When Screens Hurt
Just a follow back
Sana
Hey
your pfp is cuteee (◕ᴗ◕✿)
Sana wasn’t the type to text first.
An ambivert.. quiet in a crowd, loud in her mind.
She overthought every word.
Deleted most before hitting send.
But that noon
for reasons even she couldn’t explain,
she opened a stranger’s profile…
And sent the first message.
It wasn’t the pfp that made her follow him.
It was the post.
A soft image with bold words.
"We stand with Bangladesh."
While her country was bleeding under a mass uprising,
he.. someone unknown..
shared that.
She didn’t know him.
But in that moment,
he felt different.
So she followed back.
And then…
She messaged first.
Sana
And… that post on your feed
about my country… it was really kind
Izaan
I saw the news.
It felt wrong.
I just wanted to say something.
She didn’t expect him to reply.
Izaan
Izaan.. nice to meet you Sana!
Sana
That name,
it’s been my favorite since I was like 9.
Sana
I literally decided to name my future son Izaan. LoL
Sana
No clue.
just felt like a soft, kind name..
Sana
Like someone who’d never hurt anyone...
Izaan
btw… how old are you?
Sana
aww, just a babyboy then..
Izaan
babyboy??
I’m literally older than you..
Sana
age doesn’t cancel soft pfp energy. hehe
Izaan
wow.
okay then, babygirl 😊
Sana
Did you just..
call me babygirl? 🙂
The next day,
he sent her a message..
No text. Just a picture.
A matching anime pfp.
Two halves.
Together.
She got it.
And she smiled.
But still…
Sana
Babyboy...
The pfp you sent
it’s really cute 💓
Sana
But I already share matching pfps with my bestfriend
Sana
So… i can’t really change it without her.
Izaan
Ohh it’s okayy Babygirl 😊
Izaan
I just thought it looked nice..
Sana
it did. I saved it anywayy
It wasn’t anything special,
just a start.
A simple conversation.
No labels, no pressure..
Just two people talking,
and maybe, in time,
it would mean more.
Or maybe it wouldn’t.
Either way,
she felt okay with it..
He Trusted Too Much
Sana asked a lot of questions.
Not because she was nosy..
but because silence made her spiral.
She worried, at first, that she was annoying.
But then something clicked.
He just wasn’t comfortable in English.
Sana was fluent in his language.
She just didn’t like typing it.
Sana
Do you wanna talk in your own language?
Sana
I mean you can type however you’re comfy
Sana
I’ll reply in english
Sana
yup I'm just not comfortable typing it
Sana
But I get it all
promise (◕ᴗ◕✿)
And just like that, the air between them shifted.
Told her his friend was the one who made him download the app.
Said it was “just to pass time.”
Then sent her a screenshot of the friend’s profile.
She didn’t know why.. but that made her smile.
So every little thing felt rare.
Then one night, his message hit differently.
Izaan
baby girl… Do you have a lover?
Sana
A what now?? (⌐■-■)
Izaan
You know what i mean..
Izaan
You seem like someone people would fall for easily 😗
Sana
You trying to flirt now? (ಠ_ಠ)
Sana
now your turn
ever been in love?
Sana
wow tell meee the story.. (◕ᴗ◕✿)
Izaan
I used to tell my best friend everything about her
Izaan
He even used to talk to her on my phone sometimes
Izaan
I trusted them both
a lot
Izaan
Turns out they got together behind my back
Izaan
They didn’t say anything
just… disappeared
Sana didn’t know what to say.
She wasn’t the type to cry.. not even at sad movies.
But something about the way he said it… so simply, without bitterness… stayed in her heart like a shadow
That night she just sat there
and quietly made herself a promise:
Be someone who never makes him feel like that again.
Even if it was just through a screen.
More Than Friends, Less Than Honest
They talked almost daily.
Even when Sana was drowning in assignments, she’d find a moment for him.
Izaan was easy to talk to.
A little slow at times, but never unkind.
Simple. Harmless. Almost forgettable.
But Sana noticed something.
It looked too... intentional.
So she scrolled.. curiously through Izaan's following list.
There.. The girl.. The other half.
Sana
is that a matching pfp? (◕ᴗ◕✿)
Izaan
yeah how’d you figure it out?
Sana
i know things. i’m smart like that (❛ᴗ❛)
Sana
sooo who’s the mystery girl?
Sana
I see! you’ve got taste tho
Sana
Did you fall for her cute smile already? ಡ ͜ ʖ ಡ
Izaan
Stoppp! we’re not together
it’s nothing serious
Sana
But next time something special happens
like if you catch feels or something
You gotta tell me first
And for a second, she stared at the screen..
Wondering why her heart didn’t feel as light as her fingers did.
The day after their little talk about the matching pfp, something unexpected happened.
Sana didn’t recognize the name
Yeah. That was her. The other half.
Courtesy? She wasn’t sure.
Layra
Hope I'm not bothering you.
Layra
you seem really nice
Layra
I hope we can talk sometimes
But something about it… felt prepared.
Like she already knew who Sana was.
They didn’t talk about Izaan.
They’d talked. About her.
The kind of girl who texted “good morning” and “good night”
Even though you barely knew each other.
Sana didn’t know how to feel.
Then one day, the texts stopped.
No more greetings. Just silence.
And then came the group invite.
Izaan’s pfp was the group icon.
The girl. The other half of the matching pfp.
the group burst into life.
Everyone seemed to know everyone.
Group members
Our bhabhi is so shy!
Group members
She’s so sweet, Izaan's lucky.
Group members
Cutest couple everr
No one noticed Sana had joined.
All she knew was.. he didn’t tell her.
And even if it was nothing…
She didn’t know what she had been in the first place.
In a place no one could see.
And once a screen cracks…
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