There’s something I’ve carried for years.570Please respect copyright.PENANAtbqeMniuTg
Something I never had the courage to say — not even when I sat beside you every single day, not even when your voice was the only comfort I knew.
We were best friends.570Please respect copyright.PENANAXparWHYyal
You let me in, shared your secrets, laughed with me, cried with me, made memories that stretched across years.570Please respect copyright.PENANAUOFVfgoh80
And I held them all like tiny treasures.
But somewhere along the way…570Please respect copyright.PENANA1JeIfKLsmN
I fell in love with you.
Not in a loud, dramatic way.570Please respect copyright.PENANA7DfvZAzUFS
Not in a way that ever asked for anything back.570Please respect copyright.PENANA3vcIC5nPHE
I just… loved you.
In the quietest, deepest corners of my soul.570Please respect copyright.PENANA7hXrvKNKn2
In the spaces between your words.570Please respect copyright.PENANAmjzmLuuI8s
In the silence after your voice.570Please respect copyright.PENANA8iJ0BXcmge
In the warmth of every “pagal” you called me.
I listened when you spoke about her — the girl you liked.570Please respect copyright.PENANAzqrMX5YmqJ
I helped you find the words, plan the replies, understand your feelings.570Please respect copyright.PENANA8wylSe2OE2
And with each sentence I gave to help you be closer to her…570Please respect copyright.PENANAA9xmaIRMg2
I lost a little piece of myself.
Because I wasn’t just your friend.570Please respect copyright.PENANAts8jklzl9Y
I was the one who stayed up late, not to talk — but to overthink every conversation we had.570Please respect copyright.PENANA9kcvXPSpiv
I was the one who replayed your voice in my mind when everything felt heavy.570Please respect copyright.PENANAjHcIYoSlal
I was the one who watched you choose others — and still smiled, like it didn’t hurt.
But Zuni, it did.570Please respect copyright.PENANASarB4W7B1l
It hurt more than you’ll ever know.
The world saw you as the strong one. The admired one.570Please respect copyright.PENANAZ33hqQBCe5
But I saw something softer — something only I got to know.570Please respect copyright.PENANA6Zgj2mQ2Uj
Your laughter that came after anger.570Please respect copyright.PENANAQWpjXC1UoE
The way you forgot things but remembered how to make people feel loved.570Please respect copyright.PENANAKDalsB1Qur
The way you chose me, again and again, when others wanted your time — and I thought, just maybe, that meant something.
I remember the night I sent you that video…570Please respect copyright.PENANAW45JNzG1At
That baby crying, and the words:570Please respect copyright.PENANAuGIR68UIff
“No one ever says they miss me…”
And you replied —570Please respect copyright.PENANAZ5xpXb1ljk
“Pagal… you are always missed. Always remembered.”
Zuni…570Please respect copyright.PENANALVFA44obup
You didn’t know, but I broke that night.570Please respect copyright.PENANAL72VRc3EVO
Because that was the closest I ever came to hearing what I had waited years to hear.570Please respect copyright.PENANAbJ2JvTlwoP
And it still wasn’t what I needed.
The truth is, you never knew what I carried inside.570Please respect copyright.PENANAkbBIF9o0Zs
How every word I said was soaked in feelings I buried.570Please respect copyright.PENANA5mqquRz3vr
How every smile I gave hid the pain of being almost everything to you…570Please respect copyright.PENANAHUwZNFUBI9
But never the one thing I wanted to be.
We still talk.570Please respect copyright.PENANAd2ljJYXNiN
Every day.570Please respect copyright.PENANA7PudK3aEM8
Like everything is fine.570Please respect copyright.PENANArkwWiyRJUt
Like there’s no storm behind the screen.
But every message I send is a love letter written in disguise.570Please respect copyright.PENANA6zMFbjq0bV
Every reply is me pretending that “friend” was ever enough.
And you’ll never know.570Please respect copyright.PENANAVsZCLzplES
Because I will never tell you.570Please respect copyright.PENANAkK5hLtyApF
Not because I’m afraid —570Please respect copyright.PENANAbT9K0G9fa6
But because I love you too much to ruin the only place I exist in your life.
Maybe Allah never wrote your heart for me.570Please respect copyright.PENANAJrm3WeE4PR
Maybe I was just meant to love you from the edge of your world… and pray for you from a distance.
So I do.
I pray that you are always happy.570Please respect copyright.PENANAbaOFxN6vi2
That your heart is always full.570Please respect copyright.PENANA00FKUTcC7N
That the person you choose gives you every joy I once dreamed of giving you.570Please respect copyright.PENANA2kiUgMOZWH
And I pray — selfishly, quietly — that if you ever wonder if someone truly loved you without asking for anything…570Please respect copyright.PENANAcJ5cn1HiBA
You’ll think of me.
Not as the friend who stayed.570Please respect copyright.PENANAUMQ9WCNFly
But as the heart that broke —570Please respect copyright.PENANAYMNHPas75T
And still kept loving.
Always,570Please respect copyright.PENANAKWUEvF3YuH
your friend...................570Please respect copyright.PENANAfLyJaF18Ij
—The girl who never told you. But always meant it.


