Amara pov:
I sat down at my study table, pulling out my books.
My fingers opened the notebook out of habit.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEq5hRyTKVD
I stared at the questions.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQCvunSzsnh
Tried to answer one.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ5jKGOBpkt
Then another.
Not because I was inspired.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDeg8uo4BIt
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.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLHOV1UMTUA
Sometimes there's no choice. No grand moment of decision. No forks in the road.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfZ8Pbn5IEA
Sometimes, the choice is already gone—cut clean from your life before you even got to see it.
I kept writing. Slowly.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGLcNzXW8zq
The pen dragged, the ink smudged a little, but I kept going.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwAabCxzPAN
Because I must.
And that was enough—for tonight.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ29WRk76i7Z
later I curled up in bed, pulling the blanket tighter around me, but it didn't help.
Sleep wasn't coming.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHWFJxG3Tjo
Not even close.
I stared at the ceiling—blank eyes, blank mind.
Nothing moved. Nothing breathed loudly.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqHnXeC0OaI
Just silence pressing into the room like fog.
And then...
A soft sound.
A strum. Faint.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5xqBkRVhWX
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.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuAOzU1K5SA
Open.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzF3zWzqjdd
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.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKMkWjzOdf4
My neighbor.
His fingers strummed again.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS1NxaKpUmN
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,16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPjZh0xuqdE
Every name was there, but yours never bold...16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrUafisWIE0
I thought of you at every bend, loved you with breathless ache,16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOBz6KnoOMu
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.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjrUBvz1AvM
And it hurt.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE0oH05Fbda
his voice is echocing in my ears..16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdRvdQLoV1f
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I wrote all night, couldn't sleep,16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2rEjNuWmAN
Tried to bury what I couldn't keep.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXTPb6QGTDz
In every line, in every name—16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjurEJ8CXzZ
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.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJZGE0gxQ6p
The guitar strings echoed softly in the night—like a quiet heartbreak shared between strangers.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9bjtk6oQO6
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I dreamed of you at every bend,16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkc2yzq0qOh
Held your shadow like a friend.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMWX4ivHAXh
And when the pages reached their end...16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEY7ZHbpljr
You were never really mine.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxzXK3xJwc1
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.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZT3QUirQ6o
He kept playing.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0IoQjF4837
As if he knew someone out there needed it.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡML9TXwWoPQ
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I dreamed of you, and I still do,16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMFgAxoGcaA
But love like ours was never true.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPeOcEClYLS
It lived in silence, broke in light—16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw1wiqgNHxf
You were never really mine.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBk18dCMZoG
Just a name I lost to night....
As if he knew I needed it.
I didn't know his name.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwxiHcSr0Ft
He didn't know my story.
But that night—16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2P80uxQb3k
He gave voice to what I couldn't say.
And I cried.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiEhC86ji7S
For life.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6vkx7BJesS
For the loneliness.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFxT36iaBJr
For all the nights I pretended it didn't hurt.
And for once...16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6kG5JTCu4F
I didn't feel alone in the dark.
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I gave you poems, I gave you songs,16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAtlJ7quXMp
Wrote you right, but lived you wrong.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGj6vhCxlVy
And now I know, with every cry—16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw585MfFPqX
You were just a goodbye in disguise...16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXMaJjqkkjj
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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,16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS3pgmWHYS9
You only lived inside my dreams...16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjkSPnZZnak
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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.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrQRbx9CvdZ
The music was gone now.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfLeVcjYPIQ
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.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡertKMVRZpD
I looked out the window again.
His window was still open.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO3iK3evUGy
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.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ66A83pMwpf
But the room across was still—lightless, lifeless.
I sighed, stepped back, and went into the bathroom for a shower.
The water was cold.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsUo75rxfCu
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.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLAqihxWLey
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.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRuPfBMFxyM
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.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaYheO3AXU4
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.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡofSTZaF7d0
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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.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO0LwbMuw8T
It was empty.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf6JrIslAeK
Just like yesterday. Just like most things.
And then, just like that—16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡluAbFefYSz
I thought of him again.
The boy next door.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgMfm3NmDB2
The guitar.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLKBWSDNakk
The late-night music.
And for a second—just one foolish second—I wondered where he went.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlsRJlj5uXH
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Why his window was open, but he was gone.
And then the anger kicked in.
Why do I even care?16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWxI2rk0nlQ
Why is it always a boy? Always a man? Always... them?
I blinked, looked down at my notebook. The page was empty.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxD2Gmt2dm2
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?16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbAYQwXS6ax
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.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCeolur3HaH
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—16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCtciITldnq
I didn't want a love story..
I wanted peace.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBTIqtylC5H
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