There’s something I’ve carried for years.571Please respect copyright.PENANAKHSbqx36IY
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.PENANAHkr0VKSouu
You let me in, shared your secrets, laughed with me, cried with me, made memories that stretched across years.571Please respect copyright.PENANAgFhVN4lTRc
And I held them all like tiny treasures.
But somewhere along the way…571Please respect copyright.PENANAI8F17Lqi2q
I fell in love with you.
Not in a loud, dramatic way.571Please respect copyright.PENANAJvx7Tzh5r4
Not in a way that ever asked for anything back.571Please respect copyright.PENANA7fbMVCCygY
I just… loved you.
In the quietest, deepest corners of my soul.571Please respect copyright.PENANAa0YfQciDlC
In the spaces between your words.571Please respect copyright.PENANAmXMh167Obc
In the silence after your voice.571Please respect copyright.PENANAxcllWKsWlp
In the warmth of every “pagal” you called me.
I listened when you spoke about her — the girl you liked.571Please respect copyright.PENANASyOns280w0
I helped you find the words, plan the replies, understand your feelings.571Please respect copyright.PENANAi7KYeW7XBg
And with each sentence I gave to help you be closer to her…571Please respect copyright.PENANAMoo3ludNRg
I lost a little piece of myself.
Because I wasn’t just your friend.571Please respect copyright.PENANA6T2aDrvkx7
I was the one who stayed up late, not to talk — but to overthink every conversation we had.571Please respect copyright.PENANAETgpMjUgb6
I was the one who replayed your voice in my mind when everything felt heavy.571Please respect copyright.PENANAnc5XLbU1RC
I was the one who watched you choose others — and still smiled, like it didn’t hurt.
But Zuni, it did.571Please respect copyright.PENANAJrjenqOFcv
It hurt more than you’ll ever know.
The world saw you as the strong one. The admired one.571Please respect copyright.PENANAnynjjMVrFc
But I saw something softer — something only I got to know.571Please respect copyright.PENANADjQMvAoJFK
Your laughter that came after anger.571Please respect copyright.PENANAWBD5Qfbg0M
The way you forgot things but remembered how to make people feel loved.571Please respect copyright.PENANAUayr9B39ZT
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.PENANAKWFWTArg2j
That baby crying, and the words:571Please respect copyright.PENANAKiXNtPQeeM
“No one ever says they miss me…”
And you replied —571Please respect copyright.PENANAKyai9P3UhO
“Pagal… you are always missed. Always remembered.”
Zuni…571Please respect copyright.PENANAji4Zwh2dLi
You didn’t know, but I broke that night.571Please respect copyright.PENANA02pn2IZq70
Because that was the closest I ever came to hearing what I had waited years to hear.571Please respect copyright.PENANAvzcNfT267N
And it still wasn’t what I needed.
The truth is, you never knew what I carried inside.571Please respect copyright.PENANASYMw6mUzVE
How every word I said was soaked in feelings I buried.571Please respect copyright.PENANAYX6azJ9xou
How every smile I gave hid the pain of being almost everything to you…571Please respect copyright.PENANADqxpstXvii
But never the one thing I wanted to be.
We still talk.571Please respect copyright.PENANA2lm0FCIOpB
Every day.571Please respect copyright.PENANAZG7nMSV2gS
Like everything is fine.571Please respect copyright.PENANAGK5EU6OvR3
Like there’s no storm behind the screen.
But every message I send is a love letter written in disguise.571Please respect copyright.PENANAas3JO5gxhC
Every reply is me pretending that “friend” was ever enough.
And you’ll never know.571Please respect copyright.PENANAi1hNDrwFb7
Because I will never tell you.571Please respect copyright.PENANAZNb1PMszwx
Not because I’m afraid —571Please respect copyright.PENANAA3ZrMCApjP
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.PENANAkVxkySeqoX
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.PENANAr9T9X1ga1w
That your heart is always full.571Please respect copyright.PENANAI7Ex2hbpdo
That the person you choose gives you every joy I once dreamed of giving you.571Please respect copyright.PENANAMHWQQwTZtP
And I pray — selfishly, quietly — that if you ever wonder if someone truly loved you without asking for anything…571Please respect copyright.PENANALzcg3CuF08
You’ll think of me.
Not as the friend who stayed.571Please respect copyright.PENANAkZ3s9QNOG8
But as the heart that broke —571Please respect copyright.PENANAJj1jkXc979
And still kept loving.
Always,571Please respect copyright.PENANAXPHj8gItsp
your friend...................571Please respect copyright.PENANAdSyiT5bL6t
—The girl who never told you. But always meant it.


