There’s something I’ve carried for years.571Please respect copyright.PENANAWZ71XtDnkQ
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.PENANAAwOFtByCXC
You let me in, shared your secrets, laughed with me, cried with me, made memories that stretched across years.571Please respect copyright.PENANAymiTz4dRCP
And I held them all like tiny treasures.
But somewhere along the way…571Please respect copyright.PENANApDIRVSVjDB
I fell in love with you.
Not in a loud, dramatic way.571Please respect copyright.PENANABJ5lEGtdzH
Not in a way that ever asked for anything back.571Please respect copyright.PENANAczgdd5VOWy
I just… loved you.
In the quietest, deepest corners of my soul.571Please respect copyright.PENANADeTPPx5Oh6
In the spaces between your words.571Please respect copyright.PENANAzbqDxtOmTA
In the silence after your voice.571Please respect copyright.PENANAoBPp1UDYGQ
In the warmth of every “pagal” you called me.
I listened when you spoke about her — the girl you liked.571Please respect copyright.PENANAw2yaRG7Tg6
I helped you find the words, plan the replies, understand your feelings.571Please respect copyright.PENANAuEg14cXtTJ
And with each sentence I gave to help you be closer to her…571Please respect copyright.PENANABDnwhvW6J2
I lost a little piece of myself.
Because I wasn’t just your friend.571Please respect copyright.PENANA3zpMP1vILi
I was the one who stayed up late, not to talk — but to overthink every conversation we had.571Please respect copyright.PENANA2vG5ANwUmF
I was the one who replayed your voice in my mind when everything felt heavy.571Please respect copyright.PENANATu81ptI6mz
I was the one who watched you choose others — and still smiled, like it didn’t hurt.
But Zuni, it did.571Please respect copyright.PENANAmXQeBY6wPK
It hurt more than you’ll ever know.
The world saw you as the strong one. The admired one.571Please respect copyright.PENANANd4rvSkPZV
But I saw something softer — something only I got to know.571Please respect copyright.PENANAIAfsCOUJCP
Your laughter that came after anger.571Please respect copyright.PENANANma1Q1mC4l
The way you forgot things but remembered how to make people feel loved.571Please respect copyright.PENANAobBBe3P8Pb
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.PENANAnJG0xtuvSJ
That baby crying, and the words:571Please respect copyright.PENANAEBc1rZiU0B
“No one ever says they miss me…”
And you replied —571Please respect copyright.PENANA9cwRv4z08D
“Pagal… you are always missed. Always remembered.”
Zuni…571Please respect copyright.PENANAkO1i9XT740
You didn’t know, but I broke that night.571Please respect copyright.PENANAlUmEXoqJoW
Because that was the closest I ever came to hearing what I had waited years to hear.571Please respect copyright.PENANApaT8UzU7S0
And it still wasn’t what I needed.
The truth is, you never knew what I carried inside.571Please respect copyright.PENANACz28AQQAA8
How every word I said was soaked in feelings I buried.571Please respect copyright.PENANA87jLuCNxSC
How every smile I gave hid the pain of being almost everything to you…571Please respect copyright.PENANAbMwvapZ1fw
But never the one thing I wanted to be.
We still talk.571Please respect copyright.PENANArolU7h75NJ
Every day.571Please respect copyright.PENANAj2QgxKCTxo
Like everything is fine.571Please respect copyright.PENANAgnuXvglpZq
Like there’s no storm behind the screen.
But every message I send is a love letter written in disguise.571Please respect copyright.PENANAXvgc8BePwW
Every reply is me pretending that “friend” was ever enough.
And you’ll never know.571Please respect copyright.PENANApSG470w0Ru
Because I will never tell you.571Please respect copyright.PENANAJatjCQzKvg
Not because I’m afraid —571Please respect copyright.PENANATS8jZXHnXb
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.PENANArTp2gfCLkN
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.PENANAQzQr7QHncB
That your heart is always full.571Please respect copyright.PENANAHNpItE9pgk
That the person you choose gives you every joy I once dreamed of giving you.571Please respect copyright.PENANAklPYsILWlT
And I pray — selfishly, quietly — that if you ever wonder if someone truly loved you without asking for anything…571Please respect copyright.PENANAe8f2G24MXz
You’ll think of me.
Not as the friend who stayed.571Please respect copyright.PENANAKgrPMg3flz
But as the heart that broke —571Please respect copyright.PENANAVwDJdfMMDj
And still kept loving.
Always,571Please respect copyright.PENANAGfiOOKf5ZO
your friend...................571Please respect copyright.PENANANaGxjFq5Yd
—The girl who never told you. But always meant it.


