After his Aunt paid his exchange student program to the United States to be with her, Van left no choice but to leave Philippines for the last semester of his tenth grade. As a result of a traumatic past, he settled to be by himself and build a wall that nobody could get into until the semester ends. However, things changes when someone tried to break that wall, kept showing in front of him and trying to let him talk. Would he let him in? Or would fear kept the wall sturdy?

"Don't throw everything else like some hot shit in your mouth. Don't let everything slip away. Just please hold me. Hold me closer like what you did the last time." Ash always knew about his feeling for his childhood bestfriend Scott. He knew he was the star freshman of the engineering department. He knew that he was the eye-candy of people that admired him. And Ash, the no one from English department who hangs around Scott a lot more. Ash was just his friend to start with. Nothing more should bloom from that feeling, but it did. But when, being outed against his will, rumors spread like wildfire. He found himself lost on the gossips that he was after Scott. Just after he found out, he was determined to give a distance between him and Scott, the childhood friend who did not give a f-ck about what others says and still want to have Ash back. STARTED: JULY 29, 2022