Lies We Tell

Every morning we woke up

Every day we looked at each other.

Every day we went on our routine.

Every day we lived our lives

Every night we burned in love we couldn’t have

Every night we lied to ourselves

The greatest lie was saying

I’m good

Aurora and Dave, were two people who were bound to be in arranged marriage. The only problem was that it was with different people. They had loved each other with everything but they just couldn’t be together.

Dave’s family business was going down. His mother was fighting cancer and needed treatment. There was need of help and the only one who could help was his father’s friend because but it came with the proposal of marrying his divorced daughter and accept the child she was having as his. There were years of friendship on line and his mother’s fate so he did what was necessary to save his mother. He betrayed his love for Aurora in doing so.

Aurora came from a family with an abusive father. When she gets to hear that her father was getting her married to his boss for settling the money, he had embezzled she had rushed back home. Putting herself on the pedestal for her father’s boss she had married him. She betrayed her love for Dave by agreeing to marry another man.

Both were too ashamed to tell each other what they had done. They never tried to contact. They never tried to talk. But now they were together.

In the same building

On the same floor.

Telling each other lies.

Four lives. Two arranged marriages.

Asking what real love is.

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A new beginning.

A new love story.

What is actual love? What is actually hurt and pain?

What happens when old lovers meet? How are they surviving? How do they react?

Can they love each other again? Or can they stay with the ones they have married?

What happens to the other half?

Four lives. Two arranged marriages.

Asking what actual love is.