Romanceclass Stories

Meah Constantino is everyone's friend: cheerleader, matchmaker, fixer, and the one who'll drop everything when you call at 3 a.m. Not even her career shift from psych to events kept her from being the steady person everyone can rely on. Being needed is easy. Being seen? No, thanks. When a last-minute work change brings Joseph Rodriguez, the guy she's vowed to forget, back into her orbit for the concert tour she's directing, Meah's world tilts off-balance. It's been three years since she last heard from him, and now they're together for four weeks, pretending their history doesn't exist and that she doesn't want answers. Meah is determined to stay away from him, but somewhere between prod meetings and supply runs, she remembers why she fell for him in the first place, especially when Joseph keeps breaking through her carefully compartmentalized life. All Meah wants is to reach the finale with the heart she gives so freely out of Joseph's reach again. When the encore fades, will Meah protect her heart the old way, or will she give Joseph a chance to win her over? CONTENT NOTE: This book is heat level 0 and follows #romanceclass guidelines requiring happily ever after (HEA) / happy for now (HFN) for romance. There is no mention of COVID-19, and the events of this book happened years before lockdown. The book mentions pet loss and grief, as well as parental abandonment in the backstory.

A oneshot short story featuring Mayumi and Joaquin, from my short story "Finally Home", as they join the solidarity walk of health care workers for the 2022 Philippine national elections. You can read more about them in the medical romance anthology here: https://books2read.com/doctorinlove

Ficlet in the universe of the Playlist series, 'Songs of Our Breakup' and 'Songs to Make You Stay.' Jill and Shinta are much younger in their books (in their 20s!). Prompt here is Shinta plans Jill's 30th birthday party. Hehe this was fun. Songs of Our Breakup bit.ly/Playlist1Breakup Songs to Make You Stay bit.ly/Playlist3Stay

This story is set four years before Fall Like Rain. It's Valentine's Day and Rain is on a mission to cheer up her best friend, Mark. Sure, she's in love with him, but she's here as a friend, not anything else. Right?

One night, two beers, three songs. Open Mic Night at NomCom is usually great business for Feliz's craft beer stall-except when a sudden downpour means everything's canceled and everyone's stranded. Ready for a slow and uneventful night, she gets unexpected company when she offers shelter to Manuel, guy with a guitar, a familiar face from high school which was way too long ago.

A one-off ficlet set in the universe of Alta: A High Society Romance Anthology (published 2019 and written by Carla de Guzman, Bianca Mori [me] and Suzette de Bora.) Features characters from my story Safe Places, Nicky Aventado and Natalia Aritz. This story is set in the past, where Nicky and Natalia were classmates at an art college and Nicky learns he might have feelings for his best friend. From a #RCReadathon2020 Prompt & Pairings, Please! prompt.

Neither Paula nor Juan has felt the kind of attraction they each feel toward each other from the moment they met. It would be so easy to fall in love except that as a single father, Juan's priority will always be his son, Julian. What if they fall for Paula and she's not ready to fall for them? Author's Note: I wrote this shortie as Georgette Gonzales, and it was first published as part of The Tropetastic 2021 Kindness Bundle. 15 #romanceclass authors contributed stories which were published on Gumroad for a limited time. Proceeds of the sale were donated 100% to three organizations -- Gantala Press, RockEd Phils, and Project Propel. I am working on expanding this story into a full novel. Stay tuned.

Roy is late to his nth blind date in the last three months. Tiffany is waiting for a private investigator she's hired to help her catch someone in the act. They mistake one another for whoever it was they were supposed to be meeting. What follows is an unforgettable night out on the town and all the bbq they can handle. Tropes: mistaken identity, heat level 1, adult

After a three week work trip abroad, Luigi Quirino from 11A comes home to a package that is not for him. He discovers it belongs to an annoyed Patricia Co from 11K and intends to make it up to her, if she lets him.

Aina Macaraig finds out that famous TV reporter Maki Angeles is actually her long-lost childhood friend. They meet each other again after so many years, and Maki now has a chance to fulfill a promise he once made her, many years ago. This story was part of the Tropetastic Kindness Bundle, a charity anthology that featured all-new romance short stories from 15 #RomanceClass authors. Each author was assigned a trope and a shared setting (the fictional St. Tropez Court condominium in Ortigas, Metro Manila). The trope for this story is "First Love".

NJ Mabini, drummer of Catholic worship band Manalig, can't stand their newest member, violinist Van Esquivel, but no matter how hard she tries, she just can't seem to avoid him. When her old violin teacher comes across them grudgingly sitting together at a food park, she asks them to play a duet for a recital. NJ wonders if they can set aside their differences long enough for the performance, but turns out that they have more things in common than she thought. Maybe they can be friends, after all. And maybe...more? This story was part of Nomcom: Tropetastic Kindness Bundle 2, a charity anthology that featured all-new romance short stories from 14 #RomanceClass authors. Each author was assigned a trope and a shared setting (the fictional Nomnom Commons Food Park in Ortigas, Metro Manila). The trope for this story is "Only One Table".

A one-shot of PasigLaban snippets inspired by this tweet by Mina V. Esguerra: https://twitter.com/minavesguerra/status/1519861140800819201?s=20&t=kI6cznAiBpw-6BGwxGeXzQ Featuring characters from my Lakambini universe: Erin and Ramon from Waiting in the Wings, Pio and Audrey from Like Nobody's Watching, Datu and Kalila from Keeping Miss Kalila (with quick mentions of Isagani and M from a still unfinished book from the same universe)

Seventeen-year-old Alexa Zamora looks as if she's always been the beautiful and graceful center of attention. If you knew her in grade school though, you'd remember a sad little girl, who had lost her parents, and spent most of her time on the martial art arnis-a rough sport, not something girls were supposed to like. If you knew her then, you might have ostracized her for it. She learned from this mistake, and has done her best to hide all traces of her sport and skill in a new school, and now she's New Hope Academy's It Girl. But transfer student Theo Guevarra, who happens to be her old arnis buddy and first love, arrives and makes her question the life she's been living. How long can she keep up appearances, before it all falls apart?

Forget Me Not is already available in paperback! If you like this story, pls. support me and buy the book. It's only 220 pesos +shipping fee of 65. The book includes one chapter that is not posted here. Here's the order form: http://bit.ly/1aw6aRe Fill out only if you are sure. Thank you very much! *~*~*~*~* The contemporary novella I finished in Ms. Mina Esguerra's #romanceclass. Hope I learned a thing or two from her. Hope you all would love it! Synopsis: Can your heart also forget what your mind could not remember? Rianne has lost her memory of the past two years due to an accident, but letters from a mysterious "Sparks" -- found in a pile of unread mail at home -- has been helping her cope. The letters tell her of a couple's love story, making her hope to find the same unconditional love someday. Rebuilding her life has been a mess though: her guy best friend is claiming to have been her boyfriend that time, but she seems more at ease with a mysterious stranger. Does she trust the past she can't remember, or take a chance with a more uncertain future?

Spelling bee veteran Iris Garcia meets her match in academic overachiever Luke Sandoval. (This is a short story for the Luna East Arts Academy series.)

Restoration architect Giada Manahan's heart has begun to resemble the adobe walls she loves. At least that's what her friends say. But Gia knows better---she's just being cautious. After all, as a single mom, her kids are her first priority. But one drunken night, her friends push her into a trippy crystal healing ritual. Gia thinks it's a joke . . . until a few days later, she finds a half-naked stranger in her bed. Hot, tatted anthropologist Alex Roces is exactly the kind of guy Gia should avoid. But when they end up sharing a house, Gia finds Alex's charms increasingly difficult to resist. Will Gia continue to keep the walls around her heart? Or will she finally give in to its demands? + + + Note: This was published as "Dare To Love Dangerously" on Wattpad and is now available as an ebook on Amazon. It is also available in print via Createspace (INTL) or through the author (PH)

Mika Arceo is in a rut, and not even her morning encounters with her condo crush Paul has helped her get out of her creative block. When she finds a letter from a fan who calls himself C on the poster she left at the condo's bulletin board, she finds herself slowly getting unblocked. But when C stops writing to her, she finds that her secret fan had been around her all this time.

Rain joins Mark and his high school friends for their game night. This is a chapter that was in the first draft of Fall Like Rain. I edited it out because it felt like an unnecessary scene in the overall story, but I liked it enough to keep it. Meah mentions this part in one of the scenes in the final version of the book, in Chapter 12: "And didn't you go meet his high school friends last week and you told me they thought he was happier now that you guys were talking again?"

Cams joins a televised baking competition, and Gabriel is her supportive stage boyfriend. A #romanceclass Prompt & Pairing, Please fic, set in the universe of "It's a Match' from the collection, "You Could Be the One".

Faith's meeting with a schoolmate undoes a series of unlucky events. (This is a short story for the Luna East Arts Academy series.)