Playing Your Game

TEEN SERIES #1

A captain varsity, Clyde Mortenez is used to keeping things under control-his architecture deadlines, his basketball plays, and especially his personal life. But when charming and chaotic Calixton Del Rosario asks him to be his fake boyfriend for the sake of image and convenience, Clyde finds himself in a spiral of Instagram posts, staged dates, and awkward family dinners. What was supposed to be a short-term, no-feelings-involved deal turns into something messier... and a little too convincing.

As the days blur with late-night conversations, unexpected softness, and chemistry that refuses to stay fake, Clyde starts to question what he really signed up for. Surrounded by curious friends, suspicious relatives, and a growing ache in his chest, he's caught between the safety of pretending and the risk of falling for someone who might just be pretending too-or worse, not pretending at all