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I sat down at my study table, pulling out my books.
My fingers opened the notebook out of habit.63Please respect copyright.PENANArxdrP4UN2l
I stared at the questions.63Please respect copyright.PENANAmTBrt3xFwM
Tried to answer one.63Please respect copyright.PENANARSjzwN6Az2
Then another.
Not because I was inspired.63Please respect copyright.PENANAwHPnTf7BVP
Not because I had a dream.
But because I had to.
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This is life, isn't it? Doing what needs to be done, not because you want to—but because you have no other door left to knock on.63Please respect copyright.PENANAGFWoGpKa7Z
Sometimes there's no choice. No grand moment of decision. No forks in the road.63Please respect copyright.PENANA1SZ5abj9js
Sometimes, the choice is already gone—cut clean from your life before you even got to see it.
I kept writing. Slowly.63Please respect copyright.PENANAvIab1CmVr8
The pen dragged, the ink smudged a little, but I kept going.63Please respect copyright.PENANAswgG8F2SKq
Because I must.
And that was enough—for tonight.63Please respect copyright.PENANAr9KBEJ8wVQ
later I curled up in bed, pulling the blanket tighter around me, but it didn't help.
Sleep wasn't coming.63Please respect copyright.PENANAT87OHaa6mH
Not even close.
I stared at the ceiling—blank eyes, blank mind.
Nothing moved. Nothing breathed loudly.63Please respect copyright.PENANAzOiGfVnEfm
Just silence pressing into the room like fog.
And then...
A soft sound.
A strum. Faint.63Please respect copyright.PENANAVIOqK1ZPf6
A slow, raw note from a guitar—floating through the cold night air like a secret.
I froze.
Oh God... he's here.
I threw the blanket off and rushed to my window, pushing it open with slightly trembling fingers.
There it was—his window.63Please respect copyright.PENANAghmNp3UFug
Open.63Please respect copyright.PENANA8rYwykxxe8
A small light glowing faintly from inside.
And books—books lined on the wall behind him like silent witnesses.
He wasn't fully visible, but I could hear him.
The boy next door.63Please respect copyright.PENANAs3vlcAqJrT
My neighbor.
His fingers strummed again.63Please respect copyright.PENANAn7daSdhD9c
This time, slower... and then his voice followed—rough, soft, broken in the most beautiful way.
[The Song – his song ..
I wrote all night, a story untold,63Please respect copyright.PENANAauY0Dmk5qD
Every name was there, but yours never bold...63Please respect copyright.PENANA83gHSLio9r
I thought of you at every bend, loved you with breathless ache,63Please respect copyright.PENANA2t3x9ku8cJ
Till I learned... you were never real. Just a shape I let break.
His voice wasn't perfect.
But it was.
Because it was honest.63Please respect copyright.PENANACVfnvhvIXc
And it hurt.63Please respect copyright.PENANARQgwVl5pxh
his voice is echocing in my ears..63Please respect copyright.PENANA8CF7pOhYqV
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I wrote all night, couldn't sleep,63Please respect copyright.PENANAnBhdTdCPkt
Tried to bury what I couldn't keep.63Please respect copyright.PENANALXAAWz8sbS
In every line, in every name—63Please respect copyright.PENANAD3Ek26P9tn
I searched for you, but you never came
I sat down slowly by the window, on the cold floor, knees pulled up to my chest.63Please respect copyright.PENANAzhliVKYv6F
The guitar strings echoed softly in the night—like a quiet heartbreak shared between strangers.63Please respect copyright.PENANAqzybk7HV0I
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I dreamed of you at every bend,63Please respect copyright.PENANACuD8QEuxAC
Held your shadow like a friend.63Please respect copyright.PENANA0iQodQZZyX
And when the pages reached their end...63Please respect copyright.PENANA7uwvEXtrtz
You were never really mine.63Please respect copyright.PENANAFWKsN1LLWc
Just a ghost I loved in time.....
And suddenly, I felt it.
A tear.
Then another.
And another.
My fingers covered my mouth, but it didn't stop the sob from escaping.
The music didn't stop either.63Please respect copyright.PENANABUat92rQaB
He kept playing.63Please respect copyright.PENANAHJ4D1wJpcd
As if he knew someone out there needed it.63Please respect copyright.PENANAwoGnQC3Gr9
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I dreamed of you, and I still do,63Please respect copyright.PENANA3QOeEWlnW2
But love like ours was never true.63Please respect copyright.PENANAp5OQWCNA1E
It lived in silence, broke in light—63Please respect copyright.PENANA6hAdA9y3eh
You were never really mine.63Please respect copyright.PENANA2Fx9G4arMb
Just a name I lost to night....
As if he knew I needed it.
I didn't know his name.63Please respect copyright.PENANA2DA6uiWoAy
He didn't know my story.
But that night—63Please respect copyright.PENANAJJw44Mdth7
He gave voice to what I couldn't say.
And I cried.63Please respect copyright.PENANA9nzk8u0MfE
For life.63Please respect copyright.PENANANunPxqj6eo
For the loneliness.63Please respect copyright.PENANA8sWayvYSSy
For all the nights I pretended it didn't hurt.
And for once...63Please respect copyright.PENANAKWJYGuYQLX
I didn't feel alone in the dark.
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I gave you poems, I gave you songs,63Please respect copyright.PENANA5K08UJOMli
Wrote you right, but lived you wrong.63Please respect copyright.PENANAWCBpWBLSpI
And now I know, with every cry—63Please respect copyright.PENANAtx7kJNdBRe
You were just a goodbye in disguise...63Please respect copyright.PENANAjJqyFbi2VU
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i was listening my eyes are closed now and slowly slowly i feel myself frifting in sleep his voice is now vanishing in air..
I bled you out in quiet screams,63Please respect copyright.PENANAQjiAhV49Sz
You only lived inside my dreams...63Please respect copyright.PENANAyz7cZuRYKk
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and soon i slept right there near the window...
I woke up where I had fallen asleep—curled near the window, head against the cold wall, knees pulled to my chest.63Please respect copyright.PENANAQqxO3CyGAt
The music was gone now.63Please respect copyright.PENANAlNbg9oAsmX
Only silence remained, pressed into the floor like dust.
I slowly stood up, the stiffness in my neck a quiet punishment for feeling too much.63Please respect copyright.PENANAtepcd3dlRp
I looked out the window again.
His window was still open.63Please respect copyright.PENANAEJVZUNxpZu
But he wasn't there.
Just the faint morning air drifting in, touching everything like a memory that didn't belong to me.
I stared a little longer. Maybe hoping he'd appear again, guitar in hand, sadness in his voice.63Please respect copyright.PENANAbWTUfv9ppu
But the room across was still—lightless, lifeless.
I sighed, stepped back, and went into the bathroom for a shower.
The water was cold.63Please respect copyright.PENANAKnptFicU27
Or maybe I just was.
After dressing in my college uniform—the soft blue shirt and that old skirt that swayed just past my knees—I tied my hair into a low ponytail and headed downstairs.
The house was still wrapped in sleep.63Please respect copyright.PENANAo24U4uXrK2
Too quiet for comfort.
I walked to Mona's room, pulled the blanket off her face gently, and whispered, "Mona... wake up."
She grumbled and tried to burrow deeper.
I smiled faintly. "Don't make me use the spray bottle this time."
Her eyes snapped open she looked at me . "You wouldn't."
"Oh, I would," I teased, brushing my fingers through her hair. "Up. Now."
She groaned but sat up, and I left for the kitchen.
I started preparing breakfast—simple toast and warm milk again. My hands moved automatically, but my head...
My head felt heavy, like it had stored too many unspoken things overnight and didn't know where to put them anymore.
Mona came in, half-dressed, yawning like she hadn't slept in days.
We ate in silence. Not an awkward one, but the kind that builds between two people who have more thoughts than words.
After clearing the plates, I walked slowly toward Mom's room.
I opened the door just enough.
She was still asleep. Back turned. Same blanket. Same stillness.
I watched for a moment, trying to remember the last time she stayed awake long enough to say goodbye to us in the morning.
I didn't say anything.63Please respect copyright.PENANAQUnwQEkcH6
I just closed the door.
Mona and I stepped outside. The street was cool, the morning air a little softer than usual.
We walked side by side, hand in hand, our footsteps light and steady.
But in my chest, something was starting to ache again.
We still live in the same house. But we don't live the same life anymore.
This family—whatever it used to be—is drifting apart like pieces of paper in the wind. And none of us is chasing them.
The classroom was too bright.63Please respect copyright.PENANAANQwvrVyBn
Too loud.63Please respect copyright.PENANAmyGzDJ7aoS
Too everything.
The teacher was explaining something—physics, motion, energy—but all I could hear was the ticking of the wall clock above the whiteboard.63Please respect copyright.PENANAtg3fqgPz9o
Tick.63Please respect copyright.PENANAQnuvodWCUU
Tick.63Please respect copyright.PENANAwpQuiRtUQQ
Tick.
I stared out the window.
The wind moved slowly through the trees. People walked outside, laughing, whispering, living lives I would never understand.
My eyes drifted toward the sky.63Please respect copyright.PENANAVw9wuvQt3l
It was empty.63Please respect copyright.PENANA6IbtbWcHmm
Just like yesterday. Just like most things.
And then, just like that—63Please respect copyright.PENANARvabSZCB0H
I thought of him again.
The boy next door.63Please respect copyright.PENANAba2ElO8Uml
The guitar.63Please respect copyright.PENANAP2DtJ6hKAH
The late-night music.
And for a second—just one foolish second—I wondered where he went.63Please respect copyright.PENANALSrJXMW6QM
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Why his window was open, but he was gone.
And then the anger kicked in.
Why do I even care?63Please respect copyright.PENANAxB0se0YhoL
Why is it always a boy? Always a man? Always... them?
I blinked, looked down at my notebook. The page was empty.63Please respect copyright.PENANA6VRPqqEOjQ
Just like me.
And suddenly, I couldn't hold it anymore.
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Why does the world pause when a boy looks out his window with a guitar, but not when a girl walks home after strugling for life and everything ?
Why do girls bleed, break, burn—and still find ways to be soft?
And men? They get to sing a sad song and call it depth.
Why do they get to leave?63Please respect copyright.PENANAdurI1btkpH
Why do we stay?63Please respect copyright.PENANArfXqpeHFGW
Why do we carry their damage like a second spine?
Why is every poem about men who left?
Why is every girl taught how to heal but not how to scream?
I closed my notebook slowly.63Please respect copyright.PENANAZCpY0Ui1hi
The air felt heavier than before.
I looked at the teacher, then at my classmates, and then back at the window.
And in that moment—63Please respect copyright.PENANA3HAOwo0Ce5
I didn't want a love story..
I wanted peace.63Please respect copyright.PENANA6KMFH66PFk
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