Sketches Of Her Smile

*She was just a blur in the crowd-a girl helping an old woman cross the street. He was just another face she passed by, twice, maybe three times.*

Cris is a bright and no ordinary girl. With dreams bigger than the ocean that separates her from home, she leaves the warmth of the Philippines to study and work in the U.S. during high school while adjusting to life in America. Determined, humble, and armed with ambition. She juggles jobs with calloused hands and a gentle smile that never fades. She sets her sights on Harvard University-not for glory, but for the future, she promised herself and her family back home.

By the time she enters Harvard University on a scholarship, she's a freshman focused on her double majors in Law and Computer Science, balancing academics, part-time works, sports, and a longing to make her family proud. Love? It's the last thing on her mind.

But fate sketches someone into her world. Someone has been watching her-not in a way that invades, but one that admires from afar.

Vaughn, a second-year Harvard student-intelligent, and strikingly handsome with an air of quiet, unreachable aura. With eyes like storm clouds and a soul stitched with patience, first noticed her long before she knew his name. The sandy-haired engineering prodigy from Vermont was captivated-not by her looks, but by the warmth of her actions and the simplicity of her presence.

It was so pure, so fleeting, that it lingered in his memory like a photo he never meant to take. Mistaking her for someone too young to be noticed, he brushed it off... But fate would keep placing her in front of him-cafés, sidewalks, the library-like a quiet sketch building color with every passing moment.

Now, at Harvard, their paths collide again. She's here. On his campus. In his world.

And he's no longer content to watch from afar.

Will she finally see the man who's been silently sketching her smile into his heart?