
There’s something I’ve carried for years.18Please respect copyright.PENANAmomelZ11DN
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.18Please respect copyright.PENANAbdYwsEdsfN
You let me in, shared your secrets, laughed with me, cried with me, made memories that stretched across years.18Please respect copyright.PENANAa8yUdtwEAw
And I held them all like tiny treasures.
But somewhere along the way…18Please respect copyright.PENANAyLI8ZtDfpH
I fell in love with you.
Not in a loud, dramatic way.18Please respect copyright.PENANAn2hbk19GEa
Not in a way that ever asked for anything back.18Please respect copyright.PENANAanBdFyn5Jm
I just… loved you.
In the quietest, deepest corners of my soul.18Please respect copyright.PENANAER1sTmROe0
In the spaces between your words.18Please respect copyright.PENANAcY6CmXbuBY
In the silence after your voice.18Please respect copyright.PENANAgLgqaOpUwr
In the warmth of every “pagal” you called me.
I listened when you spoke about her — the girl you liked.18Please respect copyright.PENANA8o1Wsv4siu
I helped you find the words, plan the replies, understand your feelings.18Please respect copyright.PENANAfNUQiHVfgJ
And with each sentence I gave to help you be closer to her…18Please respect copyright.PENANAoAHhEE3DR0
I lost a little piece of myself.
Because I wasn’t just your friend.18Please respect copyright.PENANAMlKJfvIFw8
I was the one who stayed up late, not to talk — but to overthink every conversation we had.18Please respect copyright.PENANAOntBp8Lauf
I was the one who replayed your voice in my mind when everything felt heavy.18Please respect copyright.PENANAUKyZTLxKRn
I was the one who watched you choose others — and still smiled, like it didn’t hurt.
But Zuni, it did.18Please respect copyright.PENANA4Kd1c599L2
It hurt more than you’ll ever know.
The world saw you as the strong one. The admired one.18Please respect copyright.PENANAI1mPBrKEGn
But I saw something softer — something only I got to know.18Please respect copyright.PENANAxG17iOQGfB
Your laughter that came after anger.18Please respect copyright.PENANAFDfBQx2fao
The way you forgot things but remembered how to make people feel loved.18Please respect copyright.PENANAd0Fou0OQ6r
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…18Please respect copyright.PENANAxYiFZuT7CI
That baby crying, and the words:18Please respect copyright.PENANAvokAsj5YnF
“No one ever says they miss me…”
And you replied —18Please respect copyright.PENANAsB1L9hwXy4
“Pagal… you are always missed. Always remembered.”
Zuni…18Please respect copyright.PENANAuKlafBWhP9
You didn’t know, but I broke that night.18Please respect copyright.PENANAR9e8S39B92
Because that was the closest I ever came to hearing what I had waited years to hear.18Please respect copyright.PENANAeyLr8Wv91n
And it still wasn’t what I needed.
The truth is, you never knew what I carried inside.18Please respect copyright.PENANA2BSq0PQOuz
How every word I said was soaked in feelings I buried.18Please respect copyright.PENANA2jmUGgdouc
How every smile I gave hid the pain of being almost everything to you…18Please respect copyright.PENANAnHpFexjyb9
But never the one thing I wanted to be.
We still talk.18Please respect copyright.PENANA8pZhCLWcAx
Every day.18Please respect copyright.PENANAsjUxeIIOth
Like everything is fine.18Please respect copyright.PENANAsY2meh22mW
Like there’s no storm behind the screen.
But every message I send is a love letter written in disguise.18Please respect copyright.PENANAKuc9xnnsCP
Every reply is me pretending that “friend” was ever enough.
And you’ll never know.18Please respect copyright.PENANAwcZYpOyHio
Because I will never tell you.18Please respect copyright.PENANAy6BMj7hm2c
Not because I’m afraid —18Please respect copyright.PENANAcmh8zn0lN3
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.18Please respect copyright.PENANAE25yeI6RZy
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.18Please respect copyright.PENANAGo05Ist4Ll
That your heart is always full.18Please respect copyright.PENANAmTIIb7Qnyk
That the person you choose gives you every joy I once dreamed of giving you.18Please respect copyright.PENANAFyaVuUd7Hc
And I pray — selfishly, quietly — that if you ever wonder if someone truly loved you without asking for anything…18Please respect copyright.PENANAIiKjVdaa4F
You’ll think of me.
Not as the friend who stayed.18Please respect copyright.PENANAvfiqPGDYGR
But as the heart that broke —18Please respect copyright.PENANAWSVahhuaLh
And still kept loving.
Always,18Please respect copyright.PENANACTDG42868I
your friend...................18Please respect copyright.PENANAmTJiBb5YW6
—The girl who never told you. But always meant it.