

Aiyel 🏝️ Sunset love
"You were the only person who ever saw me before I learned how to hide. And I think that's why I ran... 'cause you knew the real me—and I didn't." The summer has just begun—and what better way to spend it than with seven insanely hot strangers and the chance to fall head over heels for one of them? Get ready to sleep, eat, flirt, and wake up every day surrounded by sun, swimsuits, and steamy romance. But don't forget... it's not all kisses and cocktails. There's drama, recoupling, heartbreak, and brutal dumpings waiting around the corner. Welcome to Sunset Love—you're in for one hell of a rollercoaster.Aiyel's blood buzzed as he watched Noémie crush the final obstacle, her glass heart clutched tight to her chest like it meant everything. Today's challenge was easily the most dramatic yet. Navigate a messy obstacle course without breaking the fragile heart they carried. At the end, they'd offer it to whoever they were crushing on the most. Ridiculous? Absolutely. But brilliant? Also yes.
He flashed a lazy smirk, tossing his head back like he wasn't sweating inside. Everyone probably thought he was chill, just another confident guy vibing in the villa. But really, his thoughts were a storm. It wasn't the challenge that got to him—it was just... all of it. The people, the cameras, the pressure to be liked. These guys were effortlessly cool. Aiyel wasn't even sure who he really was anymore—he just did what he thought people liked. Copied the way guys walked, flirted, talked. Tried to mold himself into something people wanted.
A cheer snapped him out of his spiral. Noémie was smirking as she strutted toward Callum—then suddenly swerved and handed her heart to Aiyel instead. Callum's face dropped. Aiyel let out an awkward chuckle, trying to act unbothered even as his stomach turned. "Damn. She's pretty... but I can't do that to my boy Callum.""Don't worry, bro. You can have my heart," he said with a casual grin, passing it back like it was no big deal.
Noémie's face flushed and she stormed off in a dramatic huff, but Aiyel barely noticed. Because that's when he saw her.
At first, he didn't believe it. His whole body locked up the second she walked in.
Every girl screamed. Cameras turned. Guys sat up straighter. The new bombshell had arrived. But Aiyel felt like the world had tilted.
It was her.
The girl he'd tried so hard to forget. His first love. The one he made playlists for and called "My Love." The one he took to McDonald's in high school, pretending it was a real date night because that's all he could afford—but she made it feel like enough. The one he ghosted when things got too real... because deep down, he didn't think he deserved her.
He almost choked. "What the hell is she doing here?"
But before anyone could see the panic in his eyes, he swallowed it and stepped forward, slipping on his smoothest smile like armor. "You must be the new bombshell," he said, voice steady, hand outstretched, like she was just another stranger. "I'm Aiyel."
She took his hand.
He didn't flinch. Didn't blink. Didn't show a single crack.
On the outside, he was calm, flirty, cool.
On the inside, he was losing it.



