thisgirlsummer

|COMPLETED|"Gusto kita. Gusto talaga kita, Renz. Simula pa nang unang dating mo rito sa Guimaras."The summer Lorenzo Peñalver III was sent home to Aguadulce was unlike any other one he had before...It was in that small town that he came to know his crotchety grandfather and the life his father had abandoned even before he was born.Lena was unlike any other girl he has met before; as pure and lovely as the first flower of summer. She was young and naive, and Renz was her first love.So why are the townspeople convinced that his grandfather is grooming her to be his woman when she comes of age?…

thisgirlsummer

Bike rides, traipsing through old half-forgotten gardens and seeing her first shooting star- those are some of the things Rae had never experienced in Manila.Nothing seems to have worked out well so far in her short, young life. Having had her fair share of sorrow and poverty, she thought she knew everything in life already. Thus the sullen teenager wasn't quite prepared to know Atlas or experience her very first love in quiet, rustic La Estrella.But La Estrella grows not only flowers in its dark earth, it also buries secrets that people have taken to their grave.Will the truth set her free or will the universe always conspire against her?…

thisgirlsummer

| COMPLETED | To quote John Green, "... unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot."If only Ariadne "Andy" Lucero can say she agrees with him in theory only. Alas, Andy can totally relate, because she had the perfect boyfriend way back in college- Seth Austria. Unfortunately, as is always the case, we never know what we've got until it's gone.Will a crazy solo trip to South Korea end up in winning back Seth's heart, or will he forever be the one that got away?…

thisgirlsummer

She had always wanted to go to Batanes. Pero dapat ay kasama niya si Charles...Everything seems to have already been mapped out for lucky girl Vashti del Rosario. She's pretty and has been in a relationship with her childhood bestfriend for years already. Sure, she's not the friendliest person and she's not sure she really knows what to do with her life, but thank goodness she has Charles to steer her towards the right path.So what happens when she finds herself having to go to Batanes by herself?…

thisgirlsummer

A Collection of Short Stories…