Somewhere Between Here and You

Mira has left five jobs.

Not because she's lazy. Not because she's difficult. But because she has spent her entire adult life chasing the feeling of almost - almost happy, almost settled, almost sure - and the moment something starts to feel real, something in her runs.

Jobs. People. Feelings. All of it.

She is excellent at starting things. She is a master at leaving.

So when her sister secretly submits a job application on her behalf to CRG International - a company so far above her comfort zone it might as well be a different atmosphere - Mira shows up to the interview expecting to fail.

She doesn't fail.

What she gets instead is a virtual working setup with Nico Caldwell-Reyes. Half-Filipino. Half-American. CEO's son. Speaks in bullet points. Has the emotional availability of a well-organized spreadsheet.

For almost two years, they are nothing but a screen apart. Voices on a call. Names on a document. Professionals.

Almost.

Then the company announces a team building in the Philippines.

And Mira sees him in person for the first time.

And every carefully managed, professionally maintained, thoroughly denied feeling she has spent two years filing under "not applicable" -

- becomes very, very applicable.

Somewhere Between Here and You is a story about the things we almost say. The people we almost choose. The lives we almost live, and what happens when someone refuses to let you almost them.

It is a story about anxiety dressed as restlessness. About class and belonging and the girl from Quezon City in a big, expensive world. About family - broken and whole and everything in between. About a quiet man who loved loudly in all the ways that don't make noise.

And about a girl who finally, finally, stopped running.

Not because she stopped being afraid.

But because he was worth being afraid for.