*Wattys 2018 Winner / Hidden Gems* CREATE YOUR OWN MR. RIGHT Weeks before Valentine's, seventeen-year-old Kate Lapuz goes through her first ever breakup, but soon she stumbles upon a mysterious new app called My Dream Boyfriend, an AI chatbot that has the ability to understand human feelings. Casually, she participates in the app's trial run but finds herself immersed in the empathic conversations with her customizable virtual boyfriend, Ecto. In a society both connected and alienated by technology, Kate suspects an actual secret admirer is behind Ecto. Could it be the work of the techie student council president Dion or has Kate really found her soulmate in bits of computer code? She decides to get to the bottom of the cutting-edge app. Her search for Ecto's real identity leads Kate to prom, where absolute knowledge comes with a very steep price.

You'll never forget you first love. When Julie Hathaway first met Noah Miller, her heart whispered "he's the one". Can he be my first love? Can he be my first kiss? She kept asking those questions to herself. But Noah is not so sure about that. Because the first time he met her, she ran not knowing why. Years passed by and now they're teens. Julie is slowly learning more about life, and slowly realizing things that she never did before. And now she's confused. Does she still have those feelings for Noah? She was seven back then. How could she know if those feelings were real. Noah, on the other hand, is slowly realizing that there's more to Julie than what meets the eye. A story of two young eight-graders. Will things always be the same, or can it turn the other way around? *** A novel with each chapter from two point of views. A tagalog-english story. Date Started: 15th May, 2019 Date Finished: ------------