Chasers Series #1: Seb Gallego

"Do not cross the line."
Five words. One line. But it crashed Seb Gallego countless times.

Seb, being a middle child, was already used to not being the priority of his parents. It was not an issue with him either. He knew that although his parents don't give him as much attention as his siblings, he was still loved. He has long accepted that he's not the favorite. Not the first choice. Not the priority.

He's fine with it. He's fine with everything.

Not until he lost in a bet with Yesha, Ellie Santillan's best friend.

He has no choice but to be with them and every day was absolutely hellish for him. Yesha was on a different level of annoying and irritating in every sense of it-exactly the last kind of person he wanted to be with.

But as days passed, he witnessed how Ellie takes care of her best friend no matter how annoying she was. He witnessed how Ellie always chooses her. How she pushes everything behind so she can focus on her. And her alone.

She was Ellie's priority.

That's when he realized, no, he was not used to being not prioritized; that's just what he made himself believe to ease the pain. To escape from the pain.

Little did he know that what he admired most about Ellie was the same exact thing that would shatter him. Not only once. But over and over again.