Grayson was always the top of everything be it expectations, academics and financially. People look up to him but he denys those who hate him. With this ignorance, hatred towards him grew. Grayson was arrogant, selfish and greedy only he didn't know these traits of himelf. To him, he was always right and people should look up to him, thank him for it.
But this insensitive side of him, who only focused on logical and sensical things such as rules and obligations, was exceptionally disliked by people who have devoted their hardest only to be crushed with his strict ruling and sometimes unfair statements. He is straightforward and agressive, he was always the leader among his group and he forbade anyone to replace him.
This incredible personality of his was developed with his family's critisism towards his past failures, he was always ridiculed for having the simplest mistake so he had forced himself to get to the top to impress his parents, to reach their expectations. But it was never enough for his parents, they have always loved his brother better, therefore his current highest achievement wasn't enough.
Grayson was constantly denied. Until when his family finally called him one day, explaining that they have arranged him a marriage. He hated that his parents were forcing him to marry someone what more they were trying to set him up with a man. For the first time, he protested and argued with his parents, he could never marry a man, he wasn't gay and he was definetely not up for the idea of living together with a complete stranger after marrying.
He didn't know what his parents were thinking but in the end he was still going to marry the man. He was infuriated and sick of getting his hopes up that someday his parents would finally acknowledge him.
What they were doing was throwing him off to that man and wanted nothing to do with him. So he cut off his ties and lived on his own to run away from his doomed life.
Until he met a man he never thought he would fall for. It was unbelievable. He know he said that he wasn't gay but he didn't see the feelings coming over to him. Grayson couldn't shake the feeling off so he let it loose and pursued the man. Little did he know that the man also had problems with his family when it found out that he was getting engaged to a man, and he was also infuriated.
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The other half of the story is that when Grayson decided to live his own life without his parent's weight of expectation, Grayson applied to be a professor to a certain university. And he met a sweet and nice co-professor that he found hard to ignore. He followed him every break time and pestered it until it gave in. He plans to make him like him back. In the end, It's a happy ending.
(I loved how this prompt turned out so good and I posted it so I won't forget lol)
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