Find Me When Your Love Returns

They were best friends once. Neighbors, inseparable, each other's shadow.

Juliette Liliano Reneigh still remembers the boy next door with the loud laugh and kind eyes. Mica Ace Santos had been her safe place when the world felt cruel-especially when the other kids weren't. But that was before she moved away. Before the teasing, the bullying, the long, quiet nights of wondering why she wasn't enough.

Ten years later, Juliette walks onto her university campus and sees him again.

Mica is taller now. Broader. Still with those eyes. But the reunion isn't sweet-it's sharp-edged, awkward, and laced with tension neither of them can explain. Juliette has changed; the girl who once hid behind oversized hoodies is gone. She's confident, guarded, and carrying the weight of every cruel word ever spoken about her body.

Mica notices. All of her.

And underneath the snark, the confusing stares, and the impulse to run-something old flickers to life. Familiar. Real. But different this time.

Because maybe what they had was friendship...
And maybe what's left is something more.