SOMEHOW, IT BECAME US.

Moving to Manila was never part of my plan.
I was perfectly fine with my simple life in the province-until one decision forced me to leave everything familiar behind and start over in a city where I barely knew anyone.

New school.

New place.

New friends.

And then there was him.

Nathan Reyes.

The city boy I accidentally met on one of my first days in Manila. The guy who somehow always knew how to annoy me, the person I kept running into no matter how hard I tried to avoid him, and eventually, the one person I never expected to become important to me.

It started with a stupid accident.

Then came the arguments, the teasing, the late-night conversations, the unexpected friendships, and the moments we both pretended didn't mean anything.
Somewhere between being strangers and becoming friends, something changed.

But love was never part of the plan.

Because sometimes, getting close to someone means discovering the parts of them they don't want anyone to see. And sometimes, the person who makes a place feel like home can also become the reason you're afraid to lose it.

I came to Manila to build a future for myself.

I never expected to find him along the way.

And I never expected a story that started with two strangers to become something neither of us could walk away from.

Maybe we weren't supposed to meet.

Maybe we weren't supposed to fall for each other.

But somehow...

it became us.