Fractured Bonds || Ang mutya ng section E ||

What if Aries and Jay Jay aren't the only sibilings? What if they also have a sister? A younger sister who gave her everything to protect thek both when they couldn't? But what if she had to leave? And what of after years they all came under the same roof again? But now no one is not the same?

Arielle thought she left her past behind when she returned to the Philippines -
but fate had other plans.

Now she's stuck between the ghosts of who she was,
and the people who might just save her -
if she lets them.

There's Jay Jay, all fire and fury, fighting the world to protect the ones she loves. Aries, the brother who forgot what love felt like - and what it cost him.
Raven, the boy who hides his pain behind silence.
Calyx, who laughs too loud to keep from falling apart.

And Arielle - the girl caught in the middle of it. all -
trying to piece together broken hearts, even as her own begins to crack.

But secrets don't stay buried forever.
And when the truth resurfaces - about blood, betrayal, and what it really means to belong -
everything they've built might just shatter.

Because sometimes,
home isn't where you come from.
It's who you survive with.

"You think you were the only one hurting, Jay?" Aries snapped, his voice trembling under all that control he tried to keep.

Jay Jay glared back, eyes wet. "You left!
You turned your back like I didn't exist!"

"Because you stabbed me!" Aries shouted.

"Because you looked at me like I was a monster when all I ever did was protect you!"

"And what about me?" Arielle's voice cut through them, soft but trembling. "What about the sister who had to watch both of you destroy each other? Who kept waiting for one of you to come home, but neither ever did?"

Silence.
Three hearts. One broken family.