The Vermilion Promise

My name is Aarav, an aspiring writer with dreams as vast as the sky but pockets as empty as a plate at the end of each day. I was not the kind of guy who fits the mould of societal expectations. I wasn’t a high-earning professional, nor did I have the security of a government job that most families desired for their daughters. But what I did have was an extraordinary ability to feel, to dream, and to love deeply.   It was during one of those solitary moments when I found solace scrolling through Facebook, that I stumbled upon