
There’s something I’ve carried for years.22Please respect copyright.PENANAlyvNWBClJd
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.22Please respect copyright.PENANAOTIBYebQs0
You let me in, shared your secrets, laughed with me, cried with me, made memories that stretched across years.22Please respect copyright.PENANAbII4zd7sca
And I held them all like tiny treasures.
But somewhere along the way…22Please respect copyright.PENANA8ZM76emY2s
I fell in love with you.
Not in a loud, dramatic way.22Please respect copyright.PENANAe71FW6ihcP
Not in a way that ever asked for anything back.22Please respect copyright.PENANAvVPTS2kQkT
I just… loved you.
In the quietest, deepest corners of my soul.22Please respect copyright.PENANAgEiE20TlUB
In the spaces between your words.22Please respect copyright.PENANAdD3gvUpLHc
In the silence after your voice.22Please respect copyright.PENANAK6FG1muopd
In the warmth of every “pagal” you called me.
I listened when you spoke about her — the girl you liked.22Please respect copyright.PENANAKrD3Fstyjd
I helped you find the words, plan the replies, understand your feelings.22Please respect copyright.PENANAgZzHuQCRLb
And with each sentence I gave to help you be closer to her…22Please respect copyright.PENANAFsfUIy8bEy
I lost a little piece of myself.
Because I wasn’t just your friend.22Please respect copyright.PENANAc9nxd5Aq8O
I was the one who stayed up late, not to talk — but to overthink every conversation we had.22Please respect copyright.PENANAuJURmft1sN
I was the one who replayed your voice in my mind when everything felt heavy.22Please respect copyright.PENANApCiPaYHW69
I was the one who watched you choose others — and still smiled, like it didn’t hurt.
But Zuni, it did.22Please respect copyright.PENANArOjCAq07ks
It hurt more than you’ll ever know.
The world saw you as the strong one. The admired one.22Please respect copyright.PENANAyH8IGGdZTF
But I saw something softer — something only I got to know.22Please respect copyright.PENANA5Q6y8FKt4z
Your laughter that came after anger.22Please respect copyright.PENANAiSBeVpWwoY
The way you forgot things but remembered how to make people feel loved.22Please respect copyright.PENANALgYtS22BB7
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…22Please respect copyright.PENANAAS1U1Vc7Za
That baby crying, and the words:22Please respect copyright.PENANA3NiQcps8nj
“No one ever says they miss me…”
And you replied —22Please respect copyright.PENANAHxE6VlPNLO
“Pagal… you are always missed. Always remembered.”
Zuni…22Please respect copyright.PENANAzUj1dKKiYI
You didn’t know, but I broke that night.22Please respect copyright.PENANAR43518I7Bk
Because that was the closest I ever came to hearing what I had waited years to hear.22Please respect copyright.PENANApIYXdOIWDi
And it still wasn’t what I needed.
The truth is, you never knew what I carried inside.22Please respect copyright.PENANAVS0vvkPm1D
How every word I said was soaked in feelings I buried.22Please respect copyright.PENANAGLg39aN8Eq
How every smile I gave hid the pain of being almost everything to you…22Please respect copyright.PENANAtVfYKsSfrh
But never the one thing I wanted to be.
We still talk.22Please respect copyright.PENANApZ3g9lmh8W
Every day.22Please respect copyright.PENANAoLSBMx2v3K
Like everything is fine.22Please respect copyright.PENANAlbfZwjYYf0
Like there’s no storm behind the screen.
But every message I send is a love letter written in disguise.22Please respect copyright.PENANA83DtMqsDxf
Every reply is me pretending that “friend” was ever enough.
And you’ll never know.22Please respect copyright.PENANA5oPNQG9Moi
Because I will never tell you.22Please respect copyright.PENANA5yMVtBrHnc
Not because I’m afraid —22Please respect copyright.PENANAuYWdItSJq6
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.22Please respect copyright.PENANA7ipEqiY3dO
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.22Please respect copyright.PENANAdPLkKrj7nW
That your heart is always full.22Please respect copyright.PENANAfcJ82vXFc9
That the person you choose gives you every joy I once dreamed of giving you.22Please respect copyright.PENANANQ56BBSLun
And I pray — selfishly, quietly — that if you ever wonder if someone truly loved you without asking for anything…22Please respect copyright.PENANASMVqMDtleK
You’ll think of me.
Not as the friend who stayed.22Please respect copyright.PENANARvz0m2fQFD
But as the heart that broke —22Please respect copyright.PENANALxvBhKfoGs
And still kept loving.
Always,22Please respect copyright.PENANAmr4TnBs5MO
your friend...................22Please respect copyright.PENANAHq6L7LMQSj
—The girl who never told you. But always meant it.