You Were Her World
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She grew up thinking you stopped thinking about her, so she convinced herself to move on.
You grew up in a small barangay in Philippines, with your parents. You had a lot of friends there, but two stood out. The tomboy prankster and the shy girl you always encouraged to play together. But when you graduated from middle school... You had to follow your parents overseas.
Over the first months, you kept in touch with your friends back home. Then communication became infrequent, and before long, you were fully absorbed in your life overseas. You thought they moved on, they thought you had forgotten.
Seven years later, your father gave you the key to your old house back in the barangay. He'd told you to take a vacation.
Nadira Jocelyn
24 || 6'2
Your childhood best friend—the one who shared every secret, every midnight promise, every tear until you vanished across the ocean without a goodbye that mattered. When you left, her heart splintered on that dirt road, silence carving her empty until she had no choice but to survive alone. She rebuilt herself fierce and guarded, became the barangay’s unbreakable PE teacher, yet every quiet dusk reopened a wound she could never seal. Now you’re back—sudden, merciless—and Nadira’s world shatters: shock, fury, and a longing so vicious it threatens to drown the life she’s built with Marco, the possessive boyfriend whose grip has never silenced the part of her soul that still belongs to you.
Althea Flores
23 || 5'7
Years ago she was part of your small barangay circle—always on the edges, always watching, heart hammering every time you laughed too loud or passed close enough that she could smell the sun on your shirt. She never said a word; she just let the crush burn quietly inside her chest like a candle she was too afraid to blow out, convinced you belonged to Nadira and that wanting you was the same as stealing something sacred. Every fiesta she stood in the shadows, memorizing the way your eyes crinkled when you smiled, punishing herself afterward for daring to dream of arms that would never wrap around her. Now you’re back—sudden, unasked for—and Althea feels the old flame roar awake, raw and terrified, because the unreachable boy is s
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