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HEART CHOICES
Sometimes it’s hard to choose. Do you
stay or do you let go? Should you become friends, more than friends, or stay
strangers? Would you risk love for popularity? You’re invited to explore these
stories and find out each character’s choice from the heart.
Barely Even Friends by Kristel
S. Villar
For pretty and athletic Emily Fonseca,
nothing’s better than getting invited to join Luna East Arts Academy’s most
popular crowd, the Elites. She only has to fulfill a list of dares to prove
that she’s got what it takes. But will it cost Emily her rekindled friendship
with language tutor and childhood friend Noah Calderon?
Excerpt
“Someone’s coming!” he announced, walking towards me in
panic.
I quickly stuffed the paper inside my pocket and closed the
drawer in haste. I watched Noah scan the room to look for a place to hide, and
tugged me on my elbow when he saw a door at the corner of the room. He pushed
me roughly inside just in time the front door opened.
We were in a dark and tiny broom closet. The air stank of
floor wax, dust, and wood, making my nose itch. I reached up to rub my nose,
but my elbow caught one of the shelves and it made a soft clatter. Noah seized
my arm and cupped my mouth with his other hand, hushing me to keep me still.
“Hello?” the female voice asked. I recognized it as one
of our substitute teachers, but I couldn’t remember her name.
We stood there for God knows how long as we listened to
the shuffling of papers. I felt Noah’s chest rise and fall, and his hot breath
on my forehead. I felt the way my small frame measured to his lean build, and
the warmth of his hand holding my arm. I closed my eyes, feeling the skin of
his palm on my lips and inhaling the scent of his cologne amidst the stench of
the closet.
Stop it, Emily, I scolded myself.
The room fell silent a few minutes later. I pulled his
hand away from my mouth and leaned over the door to get a better hearing but
Noah pulled me back in his arms, perhaps afraid that I would make another
noise.
“Do you think she’s gone?” I hissed at him.
“I dunno. I haven’t heard the door open yet. Keep still,”
he whispered back.
Guest Post: What inspired me to
write my book
All of us go
through that phase in high school where we seek validity of our existence by
wanting to be part of something. We feel that being popular means being
important, and that being loyal to friends means doing everything they say.
Some teenagers search for these things at the wrong places and the wrong
people, and many of us are still the same teenagers who continue to look for
real and true friends by wanting to be part of this clique in the office or
getting associated with that kind of people. I wanted to touch on this subject
with the hope of inspiring readers (teenagers or not) that friendships are earned
and reciprocated. In a way, I’m still that teenager, so I guess writing this
story was also a gentle reminder to myself that friendship is a two-way
process.
About Kristel S. Villar
Kristel S. Villar covers sporting events
for a national broadsheet by day and tries to write fiction by night. In
between, she takes care of her husband and son. She has penned “Blast from Two
Pasts,” a contemporary romance novella, and “The Rumor About Me,” her first
short story for the Luna East anthology. Her second Luna East short story, “One
on One” is featured in the quarterly online romance journal, Clara (www.clararomance.com).
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Until the Race is Over by Lyka
Caparos
Rico wishes Lianne back in his life, but
because of that viral article that Traecy posted on their school paper's
website, it appears to be impossible for them to be together again. Traecy on
the other hand, had only one wish for her birthday, to spend it with the one
she admires since high school – Rico Avila. How can fate brings the two
together in a race that would definitely reveal small discoveries that can lead
to two choices: either to tear them apart or hope for a more unexpected
relationship?
About Lyka Caparos
Because I want something in my life that
I think is better than pursuing a degree that is far beyond the expectations of
my heart.
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In That Summer by Jayen San
Diego
Senior high school student Jane Enriquez
is the ‘dream-girl’ of all male students at Southridge Montessori. Well, except
the geeky student leader Sean Villamayor. Opposing from the start, Sean never
expected Jane would become his partner for this year’s Summer Camp Immersion.
Will this be their worst summer? Or will it turn out to be different?
About Jayen San Diego
Who I am?
I'm Jayen San Diego, a twenty-something
who write stories mostly about love. I'm a news archivist by day, fiction
writer by night and a self-confess Fangirl in between.
Why I write?
“In order to write about life first you
must live it.”
― Ernest Hemingway
They say when we want a moment to last,
we close our eyes. Well, for me, I prefer to write it down. Reliving the
moments through writing is what I do.
What I write?
Sharing my thoughts about life and love
and writing.
From personal anecdotes to life opinions,
you can read it here. When my melancholic side is on, you can read poetic post
but generally it is a mirror of what’s happening in my daily life.
On the Outside Looking In by
Claire Du
Seventeen-year-old Freya Mahilum has
always been in love with football hotshot Ezra Montelibano. Ezra, who’s too
caught up with family pressures and his so-called girlfriend to pay attention
to a geek obsessed with him. Freya knows she'd never stand a chance with him,
but then fate conspires to bring them together. Will getting to know each other
prove that love knows no boundaries or will they find that they're better off
existing in two separate worlds?
About Claire Du
Claire has been a bookworm ever since
she can remember. Her passion for reading started when she met Archie Andrews at
the Airport Bookshop. Aside from writing short stories, she also enjoys reading
and reviews at http://thebookjunkie.weebly.com, playing the
keyboard, and just cuddling with her dog Frou. She's the author of He Loves
Me... Not?, one of the short stories in an anthology called Luna
East Vol.1 : Kids These Days.
What About Today by Dawn Lanuza
Aiden's stuck working for his family's
amusement park, Funtastic World, for the whole summer. Nothing amuses him,
until he met this terrified girl.
Gemma's stuck in Funtastic World
thinking she could handle the park's rides. She couldn't. Good thing she met
someone to guide her.
As the day comes to a close, Aiden and
Gemma ask themselves if one day is ever enough to decide if they were better
off as friends or strangers.
About Dawn Lanuza
Dawn Lanuza started writing stories when
she was just a kid (the drafts weren't good or even finished). She works for
the music industry by day and writes meet cutes and snappy comebacks by night.
She currently lives with her family and an adopted dog.
Waiting for Whatever by Fay
Sebastian
Denise knew pain at an early age. She
has been waiting for her true love since she was 11, but she never gave up,
knowing she'd meet him someday.
What she didn't know was that she
already met the man she's been waiting for, and that he's sitting beside her at
the airport. The thought never crossed her mind because she's seated between
two guys who broke her heart before.
About Fay Sebastian
Fay started writing stories since she
learned how to write with a pencil, but she only rediscovered her love for
writing when she was a high school freshman. Since then, writing has become her
life.
Now a Speech Communication student at
the University of the Philippines, she writes even during the busiest of days
because writing prevents her from being a college zombie.
Why she holds writing instruments in an
odd way will always be a mystery to the world.
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