"Some friendships are not loud—they're simply there, steady like the earth under your feet when everything else trembles."
Dear Diary,
After the library… I didn't go straight home.
My feet took me to Jia's house without asking for permission.
She opened the door before I could knock.
"You look like a ghost that just got hugged," she said, pulling me inside.
I laughed. The kind of laugh that's half-sob.
We sat on the floor of her room, legs tangled in a sea of mismatched pillows.
She handed me a cup of steaming cocoa—two marshmallows, just how I like it.
And then, I told her everything.
About Andrew.
About the almost-conversation.
The softness in his voice.
The guilt behind his words.
And the space between us that now hummed like it was waiting for something to be born again.
"So... what do you think it means?" I asked.
Jia was quiet for a second.
Then she looked at me with her wise, forest-deep eyes.
"I think he's trying. And trying is sometimes louder than love."
I rested my head on her shoulder.
"It still hurts though. Even if I understand him."
"Understanding someone doesn't always stop the bleeding," she whispered.
"It just helps you choose where to place the bandage."
Dear Diary,
There are people who mend you without touching your wounds.
Jia is like that.
She doesn't offer advice wrapped in glitter.
She gives me truth — warm, firm, and gentle.
She reminded me that I'm allowed to feel hurt.
That forgiveness doesn't mean forgetting the ache.
That loving someone doesn't mean losing yourself.
Later, we danced to old records in her room.
Laughed till our cheeks burned.
Took polaroids and wrote silly poems on the back.
For the first time in days, I felt like me again.
Not just Andrew's maybe-girlfriend.
Not the girl in the middle of rumors and long silences.
But Wunor — poet, dreamer, storm-survivor.
Dear Diary,
Maybe healing isn't always found in the person who hurt you.
Sometimes, it's found in the ones who never left.
– Wunor 🌙