WHAT WE NEVER SAID
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This is a story of young love-fragile, unspoken, and shaped by distance and circumstance.
Lisa Manoban had always been the kind of student whose brilliance drew attention. Scholarships awaited her, teachers praised her, and her future looked promising. Yet it was her passion for dancing that defined her most. By junior high, she had earned a name for herself as one of the school's most gifted dancers.
Jennie Kim, on the other hand, lived under a different kind of spotlight. As one of the school's celebrated It Girls, she was adored and envied in equal measure. Boys vied for her attention, girls admired and resented her, and though she wore confidence like armor, beneath it lived a soft heart few ever saw. She wasn't academically gifted, but she was persistent, intuitive, and far gentler than people assumed.
Their worlds collided through Irene-Jennie's friend who would eventually become Lisa's girlfriend. What began as friction between Lisa and Jennie soon shifted into something unexpectedly tender. When Lisa's heart broke, Jennie became the quiet solace she didn't know she needed. And without either of them realizing it, the boundary between friendship and something deeper began to blur.
But neither spoke of it. Neither dared to.
After high school, life carried them down separate paths, yet the echo of what they once shared lingered silently between them. Years later, fate allowed their paths to cross again in the city-a place where dreams begin, and where old wounds sometimes find healing. But Jennie was no longer the girl Lisa once knew; she was now a mother.
Will love give them a second chance?
Or will the weight of the past-and the life Jennie built-keep them apart once more?
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By Her Rules [Rated R]
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