There’s something I’ve carried for years.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM2jUxxh42P
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.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ83ynAbohl0
You let me in, shared your secrets, laughed with me, cried with me, made memories that stretched across years.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz7eEkSoVJF
And I held them all like tiny treasures.
But somewhere along the way…76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAuS86ZxQLr
I fell in love with you.
Not in a loud, dramatic way.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtvsgHDJMbU
Not in a way that ever asked for anything back.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbxqsOuH0S9
I just… loved you.
In the quietest, deepest corners of my soul.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrN1zDlGiiM
In the spaces between your words.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡefTflp1Us4
In the silence after your voice.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDMi7oOOEzz
In the warmth of every “pagal” you called me.
I listened when you spoke about her — the girl you liked.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhcxHJu3rim
I helped you find the words, plan the replies, understand your feelings.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4luCrn7lzS
And with each sentence I gave to help you be closer to her…76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhbLuQQk8Ad
I lost a little piece of myself.
Because I wasn’t just your friend.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBahzKpd1Vc
I was the one who stayed up late, not to talk — but to overthink every conversation we had.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPYhLkb7eAE
I was the one who replayed your voice in my mind when everything felt heavy.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3gHdT9Wxck
I was the one who watched you choose others — and still smiled, like it didn’t hurt.
But Zuni, it did.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyNzVwaZoYi
It hurt more than you’ll ever know.
The world saw you as the strong one. The admired one.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBmB2KCdnVl
But I saw something softer — something only I got to know.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ37Sz0T5mt5
Your laughter that came after anger.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmzLTDloOc4
The way you forgot things but remembered how to make people feel loved.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNlZ6s2NNzD
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…76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1yjfxbNwnX
That baby crying, and the words:76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp1BFYstbF5
“No one ever says they miss me…”
And you replied —76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK4sxFUtTO9
“Pagal… you are always missed. Always remembered.”
Zuni…76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVmF8vIOHI5
You didn’t know, but I broke that night.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡln7p7nDEjG
Because that was the closest I ever came to hearing what I had waited years to hear.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBYBjDtKFny
And it still wasn’t what I needed.
The truth is, you never knew what I carried inside.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI12QAYAjN0
How every word I said was soaked in feelings I buried.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoj5UX2W56C
How every smile I gave hid the pain of being almost everything to you…76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH4JN1k2vEt
But never the one thing I wanted to be.
We still talk.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ62FGXWZ10Y
Every day.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡen7hiCDCZA
Like everything is fine.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhyCFHoA3oj
Like there’s no storm behind the screen.
But every message I send is a love letter written in disguise.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtuB9Qp2nes
Every reply is me pretending that “friend” was ever enough.
And you’ll never know.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdCSgsFm4ts
Because I will never tell you.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO2C4FkW4Nh
Not because I’m afraid —76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0PZEP3v3sC
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.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuxwMM6sLTO
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.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWjRXWoQsD3
That your heart is always full.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgoPfscrL1B
That the person you choose gives you every joy I once dreamed of giving you.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtrPnLGpFpu
And I pray — selfishly, quietly — that if you ever wonder if someone truly loved you without asking for anything…76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1AcqrvUa6c
You’ll think of me.
Not as the friend who stayed.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxTSkmBQywt
But as the heart that broke —76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE480cCEpEs
And still kept loving.
Always,76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxDK1mqwBDK
your friend...................76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqdZow6wFdo
—The girl who never told you. But always meant it.
