There’s something I’ve carried for years.80Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3JkyN0A8Cv
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.80Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRK4laOnJk1
You let me in, shared your secrets, laughed with me, cried with me, made memories that stretched across years.80Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9H3sKZ9t8Q
And I held them all like tiny treasures.
But somewhere along the way…80Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeNHvqHuRiM
I fell in love with you.
Not in a loud, dramatic way.80Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSc6J48gfrq
Not in a way that ever asked for anything back.80Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXYDoyuUNPV
I just… loved you.
In the quietest, deepest corners of my soul.80Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNxjtxxfOCl
In the spaces between your words.80Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHE2MbIF0bE
In the silence after your voice.80Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7vTuCFZAgi
In the warmth of every “pagal” you called me.
I listened when you spoke about her — the girl you liked.80Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡorCxvXSBVJ
I helped you find the words, plan the replies, understand your feelings.80Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡieRYuCdXmM
And with each sentence I gave to help you be closer to her…80Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8LazF210zS
I lost a little piece of myself.
Because I wasn’t just your friend.80Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOm9Hyl3asl
I was the one who stayed up late, not to talk — but to overthink every conversation we had.80Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiab9GoS6kE
I was the one who replayed your voice in my mind when everything felt heavy.80Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy8oN495Xt5
I was the one who watched you choose others — and still smiled, like it didn’t hurt.
But Zuni, it did.80Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUykCrWQB11
It hurt more than you’ll ever know.
The world saw you as the strong one. The admired one.80Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVwuZcLTXJ0
But I saw something softer — something only I got to know.80Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY80e3eh1Vi
Your laughter that came after anger.80Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBlmNLRaSsb
The way you forgot things but remembered how to make people feel loved.80Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUmi4oQy5pa
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…80Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3TMmliIg76
That baby crying, and the words:80Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMKyD7dgxy4
“No one ever says they miss me…”
And you replied —80Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsYjkoRr81Z
“Pagal… you are always missed. Always remembered.”
Zuni…80Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdErwUPKt7M
You didn’t know, but I broke that night.80Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjhqUZyiDaq
Because that was the closest I ever came to hearing what I had waited years to hear.80Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡicLXdpptP3
And it still wasn’t what I needed.
The truth is, you never knew what I carried inside.80Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmZhJa8Wiv9
How every word I said was soaked in feelings I buried.80Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsPv9cepI6u
How every smile I gave hid the pain of being almost everything to you…80Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpjumH5yET7
But never the one thing I wanted to be.
We still talk.80Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMGWwCYmN71
Every day.80Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtW6DSP7GHS
Like everything is fine.80Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSsogFPJW2T
Like there’s no storm behind the screen.
But every message I send is a love letter written in disguise.80Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2kKrvpxsc8
Every reply is me pretending that “friend” was ever enough.
And you’ll never know.80Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoozuCBEvst
Because I will never tell you.80Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsrGWonNICg
Not because I’m afraid —80Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP596SLBMCd
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.80Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2F6jpA4AHX
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.80Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfbUFCVWYgm
That your heart is always full.80Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZefiY11liS
That the person you choose gives you every joy I once dreamed of giving you.80Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB0LWaaEwgw
And I pray — selfishly, quietly — that if you ever wonder if someone truly loved you without asking for anything…80Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfl7T2A2Jbc
You’ll think of me.
Not as the friend who stayed.80Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFQXAgyB72X
But as the heart that broke —80Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTeyr0Ecmdx
And still kept loving.
Always,80Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDxHRql7Nan
your friend...................80Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡErtePC5Aff
—The girl who never told you. But always meant it.
