There’s something I’ve carried for years.571Please respect copyright.PENANAq5Mc6GAPF9
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.571Please respect copyright.PENANAJLH1zvp9l5
You let me in, shared your secrets, laughed with me, cried with me, made memories that stretched across years.571Please respect copyright.PENANAYm45Yp1Xxk
And I held them all like tiny treasures.
But somewhere along the way…571Please respect copyright.PENANAsFZOomL2Zd
I fell in love with you.
Not in a loud, dramatic way.571Please respect copyright.PENANAkTw9DjkdFg
Not in a way that ever asked for anything back.571Please respect copyright.PENANACo3CZVubQc
I just… loved you.
In the quietest, deepest corners of my soul.571Please respect copyright.PENANAmtAHIAODdu
In the spaces between your words.571Please respect copyright.PENANA4YCNoIRP0a
In the silence after your voice.571Please respect copyright.PENANAoGtb4wcyBR
In the warmth of every “pagal” you called me.
I listened when you spoke about her — the girl you liked.571Please respect copyright.PENANAiqJwuMvoZQ
I helped you find the words, plan the replies, understand your feelings.571Please respect copyright.PENANAN1TEjIAsq6
And with each sentence I gave to help you be closer to her…571Please respect copyright.PENANAEMfbLX52Va
I lost a little piece of myself.
Because I wasn’t just your friend.571Please respect copyright.PENANACBjpKMoNdM
I was the one who stayed up late, not to talk — but to overthink every conversation we had.571Please respect copyright.PENANALCocLjtfQq
I was the one who replayed your voice in my mind when everything felt heavy.571Please respect copyright.PENANAR4mULHDUrj
I was the one who watched you choose others — and still smiled, like it didn’t hurt.
But Zuni, it did.571Please respect copyright.PENANA0zBWoblONo
It hurt more than you’ll ever know.
The world saw you as the strong one. The admired one.571Please respect copyright.PENANAfThzWV3hjp
But I saw something softer — something only I got to know.571Please respect copyright.PENANARIBg5SEp8C
Your laughter that came after anger.571Please respect copyright.PENANAP3P3l7Sxxm
The way you forgot things but remembered how to make people feel loved.571Please respect copyright.PENANAwWPIm6jyUq
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…571Please respect copyright.PENANAeq9VFdmja6
That baby crying, and the words:571Please respect copyright.PENANAfMd6qAr8PN
“No one ever says they miss me…”
And you replied —571Please respect copyright.PENANA0eTBESkIRc
“Pagal… you are always missed. Always remembered.”
Zuni…571Please respect copyright.PENANA0IleZtm7Hg
You didn’t know, but I broke that night.571Please respect copyright.PENANAKmL0WOvTS3
Because that was the closest I ever came to hearing what I had waited years to hear.571Please respect copyright.PENANAjh22Ji0nVr
And it still wasn’t what I needed.
The truth is, you never knew what I carried inside.571Please respect copyright.PENANAEofcz9Uebt
How every word I said was soaked in feelings I buried.571Please respect copyright.PENANAljk0Vc8Eoo
How every smile I gave hid the pain of being almost everything to you…571Please respect copyright.PENANA9UwkZdUVNs
But never the one thing I wanted to be.
We still talk.571Please respect copyright.PENANAutiYye8qnR
Every day.571Please respect copyright.PENANAfMkyYog0wh
Like everything is fine.571Please respect copyright.PENANAo2JdAGmVVj
Like there’s no storm behind the screen.
But every message I send is a love letter written in disguise.571Please respect copyright.PENANA2KagYLHkUc
Every reply is me pretending that “friend” was ever enough.
And you’ll never know.571Please respect copyright.PENANA3v5FNa7R5f
Because I will never tell you.571Please respect copyright.PENANAF7xcpcFUlF
Not because I’m afraid —571Please respect copyright.PENANAOeUXdPK8B7
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.571Please respect copyright.PENANAw1Z9AlUvIl
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.571Please respect copyright.PENANAmoOWZC1iua
That your heart is always full.571Please respect copyright.PENANAHBZeRVrJt2
That the person you choose gives you every joy I once dreamed of giving you.571Please respect copyright.PENANAG0cZsMOm1K
And I pray — selfishly, quietly — that if you ever wonder if someone truly loved you without asking for anything…571Please respect copyright.PENANAv5U7EswCER
You’ll think of me.
Not as the friend who stayed.571Please respect copyright.PENANAK4ADutlmUg
But as the heart that broke —571Please respect copyright.PENANAnp71Zliy2T
And still kept loving.
Always,571Please respect copyright.PENANA7T7MDqQ4DY
your friend...................571Please respect copyright.PENANAmNm1HvWGPj
—The girl who never told you. But always meant it.


