
There’s something I’ve carried for years.17Please respect copyright.PENANABt9jNlyDKh
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.17Please respect copyright.PENANAJRvPm0JdmK
You let me in, shared your secrets, laughed with me, cried with me, made memories that stretched across years.17Please respect copyright.PENANAVW3KENxwZJ
And I held them all like tiny treasures.
But somewhere along the way…17Please respect copyright.PENANAo4cFQoqyhY
I fell in love with you.
Not in a loud, dramatic way.17Please respect copyright.PENANAfo6sSRCue0
Not in a way that ever asked for anything back.17Please respect copyright.PENANAGTau56OvPk
I just… loved you.
In the quietest, deepest corners of my soul.17Please respect copyright.PENANAczhAw0sdFZ
In the spaces between your words.17Please respect copyright.PENANAKiuLhXjYlU
In the silence after your voice.17Please respect copyright.PENANAOQru7gID6U
In the warmth of every “pagal” you called me.
I listened when you spoke about her — the girl you liked.17Please respect copyright.PENANAjhkObF3vq8
I helped you find the words, plan the replies, understand your feelings.17Please respect copyright.PENANAXVPobBsuoP
And with each sentence I gave to help you be closer to her…17Please respect copyright.PENANAO55VC212LQ
I lost a little piece of myself.
Because I wasn’t just your friend.17Please respect copyright.PENANAIXjuJmUwH1
I was the one who stayed up late, not to talk — but to overthink every conversation we had.17Please respect copyright.PENANAYroVFsSxyv
I was the one who replayed your voice in my mind when everything felt heavy.17Please respect copyright.PENANAPvWrlOLlh1
I was the one who watched you choose others — and still smiled, like it didn’t hurt.
But Zuni, it did.17Please respect copyright.PENANA1RSuMQDW2s
It hurt more than you’ll ever know.
The world saw you as the strong one. The admired one.17Please respect copyright.PENANATMNUbWk42A
But I saw something softer — something only I got to know.17Please respect copyright.PENANAKle6BL6jXQ
Your laughter that came after anger.17Please respect copyright.PENANAHBS85143Ey
The way you forgot things but remembered how to make people feel loved.17Please respect copyright.PENANAPFS8MVCskI
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…17Please respect copyright.PENANACPzgRbuXjv
That baby crying, and the words:17Please respect copyright.PENANARho7tkYnOL
“No one ever says they miss me…”
And you replied —17Please respect copyright.PENANAN9vMSksoQb
“Pagal… you are always missed. Always remembered.”
Zuni…17Please respect copyright.PENANATG1tYzhAaN
You didn’t know, but I broke that night.17Please respect copyright.PENANAItBO3P6Mrq
Because that was the closest I ever came to hearing what I had waited years to hear.17Please respect copyright.PENANAruKPJSoO0V
And it still wasn’t what I needed.
The truth is, you never knew what I carried inside.17Please respect copyright.PENANAOPYKlVVf29
How every word I said was soaked in feelings I buried.17Please respect copyright.PENANAtg4Kxre1WR
How every smile I gave hid the pain of being almost everything to you…17Please respect copyright.PENANAXwB8YDaEqO
But never the one thing I wanted to be.
We still talk.17Please respect copyright.PENANACvNMFOOU0n
Every day.17Please respect copyright.PENANAL7UpqEKGuq
Like everything is fine.17Please respect copyright.PENANAIoryadfBSI
Like there’s no storm behind the screen.
But every message I send is a love letter written in disguise.17Please respect copyright.PENANA9fny4KwO0E
Every reply is me pretending that “friend” was ever enough.
And you’ll never know.17Please respect copyright.PENANASjxBLRwe5M
Because I will never tell you.17Please respect copyright.PENANA9XHVQ6GpDk
Not because I’m afraid —17Please respect copyright.PENANA920fuES4i1
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.17Please respect copyright.PENANA90xenXnZ8a
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.17Please respect copyright.PENANAgMGSBoO6lk
That your heart is always full.17Please respect copyright.PENANATqnxSwQipY
That the person you choose gives you every joy I once dreamed of giving you.17Please respect copyright.PENANAGEHDMpcbCL
And I pray — selfishly, quietly — that if you ever wonder if someone truly loved you without asking for anything…17Please respect copyright.PENANAMicGPR1G9Y
You’ll think of me.
Not as the friend who stayed.17Please respect copyright.PENANAf4D61Klzce
But as the heart that broke —17Please respect copyright.PENANAJZKhx2TzcD
And still kept loving.
Always,17Please respect copyright.PENANAPJYr92sSE1
your friend...................17Please respect copyright.PENANAbbj4mtNI1O
—The girl who never told you. But always meant it.