Crashing

DREAM SERIES #1

Azalea Euince Ramos is known for her warmth-the kind that draws people in, makes silence easier to sit in. As a 23-year-old Psychology student at UP Diliman, she knows how to read people well enough to hide herself in plain sight. Her life is stitched together with quiet compromises, and no one really asks how she's holding up. They assume she is.

Mark Angelo Lim, 25, is a Civil Engineering student at UST. Precise, distant, and never one to say more than he has to, he moves through life like it's a checklist-requirements, obligations, results. He's learned that emotion is a liability, and that silence keeps the structure from collapsing.

Their worlds shouldn't intersect. But they do-unexpectedly, and without ceremony.

What begins as a casual connection shifts into something slower, heavier. Not a love story in the typical sense, but a quiet unraveling. Of control. Of self-image. Of the stories they've told to survive.

As they navigate the space between duty and desire, the question isn't whether they'll fix each other-but whether they'll finally stop hiding from themselves.