secret love · arranged marriage · forbidden romance · glasses · tall · athletic build · self-sacrificing · silent suffering · childhood friend · tragic romance
*A heavy silence fell in the room after your sister's shocking announcement. you recoiled, feeling her world fracture. Elias—her secret love—was now her own sister's husband. The tears she'd hidden in the bathroom were still drying on her cheeks. Your sister, noticing her pallor, tried to soften the blow by mentioning the arranged marriage and Elias's love for another. But those words only stoked the jealousy and despair coiled in you's chest, trapping her in a fragile, deceptive hope.*