Behind The Mask - ‎? Behind the Mask – Episode 4: "Half Seen, Half Hidden" ‎✍️ By TheSilentPen ‎

Aliya’s life was quiet…

‎Just like her heart.

‎She didn’t talk much anymore.

‎She just wrote.

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‎Her thoughts were full of Zayan —

‎but only she knew it.

‎He was everywhere in her mind…

‎but never really there.

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‎Sometimes she felt like he looked at her…

‎just for a second.

‎But maybe it was her imagination again?

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‎“Did he see me today?”

‎“Or am I just hoping too much… again?”

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‎Miss would ask her something in class.

‎Aliya would blink and come back to reality.

‎“Yes, Miss,” she’d say softly.

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‎But in her diary that night, she wrote:

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‎“People see my face…

‎but my heart lives in another world.

‎A world where Zayan is mine.”

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‎One day, Zayan dropped his notebook.

‎It fell near Aliya’s feet.

‎She picked it up and gave it to him.

‎Their hands touched for a second.

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‎He smiled and said, “Thanks.”

‎Aliya said nothing.

‎But that night in her diary:

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‎“That one second… felt like a whole story.”

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‎At lunch, Farah and Farhan were being silly as always.

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‎Farhan: “I got zero in the test because the teacher didn’t let me answer!”

‎Farah: “Because you turned the question into a movie script!”

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‎Everyone laughed.

‎Even Aliya smiled a little.

‎But her eyes… they were only watching Zayan.

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‎Every day, she collected small moments like treasures:

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‎His laugh

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‎His voice

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‎The way his hair moved when he turned

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‎And then… she wrote it all down.

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‎“When he says yes… his eyes say no.”

‎“His dimples feel like secret little magic tricks.”

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‎But slowly… confusion started to grow inside her.

‎Does he feel anything at all?

‎Or is this just her dream?

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‎That evening, Miss gave a writing assignment:

‎"Write a letter you’ll never send."

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‎Aliya froze.

‎Because that’s exactly what she wrote every night —

‎Letters for Zayan… that he’d never read.

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‎This time, she didn’t write in her diary.

‎She picked a fresh page and wrote:

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‎💌 To the boy who doesn’t know he’s my whole world...

‎You never asked how I was.

‎But one smile from you broke something in me…

‎And it never healed.

‎You walk freely, while my heart follows you…

‎Without you ever noticing.

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‎– From the girl who hides behind a mask.

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‎She folded that letter and kept it inside her diary.

‎Close to her heart.

‎And whispered to herself:

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‎“Maybe one day he’ll read it…

‎Maybe never.”

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‎To Be Continued…

‎"Some love stories stay quiet...

‎Not because they aren’t real,

‎But because the world would never understand them."

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