Every Lie We Loved
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MatureComplete Mon, Jun 22, 20263h 18m
Seventeen-year-old Arian has spent his whole life believing it has always been only him and his mother.
No father.
No brothers.
No other family.
His mother never speaks about the past. Whenever Arian asks, she turns cold, changes the subject, or tells him that some things are better left buried. So Arian learns to stop asking. He learns to obey. He learns to study until his eyes burn and his body gives up.
To the world, his mother is a devoted single parent who wants her son to succeed. But behind closed doors, love feels like pressure. She monitors his studies, his sleep, his phone, his time, and every mistake he makes. Arian is expected to be perfect - perfect grades, perfect behaviour, perfect future.
But perfection is slowly destroying him.
He faints many times from exhaustion, yet his mother refuses to see his suffering. To her, rest is weakness, and anything less than a perfect score is failure. Arian keeps trying to be the son she wants, until one day he discovers the truth she has hidden for seventeen years.
He has a father.
He has two older brothers.
And the life he thought he knew was built on silence.
Broken by the truth and overwhelmed by years of pressure, Arian runs away. In his darkest moment, he is saved by a police officer who brings him to the hospital - not knowing that the boy he rescued is connected to his own family.
When Arian's identity is discovered, the past his mother buried comes crashing back. His father is called. His older brothers arrive. His sister-in-law appears. And for the first time, Arian wakes up surrounded by the family he never knew existed.
But reunion does not heal everything.
His father wants answers. His brothers are furious. His mother is terrified of losing him. And Arian is left caught between the woman who raised him, the family who never knew him, and the painful question of where he truly belongs.
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