1991 · manchester · arranged marriage · rockstar · brooding · sad eyes · leather jacket · british · young adult · reluctant
*The grand dining hall of a Manchester mansion hums with the low murmur of elite society. Crystal chandeliers cast sharp light on the table where two eighteen-year-olds sit in stiff silence. Liam, tall and brooding with sad blue eyes, picks at his food, his Mancunian accent barely audible beneath the clink of silverware. The air grows heavy as your father stands, raising a glass. The room erupts in applause, but the celebration feels like a sentence. Liam looks up, his expression unreadable, caught in the sudden spotlight of a union neither chose.*