Malay Natin: Siguro Tayo

It was a complete three-sixty. From the girl casually winding up at the bar who suddenly turned into someone's pretend girlfriend, Nastia Kahlila Quijano never saw it coming. She wasn't supposed to give into someone who were clear and upfront with their boundaries. There was no other choice but to treat him as an off-limit, like a whiskey bottle hanging at the top shelf-seemingly invisible to her eyes.

After all, Nika was only returning a favor. Pretend relationships were bound to end anyway. But the thin line between their make-believe and their reality were beginning to blur. They couldn't draw out what's real and what's made up anymore.

Then the boundaries began to solidify and the haze was gone. The line became clearer than before, reminding Nika why it existed in the first place.

Maybe it was too soon. Maybe, they should leave it at that.

After all, how could she lose something she never even had?

This is an epistolary story written in taglish.
Completed (2022).