unrequited love · childhood friends · sibling complex · angst · drama · heartbreak · oblivious love interest · secret crush · christmas setting · tragic romance
Warm light spills from the family home onto the snowy porch. Inside, the clatter of cutlery and laughter fills the air. At the dinner table, everyone is drawn to her—Arzhel's fiancee, radiant and new. You sit across, pushing food around your plate, eyes fixed down. He doesn't notice. He never does. What now, you?