Serenades Of The Sea ( Serenades Duology 1 )
SERENADES DUOLOGY 1
Sereia Kyria Velasquez-her name alone turned heads. Graduated as class Valedictorian in both Junior and Senior High, now pursuing Law in the States. To the world, she was the full package: beauty, brains, and a life straight out of a dream. An active social media presence only fueled the illusion-her feed filled with curated aesthetics, campus snaps, coffee shop corners, and captions that glowed with positivity. She was, in every sense, the girl everyone wanted to be.
But beyond the perfectly filtered photos and top-tier achievements was a world far different from what most could imagine. Behind the screen was a young woman carrying silent battles-ones that echoed through the quiet halls of her home. Battles that never made it to her Instagram stories. The weight of expectations, unspoken family struggles, and the burden of pretending everything was fine when nothing truly was.
Thankfully, Sereia wasn't entirely alone. Lawrence Matthew Melendez-her best friend and, as people liked to joke, her "best man"-had always been by her side. They were classmates, seatmates, partners in every school project, and now, both students at UP, navigating the pressures of university life together. Through every sunny day and every stormy night, Lawrence was her constant-a quiet comfort, a loyal anchor in a life that sometimes felt like it was drifting too far from shore.
But would their friendship last?
That was the question that lingered in the spaces between their laughter, the quiet stares that lasted a little too long, and the comfort that started to feel more like longing. What if the unfamiliar feeling blooming between them-slowly, quietly, stubbornly-was the very thing that would unravel everything they built?
Would one confession tear down years of companionship?
Started - 01/20/25
Ended - 06/14/25
