For a high school girl student, Clematis Eustaquio, love doesn't exist. She has always believed that strength and wealth are the only things that matter in this world. She dismisses any notion of goodness or greatness, focusing solely on making money and escaping her current life. However, when her family faces bankruptcy as they are forced to move out, Clematis has no choice but to put her plans on hold and accompany her family to a remote area in her mother's hometown, Sanguine Village.
In the early days of her new life in the new house, Clematis encounters a mysterious boy wandering through the bushes on a dark night. When their eyes meet for the first time, her heart races, and she feels as though she has been revived from a long period of emptiness and numbness. She felt that what's something's missing in her life has been fulfilled. Yet, that fateful night becomes a poignant memory when the mysterious boy disappears into the dark woods under the glowing moonlight.
Engineering students Pfifer and Ivan know that what they have is something special. Without a proper label between them plus an ugly twist of fate, can they manage to be together in the end--or will they remain as each other's TOTGA and nothing more?
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May feelings na laging nandiyan, nakaabang kung kailan magpapapansin. Nakaabang kung kailan ako titisurin sa mga pamilyar na kanta, lugar, at salita. Magpapaalala sa isang mukha na hindi ko naman gano'n kakabisado pero pamilyar. Magpapaalala sa mga dating pakiramdam.
Malalaman mo raw kung sino ang The One That Got Away mo kapag narinig mo 'yong salita at nakaalala ka ng iisang tao lang; nakatisod ka ng mga dating pakiramdam; nangulila ka sa mga nakaraang saya; nakaalala ka ng mga pamilyar na sakit.
Sabi, time heals wounds at distance makes one forget. Bakit parang hindi naman effective? Bitbit ko pa rin lahat ng what if. Hindi pa rin ako makatakas sa maraming sana.
Ako ba ang bumitiw o siya? Tapos na ba kami talaga?
Ang sarap magtanong kaso...wala nga palang kami noon.
Disclaimer: This story is written in Taglish.