Dual POV
Mara
I didn’t message him the next day.52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKckmnOJUce
I didn’t need to.
Instead, I opened my music app and created a playlist.52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHuZ3S1W9Jh
Just three songs.52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsOmLjJXwd6
One about missing someone I never had.52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTJhI6g1Mrd
One about learning how to breathe again.52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR2zY8kIQl0
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.”52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmdpXjgpQF7
And it did.52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj5ltJhlaoL
The second song was a love letter, the third sounded like goodbye, and the fifth…52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxfGNQNFBOK
The fifth was mine. The one I hummed through the window.52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsf7o4w6feK
Except this time, it was a cover—with lyrics.
That’s when I realized:52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCDU2ZlvIkL
He’d heard me long before he met me.52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmp4HPP4GX9
And maybe… he’d felt something, too.
Eli
I’ve always found it easier to say things through music.52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcTMkcwuLG4
Words can lie. Songs don’t.
When she sent that playlist, it felt like a door opened.52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwMUYU2kZK2
Not wide. Just enough.
So I sent mine back, every track carefully chosen.52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoOSlLGx8hJ
No fluff. No random filler. Just the truth I couldn’t voice yet.
She didn’t reply for hours.52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTtiMEaVikn
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—52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3Y7Ll3SCrR
One every night.
No pressure. No labels.52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUYDUfes6GI
Just music.
And in that quiet rhythm, we found something neither of us was ready to name.
Not yet.52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqSyXnHdzT1
But soon.
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