
There’s something I’ve carried for years.79Please respect copyright.PENANA1vfxabtplP
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.PENANATl6bICwLWn
You let me in, shared your secrets, laughed with me, cried with me, made memories that stretched across years.79Please respect copyright.PENANAuGlSf967WO
And I held them all like tiny treasures.
But somewhere along the way…79Please respect copyright.PENANAuTJa8fqM0F
I fell in love with you.
Not in a loud, dramatic way.79Please respect copyright.PENANAiA4XPZSHMk
Not in a way that ever asked for anything back.79Please respect copyright.PENANA0N1CGvz7Bq
I just… loved you.
In the quietest, deepest corners of my soul.79Please respect copyright.PENANAt1arTPqEVc
In the spaces between your words.79Please respect copyright.PENANAJzCEC4kpP6
In the silence after your voice.79Please respect copyright.PENANA4FFw8WpUqs
In the warmth of every “pagal” you called me.
I listened when you spoke about her — the girl you liked.79Please respect copyright.PENANAC9msvlaPaW
I helped you find the words, plan the replies, understand your feelings.79Please respect copyright.PENANAEJEVMjpsgi
And with each sentence I gave to help you be closer to her…79Please respect copyright.PENANAmG3HXtceq8
I lost a little piece of myself.
Because I wasn’t just your friend.79Please respect copyright.PENANA83CQrM3Wje
I was the one who stayed up late, not to talk — but to overthink every conversation we had.79Please respect copyright.PENANAvTHWdCJ1Tg
I was the one who replayed your voice in my mind when everything felt heavy.79Please respect copyright.PENANA3dNAIFUe8q
I was the one who watched you choose others — and still smiled, like it didn’t hurt.
But Zuni, it did.79Please respect copyright.PENANAZem7b04aoB
It hurt more than you’ll ever know.
The world saw you as the strong one. The admired one.79Please respect copyright.PENANAxNHXwm94N4
But I saw something softer — something only I got to know.79Please respect copyright.PENANAfpFtOad4CG
Your laughter that came after anger.79Please respect copyright.PENANALiw6vSVHp0
The way you forgot things but remembered how to make people feel loved.79Please respect copyright.PENANAf2XMg1Wo8h
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.PENANABWTbQz8qF3
That baby crying, and the words:79Please respect copyright.PENANAkQNy0JjgJI
“No one ever says they miss me…”
And you replied —79Please respect copyright.PENANAcOzHKUBjHR
“Pagal… you are always missed. Always remembered.”
Zuni…79Please respect copyright.PENANAXRmfiVfXgC
You didn’t know, but I broke that night.79Please respect copyright.PENANAgTlf7O1BsK
Because that was the closest I ever came to hearing what I had waited years to hear.79Please respect copyright.PENANA4vqyGG0UBv
And it still wasn’t what I needed.
The truth is, you never knew what I carried inside.79Please respect copyright.PENANAGrWieKkX67
How every word I said was soaked in feelings I buried.79Please respect copyright.PENANAtQ2I0wbCLZ
How every smile I gave hid the pain of being almost everything to you…79Please respect copyright.PENANA1Mny639Qxf
But never the one thing I wanted to be.
We still talk.79Please respect copyright.PENANAcqkUR6XHJ4
Every day.79Please respect copyright.PENANAwZnyOl9J6s
Like everything is fine.79Please respect copyright.PENANAYRf7UEsXwc
Like there’s no storm behind the screen.
But every message I send is a love letter written in disguise.79Please respect copyright.PENANAkwfZXVfCyn
Every reply is me pretending that “friend” was ever enough.
And you’ll never know.79Please respect copyright.PENANAnnEht2hg42
Because I will never tell you.79Please respect copyright.PENANAjidPkQFmXR
Not because I’m afraid —79Please respect copyright.PENANAI5CZQOaECV
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.PENANAD4Cp6rsJmq
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.PENANAELMU28bZ47
That your heart is always full.79Please respect copyright.PENANAxJr15PpN5K
That the person you choose gives you every joy I once dreamed of giving you.79Please respect copyright.PENANA401eenwum0
And I pray — selfishly, quietly — that if you ever wonder if someone truly loved you without asking for anything…79Please respect copyright.PENANA5nYz09ipmi
You’ll think of me.
Not as the friend who stayed.79Please respect copyright.PENANA4ZcQhmxiL9
But as the heart that broke —79Please respect copyright.PENANAyxlWxzUjdV
And still kept loving.
Always,79Please respect copyright.PENANAaM3Gk1i40E
your friend...................79Please respect copyright.PENANAVjmFIhWeP1
—The girl who never told you. But always meant it.