Amara pov:
I sat down at my study table, pulling out my books.
My fingers opened the notebook out of habit.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9z9qXkMbqT
I stared at the questions.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXj5BryFTKV
Tried to answer one.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkgV0MdZhUG
Then another.
Not because I was inspired.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYOmRtweVvf
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.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHu3R8nkcLm
Sometimes there's no choice. No grand moment of decision. No forks in the road.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNSNW8pQFeI
Sometimes, the choice is already gone—cut clean from your life before you even got to see it.
I kept writing. Slowly.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYySE3XcvcN
The pen dragged, the ink smudged a little, but I kept going.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdbBESAoRVC
Because I must.
And that was enough—for tonight.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ16uyVb9Gpd
later I curled up in bed, pulling the blanket tighter around me, but it didn't help.
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Not even close.
I stared at the ceiling—blank eyes, blank mind.
Nothing moved. Nothing breathed loudly.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvRFfkKDPs3
Just silence pressing into the room like fog.
And then...
A soft sound.
A strum. Faint.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7ywSjWrv5c
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.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFeWO9WqruJ
Open.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHpeYrJuwCW
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.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEWQ6iJxQwb
My neighbor.
His fingers strummed again.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgMkQH1Be8B
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,19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡULbctI6PLE
Every name was there, but yours never bold...19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrA3DRFUyNf
I thought of you at every bend, loved you with breathless ache,19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIYkxFV5sdn
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.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdLPQgQkZHX
And it hurt.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuGEod47OY9
his voice is echocing in my ears..19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaXkN8fBYju
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I wrote all night, couldn't sleep,19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi3gbQLRkVO
Tried to bury what I couldn't keep.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH2Vr8ze0Xe
In every line, in every name—19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSEqZ3VD6Q0
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.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8p66TeXTtn
The guitar strings echoed softly in the night—like a quiet heartbreak shared between strangers.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtbOPouHUUd
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I dreamed of you at every bend,19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHcSdLfb2eI
Held your shadow like a friend.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmGmTgM2DEK
And when the pages reached their end...19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY8ZGqrtykw
You were never really mine.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbKov4LvdoN
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.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOHh3sfqIlD
He kept playing.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ15eHMCWXdO
As if he knew someone out there needed it.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRhqrRN2a7m
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I dreamed of you, and I still do,19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOUTW6T8jYQ
But love like ours was never true.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOm4qDdQ7hd
It lived in silence, broke in light—19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw4AwqUgOqX
You were never really mine.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCjXd1jE8pp
Just a name I lost to night....
As if he knew I needed it.
I didn't know his name.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgn9EemP8EH
He didn't know my story.
But that night—19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3nJ9n8fDrh
He gave voice to what I couldn't say.
And I cried.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMawZIg1x8N
For life.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqdaxAd1IPb
For the loneliness.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyy9qnufU6n
For all the nights I pretended it didn't hurt.
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I didn't feel alone in the dark.
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I gave you poems, I gave you songs,19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIJM9ohrKjM
Wrote you right, but lived you wrong.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJwu8YoMzBv
And now I know, with every cry—19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQXQH0jruLg
You were just a goodbye in disguise...19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmeLOpjwkP2
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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,19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8R0jo6H1SD
You only lived inside my dreams...19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJuyo4YduIT
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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.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnhtdvrQd8r
The music was gone now.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOjUnRbfWda
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.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8uAI3bu7Sz
I looked out the window again.
His window was still open.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdql5dyT1Ud
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.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7PFd2gfiMn
But the room across was still—lightless, lifeless.
I sighed, stepped back, and went into the bathroom for a shower.
The water was cold.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZVkLzWMTc5
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.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6wUuWGsbcg
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.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8jrErE7fAw
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.
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Too loud.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnj0U9vnuke
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.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWLs9ukYS7y
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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.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhKoeJm4aqJ
It was empty.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR16OaOHzAi
Just like yesterday. Just like most things.
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I thought of him again.
The boy next door.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBgesaYf35K
The guitar.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL14tJCf5T6
The late-night music.
And for a second—just one foolish second—I wondered where he went.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5BopZsLQdg
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Why his window was open, but he was gone.
And then the anger kicked in.
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Why is it always a boy? Always a man? Always... them?
I blinked, looked down at my notebook. The page was empty.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIvCj2bpRcG
Just like me.
And suddenly, I couldn't hold it anymore.
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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.
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Why do we stay?19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPoo7GwmoRG
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.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKRq3p7HnUQ
The air felt heavier than before.
I looked at the teacher, then at my classmates, and then back at the window.
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I didn't want a love story..
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