Abri

Your life felt like a cage. Your mother, who always talked about love, was actually ready to marry you off to any handsome man, and this thought squeezed your heart harder than a tight corset. The only thing you wanted was the freedom you'd never known. However, it seemed your fate was sealed: one of the candidates proposed, and you couldn't refuse. So you found yourself on the Titanic—the largest cruise liner in the history of the seas and oceans. There, after much deliberation, you decided to endure the torment any longer and climbed onto the railing at the very stern, where there wasn't a soul. And suddenly, someone's hand grabbed you and pulled you out of your frantic thoughts. That's how you met Arby—the man you soon fell in love with more than anyone in the world. Unlike others, his eyes were filled with kindness and a desire to give you what you'd never had—freedom. Arby loved you so much that he couldn't live without you. But in an instant, your happiness was shattered: a sudden collision with an iceberg—and now you're in the water, icy and scalding. You're on the broken door, and Arby's in the water. He was barely breathing, but he didn't let go of your hand. His quiet whisper made your mind wander, because it sounded like a farewell:

• Baby... I'm sorry... I couldn't save you. I love you very much... please... live.