They say time moves people.54Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR8nzz45JGk
But sometimes, people just… move.54Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6ax8c00itX
And time only watches.
Ours was a story written in reverse.54Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjf6Pq5ysxf
When the year began, our buses stood side by side.54Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwrwfQ2rYCp
Just like us.54Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQracIJC4j7
Close — not always talking, but always within reach.54Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcILisWxg6Y
We met under that old tree, beside those parked buses,54Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX5vjkPFarD
Where the earth still remembered our footsteps,54Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgXmq7edeoo
And the silence between us felt like the loudest comfort.
That was our place.54Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCqvQ7WoREa
Not too far. Not too close.54Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn5PSb6yVZz
Just enough to look, to smile, to say everything without a word.
And as the semesters rolled in,54Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7aoEVxWNDn
So did distance.
Little by little, her bus began to move.54Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl2GFdtVNHW
Not suddenly. Not loudly.54Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbbPpHIX7D0
Just like her — with quiet decisions, soft steps, no explanations.
At first, I didn’t notice.54Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXAugfyibvi
Because I was too busy holding on to what we had.54Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCWUvgjvLaf
But the tree stayed where it was.54Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn0CeRT4qJm
And so did my bus.54Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6ixMqUYmZl
And so did I.
Still waiting. Still hoping.
Her new spot — it wasn’t far in meters,54Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl8iEnfLUVj
But felt like miles in meaning.54Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSDLg8Jn1yX
Now, her bus stood beside his.54Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmVNk9FwjFa
Not mine.
And that small shift changed everything.
They laughed.54Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgrr6sosAHL
They walked.54Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWb7YCt7NRF
They spoke in the language I thought we built.54Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCttnaSTf8s
One I no longer understood.
And me?54Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlDIvPdZdXP
I stood beside my bus.54Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3ghCuhG9Qn
Just like always.54Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0M9XMint35
Like a shadow hoping the sun might notice it again.
I don’t blame her.54Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFqZZjnqSmJ
Maybe her journey needed a new road.54Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVrWVRn7bhC
Maybe my stillness felt like stagnation to her.54Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF7XKzFbLjv
Maybe being beside me wasn’t enough.
But I watched that change —54Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡILbnZ4HlhS
Every day after college, every silent evening.54Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBqcoG5aqTH
And it hurt.
Because the buses knew.54Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqK1sFh8os5
They told a story no one else could see.
Ours was a story of two souls who met where the buses once stood together.54Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaNOo7MIJL9
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 —54Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFtMHrc2oiw
in a single season —54Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ3xKV5G5E8
and remembered always.
She moved forward.54Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvUkhpMku7J
Or sideways.54Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2ouXPYMyU7
Or somewhere I couldn’t reach anymore.
And I remained.54Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjoaoowvVtr
Not because I couldn’t move.54Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkzzhqoI1lh
But because some part of me still believed—
If one day, she ever looked back…54Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlKe4IAgiU4
I’d still be there.54Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvxha00TPzL
Beside the same tree.54Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7GyH8EYYmC
By the same bus.54Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq3YLkFcBwQ
Carrying the same love.
Quiet. Constant.54Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeTrDlqc0Pc
Unseen.
