There’s something I’ve carried for years.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIaInhz4h6f
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.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOvKB5EZsUB
You let me in, shared your secrets, laughed with me, cried with me, made memories that stretched across years.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz7YTbjGtMM
And I held them all like tiny treasures.
But somewhere along the way…21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVz6d7i9LEg
I fell in love with you.
Not in a loud, dramatic way.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb1PyIMilkt
Not in a way that ever asked for anything back.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtPxToU744a
I just… loved you.
In the quietest, deepest corners of my soul.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaRQIx8xabR
In the spaces between your words.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX5WMBzkHaz
In the silence after your voice.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX1lYTu6LnC
In the warmth of every “pagal” you called me.
I listened when you spoke about her — the girl you liked.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiVRqxN3Rdc
I helped you find the words, plan the replies, understand your feelings.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ75UpJ82EH0
And with each sentence I gave to help you be closer to her…21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZa0Drgd6YH
I lost a little piece of myself.
Because I wasn’t just your friend.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9vVp4paZs9
I was the one who stayed up late, not to talk — but to overthink every conversation we had.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1Rpk2QOmkU
I was the one who replayed your voice in my mind when everything felt heavy.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnuxbcrIHDh
I was the one who watched you choose others — and still smiled, like it didn’t hurt.
But Zuni, it did.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBb1TLWhS6b
It hurt more than you’ll ever know.
The world saw you as the strong one. The admired one.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp3vhLhxy2J
But I saw something softer — something only I got to know.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmn0kB5ViKP
Your laughter that came after anger.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQtVxYQ8sxe
The way you forgot things but remembered how to make people feel loved.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw7qqc8VCI6
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…21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQXpynYbe5a
That baby crying, and the words:21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuHo5kU6DtN
“No one ever says they miss me…”
And you replied —21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVz78Lmc1dm
“Pagal… you are always missed. Always remembered.”
Zuni…21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKyEZUOjkPN
You didn’t know, but I broke that night.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3nXy1jIvt7
Because that was the closest I ever came to hearing what I had waited years to hear.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDOQB9hE4Yl
And it still wasn’t what I needed.
The truth is, you never knew what I carried inside.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLyNyc49BcD
How every word I said was soaked in feelings I buried.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqqzcacGX4I
How every smile I gave hid the pain of being almost everything to you…21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVsbqkFYJuk
But never the one thing I wanted to be.
We still talk.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD91Wz4YfTp
Every day.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbueGrcLtxo
Like everything is fine.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHznOdLNSIo
Like there’s no storm behind the screen.
But every message I send is a love letter written in disguise.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4qSIh411k1
Every reply is me pretending that “friend” was ever enough.
And you’ll never know.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0kRoqw499Z
Because I will never tell you.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYZvkV7OyP8
Not because I’m afraid —21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3SgjI5Hpf3
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.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡinyOOSQLOv
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.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2BXuC3nerq
That your heart is always full.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhG0lzUFdN0
That the person you choose gives you every joy I once dreamed of giving you.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVKgcLvZd82
And I pray — selfishly, quietly — that if you ever wonder if someone truly loved you without asking for anything…21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5Y7wlMcGXw
You’ll think of me.
Not as the friend who stayed.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg2X3JHFaeX
But as the heart that broke —21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB9NbT0PZVu
And still kept loving.
Always,21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzF57yialFm
your friend...................21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLbbMq2XgeD
—The girl who never told you. But always meant it.
and then Add to home screen.