In The Pause Between Plays
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Last published Sat, Jul 19, 2025
All she wanted was a quiet seat, a short nap, and to make her little brother happy.
All he wanted was a break from the courtroom, a smooth basketball game, and no distractions.
But in the pause between plays...
The crowd screamed.
The kiss cam zoomed.
She leaned on her brother’s shoulder, fast asleep.
And Elias Navarro—lawyer by day, athlete by night—looked up at the screen...
…and fell in love.
She didn’t even see it happen.
Celeste Rivas is a ballet dancer, a business major, and way too busy to believe in fate. But Elias is determined to prove that sometimes, love doesn’t knock. It zooms in, mid-halftime, and changes everything.
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In a world full of loud declarations and grand gestures, Celestine Devara chose to stay in the background, writing poems that he would never read, and choosing him even when he never asked her to. Eli, the boy who felt like home, never promised forever. He smiled, held her hand, whispered warmth into cold nights-but never called her his. And maybe that was the most painful part, being almost his, but never really. When Mira, Eli's past, returned, Celestine quietly stepped back, like she always did. She waited for him to choose her, until she realized... hindi lahat ng pinili mo, pipiliin ka. When love becomes a waiting game, how long before someone finally walks away? In a world of almost and unsaid goodbyes, Celestine learns to walk away from the love that never chose her, and into the arms of the healing she didn't know she needed. Pero paano kung sa paglayo niya... doon naman sya hinabol ng taong mahal niya? Will she stay on choosing herself? or will she risk it all?
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