Synopsis: To the one I love, I cannot stand you. In fact, I hate you. To my dearly detested... how do I loathe thee? Let me count the ways. ----- Regina and Luna are the beautiful daughters of the real estate tycoon, Rex Vanguardia. The Vanguardia sisters are off-limits. The two notoriously popular women of the prestigious Padua University are always the talk of the town. The older sister, Regina Vanguardia (Janella Salvador) is intelligent and destined to be a great lawyer. But she is harsh and known as the nightmare shrew in Padua University, meaning she doesn't attract many people --not even friends. Mataray, maldita, aktibista, kalaban lahat, at OA na overprotective na Ate. Unfortunately for her younger sister, the sweet and kind crush ng bayan, Luna Vanguardia, house rules say that she can't date until Regina has someone, so strings are pulled to set the grim Ate up for a romance. But no guy was able to take this challenge. No guy that is. Soon Regina crosses paths with the school outcast, Padua U's Biochem scholar, Narda Custodio (Jane de Leon). Narda was oil to Regina's water. They could not stand each other. But finally, they found someone that could match with Regina's ways. Soon, Luna comes up with a grand scheme to get out of the claws of her overprotective sister. Will Regina let her guard down enough to fall for the mysterious Narda? Loosely based on 10 Things I Hate About You and a more female-centric "Taming of the Shrew". Special thanks to Calli for the cover. 115K words

Is age an issue? How about having different worlds? How about rules vs risks? Nicole Yangco is a 36 year old "has-been" who followed all the rules and had a perfect life. She was used to being beloved and celebrated. She had everything and now, she's picking up the pieces to build from nothing. Vinny Biazon is a 24 year old genius who believes in risks and algorithms. Clouded by a dark past and bad social cues, she never had a perfect life. She came from nothing and now has everything. Nicole is a single mother struggling to make ends meet as a food truck chef, trying to get custody of her son. Vinny is a rags to riches start-up Tech CEO with a Midas Touch, one who is built to be alone. A business offer will now change their lives forever. But what if your business project was your one-night-stand? Can a one-night-stand be a key to a second chance or will it just be a door to more disasters? It started with an offer. A project. Chaos theory. A business proposal. A mere transaction. Now Nicole and Vinny's worlds will turn upside down. Can it really work out between a 36 year old demure conformist and a 24 year old independent risk-taker? Or will this just be as short lived as the offer? This is a story about chances and circumstances. For love can be both never and ever. It was an offer she should have refused. But is it the rules we follow or the risks we take? Disclaimer: Names, characters, business, events and incidents are the products of the author's imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental. Work of fiction only. A fan who made fiction. If you are having issues with depictions of women who love women, this story is not for you. Actors and their images are merely used as inspiration to the fiction and imagination. There is no real Vinny Biazon or Nicole Yangco. Kathang isip lamang.

***GirlXGirl Romance*** Living in New York you learn to keep up with the quick pace of the city, myself included. I was never the one to stop and smell the roses, but that was until I met her on that dull September afternoon. Her eyes were light and dark at the same time, as if a devil and an angel lived inside of her. Time itself had stopped, and since that day everything had changed, ever since I had crossed paths with Drew Wilder.

"Are you... lost?" Someone asked, her tone impatient. I stopped scanning the room to find the woman behind the voice. I blinked. She had the most luminous blue eyes I had ever seen. Even in the dim glow of the bar they glowed brightly, like her pupils were some type of smooth stone at the bottom of a clear blue ocean. Within her blue there flickered tiny speckles of silver, which gave her an icy, somewhat stony appeal. But it was her slight, lopsided smile that erased any signs of wanting to be alone. No wonder this bar was so popular. "Uh, no," I said, holding up the Help Wanted sign I had snagged from the front window. The woman's cool eyes flickered between the sign and me. She didn't say anything, only looked slightly thoughtful as slender fingers raked through her long blonde hair. "What can you do?" She finally asked, definitely not expecting me to be able to do much of anything at all. She'd be right. "Anything and everything," I answered-lied-instantly, hoping I didn't look too desperate, didn't sound too eager. To be perfectly honest, I hadn't worked a day in my life. My hands were used to weekly manicures not hard labor. But desperate times call for desperate measures. The blonde appeared thoughtful again. Those magnificent eyes gave me a once over, slow and steady. You could see the cogs turning in her head as she considered it. I decided to try and sound more convincing. "I have many skills," I added. Okay, so I stole that from Xena, but I was hoping it worked as well for me as it did for her. The blonde lifted a sculpted brow and the smile was, once again, back on her lips. She seemed amused. Maybe she was a Xena fan? "Alright... I'll start you off cleaning the bathrooms, sweeping the floors, doing the dishes..." Crap.