a facade fueled by hate, was watered down with something Sarisa didn't even expect as she got to know Marx beyond being her academic rival. In a game of tug of war with your feelings, will it be possible to win when in the first place, you already lost?

[COMPLETED, UNDER EDITING] First story out of Altarieno Series. Academics is an ultimate priority for Leigh Jasmine Altarieno. She will do everything just to maintain her high grades and be the valedictorian of their class-since that's her parent's biggest desire. On the other hand, her classmate and her ultimate rival, Renji Zoel Enriquez wishes to be the top one, as well. He's afraid of not obtaining that title as he won't be able to receive a full college scholarship from his current university. As the academic year goes by, who will win between the two of them? Is it Leigh, Renzo, or... love?

Lia had loved Drew quietly, knowing his heart belonged to someone else. When an arranged marriage threatened to bind them, she walked away, choosing his happiness over her own, even if it meant saving him for another woman. Years later, the boy who once ignored her returns. But between the love she buried and the pain she's learned to live with... will her heart have the strength to love him again?