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I sat down at my study table, pulling out my books.
My fingers opened the notebook out of habit.89Please respect copyright.PENANADnIPhHntfl
I stared at the questions.89Please respect copyright.PENANAXfD2pJeiYG
Tried to answer one.89Please respect copyright.PENANAdq2btXYOzB
Then another.
Not because I was inspired.89Please respect copyright.PENANAmna4kYRGFR
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.89Please respect copyright.PENANAaYFHjWrsHT
Sometimes there's no choice. No grand moment of decision. No forks in the road.89Please respect copyright.PENANAuPrMjVgORz
Sometimes, the choice is already gone—cut clean from your life before you even got to see it.
I kept writing. Slowly.89Please respect copyright.PENANAKySKHUz6We
The pen dragged, the ink smudged a little, but I kept going.89Please respect copyright.PENANAGSa23uY5NA
Because I must.
And that was enough—for tonight.89Please respect copyright.PENANAV4Mo75676N
later I curled up in bed, pulling the blanket tighter around me, but it didn't help.
Sleep wasn't coming.89Please respect copyright.PENANAS1MVZL7kMq
Not even close.
I stared at the ceiling—blank eyes, blank mind.
Nothing moved. Nothing breathed loudly.89Please respect copyright.PENANAFRNxQqGjSx
Just silence pressing into the room like fog.
And then...
A soft sound.
A strum. Faint.89Please respect copyright.PENANAGGOw6QcGeK
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.89Please respect copyright.PENANAyDhfORx3U6
Open.89Please respect copyright.PENANAFFS99djPT8
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.89Please respect copyright.PENANAaG7f6iKuXi
My neighbor.
His fingers strummed again.89Please respect copyright.PENANAbUSl6ECviY
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,89Please respect copyright.PENANAiW4azx8wPl
Every name was there, but yours never bold...89Please respect copyright.PENANAllao1NpL7R
I thought of you at every bend, loved you with breathless ache,89Please respect copyright.PENANApnl7gF0hQL
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.89Please respect copyright.PENANAMTRfoPifAs
And it hurt.89Please respect copyright.PENANA72GAKFmueZ
his voice is echocing in my ears..89Please respect copyright.PENANAJuaoFOko6i
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I wrote all night, couldn't sleep,89Please respect copyright.PENANA7TVFuBhqKs
Tried to bury what I couldn't keep.89Please respect copyright.PENANAi2TZqk7hTX
In every line, in every name—89Please respect copyright.PENANASG0Vvumgd5
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.89Please respect copyright.PENANA5TmpjhI6LY
The guitar strings echoed softly in the night—like a quiet heartbreak shared between strangers.89Please respect copyright.PENANAZY5RGKebCr
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I dreamed of you at every bend,89Please respect copyright.PENANA591jZ25Lfh
Held your shadow like a friend.89Please respect copyright.PENANAr6kbir7QMI
And when the pages reached their end...89Please respect copyright.PENANAQrMjsrzwj8
You were never really mine.89Please respect copyright.PENANAR9TCwohxY6
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.89Please respect copyright.PENANApEsFzmJdlB
He kept playing.89Please respect copyright.PENANAgWnHSvBIzq
As if he knew someone out there needed it.89Please respect copyright.PENANATPM0Gtnim4
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I dreamed of you, and I still do,89Please respect copyright.PENANA7Mb38tprXv
But love like ours was never true.89Please respect copyright.PENANAWMzSERswvx
It lived in silence, broke in light—89Please respect copyright.PENANA9YS77sFtKg
You were never really mine.89Please respect copyright.PENANAE8K9HFV1nE
Just a name I lost to night....
As if he knew I needed it.
I didn't know his name.89Please respect copyright.PENANAmT5n1RrG53
He didn't know my story.
But that night—89Please respect copyright.PENANAwHPelxUjD0
He gave voice to what I couldn't say.
And I cried.89Please respect copyright.PENANAcJGn3smVtK
For life.89Please respect copyright.PENANAFHYLV6cfmP
For the loneliness.89Please respect copyright.PENANANjCn5P3GU6
For all the nights I pretended it didn't hurt.
And for once...89Please respect copyright.PENANAYnZgE6rcNR
I didn't feel alone in the dark.
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I gave you poems, I gave you songs,89Please respect copyright.PENANAklww9Ej02T
Wrote you right, but lived you wrong.89Please respect copyright.PENANApo13LwwVgO
And now I know, with every cry—89Please respect copyright.PENANAUmHPPf9L9r
You were just a goodbye in disguise...89Please respect copyright.PENANAxKONufxdHh
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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,89Please respect copyright.PENANAQEmEd6W6zp
You only lived inside my dreams...89Please respect copyright.PENANAJssmvJm32n
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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.89Please respect copyright.PENANANaWBZtulQ5
The music was gone now.89Please respect copyright.PENANAOQbpwR66dS
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.89Please respect copyright.PENANA1YrK6G9THB
I looked out the window again.
His window was still open.89Please respect copyright.PENANAIpQ8ty88p6
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.89Please respect copyright.PENANA04fTynR2AH
But the room across was still—lightless, lifeless.
I sighed, stepped back, and went into the bathroom for a shower.
The water was cold.89Please respect copyright.PENANA89ab6qqvfO
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.89Please respect copyright.PENANA1O9HVKEL5h
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.89Please respect copyright.PENANASNvNfQFTQu
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.89Please respect copyright.PENANAYPa9p5Oo37
Too loud.89Please respect copyright.PENANAi8QQurP0aN
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.89Please respect copyright.PENANAjxuNy4isZs
Tick.89Please respect copyright.PENANANfxdL9jiSm
Tick.89Please respect copyright.PENANAjMGNwxqmpY
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.89Please respect copyright.PENANAQnsOKIadRm
It was empty.89Please respect copyright.PENANA4nCMXQOC2X
Just like yesterday. Just like most things.
And then, just like that—89Please respect copyright.PENANAJPgugydK5P
I thought of him again.
The boy next door.89Please respect copyright.PENANAX62pENVmRI
The guitar.89Please respect copyright.PENANAd3KiOTxzf1
The late-night music.
And for a second—just one foolish second—I wondered where he went.89Please respect copyright.PENANA2Cu7gLjyXa
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Why his window was open, but he was gone.
And then the anger kicked in.
Why do I even care?89Please respect copyright.PENANAi3GIzXAZWk
Why is it always a boy? Always a man? Always... them?
I blinked, looked down at my notebook. The page was empty.89Please respect copyright.PENANA44fjhsnGxH
Just like me.
And suddenly, I couldn't hold it anymore.
Why is it always "he"?89Please respect copyright.PENANAZmWCMKqDhF
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?89Please respect copyright.PENANAlZjtTWSNMG
Why do we stay?89Please respect copyright.PENANAvt3wBIp3qs
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.89Please respect copyright.PENANAbUex82DfNm
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—89Please respect copyright.PENANAZgNNgnuAtB
I didn't want a love story..
I wanted peace.89Please respect copyright.PENANAAaN1vNDwlU
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