They say time moves people.33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCykmRFqlPm
But sometimes, people just… move.33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ799Dwnqjl4
And time only watches.
Ours was a story written in reverse.33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLOxrqFGzLH
When the year began, our buses stood side by side.33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCxsmkFG3Qk
Just like us.33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSucJihJjVy
Close — not always talking, but always within reach.33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR4yVUnnoYZ
We met under that old tree, beside those parked buses,33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZdjs7l1SRh
Where the earth still remembered our footsteps,33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1NpOTQ7TBH
And the silence between us felt like the loudest comfort.
That was our place.33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDmktg5iZs2
Not too far. Not too close.33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXGY9QLdcXe
Just enough to look, to smile, to say everything without a word.
And as the semesters rolled in,33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSiYSDoQ4s6
So did distance.
Little by little, her bus began to move.33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8jeblMTWYU
Not suddenly. Not loudly.33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZXcwvo0sda
Just like her — with quiet decisions, soft steps, no explanations.
At first, I didn’t notice.33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8NSsfSsYTs
Because I was too busy holding on to what we had.33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaLGyT9aicZ
But the tree stayed where it was.33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ63SuaKnCWj
And so did my bus.33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKae75LCW6O
And so did I.
Still waiting. Still hoping.
Her new spot — it wasn’t far in meters,33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡItlbhzpc3C
But felt like miles in meaning.33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4NSSxPnVoA
Now, her bus stood beside his.33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡENmsOKShNf
Not mine.
And that small shift changed everything.
They laughed.33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8R5wp4RUMY
They walked.33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpB4sRqdYrR
They spoke in the language I thought we built.33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmWt5iXbnFj
One I no longer understood.
And me?33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKk8lVIJE7i
I stood beside my bus.33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO8fpIRmiDC
Just like always.33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhqv0PCfyU3
Like a shadow hoping the sun might notice it again.
I don’t blame her.33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPSjCAmIib5
Maybe her journey needed a new road.33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡobUHp8F16H
Maybe my stillness felt like stagnation to her.33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw2SvcOMbQL
Maybe being beside me wasn’t enough.
But I watched that change —33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7Vn7QDLANR
Every day after college, every silent evening.33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD4Gkn9VRlx
And it hurt.
Because the buses knew.33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5jV56UfBxP
They told a story no one else could see.
Ours was a story of two souls who met where the buses once stood together.33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ76kt62xRlF
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 —33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdpA35M8KdR
in a single season —33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8euibhPGZd
and remembered always.
She moved forward.33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSGQcEyj2fn
Or sideways.33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmB7PNSIZrA
Or somewhere I couldn’t reach anymore.
And I remained.33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSQvBLUEUqE
Not because I couldn’t move.33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡokJfTsB7cK
But because some part of me still believed—
If one day, she ever looked back…33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy5wMLouqLs
I’d still be there.33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ19JgNdgT8S
Beside the same tree.33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXnUrcpV3rv
By the same bus.33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCWdEle4izO
Carrying the same love.
Quiet. Constant.33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi2MFVGxNCS
Unseen.
