They say time moves people.34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ89Hb80Xvte
But sometimes, people just… move.34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFKDpw5HhAa
And time only watches.
Ours was a story written in reverse.34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwDHLfzECCs
When the year began, our buses stood side by side.34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFdSMaMHDMW
Just like us.34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV8aKiYAYOX
Close — not always talking, but always within reach.34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbAKV82yQOh
We met under that old tree, beside those parked buses,34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvHZThI1hWi
Where the earth still remembered our footsteps,34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl9p064YMmw
And the silence between us felt like the loudest comfort.
That was our place.34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMjfszySaho
Not too far. Not too close.34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjcmzlBadSi
Just enough to look, to smile, to say everything without a word.
And as the semesters rolled in,34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk0rV1I3vEb
So did distance.
Little by little, her bus began to move.34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt8287Ul8f2
Not suddenly. Not loudly.34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqzB1AvjW7b
Just like her — with quiet decisions, soft steps, no explanations.
At first, I didn’t notice.34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCdNsV1ZmX1
Because I was too busy holding on to what we had.34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdzXc3idi5T
But the tree stayed where it was.34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJwmBGpreGr
And so did my bus.34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkrGvXMo7c7
And so did I.
Still waiting. Still hoping.
Her new spot — it wasn’t far in meters,34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtSrfVGG0kJ
But felt like miles in meaning.34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu94uv9XH7j
Now, her bus stood beside his.34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡidgTqvi3MD
Not mine.
And that small shift changed everything.
They laughed.34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk8Jst4f1nF
They walked.34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT6qLipMWBg
They spoke in the language I thought we built.34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJWJe85fdld
One I no longer understood.
And me?34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI8EbwgdrVE
I stood beside my bus.34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9RCSSnCOjb
Just like always.34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjPTikqjdpb
Like a shadow hoping the sun might notice it again.
I don’t blame her.34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgv3fyKF7c1
Maybe her journey needed a new road.34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLhn5sKHvP9
Maybe my stillness felt like stagnation to her.34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKZtkUwvxaA
Maybe being beside me wasn’t enough.
But I watched that change —34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmfUW2ONrCX
Every day after college, every silent evening.34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBJwkbTzML4
And it hurt.
Because the buses knew.34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkSkK6RiAza
They told a story no one else could see.
Ours was a story of two souls who met where the buses once stood together.34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFW75aBdjy6
A bond that bloomed between the roots of familiarity and the branches of hope.
But not all flowers bloom forever.
Sometimes, they’re just meant to be admired once —34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEQgcDTpQkL
in a single season —34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp2DBYOQf65
and remembered always.
She moved forward.34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKSqijxe775
Or sideways.34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNo6zPWL9dj
Or somewhere I couldn’t reach anymore.
And I remained.34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdQQ7BKSGE0
Not because I couldn’t move.34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxCKKBv0Pzq
But because some part of me still believed—
If one day, she ever looked back…34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkRwsCTwRsC
I’d still be there.34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGwaxFVHACM
Beside the same tree.34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXxU8H79KAr
By the same bus.34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDHtYRMMPkW
Carrying the same love.
Quiet. Constant.34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWe1XyPJyPY
Unseen.
