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Chapter 1: Unseen, Yet Deeply Felt

She had never seen me… and I had never seen her.

But still, we felt each other — every single day, through words.

Zeenie.

A name that had quietly settled into the rhythm of my heartbeat.

I had no picture of her, no voice recordings — just her written words, and the emotions hidden within them.

She would often come online late at night. Her status would always carry something thoughtful:

"The heart is strange… it always loses what it desires the most."

And I would wonder, maybe that line was meant for me.

We hadn’t met at a gathering,

not on a street, not in a classroom.

Our first meeting happened through a simple “message notification.”

One day, her message popped up in a group chat — ordinary, yet it struck my heart.

That very moment, I replied to her…

And that’s how it all began —

a connection that slowly became my life.

Every night brought something new.

Sometimes, she’d share little things —

boring college lectures, family routines, or her favorite kind of tea.

Sometimes she’d only write two words,

but those two words would feel like they came straight from her soul:

"Not in the mood today… just needed your message."

I would write, and she would read.

She would write, and I would silently feel it all.

Strangely, she never asked for my photo…

And I never felt the need to hear her voice.

Because what we shared — was emotion.

Something beyond faces, beyond meetings, beyond voices.

One day, I asked her:

“Zeenie, what if we meet one day… and you don’t recognize me?”

She replied:

"I’ll recognize you by your eyes… they hold emotions, not lies."

That moment, I believed —

maybe for the first time, someone had truly seen me with their heart.

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Life kept moving.

Nights continued to pass, wrapped in words.

Then came a time

when the words stopped flowing…

And the girl who once spoke to me every night… fell silent.

But this first chapter is about that time —

when love wasn’t in front of me,

but quietly growing inside my heart.

Silences are strange…

Sometimes they scream,

and sometimes they steal all the words from your heart.

Zeenie’s silence had now become a storm within me.

Where once her daily “Hello” warmed my soul,

now days passed without even a single word.

I opened her profile many times —

no new status,

no online tick,

no activity in any group.

“Has she grown tired?”

“Did I say something wrong?”

“Or maybe… she never really needed me?”

These questions slowed down my days

and made my nights restless.

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A few days before this silence began,

I had asked her:

> “Zeenie, what’s your most favorite topic?”

She paused for a moment, then replied with a smile:

> “BTS.”

I went quiet.

BTS? I had never heard of it, never understood it.

But her joy… became my curiosity.

That night, I opened YouTube, scrolled through fan pages,

and slowly started reading about every member.

One name kept showing up in her statuses —

"V" — Kim Taehyung.

She often used to say:

> “There’s a pain hidden in Kim Taehyung’s eyes…

one that only those with hearts can feel.”

I had never seen his eyes…

but in Zeenie’s words, I felt that same pain.

I listened to “Winter Bear” —

and in that melody, I heard the silence

that words could never speak.

The next day, I messaged her:

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