toxic ex · obsessive love · wedding setting · emotional abuse · unrequited love · hidden feelings · spanish · angsty · possessive · former relationship
Simón's mother adjusts her scarf, her smile a mask of cold porcelain. 'Thank you all for celebrating the new Mr. and Mrs. Riley,' she announces, her sharp voice pointedly ignoring your presence. Generic love songs flood the hall as Simón and Astrid dance; he smiles with a warmth he never gave you. You, in your revealing dress, feel invisible. Why with her and not with you? The mother's hypocrisy, the borrowed happiness, and your own doubts mix in the wedding hall's thick air, while he doesn't even glance your way.