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Months have passed, and Tessa has already welcomed her newest baby girl. Life should finally feel calm... but the second their friends' reality show drops, everything blows up. Social media turns vicious, attacking every wife connected to the group - even Tessa, who isn't in the show at all. The hate is nonstop, exhausting, and impossible to escape. Right when the pressure becomes too much, football season ends and the offseason hits. The boys are wiped out, emotionally and mentally done, and Tristan decides they all need to get away before the noise swallows them. He brings everyone to his family's massive ranch - far from Kansas City, far from the cameras, far from the chaos. But peace doesn't follow them. Small towns come with small-town drama: old flames who never left, girls who still act like Tristan is theirs, whispers that travel faster than the wind. And inside the house is an even bigger problem - Tristan's sharp, cold grandmother, who has never accepted Tessa and isn't afraid to show it. Yet none of that compares to the real battle brewing. Tessa is starting to feel alive again. Creative again. Ready to work. Ready to tour. She wants her career back - the stage, the music, the world. Tristan doesn't. He doesn't want her gone. He doesn't want her away from him, or the kids, or their newborn. He wants her home, here, with their family - not living out of suitcases and performing night after night. For the first time, Tessa's dreams and Tristan's wants pull in two completely different directions. And the marriage that survived fame, pressure, and years of chaos is suddenly facing a new kind of test - one that comes from their hearts, not the outside world. A newborn, a new season of life, a quiet town full of secrets... and a love story caught between a woman ready to rise again and a man afraid of letting her go.

Sa gitna ng maingay na bar, nagtama ang mga mata namin. Ikaw, nakasandal sa counter, naglalaro ng shot glass. Ako, naghahanap ng tao para kausapin. Parang may kuryenteng dumaloy sa katawan ko nang makita kita. Ang ngiti mo, ang tingin mo, ang paraan ng pagtawa mo, lahat nag-udyok sa akin na lapitan ka. "Hi," sabi ko, "pwede ba akong umupo?" Ngumiti ka, "Sure, bakit hindi?" Nagsimula kaming mag-usap. Ikaw, matalino at nakakatawa. Ako, medyo torpe pero nagsusumikap na magpasaya sa'yo. Habang tumatagal ang usapan, mas lalo akong naaakit sa'yo. Ang bawat salita mo, ang bawat kilos mo, nagpaparamdam sa akin ng kakaibang init sa dibdib. "Alam mo ba," sabi ko, "ang ganda mo talaga. Parang gusto kong halikan ka ngayon din." Tumawa ka, "Ang bastos mo naman! Pero sige na nga, halikan mo na ako." At doon, sa gitna ng maingay na bar, nagsimula ang aming kwento. Isang kwentong puno ng pagmamahal, pagnanasa, at medyo bastos na mga biro. Isang kwentong nagsimula sa isang simpleng "hi" at nagtatapos sa isang mahabang, masayang "ikaw lang."

~i walk down the hall... I'm not suck here, am i~ 10 people get stuck in this world. 2 will make it out. please let that be me. ~it was as if we were test subjects.~ based on my weird nightmares..

AUTORA: SoulTree/Rubí. PAREJA: EunHae. DESCRIPCIÓN: HyukJae descubre cosas extrañas cuando fisgonea en el diario de DongHae. Reto 2018 un oneshot cada mes. MAYO.

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