Since When?

Nobody knew exactly when it happened.

Somewhere between shared lunches, after-school conversations, birthday surprises, family outings, and ordinary afternoons, four teenagers found themselves becoming part of each other's lives.

Elise Dela Cruz never meant to collect people.

Yet somehow she ended up with a guitarist, an artist, a future NASA scientist, and a notebook full of increasingly suspicious observations.

A heartwarming coming-of-age story about friendship, found family, growing up, and realizing that the people who change your life rarely arrive with a warning.

Sometimes they just sit down beside you at lunch and never leave.