Looking back on it all, I finally understood it was worth it. The endless pain, the streams of tears, the loneliness, all of it. For with it, I finally realized that no matter how broken you are, you can still be your own kind of beautiful. The beautiful that says you survived and are strong. The beautiful that attracts people to want to be with you. The beautiful that can lighten up anyone's day with the smile that proves your truly happy. The beautiful that teaches you to dream. The beautiful that dares you to love.

Unedited version of She's Dating the Gangster.

As if life wasn't hard enough being bullied and treated like garbage all the time; my loathsome, insufferable seat mate just had to come with his "secrets" and torture my every waking hour. What's the big deal you say? Nothing except for the fact that he's some insanely beautiful Greek God under those nerdy glasses. And now, he lives next door. I'm Sarah and this is my story. Disclaimer: This story was written in 2011. Just so you know.

"Rose, I'm sorry, but your eyesight will be gone by the end of this year." Who knew one simple sentence could change a life so drastically? Rose is a normal seventeen year old girl with a normal life, normal friends, and what she thought to be normal vision. When she receives the news her vision is slowly deteriorating, she doesn't know what to think. Her life is over. What's a life without being able to see? Enter Chace, a young man who tackled Rose to the ground, mistakingly thinking she was about to commit suicide. He's handsome, suave, and has no idea why Rose is so upset. And even though she is a complete stranger, he decides he wants to help her feel better. With four months until her vision is gone forever, Rose slowly falls in love with this happy-go-lucky young man, but never reveals her problem to him. She's scared. Will he stay with her when he finds out she's going blind? Or will he ditch her when he finds out the truth?

Charlene Fuentes grew up being an outcast of her family. The only time that her mom and her grandfather noticed her is when they want to scold her. She grew up being over shadowed by her older sister who is, she thought, the treasured member of the family. Hindi naman sya nagseselos dito, in fact, she is happy for her sister’s success. Because it is better for them to be focused on her so that she will be free to do anything she wants. Until the time that she attended her sister’s engagement party who is set to be married to a family friend that she had treated like a kuya all her life. What she didn't expect is when she got to the party, she ended up being the one engaged to her sister’s fiancé! And did I tell you that her sister’s fiancé is the most sought after bachelor in the country ? Mayaman, matalino at SOBRANG GWAPO!

Vanessa Laine is a college student and aspiring musician. She's got the look and she's got the voice. The only thing that's stopping her is her stage fright...and an opportunity. But opportunity knocks when pop-punk band, The Velocity, holds auditions for a new lead singer at the restaurant that Vanessa works at. Getting in was the easy part. Surviving as the only girl in the band is the hard part. Can she do it?

Language: Filipino Started in July 2011 | Finished in December 2011 Published in English for paperback (Pop Fiction, 2013) Adapted in Indonesian for paperback (Penerbit Haru, 2016 & 2018) Blurb: Phoebe Bernal shares a secret with one of the biggest stars in the country, Kent Fuentabella. Their secret? They've been secretly married. Of course, no one can know. That's Kent Fuentabella, for goodness' sake, a star so famous that even the tiniest move he makes can create Twitter trends worldwide. Phoebe has known Kent since he was a gangly nobody, but she doesn't even know how they feel about each other. But just when she's trying to sort out her feelings for moody and unpredictable Kent, here comes Harley Villaluz, Kent's biggest rival, who's determined to sweep Phoebe off her feet. Then there's also Elisa, Kent's onscreen love interest, who's determined to take their romance off-screen. Oh, what's a secretly married girl to do - when the country's biggest celebrities suddenly find themselves entangled with her life?