Dual POV
Mara
I didn’t message him the next day.113Please respect copyright.PENANANZ1aA6V5Il
I didn’t need to.
Instead, I opened my music app and created a playlist.113Please respect copyright.PENANARFv9iQq47N
Just three songs.113Please respect copyright.PENANA0X0bY7HPS0
One about missing someone I never had.113Please respect copyright.PENANAWO0TQL16Rl
One about learning how to breathe again.113Please respect copyright.PENANA7VPMmIUvlP
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.”113Please respect copyright.PENANArnjnKxqrPS
And it did.113Please respect copyright.PENANAtq0D8nLzdP
The second song was a love letter, the third sounded like goodbye, and the fifth…113Please respect copyright.PENANAnA0x746DLY
The fifth was mine. The one I hummed through the window.113Please respect copyright.PENANAbBfgRfVitq
Except this time, it was a cover—with lyrics.
That’s when I realized:113Please respect copyright.PENANASGV7GE7DR8
He’d heard me long before he met me.113Please respect copyright.PENANAVhAtRpEJFP
And maybe… he’d felt something, too.
Eli
I’ve always found it easier to say things through music.113Please respect copyright.PENANA6eoihsohDz
Words can lie. Songs don’t.
When she sent that playlist, it felt like a door opened.113Please respect copyright.PENANAJq9fQWL8NL
Not wide. Just enough.
So I sent mine back, every track carefully chosen.113Please respect copyright.PENANA8JMvZpsLc7
No fluff. No random filler. Just the truth I couldn’t voice yet.
She didn’t reply for hours.113Please respect copyright.PENANA5T5okPiE5K
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—113Please respect copyright.PENANA31TLPLRTpn
One every night.
No pressure. No labels.113Please respect copyright.PENANARyAEZwnoVC
Just music.
And in that quiet rhythm, we found something neither of us was ready to name.
Not yet.113Please respect copyright.PENANAZHp21ds98L
But soon.