Amara pov:
I sat down at my study table, pulling out my books.
My fingers opened the notebook out of habit.55Please respect copyright.PENANAyBXfksZ6RM
I stared at the questions.55Please respect copyright.PENANAIoYAaDlMol
Tried to answer one.55Please respect copyright.PENANAsMqvBwRV8N
Then another.
Not because I was inspired.55Please respect copyright.PENANAOctrAbAa3d
Not because I had a dream.
But because I had to.
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This is life, isn't it? Doing what needs to be done, not because you want to—but because you have no other door left to knock on.55Please respect copyright.PENANAVWqOfDvIOj
Sometimes there's no choice. No grand moment of decision. No forks in the road.55Please respect copyright.PENANABtrf7mRHPl
Sometimes, the choice is already gone—cut clean from your life before you even got to see it.
I kept writing. Slowly.55Please respect copyright.PENANACJVXkaQYRb
The pen dragged, the ink smudged a little, but I kept going.55Please respect copyright.PENANA1HMAo7gU8T
Because I must.
And that was enough—for tonight.55Please respect copyright.PENANAbmbq0rzbjO
later I curled up in bed, pulling the blanket tighter around me, but it didn't help.
Sleep wasn't coming.55Please respect copyright.PENANA36we1eLLxC
Not even close.
I stared at the ceiling—blank eyes, blank mind.
Nothing moved. Nothing breathed loudly.55Please respect copyright.PENANAMfD8f7GnyP
Just silence pressing into the room like fog.
And then...
A soft sound.
A strum. Faint.55Please respect copyright.PENANAPNkQMgIn6c
A slow, raw note from a guitar—floating through the cold night air like a secret.
I froze.
Oh God... he's here.
I threw the blanket off and rushed to my window, pushing it open with slightly trembling fingers.
There it was—his window.55Please respect copyright.PENANAHO4IVyq3UQ
Open.55Please respect copyright.PENANAOXjYGvxwcO
A small light glowing faintly from inside.
And books—books lined on the wall behind him like silent witnesses.
He wasn't fully visible, but I could hear him.
The boy next door.55Please respect copyright.PENANARsYro2Nbmz
My neighbor.
His fingers strummed again.55Please respect copyright.PENANAcAa2hvs9J9
This time, slower... and then his voice followed—rough, soft, broken in the most beautiful way.
[The Song – his song ..
I wrote all night, a story untold,55Please respect copyright.PENANA2YDNdHh7yc
Every name was there, but yours never bold...55Please respect copyright.PENANAqpdPTymEE0
I thought of you at every bend, loved you with breathless ache,55Please respect copyright.PENANAa2Cje7MqkJ
Till I learned... you were never real. Just a shape I let break.
His voice wasn't perfect.
But it was.
Because it was honest.55Please respect copyright.PENANA7jo1dWxEmf
And it hurt.55Please respect copyright.PENANAWb4uYH8g1o
his voice is echocing in my ears..55Please respect copyright.PENANADvlJbQpXPK
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I wrote all night, couldn't sleep,55Please respect copyright.PENANAFe37Aoux2U
Tried to bury what I couldn't keep.55Please respect copyright.PENANA93i3duqM9d
In every line, in every name—55Please respect copyright.PENANAfZERNgHVLj
I searched for you, but you never came
I sat down slowly by the window, on the cold floor, knees pulled up to my chest.55Please respect copyright.PENANAVYtI9Ajb76
The guitar strings echoed softly in the night—like a quiet heartbreak shared between strangers.55Please respect copyright.PENANAfxyyaI7kMh
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I dreamed of you at every bend,55Please respect copyright.PENANAIq8Bgx1nAm
Held your shadow like a friend.55Please respect copyright.PENANAb0e2A2h7mq
And when the pages reached their end...55Please respect copyright.PENANANj0MPwbsAP
You were never really mine.55Please respect copyright.PENANA9aM89yczQk
Just a ghost I loved in time.....
And suddenly, I felt it.
A tear.
Then another.
And another.
My fingers covered my mouth, but it didn't stop the sob from escaping.
The music didn't stop either.55Please respect copyright.PENANAItRQFP9pUF
He kept playing.55Please respect copyright.PENANAFHjbA0Diad
As if he knew someone out there needed it.55Please respect copyright.PENANA21XOlsqy4o
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I dreamed of you, and I still do,55Please respect copyright.PENANAM27WIS0Rby
But love like ours was never true.55Please respect copyright.PENANATSWx5ScTk0
It lived in silence, broke in light—55Please respect copyright.PENANAZkGXLTEgRM
You were never really mine.55Please respect copyright.PENANAUugtzH1emo
Just a name I lost to night....
As if he knew I needed it.
I didn't know his name.55Please respect copyright.PENANARvO1G3uJ5O
He didn't know my story.
But that night—55Please respect copyright.PENANAvjCUUWRrAq
He gave voice to what I couldn't say.
And I cried.55Please respect copyright.PENANANNaQ5c365u
For life.55Please respect copyright.PENANAi1h8cTUana
For the loneliness.55Please respect copyright.PENANAiTt6tmxw3i
For all the nights I pretended it didn't hurt.
And for once...55Please respect copyright.PENANA0bfN8F3ngx
I didn't feel alone in the dark.
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I gave you poems, I gave you songs,55Please respect copyright.PENANATsmSfl33Jv
Wrote you right, but lived you wrong.55Please respect copyright.PENANAjPGZ2xBcB6
And now I know, with every cry—55Please respect copyright.PENANAYg8eialoXF
You were just a goodbye in disguise...55Please respect copyright.PENANA7zr2nz520x
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i was listening my eyes are closed now and slowly slowly i feel myself frifting in sleep his voice is now vanishing in air..
I bled you out in quiet screams,55Please respect copyright.PENANAPwKbjo9VBG
You only lived inside my dreams...55Please respect copyright.PENANAPf1R7h6Y0s
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and soon i slept right there near the window...
I woke up where I had fallen asleep—curled near the window, head against the cold wall, knees pulled to my chest.55Please respect copyright.PENANAcujkK1x3Pe
The music was gone now.55Please respect copyright.PENANAwptTqcL0T0
Only silence remained, pressed into the floor like dust.
I slowly stood up, the stiffness in my neck a quiet punishment for feeling too much.55Please respect copyright.PENANA7HXm6fYWqL
I looked out the window again.
His window was still open.55Please respect copyright.PENANAsELEV5zyww
But he wasn't there.
Just the faint morning air drifting in, touching everything like a memory that didn't belong to me.
I stared a little longer. Maybe hoping he'd appear again, guitar in hand, sadness in his voice.55Please respect copyright.PENANA6kiY6Neku9
But the room across was still—lightless, lifeless.
I sighed, stepped back, and went into the bathroom for a shower.
The water was cold.55Please respect copyright.PENANAXVLwl0A42P
Or maybe I just was.
After dressing in my college uniform—the soft blue shirt and that old skirt that swayed just past my knees—I tied my hair into a low ponytail and headed downstairs.
The house was still wrapped in sleep.55Please respect copyright.PENANAAuafK62tJ5
Too quiet for comfort.
I walked to Mona's room, pulled the blanket off her face gently, and whispered, "Mona... wake up."
She grumbled and tried to burrow deeper.
I smiled faintly. "Don't make me use the spray bottle this time."
Her eyes snapped open she looked at me . "You wouldn't."
"Oh, I would," I teased, brushing my fingers through her hair. "Up. Now."
She groaned but sat up, and I left for the kitchen.
I started preparing breakfast—simple toast and warm milk again. My hands moved automatically, but my head...
My head felt heavy, like it had stored too many unspoken things overnight and didn't know where to put them anymore.
Mona came in, half-dressed, yawning like she hadn't slept in days.
We ate in silence. Not an awkward one, but the kind that builds between two people who have more thoughts than words.
After clearing the plates, I walked slowly toward Mom's room.
I opened the door just enough.
She was still asleep. Back turned. Same blanket. Same stillness.
I watched for a moment, trying to remember the last time she stayed awake long enough to say goodbye to us in the morning.
I didn't say anything.55Please respect copyright.PENANAliCDkva40d
I just closed the door.
Mona and I stepped outside. The street was cool, the morning air a little softer than usual.
We walked side by side, hand in hand, our footsteps light and steady.
But in my chest, something was starting to ache again.
We still live in the same house. But we don't live the same life anymore.
This family—whatever it used to be—is drifting apart like pieces of paper in the wind. And none of us is chasing them.
The classroom was too bright.55Please respect copyright.PENANANTIVYypynd
Too loud.55Please respect copyright.PENANAvUzEsa2t2V
Too everything.
The teacher was explaining something—physics, motion, energy—but all I could hear was the ticking of the wall clock above the whiteboard.55Please respect copyright.PENANAIOO1ij5gA6
Tick.55Please respect copyright.PENANAqOX9m8WXR9
Tick.55Please respect copyright.PENANAygp0cmPrO8
Tick.
I stared out the window.
The wind moved slowly through the trees. People walked outside, laughing, whispering, living lives I would never understand.
My eyes drifted toward the sky.55Please respect copyright.PENANAW18cAj0GMI
It was empty.55Please respect copyright.PENANA3OJaJmlbAW
Just like yesterday. Just like most things.
And then, just like that—55Please respect copyright.PENANA5yk9RVvYNH
I thought of him again.
The boy next door.55Please respect copyright.PENANAoNEVbtGpe5
The guitar.55Please respect copyright.PENANAhvo1wpqbfh
The late-night music.
And for a second—just one foolish second—I wondered where he went.55Please respect copyright.PENANAArccVCXhFP
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Why his window was open, but he was gone.
And then the anger kicked in.
Why do I even care?55Please respect copyright.PENANAomvRajxVTh
Why is it always a boy? Always a man? Always... them?
I blinked, looked down at my notebook. The page was empty.55Please respect copyright.PENANAWqomZ0MPxe
Just like me.
And suddenly, I couldn't hold it anymore.
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Why does the world pause when a boy looks out his window with a guitar, but not when a girl walks home after strugling for life and everything ?
Why do girls bleed, break, burn—and still find ways to be soft?
And men? They get to sing a sad song and call it depth.
Why do they get to leave?55Please respect copyright.PENANAAIdhmGxc0d
Why do we stay?55Please respect copyright.PENANA7e9shLpMZX
Why do we carry their damage like a second spine?
Why is every poem about men who left?
Why is every girl taught how to heal but not how to scream?
I closed my notebook slowly.55Please respect copyright.PENANAcrFTuB64zB
The air felt heavier than before.
I looked at the teacher, then at my classmates, and then back at the window.
And in that moment—55Please respect copyright.PENANAnjmWrqG9th
I didn't want a love story..
I wanted peace.55Please respect copyright.PENANATSxIWFWTIC
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