There’s something I’ve carried for years.568Please respect copyright.PENANAEKImHpJOmu
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.568Please respect copyright.PENANAhwhorW2LsA
You let me in, shared your secrets, laughed with me, cried with me, made memories that stretched across years.568Please respect copyright.PENANAX3M5iFYAEt
And I held them all like tiny treasures.
But somewhere along the way…568Please respect copyright.PENANACHhmStsi5D
I fell in love with you.
Not in a loud, dramatic way.568Please respect copyright.PENANAAbyAyUEsE2
Not in a way that ever asked for anything back.568Please respect copyright.PENANAZ9ve8Z9e8I
I just… loved you.
In the quietest, deepest corners of my soul.568Please respect copyright.PENANA8oleN3A1iS
In the spaces between your words.568Please respect copyright.PENANAHGlS7M3aZi
In the silence after your voice.568Please respect copyright.PENANAXWTuYYsUrU
In the warmth of every “pagal” you called me.
I listened when you spoke about her — the girl you liked.568Please respect copyright.PENANA0XtxlAYmDo
I helped you find the words, plan the replies, understand your feelings.568Please respect copyright.PENANAh3OvlaODs9
And with each sentence I gave to help you be closer to her…568Please respect copyright.PENANAsZoAiDBkT9
I lost a little piece of myself.
Because I wasn’t just your friend.568Please respect copyright.PENANAiKm9Ph31rO
I was the one who stayed up late, not to talk — but to overthink every conversation we had.568Please respect copyright.PENANAJTrkOyGDNx
I was the one who replayed your voice in my mind when everything felt heavy.568Please respect copyright.PENANAjYERwLr4KK
I was the one who watched you choose others — and still smiled, like it didn’t hurt.
But Zuni, it did.568Please respect copyright.PENANAahUmG2l08l
It hurt more than you’ll ever know.
The world saw you as the strong one. The admired one.568Please respect copyright.PENANAxe32xw4jYC
But I saw something softer — something only I got to know.568Please respect copyright.PENANAPxKjG9s8Iu
Your laughter that came after anger.568Please respect copyright.PENANAurPuIuz277
The way you forgot things but remembered how to make people feel loved.568Please respect copyright.PENANAGq5yN4sZs4
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…568Please respect copyright.PENANAJIaAHO1MaT
That baby crying, and the words:568Please respect copyright.PENANAgGInBuYN7Q
“No one ever says they miss me…”
And you replied —568Please respect copyright.PENANARBBnnm6FNi
“Pagal… you are always missed. Always remembered.”
Zuni…568Please respect copyright.PENANAl35C5fsCoT
You didn’t know, but I broke that night.568Please respect copyright.PENANAuy8gk3D1UO
Because that was the closest I ever came to hearing what I had waited years to hear.568Please respect copyright.PENANAQLmegfgQJ7
And it still wasn’t what I needed.
The truth is, you never knew what I carried inside.568Please respect copyright.PENANA2OYTY2d4xY
How every word I said was soaked in feelings I buried.568Please respect copyright.PENANAThhKCXvDZB
How every smile I gave hid the pain of being almost everything to you…568Please respect copyright.PENANA8ZrSeEUyBk
But never the one thing I wanted to be.
We still talk.568Please respect copyright.PENANARERAXUUQU4
Every day.568Please respect copyright.PENANA7vS7HIrEkl
Like everything is fine.568Please respect copyright.PENANAXlOjKbtFn7
Like there’s no storm behind the screen.
But every message I send is a love letter written in disguise.568Please respect copyright.PENANAbZvPsR9cRB
Every reply is me pretending that “friend” was ever enough.
And you’ll never know.568Please respect copyright.PENANAcx1NxaBDnz
Because I will never tell you.568Please respect copyright.PENANAeraZwOPDND
Not because I’m afraid —568Please respect copyright.PENANA97P6oWtpmS
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.568Please respect copyright.PENANAk9dW4kcOSW
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.568Please respect copyright.PENANA7JjF5XZOvf
That your heart is always full.568Please respect copyright.PENANAAK8ZyJfw5E
That the person you choose gives you every joy I once dreamed of giving you.568Please respect copyright.PENANA488sO340Vp
And I pray — selfishly, quietly — that if you ever wonder if someone truly loved you without asking for anything…568Please respect copyright.PENANAX55YwLgV1X
You’ll think of me.
Not as the friend who stayed.568Please respect copyright.PENANAGuVhMnzoOg
But as the heart that broke —568Please respect copyright.PENANA1WTolnMlEy
And still kept loving.
Always,568Please respect copyright.PENANATV5hZLHB9I
your friend...................568Please respect copyright.PENANAHpboa4Oqg2
—The girl who never told you. But always meant it.


