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Emerson Andre Ronquillo has a plan: graduate from college, build a career, answer emails on time, and eventually become the kind of adult who owns matching furniture.
It is a reasonable plan.
Unfortunately, Emerson is also emotionally attached to a future that does not exist.
While surviving his final year as an Industrial Engineering student in Manila, Emerson develops an increasingly embarrassing fixation on Logan Everett, a college football star living thousands of miles away in Ohio. Emerson knows him exclusively through interviews, highlight reels, press photos, and an internet algorithm that seems personally committed to making the situation worse.
At first, it is harmless. A celebrity crush. A distraction. Something mildly humiliating for his friends to witness.
Then it starts becoming harder to explain.
As graduation gets closer, Emerson finds himself juggling thesis deadlines, career anxiety, late-night group chats, convenience-store dinners, campus routines, chaotic friendships, and a growing attachment to an imagined future he cannot seem to stop entertaining.
He knows Logan Everett is not part of his real life.
That has never stopped Emerson from thinking about him anyway.