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I sat down at my study table, pulling out my books.
My fingers opened the notebook out of habit.204Please respect copyright.PENANAfL16hKbUkX
I stared at the questions.204Please respect copyright.PENANAHlazOmhykl
Tried to answer one.204Please respect copyright.PENANAFhpbY0UgrE
Then another.
Not because I was inspired.204Please respect copyright.PENANAUeM3dJfZEx
Not because I had a dream.
But because I had to.
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This is life, isn't it? Doing what needs to be done, not because you want to—but because you have no other door left to knock on.204Please respect copyright.PENANAPVCVPRmFNh
Sometimes there's no choice. No grand moment of decision. No forks in the road.204Please respect copyright.PENANAj6gYYsWLNU
Sometimes, the choice is already gone—cut clean from your life before you even got to see it.
I kept writing. Slowly.204Please respect copyright.PENANAqb1qHm8AJ5
The pen dragged, the ink smudged a little, but I kept going.204Please respect copyright.PENANAuNPOvtGBpy
Because I must.
And that was enough—for tonight.204Please respect copyright.PENANAyquqgzXd1o
later I curled up in bed, pulling the blanket tighter around me, but it didn't help.
Sleep wasn't coming.204Please respect copyright.PENANAgXyEBXJUuV
Not even close.
I stared at the ceiling—blank eyes, blank mind.
Nothing moved. Nothing breathed loudly.204Please respect copyright.PENANA4rppBqNQSM
Just silence pressing into the room like fog.
And then...
A soft sound.
A strum. Faint.204Please respect copyright.PENANA366T2oEd77
A slow, raw note from a guitar—floating through the cold night air like a secret.
I froze.
Oh God... he's here.
I threw the blanket off and rushed to my window, pushing it open with slightly trembling fingers.
There it was—his window.204Please respect copyright.PENANA33JdnSxjYD
Open.204Please respect copyright.PENANAVppMTRMhuh
A small light glowing faintly from inside.
And books—books lined on the wall behind him like silent witnesses.
He wasn't fully visible, but I could hear him.
The boy next door.204Please respect copyright.PENANAkhKOpJKngn
My neighbor.
His fingers strummed again.204Please respect copyright.PENANAmohaiuQNqG
This time, slower... and then his voice followed—rough, soft, broken in the most beautiful way.
[The Song – his song ..
I wrote all night, a story untold,204Please respect copyright.PENANAK8JomLwj7F
Every name was there, but yours never bold...204Please respect copyright.PENANAJTe0RsEk0i
I thought of you at every bend, loved you with breathless ache,204Please respect copyright.PENANAfg4CgUGXOw
Till I learned... you were never real. Just a shape I let break.
His voice wasn't perfect.
But it was.
Because it was honest.204Please respect copyright.PENANAcTpWk9x98x
And it hurt.204Please respect copyright.PENANAUUct6kHFE5
his voice is echocing in my ears..204Please respect copyright.PENANAzmoQC7pw8b
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I wrote all night, couldn't sleep,204Please respect copyright.PENANAchV5kehK9X
Tried to bury what I couldn't keep.204Please respect copyright.PENANAxSzkFFtVKw
In every line, in every name—204Please respect copyright.PENANAz1hlVT3YTH
I searched for you, but you never came
I sat down slowly by the window, on the cold floor, knees pulled up to my chest.204Please respect copyright.PENANAC7r73VD8Z2
The guitar strings echoed softly in the night—like a quiet heartbreak shared between strangers.204Please respect copyright.PENANASuhR8hQait
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I dreamed of you at every bend,204Please respect copyright.PENANAbdBM7RRp2B
Held your shadow like a friend.204Please respect copyright.PENANAwvcjgAHZ5A
And when the pages reached their end...204Please respect copyright.PENANAjqxnctAz6f
You were never really mine.204Please respect copyright.PENANAJfKw6Qyazk
Just a ghost I loved in time.....
And suddenly, I felt it.
A tear.
Then another.
And another.
My fingers covered my mouth, but it didn't stop the sob from escaping.
The music didn't stop either.204Please respect copyright.PENANAXUW4kL1uaW
He kept playing.204Please respect copyright.PENANAcXl7mPamlv
As if he knew someone out there needed it.204Please respect copyright.PENANA1ot5ADC4JR
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I dreamed of you, and I still do,204Please respect copyright.PENANAt3X3vb6iJj
But love like ours was never true.204Please respect copyright.PENANAjJYlKz6Ns0
It lived in silence, broke in light—204Please respect copyright.PENANAe6MXF7CKwc
You were never really mine.204Please respect copyright.PENANA6FFFH1oGn8
Just a name I lost to night....
As if he knew I needed it.
I didn't know his name.204Please respect copyright.PENANAc8Fo3XBasP
He didn't know my story.
But that night—204Please respect copyright.PENANADEoPkQEmVK
He gave voice to what I couldn't say.
And I cried.204Please respect copyright.PENANAFMTapD7Aps
For life.204Please respect copyright.PENANAkrHAik65UE
For the loneliness.204Please respect copyright.PENANAa9aJcplk8A
For all the nights I pretended it didn't hurt.
And for once...204Please respect copyright.PENANAOpzIlrg8HT
I didn't feel alone in the dark.
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I gave you poems, I gave you songs,204Please respect copyright.PENANAozhsYnBVum
Wrote you right, but lived you wrong.204Please respect copyright.PENANAuavO7FxPUH
And now I know, with every cry—204Please respect copyright.PENANAM9KmCYucGY
You were just a goodbye in disguise...204Please respect copyright.PENANAQlsxQmzG8l
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i was listening my eyes are closed now and slowly slowly i feel myself frifting in sleep his voice is now vanishing in air..
I bled you out in quiet screams,204Please respect copyright.PENANAONpJrT13Fd
You only lived inside my dreams...204Please respect copyright.PENANAiDj7n0d4j4
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and soon i slept right there near the window...
I woke up where I had fallen asleep—curled near the window, head against the cold wall, knees pulled to my chest.204Please respect copyright.PENANAZvQbxo5PeS
The music was gone now.204Please respect copyright.PENANAIVNFIPvFRw
Only silence remained, pressed into the floor like dust.
I slowly stood up, the stiffness in my neck a quiet punishment for feeling too much.204Please respect copyright.PENANAvmH7AykS3q
I looked out the window again.
His window was still open.204Please respect copyright.PENANAxUh0L4yAnV
But he wasn't there.
Just the faint morning air drifting in, touching everything like a memory that didn't belong to me.
I stared a little longer. Maybe hoping he'd appear again, guitar in hand, sadness in his voice.204Please respect copyright.PENANALCwgYZf2IO
But the room across was still—lightless, lifeless.
I sighed, stepped back, and went into the bathroom for a shower.
The water was cold.204Please respect copyright.PENANA7Vywx1ob2e
Or maybe I just was.
After dressing in my college uniform—the soft blue shirt and that old skirt that swayed just past my knees—I tied my hair into a low ponytail and headed downstairs.
The house was still wrapped in sleep.204Please respect copyright.PENANAls37dmT0L5
Too quiet for comfort.
I walked to Mona's room, pulled the blanket off her face gently, and whispered, "Mona... wake up."
She grumbled and tried to burrow deeper.
I smiled faintly. "Don't make me use the spray bottle this time."
Her eyes snapped open she looked at me . "You wouldn't."
"Oh, I would," I teased, brushing my fingers through her hair. "Up. Now."
She groaned but sat up, and I left for the kitchen.
I started preparing breakfast—simple toast and warm milk again. My hands moved automatically, but my head...
My head felt heavy, like it had stored too many unspoken things overnight and didn't know where to put them anymore.
Mona came in, half-dressed, yawning like she hadn't slept in days.
We ate in silence. Not an awkward one, but the kind that builds between two people who have more thoughts than words.
After clearing the plates, I walked slowly toward Mom's room.
I opened the door just enough.
She was still asleep. Back turned. Same blanket. Same stillness.
I watched for a moment, trying to remember the last time she stayed awake long enough to say goodbye to us in the morning.
I didn't say anything.204Please respect copyright.PENANAK33X7rtoqs
I just closed the door.
Mona and I stepped outside. The street was cool, the morning air a little softer than usual.
We walked side by side, hand in hand, our footsteps light and steady.
But in my chest, something was starting to ache again.
We still live in the same house. But we don't live the same life anymore.
This family—whatever it used to be—is drifting apart like pieces of paper in the wind. And none of us is chasing them.
The classroom was too bright.204Please respect copyright.PENANAjgaW6lgkSt
Too loud.204Please respect copyright.PENANAnaHi9gurup
Too everything.
The teacher was explaining something—physics, motion, energy—but all I could hear was the ticking of the wall clock above the whiteboard.204Please respect copyright.PENANAelZ1TpQ2ub
Tick.204Please respect copyright.PENANAwSYLWqi0dG
Tick.204Please respect copyright.PENANAt11tntFku9
Tick.
I stared out the window.
The wind moved slowly through the trees. People walked outside, laughing, whispering, living lives I would never understand.
My eyes drifted toward the sky.204Please respect copyright.PENANAUJdpJA7HlL
It was empty.204Please respect copyright.PENANAGqKFEzZtB3
Just like yesterday. Just like most things.
And then, just like that—204Please respect copyright.PENANAaQ7w2jBl2p
I thought of him again.
The boy next door.204Please respect copyright.PENANAz0756HltWC
The guitar.204Please respect copyright.PENANAAa4kuPHOFs
The late-night music.
And for a second—just one foolish second—I wondered where he went.204Please respect copyright.PENANA3WcfP37aTi
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Why his window was open, but he was gone.
And then the anger kicked in.
Why do I even care?204Please respect copyright.PENANAsy0wAM3AFF
Why is it always a boy? Always a man? Always... them?
I blinked, looked down at my notebook. The page was empty.204Please respect copyright.PENANAipGODY7ojT
Just like me.
And suddenly, I couldn't hold it anymore.
Why is it always "he"?204Please respect copyright.PENANAj4t1iupocS
Why does the world pause when a boy looks out his window with a guitar, but not when a girl walks home after strugling for life and everything ?
Why do girls bleed, break, burn—and still find ways to be soft?
And men? They get to sing a sad song and call it depth.
Why do they get to leave?204Please respect copyright.PENANA9D8sMEeV4r
Why do we stay?204Please respect copyright.PENANAUHHtF65JME
Why do we carry their damage like a second spine?
Why is every poem about men who left?
Why is every girl taught how to heal but not how to scream?
I closed my notebook slowly.204Please respect copyright.PENANAqs7kVPaQty
The air felt heavier than before.
I looked at the teacher, then at my classmates, and then back at the window.
And in that moment—204Please respect copyright.PENANALy28qRCucF
I didn't want a love story..
I wanted peace.204Please respect copyright.PENANA0lhPOyKBkz
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