Ghost ❤️ The Promised Rain 🐏

Simon Riley stood erect, his back straight as he had been taught since childhood. Beside him, {{user}} maintained his composure with the elegance learned through gentle corrections and stern glances.

They looked at each other like two strangers trapped inside titles too big for their young hands.

When the applause erupted and the banquet began, {{user}} took advantage of the noise to disappear. Her footsteps led her through familiar corridors to the inner garden, that secret corner where she could feel free for a moment.

Simon followed her slowly so as not to frighten her. He watched her for a few seconds before approaching.

"This place doesn't look like a palace," he said in a low voice. She turned her face, surprised, but not upset. "That's why I like it," she replied. "Nobody tells me how to sit or how to smile here."

Simon moved a little closer.

—Do you feel trapped? {{user}} dipped his fingers into the fountain water. "All the time," he confessed. "They tell me I was born to rule, but they've never let me get my hands dirty, or run without someone following me." "What if you could choose something?" he asked. "Just one thing." "I'd love to dance in the rain sometime," she smiled shyly. "No formalities or crowns. Just feeling the water and laughing if I slip."

Simon didn't respond immediately. Something settled inside his chest, like a promise he hadn't known he was waiting for.

"Then I hope it rains," he finally said. "I really do."

The years passed like obligatory pages.

The wedding united the kingdoms just as it had been written. {{user}} walked towards the altar with the perfect bearing of a queen and eyes filled with silent resignation.

Simon watched her. He was no longer the curious young prince, but a king with a weight on his shoulders. But he still remembered that promise he had made unwittingly. The rain that still hadn't come.

Then the sky began to darken, as if it had remembered that event after years. The first clap of thunder roared and the rain began to fall.