Dual POV
Mara
I didn’t message him the next day.114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQSz5D30lzH
I didn’t need to.
Instead, I opened my music app and created a playlist.114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXT5tCcgc2u
Just three songs.114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU9ooxZcpNm
One about missing someone I never had.114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkcLxkDSd2t
One about learning how to breathe again.114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡksguHblTjZ
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.”114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhmsVw5w0XY
And it did.114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD1Mdr359vs
The second song was a love letter, the third sounded like goodbye, and the fifth…114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUtiqq6bFxQ
The fifth was mine. The one I hummed through the window.114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmfp9inDOpt
Except this time, it was a cover—with lyrics.
That’s when I realized:114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTXSU4AAzuJ
He’d heard me long before he met me.114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvyHEudIiNw
And maybe… he’d felt something, too.
Eli
I’ve always found it easier to say things through music.114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaGk0rXRl4o
Words can lie. Songs don’t.
When she sent that playlist, it felt like a door opened.114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjObUQqk7aD
Not wide. Just enough.
So I sent mine back, every track carefully chosen.114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5GRwFfyJgI
No fluff. No random filler. Just the truth I couldn’t voice yet.
She didn’t reply for hours.114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZCgklbtMVy
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—114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyxm6CCvYHX
One every night.
No pressure. No labels.114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFZnwPEyffP
Just music.
And in that quiet rhythm, we found something neither of us was ready to name.
Not yet.114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK0QqBS81bw
But soon.
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