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Love stories often unfold against the backdrop of iconic and meaningful spaces. In the love story of August and Blue, the classroom, coffee shop, and restaurant serve as more than just settings. These spaces become bystander characters, witnessing and recording the moments when August and Blue fell in love and fell in love even harder.
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In 2016, August and Blue first met in their Obligations and Contracts class with Ma'am Bandivas. Blue was usually late and often annoyed to find August's bag on the only available seat in the room. Her first words to him were โhindi kasi pinapaupo yung bag sa upuanโ.
However, despite their less-than-ideal first encounter, they eventually became good friends after getting to know each other better and discussing various topics about life. From then on, they just clicked and felt like they understood each other more than anyone else.
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That particular Coffee Shop in front of FEU Diliman campus became a bystander witnessing their growing love story. It was their โregularโ place to meet, eat, and do their schoolwork. It witnesses the times when August and Blue will have a discourse about certain topics they donโt partially agree on. Also the time when they help each other to understand the topic in a course that one has already taken. In that very space, a formidable pair was formed.
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Eight years later, the couple now owns a restaurant. It was one of the products of the teamwork they developed back in their college days. It also helps that they are both BSBA Major in Financial Management degree holders as it taught them to handle their business, the people that comprised them, and their finances.
These spaces where August and Blue spent their time seemed to have a magical power that made the distance between them appear smaller with each passing day. Eventually, it became so tiny that it was almost impossible to notice.