(on-going) you don't have to know me.

A first-year med student from UST Medicine, Gabriella Beatrice Morel always knows that she can do anything she wants because of wealth and a pretty face. She finds solace in jumping from one fling to another because committing is not her thing. That's why entertaining the first-year med student from UP Medicine, Lourde Reagan Laxamana, and a fourth-year med student from UST Medicine, Aldous Francois D'aureville at the same time thrills something within her. A challenge. A game. A distraction from studying. One taught her that love can be felt in silence and consistency to achieve one's goal to become a doctor. While the other taught her that love can be freedom and palpable tension without knowing what tomorrow awaits. To look in front of the mirror and not recognize the person that she was looking at. To realize that over the years her identity was only built by what other people think she is. To see that she was never in touch with herself in the first place. As she reflects, all those wrong decisions, indecisiveness, and mistakes shaped her to become or not to become. That even when the rain and wind come forth to dim her sky, it cannot quiver, for it mirrors strength and love-a strong woman she becomes in the eyes of becoming a doctor. In spite of that, how can she handle another breakthrough when colossal storms with sword thunder come in to barge into her solitude skies? STARTED: JUNE 26, 2025 FINISHED: JANUARY 04, 206

From greatness to being unknown. Augustina Coleen Lorenzo survived from a car accident, but the damage it brought is to forget her memories. Meeting Lourde Reagan Laxamana, her childhood best friend again brought back the feelings of what she had for him when they were young until med school. This time she has the courage to confess to him. To show him the love that comes from her calamitous heart. As she remembers the details of her life, it starts to unfold the truth about what happened to her. Her vulnerability. Her Indecisiveness. How she identifies the meaning of life during the years in medical school and to walk in the midst of uncertainty and fear in order to navigate one's purpose as a doctor. And how she realizes that the world that she has been chasing most of her life from other people will only be found in her fingertips. And the love that she seeks comes from the one who stayed during the struggling hours of her life. START: FEBRUARY 22, 2025 END: JUNE 24, 2025

Life is heavy, especially when you live on the surface of poverty. A nursing student from PLM, Keanah Amorsolo always pushed herself to study and to work harder just to make a difference in the life that she is living in the slums of Tondo. Meeting the most annoying medical student from UP Manila, Jovanni Villareal, is not part of her busy life, especially since he is only determined to piss her off. She did not know that he could introduce her to the other face of life and color it with his ecstatic personality and humor that echoed laughter in her chest. He became an escape for her. Those little hopes she wishes came true with one person. Him. How short-lived moments with her made life for him. How his perceptions of earthly things changed in the eyes of humanity. To love requires sacrificing a part of yourself, but still, it's worth it because it's love at the end of the day. But how can she continue to live when situations have buried her to the ground of chaos and disparity? She tried to scream for help, but only the ground could hear her. And him? He is busy saving his patients lives. START: OCTOBER 31, 2024 END: FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Brain. Tumor. Med school. Yogurt. Kisses and dreams. Navigating the spectrum of human conditions and returning memories from medical school. Calista Lavinia Laxamana stuck to the rules of progress she set for herself over the years. Because of medical negligence, she needed to accept her parents decision to marry a man that she did not know and met in the past. In the chaos of her mind and reality, she cannot feel anything, especially when the person she thought would be there for her turns back and left her in the abyss of hardships. He left her to deal with a marriage she had not appreciated in the first place. To be foreign in the journey without him. Yet, in the bliss of the breakdowns, Theodore Nathaniel D'aureville gave life to her dull, ambitious life, introducing her to the real art of medicine. START: JUNE 3, 2024 END: AUGUST 30, 2024

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In a society where blue is classified for boys and pink for the girls, Shiloh Ching Escarra struggled during his childhood when he discovered his fondness for the toys and colors that were only labeled for the girls. Despite confining himself in the darkness, Brent Matthew Jarsdel, his roommate and the son of his mother's friend, gradually peeked through his thick walls and found a way to paint his world according to what color he genuinely prefers. In the midst of those unexplainable feelings, confusions, and judgements, Brent was willing to risk it all; to fight for the love he unexpectedly found; to build him a home where his true colors would finally be accepted.

THE LOSERS' CLUB SERIES #4 How does it feel to live with tons of what ifs and should-have-beens? Knowing that under different parameters, you could have worked it out. Knowing that if you only weathered the storm together, you could have built a home in each other's arms. Napakaraming sana--ganiyan ang naging takbo ng buhay ni Ysabelle Katana Montecer. Sana mayaman siya. Sana mas maganda. At sana may kapangyarihan siyang ibalik ang oras. If only she had listened to the little voice in her head, she could have been in a relationship with the only man who ever caught her attention--River Mattias Fuentabella. But it was too late for her. She was a ticking time bomb waiting to go off. A heartbeat away from silence. Kahit ayaw niya, kailangan niyang tanggapin ang hatol ng tadhana. River would always be out of her reach. He was close, but not too close enough for her to hold. They could have happened. They could have been together. But sadly, they never were.

Valerie Dana F. Encarnacion, a senior high school student, hates this particular guy because no matter how much hard work she puts into everything, she always ends up being second. Kaya naman, para makaganti, harap-harapan niya itong sinasabihan ng masasamang salita pero sa huli, hindi pa rin siya nananalo dahil wala naman itong pakialam sa kanya. But circumstances changed. They became close, and she never thought she would end up liking him...given that she has a boyfriend. Book Cover by: Jasmin Chew