TIED BY FATE : The vows We Never Meant

They used to call them inseparable Aarav Malhotra and Aanya Mehra.
The boy who teased, and the girl who followed.
The boy who rolled his eyes, and the girl who blushed.

Everyone joked they'd end up together someday.
Until one day, he laughed a little too loud,
and she stopped looking back.

Years passed.
He became the man everyone respected.
She became the woman who pretended not to remember.

When his father's death left behind a will and a company,
her elder sister's name came up as the perfect match
a union written in family trust and old friendships.

But fate had a cruel sense of humor.
On the day of the wedding, the bride ran away.
And the next morning, Aanya Mehra wore the bridal red.

Now she lives in the house of a man
who once made her believe in forever
and then proved her wrong.

He married her for duty.
She said yes for family.

But destiny?
It had other plans ,
to remind them that some childhood stories
don't end where they're supposed to.
They just begin again, in silence.