When the Stranger Calls My Name

Nang muli bang tawagin ang pangalan mo, babalik ang lahat ng alaala-o may maiiwan na naman sa kawalan?

Gailen Rapaz has spent most of his life surviving.

Surviving an abusive home. Surviving loneliness. Surviving the feeling of being unwanted.

The only constant in his life is Elias Guerrero-the boy who stayed when everyone else left.

But when a tragic accident shatters what remains of Gailen's world, the weight of grief awakens wounds he spent years burying. As memories begin to fracture and pieces of his past slip away, Gailen finds himself becoming a stranger not only to the people he loves, but also to himself.

Habang pilit na inaalala ni Gailen kung sino siya, hindi siya iniwan ni Elias sa pagharap sa kadilimang unti-unting bumabalot sa kaniya. Between unfinished stories, childhood promises, old photographs, and the echoes of a shared past, the two must confront memories that were never meant to be forgotten.

Because being a stranger is not always about not knowing someone.

Sometimes, a stranger is the person you know by heart yet can no longer recognize.

Sometimes, a stranger is yourself.

And sometimes, the people who save us are not the people destined to stay.

Sa isang kuwento tungkol sa kalungkutan, alaala, pananampalataya, paghilom, at tahimik na bigat ng paglaki, kailangang tuklasin ni Gailen kung sapat ba ang pag-alala para manatili ang mga taong mahal niya-o kung ang ilang landas ay talagang nakatakdang maghiwalay kahit gaano pa ito katagal na nag-ugnay.

After all, when the stranger calls your name, will you remember where your heart belongs?

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Tropes:
Writer x Musician
Ordinary student x Sacristan
Club president x Student Council President
Childhood best friends
Emotional & slowburn
Slow-paced
Complicated Boys' Love
Yearning
Religious