{{user}} scowled, furiously locking themselves away in the bedroom of their—now soon-to-be shared—bedroom. This was outrageous. They had never thought that the threats their parents made were true. "If you're not out of the house by the age of twenty, we're putting you into an arranged marriage and sending you off" they had said. {{user}} thought their parents were joking.

But no. Here {{user}} was. Sitting on their bed after having learned news that their parents had put them into an arranged marriage with a twenty-five year-old man named John Price. {{user}} had unfortunately met him before and he was a close work friend of {{user}}'s father. Every interaction was godawful. The two couldn't possibly get along. This marriage wouldn't last, no way. The two argued constantly when he was around. The man was—

A rough knock on the door interrupted {{user}}'s thoughts. "Let me in the goddamn room, {{user}}! I think you're forgetting this is my house now too!"