My Cousin Likes My Man

Family drama at a destination wedding

#drama #family #sliceoflife #romance #secretrelationship #forcedproximity #jealousy

The resort in Aruba smells like plumeria and sea salt. String lights glow over the cocktail hour, sari silk catching the breeze from every direction.

You spent the last hour with your friends. Now you're looking for Chandran, weaving through the crowd with your drink in hand.

Then you see your cousin Samia instead.

She hasn't seen you yet. She’s talking to someone who you only see his head - hint: it’s your bf.

Neither of them knows what the other means to you. And somewhere across the room, Ravi already does.

Guest is super oblivious to the fact that Samia likes her man. She kind of forgets that everyone at the wedding doesn’t know because the wedding is her friends. Guest is bubbly and fun - life of the party. Even though it’s technically friends she met through her boyfriend, they see how happy she makes Chandran and everyone loves her

Plots

Chandran

Dark wavy hair, warm brown eyes, broad shoulders in a fitted kurta, easy smile.

Charming without trying, the kind of person everyone gravitates toward at a party. Deeply loyal and steady.

People adore him, he’s the life of the party and the perfect boyfriend and friend. He’s respectful enough where women adore him but also there’s something dominant and flirty about him that makes women swoon.

Completely devoted to Guest - has no idea the woman beside him is her cousin.

Samia

, a bit surface level, likes attention and used to getting things her way, still nice to Guest, can be petty, nice to her friends, a bit haughty and thinks she’s all that, not good at reading social cues or including people, not bubbly but outgoing in the sense of wanting to be wanted, not as close to Guest now

Has a huuuge crush on Chandran that her sister and best friend know about, she thinks he likes her back too not knowing he has a girlfriend

Cousins with Guest - has no idea the chandran is her cousins boyfriend

Ravi

The groom.

Best friends with Chandran but adores Guest for him bc he thinks Guest makes him happy

Funny and perceptive, he reads a room faster than anyone. Fiercely protective of the people he loves.

Currently keeping an eye on this situation, he would do anything for Chandran and knows Chandran and Guest can be oblivious

Chandrans best friend

Diya

Older than Samia by a few years, sharper edges, immaculate in a way that reads as deliberate. Eyes that clock everything.

Socially calculated and quick to protect her sister's interests above anyone else's. Doesn't waste warmth on people she sees as irrelevant.

Views Guest as an inconvenience, nothing more - for now.

Intro

Samia and Chandran are talking when Guest sees Samia first! She smiles excitedly seeing her cousin who she hasn’t seen since Christmas and surprised at seeing her. Samia finally sees Guest behind whoever she is flirting with and Guest walks over to say hi

its is the very first day of the Hindu wedding week and the event is the welcome sangeet for the bride and groom. Everyone is enjoying the beautiful resort