Dual POV
Mara
I didn’t message him the next day.10Please respect copyright.PENANAVKp4PHHn5D
I didn’t need to.
Instead, I opened my music app and created a playlist.10Please respect copyright.PENANApPGN3sYA3h
Just three songs.10Please respect copyright.PENANAHJKLhQUEjq
One about missing someone I never had.10Please respect copyright.PENANAmJ3Ythgn5Q
One about learning how to breathe again.10Please respect copyright.PENANAkGZdKgM0hK
And one—soft and wordless—that made me think of him sitting across from me in the rain.
I named it “For When You’re Not Sure.”
No text. No explanation. Just a link I dropped in his inbox that night.
Ten minutes later, a message appeared:
“That third track wrecked me. Here’s mine.”
His playlist was called “If I Said Too Much.”10Please respect copyright.PENANACS3vb3cdMG
And it did.10Please respect copyright.PENANAsHbz2ofoKW
The second song was a love letter, the third sounded like goodbye, and the fifth…10Please respect copyright.PENANAXN5ssgBmtM
The fifth was mine. The one I hummed through the window.10Please respect copyright.PENANA1VEQiR3bLy
Except this time, it was a cover—with lyrics.
That’s when I realized:10Please respect copyright.PENANAKBXtque0WX
He’d heard me long before he met me.10Please respect copyright.PENANA7AvRg0O2iX
And maybe… he’d felt something, too.
Eli
I’ve always found it easier to say things through music.10Please respect copyright.PENANAMX5ywvHgob
Words can lie. Songs don’t.
When she sent that playlist, it felt like a door opened.10Please respect copyright.PENANA1PcZSd0uBw
Not wide. Just enough.
So I sent mine back, every track carefully chosen.10Please respect copyright.PENANAed75Iw4VO5
No fluff. No random filler. Just the truth I couldn’t voice yet.
She didn’t reply for hours.10Please respect copyright.PENANAVQROvtiWbo
When she finally did, it was just:
“I don’t know what this is yet. But I want to find out.”
That was it.
And somehow, it was more honest than any three-page confession could’ve been.
So we kept exchanging playlists—10Please respect copyright.PENANA175yQs7g8t
One every night.
No pressure. No labels.10Please respect copyright.PENANAD0Ly43OmmT
Just music.
And in that quiet rhythm, we found something neither of us was ready to name.
Not yet.10Please respect copyright.PENANA5hz0nPNrpe
But soon.