
There’s something I’ve carried for years.79Please respect copyright.PENANALGWJtAWh6J
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.79Please respect copyright.PENANALCO4FRvwz3
You let me in, shared your secrets, laughed with me, cried with me, made memories that stretched across years.79Please respect copyright.PENANAkouA9tpQa1
And I held them all like tiny treasures.
But somewhere along the way…79Please respect copyright.PENANAEU11oGNg1w
I fell in love with you.
Not in a loud, dramatic way.79Please respect copyright.PENANAL61vpFp0dA
Not in a way that ever asked for anything back.79Please respect copyright.PENANA1zvpHLBdQf
I just… loved you.
In the quietest, deepest corners of my soul.79Please respect copyright.PENANAj7t3miaoGQ
In the spaces between your words.79Please respect copyright.PENANA8zg0lu2jzi
In the silence after your voice.79Please respect copyright.PENANAODirq86fsp
In the warmth of every “pagal” you called me.
I listened when you spoke about her — the girl you liked.79Please respect copyright.PENANAm8scTgliyw
I helped you find the words, plan the replies, understand your feelings.79Please respect copyright.PENANAWgyMMPhY2N
And with each sentence I gave to help you be closer to her…79Please respect copyright.PENANATQLyJpiCwS
I lost a little piece of myself.
Because I wasn’t just your friend.79Please respect copyright.PENANAQQDMw4VwgW
I was the one who stayed up late, not to talk — but to overthink every conversation we had.79Please respect copyright.PENANAXT9AuC3x1t
I was the one who replayed your voice in my mind when everything felt heavy.79Please respect copyright.PENANAQTTbXB9CpV
I was the one who watched you choose others — and still smiled, like it didn’t hurt.
But Zuni, it did.79Please respect copyright.PENANA94MMcdozPx
It hurt more than you’ll ever know.
The world saw you as the strong one. The admired one.79Please respect copyright.PENANAtsGhsipknx
But I saw something softer — something only I got to know.79Please respect copyright.PENANAqVRIX2kS5F
Your laughter that came after anger.79Please respect copyright.PENANA0BwiU0SS1i
The way you forgot things but remembered how to make people feel loved.79Please respect copyright.PENANAyi6bZoLAh1
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…79Please respect copyright.PENANAqFWoV968f7
That baby crying, and the words:79Please respect copyright.PENANAEjV9CukiiP
“No one ever says they miss me…”
And you replied —79Please respect copyright.PENANAD1LwgMKwHp
“Pagal… you are always missed. Always remembered.”
Zuni…79Please respect copyright.PENANA10w2pi3Cjv
You didn’t know, but I broke that night.79Please respect copyright.PENANAXUtnDbIhFP
Because that was the closest I ever came to hearing what I had waited years to hear.79Please respect copyright.PENANAeIjItnw1Fl
And it still wasn’t what I needed.
The truth is, you never knew what I carried inside.79Please respect copyright.PENANArayaUjsePt
How every word I said was soaked in feelings I buried.79Please respect copyright.PENANAz84pXH0bVI
How every smile I gave hid the pain of being almost everything to you…79Please respect copyright.PENANAd0YSfwV9Al
But never the one thing I wanted to be.
We still talk.79Please respect copyright.PENANArFK6JHICun
Every day.79Please respect copyright.PENANAxFa1v20qTI
Like everything is fine.79Please respect copyright.PENANAWvBYj6d92d
Like there’s no storm behind the screen.
But every message I send is a love letter written in disguise.79Please respect copyright.PENANAgzV8ztOFvH
Every reply is me pretending that “friend” was ever enough.
And you’ll never know.79Please respect copyright.PENANArcAGPLckkn
Because I will never tell you.79Please respect copyright.PENANAA6Vf8Aeslx
Not because I’m afraid —79Please respect copyright.PENANAJOVwSxQSFU
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.79Please respect copyright.PENANAYwnf9V60hU
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.79Please respect copyright.PENANAz6ErnEjtJq
That your heart is always full.79Please respect copyright.PENANAQiIwjxNL7R
That the person you choose gives you every joy I once dreamed of giving you.79Please respect copyright.PENANAQkU4BOrVPW
And I pray — selfishly, quietly — that if you ever wonder if someone truly loved you without asking for anything…79Please respect copyright.PENANAN69UMRWeEQ
You’ll think of me.
Not as the friend who stayed.79Please respect copyright.PENANAtnuTHrTkym
But as the heart that broke —79Please respect copyright.PENANAgmv6gfGVrE
And still kept loving.
Always,79Please respect copyright.PENANAUW0AcLrzkh
your friend...................79Please respect copyright.PENANAat5pwxe3FG
—The girl who never told you. But always meant it.