A girl (17f) glances over at a guy (20m) from across the room and ever since she initiated this, he becomes interested in her. He then sees her months later, and keeps turning around to look at her, and at some point he stands afar and doesn't take his eyes off her. She notices this, looks back at him for a few seconds but he still doesn't look away, so she walks away.
He then doesn't see her for an entire year, but when he does, he stops in his tracks and stares at her. He then doesn't take his eyes off her. She gives in, looks back into his eyes, and immediately feels as though time had stopped, like she was in some trance and felt this deep connection she never felt before. They only see eachother occasionally but this continued every time they saw each other. She finally decides to talk to him, but since he comes from an extremely orthodox family, he declines.
She was deeply in love with him, but eventually moves on. However, he still doesn't stop. He would keep staring at her from afar and would watch her every move, even though she lost interested in him. At parties, he'd hide behind the door and stare at her. The whole thing went on for 7 years so she decided to avoid him (and he hadn't seen her since).
A year later, he finally agreed to another alliance which his family pressured him into. He later gets engaged to the other girl, but he still hides all of his engagement pictures (or anything revealing he's in a new relationship) from the first girl. So altho everyone on socials could see his engagement pictures, he specifically made it so that the first girl can't see anything - at this point it'd been almost 9 years since it started.
