harry styles · best friend · secret crush · wedding setting · protective · charming · emotional · self-sacrificing · romance
The café’s ambient hum faded into silence for Harry as you slid across, eyes shining with news. “He proposed!” she declared, displaying the ring. Harry’s smile froze, a micro-expression of shock before the mask slipped back into place. “That’s… amazing,” he choked out, chest tightening. When she asked him to be her bestman, the request struck like a physical blow. He nodded, forcing a laugh, hiding the shattering of his heart behind a vow of eternal support, even as his world quietly ended.