Fairytale

"She was his once-in-a-lifetime kind of love, and he was the reason she still believed in it."

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"I was so sure," I whispered. "That someday he'd look at me and see it too. See me."

Mayank sighed softly, turning down the music. "Maya..."

"But he didn't," I said, my voice breaking just slightly. "He looked at her tonight the way I've always wished he'd look at me."

Silence.
Only the faint hum of the car filled the space between us.

I laughed quietly - the kind of laugh that comes when your heart is too tired to cry. "I'm pathetic, right? The girl who fell for her father's best friend's son. Like some hopeless fairytale but forget that not every fairytale becomes real."

Mayank shook his head. "You're not pathetic, Sharma. You just have a big heart. That's your problem."

I smiled weakly. "Big hearts are overrated."

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Trope :
Age gap
Forbidden love
childhood crush
Slow burn
She fell first,he fell harder
Happy ending