Behind Locked Pages ~ Neha’s Diary

Behind Locked Pages ~ Neha’s Diary

Neha used to think doors lock only from the outside.
Now she knows — sometimes one locks them from within,
when silence feels safer than answers.

That night, when Smeer laughed with Nisha,
it wasn’t the sound that broke her —
it was the way his eyes forgot to search for hers.

She leave het scooter, and came to her room and turned the key.
Not out of anger. Not out of pride.
Just to breathe without pretending.

Hours passed. The rain started tapping the glass,
as if it wanted to know why she’d gone quiet.
She looked at her photographs with Smeer —
frozen smiles that no longer belonged to this season.

He texted, “Are you okay?”
Funny how those three words can sound
like both concern and escape.

Between the two of them, Nisha stands now...

That night, she realized something:
she doesn’t need to chase the one who drifts.
She needs to find the one who stays —
even if that one is her.

Since then, she has grown a new habit —
not of waiting, but of reading.
Not books anymore —
but eyes, pauses, and unspoken things.

She can read when someone’s heart is lying.
She can read when laughter hides loneliness.
And sometimes,
she can even read herself —
the girl who once locked the pages of her diary
and found her strength inside it.