gregangoluan
A HEARTBEAT AWAY
They were never supposed to become each other's greatest distraction.
Andrell Silvestre has always known what he wants-or at least, he thought he did. As one of the College of Nursing's brightest students, he has built his life around discipline, expectations, and a future carefully planned for him. But beneath the certainty is a dream he has never been brave enough to fully claim: Medicine.
Daffodil Angoluan is almost his opposite. Cheerful, determined, and endlessly hardworking, she carries her own reasons for becoming a nurse-and a quiet grief that has shaped the person she is becoming.
They meet as classmates.
They become laboratory partners.
Somewhere between arguments, late-night conversations, shared laughter, academic pressure, and the ordinary moments of college life, they become something neither of them expected.
They fall in love.
But growing up has a way of testing even the strongest feelings.
As Andrell moves closer to the future he has always dreamed of, Daffodil begins to wonder where she fits into it. Dreams become choices. Choices become sacrifices. And the distance between two people is no longer measured by classrooms or schedules, but by the things they are afraid to say.
Because loving someone does not always mean staying beside them.
Sometimes, it means giving them room to become who they are meant to be-even when you don't know if they'll still be there when you finally find your way back.
A Heartbeat Away is a story about first love, growing up, choosing yourself, and discovering that some people change your life without necessarily becoming its ending.
Because sometimes, a love story doesn't end with forever.
Sometimes, it ends with a heartbeat-
still there,
somewhere beneath everything else.