Love Scenario
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🌸 Hazel’s POV
The summer breeze drifted lazily across the Harrington estate, carrying the scent of blooming roses and freshly cut grass. Hazel’s red lehenga swirled around her as she ran across the garden, the golden sunlight catching every thread of fabric, making it shimmer. She laughed—a soft, musical sound that seemed to mingle with the chirping of birds and the distant rustle of leaves.
But then she saw him. Asher Harrington.
He was standing by the marble fountain at the edge of the garden, hands in his pockets, posture perfectly straight, yet somehow relaxed. That unreadable expression of his was plastered across his face, as if he were carefully guarding every thought behind an invisible wall. Hazel’s heart skipped. It always did. Always, no matter how many times she tried to convince herself otherwise.
Since childhood, Hazel had known this day would come. Her grandparents’ promises echoed in her memory, soft but unwavering: “You two will marry one day. It is decided. It has always been decided.”
Back then, it had felt like a storybook, a magical promise of a love yet to be discovered. But now… the weight of reality pressed on her chest. Because while she had grown up loving him quietly, hoping that someday he would look at her the way she looked at him, Asher… Asher had never looked at her that way.
She slowed her pace, her heart hammering not just from running, but from the anticipation of what was to come. He didn’t move. His gaze followed her every step, but not with warmth, not with the tenderness she had imagined in her dreams.
“Hazel… do you really have to follow me everywhere?” His voice cut through the garden, calm, steady, almost cold.
Her chest tightened. She forced a soft smile, the kind that hid the ache in her heart. “Asher… even if you don’t want me by your side, I’ll still wait.”
The words felt both brave and foolish as they left her lips. Brave, because she had admitted her heart yet again. Foolish, because she knew he didn’t feel the same. She had seen it in the way he laughed without her in it, in the way he avoided her touch, in the way his eyes never softened the way hers did for him.
Asher’s lips curved into a small, almost imperceptible smile, but it didn’t reach his eyes. And Hazel’s chest sank with a familiar ache. That smile—so slight, so unreadable—was the closest she had ever gotten to any kind of affection from him.
She wanted to shout, to run into his arms, to tell him how long she had loved him. But she didn’t. Instead, she looked away, letting the breeze carry her hair over her face, hiding the blush that rose to her cheeks.
Why can’t he see me? Why can’t he feel the same way I feel? she thought bitterly. I’ve loved him since I was a child. I’ve always been there. Why isn’t it enough?
Hazel sat on the edge of the fountain, letting the water trickle past her fingers. She closed her eyes and imagined a world where Asher loved her back, where their laughter intertwined, where their hands brushed in perfect unison, where she wasn’t just the cousin whose marriage had been arranged, but the woman he desired, the one he longed for.
Opening her eyes, she saw him still standing there, statuesque, distant, untouchable. Her chest ached. She had to remind herself again: he did not feel the same. Not now. Not ever… perhaps.
And yet… despite the ache, the bitterness, and the rejection she already sensed in his every movement, Hazel’s heart refused to stop. She had promised herself she would wait. And wait she would.
Even if it killed her slowly, even if every smile he gave another girl felt like a dagger, even if her heart broke a thousand times over… she would wait.
Because love—her love—was stubborn. Unyielding. And it belonged entirely to Asher Harrington.
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