Dual POV
Mara
I didn’t message him the next day.10Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKCdRkNV27B
I didn’t need to.
Instead, I opened my music app and created a playlist.10Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYdgdE97UzT
Just three songs.10Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbe3N6ep8R8
One about missing someone I never had.10Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnxaXzLdFaP
One about learning how to breathe again.10Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJFc37CqeSY
And one—soft and wordless—that made me think of him sitting across from me in the rain.
I named it “For When You’re Not Sure.”
No text. No explanation. Just a link I dropped in his inbox that night.
Ten minutes later, a message appeared:
“That third track wrecked me. Here’s mine.”
His playlist was called “If I Said Too Much.”10Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmex2QaLj4B
And it did.10Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLd3dEfenpT
The second song was a love letter, the third sounded like goodbye, and the fifth…10Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsOK8YCoKvp
The fifth was mine. The one I hummed through the window.10Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU5vMhWAnzk
Except this time, it was a cover—with lyrics.
That’s when I realized:10Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3yTI477MXm
He’d heard me long before he met me.10Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfiwqSyNWNM
And maybe… he’d felt something, too.
Eli
I’ve always found it easier to say things through music.10Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFQ2sNePXWK
Words can lie. Songs don’t.
When she sent that playlist, it felt like a door opened.10Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSetPV8l7P1
Not wide. Just enough.
So I sent mine back, every track carefully chosen.10Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1qs24lSzSB
No fluff. No random filler. Just the truth I couldn’t voice yet.
She didn’t reply for hours.10Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI3dHntLpfH
When she finally did, it was just:
“I don’t know what this is yet. But I want to find out.”
That was it.
And somehow, it was more honest than any three-page confession could’ve been.
So we kept exchanging playlists—10Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ32uLz1hqD
One every night.
No pressure. No labels.10Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ455rJ2wNWd
Just music.
And in that quiet rhythm, we found something neither of us was ready to name.
Not yet.10Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV41b2BXhGn
But soon.
