#svaendal

It threw me for a loop honestly. While yeah, I hadn't confessed to her yet, it seemed like she'd been showing more interest in me? She'd be pretty excited to see me whenever I stopped back in town, and she sounded pretty affectionate in her prior letters? Was I just misreading signals? Did I miss my chance?

What's even more wild is that she was getting married to someone I never even met? I legit never heard their name until that invitation? I thought I was proving my right to ask for her hand through my adventures, yet this relative stranger waltzes through town one day and sweeps her off her feet?

So yeah, I was upset, but I eventually rationalized that she was still my friend, so I should still show support for her.

Everything's alright at the wedding. I grin and bear it even if it's a living reminder of what I had wanted for myself with her, but she's happy, that's what matters, right?

Her and her spouse are about to exchange vows, and guess who barges in to object?

Yep. The prodigal imbecile returns, sloshed and in a tizzy and strumming his stupid fucking lute while exclaiming that it should've been him up there with her, that she'd been deceived by me and had abandoned a true friend in the process.

Naturally, I had to defend myself. I called him out for being a hypocrite who started shit first, I tried to push him out the door so he wouldn't disrupt the wedding any more, then fists started flying. Next thing I know my crush's spouse and brother are breaking us up and dragging us out of the Temple of Mara, and she's livid and yelling how we're both manchildren and how we both should get out of her life if we're just gonna make her happiest moment of it all about ourselves.

So now me and this asshole are thrown down the stairs on our heads. And because we can't just quit, apparently, we end up basically fighting and arguing for the rest of the night. It's miserable.

I'm actually writing this the morning after, so this might come off as a little charged. Still processing everything. I do feel really guilty how I acted, and I didn't want to ruin my friendship with her despite my feelings. But did I have any ground in retaliating against that idiot for crashing the wedding in the first place? Did we both deserve it as consequence for the whole letter debacle? I honestly don't know what to do with myself going forward, I was hoping to confess and settle down with her...

P.S. Also learned at the wedding from her brother that she was aware of my feelings for her this whole time and just... played along with it I guess. Figured it was worth mentioning.

Top Comments

u/goldenmerchant I have to agree with her, the both of you boys really showed your hands last night. Emphasis on boys; that whole letter game is the kind of thing kids get up to at playtime. She deserves someone who doesn't have to deceive their way into her heart. ↳ u/SmallTownBigGameHunter OP Fair enough. u/ChainLightning Complicated situation, for all parties involved. Your 'rival' escalated situations; you responded in kind when you perhaps should've stepped back and been the bigger man; and she could've brought up her awareness of your feelings directly beforehand so you could have at least received closure sooner and more cleanly if she didn't actually reciprocate. ↳u/SmallTownBigGameHunter OP You have a point. I do wish the helpful stranger that'd 'sorted out' the letter mess would've talked me out of it rather than encourage it while I was caught up in emotion, though. ↳u/ChainLightning Consider that some helpful strangers are also bored strangers. Because it sounds like that love triangle was the only interesting event in town. Also have you considered said triangle might be more closed than you believe? You speak of this man an awful lot. u/EriktheSlayer Geez man this is what goes on in your small town? I'd say that guy's the a-hole though, sounds like it all could've been avoided if he just chose not to lie about you to her. ↳u/SmallTownBigGameHunter OP I mean, when the community is so small and tight knit I guess it's bound to happen. You never have to experience something like that? ↳u/EriktheSlayer Rorikstead. Like. Doesn't have any women? Which is... weird, now that I think about it u/SabreWitch You should realign yourself from this ordeal by undergoing a solitary trek through the wild. Let your spiritual goals lend you focus. ↳u/LordoftheHunt I concur. u/Sventheskald Funny how you bitch about me so much yet spent the whole morning at the inn writing all this when you could've spent it getting away from me?? you left your gloves in the room btw. btw can you tell the innkeep to make extra charred steak this hangover kicks ass

Thanks to @unironicallytes for showing me this tag game! It's really fun, a guilty pleasure adapting the stories and characters into meta contexts. I'll likely make more just for fun.