They say time moves people.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk53PddRWzi
But sometimes, people just… move.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRIqMRh4o17
And time only watches.
Ours was a story written in reverse.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL78voOhMkZ
When the year began, our buses stood side by side.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxwM3VTrosc
Just like us.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUcZOcmIa32
Close — not always talking, but always within reach.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJtv5muwmKr
We met under that old tree, beside those parked buses,13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQQqQITegi5
Where the earth still remembered our footsteps,13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdzEvP2q4vQ
And the silence between us felt like the loudest comfort.
That was our place.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ626h6sV600
Not too far. Not too close.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJidVOdQ8Ix
Just enough to look, to smile, to say everything without a word.
And as the semesters rolled in,13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4dDjL2TQh7
So did distance.
Little by little, her bus began to move.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOb3faRptpO
Not suddenly. Not loudly.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡutLZoplvol
Just like her — with quiet decisions, soft steps, no explanations.
At first, I didn’t notice.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXjnpIhEwN9
Because I was too busy holding on to what we had.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1SWb00eOhm
But the tree stayed where it was.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNpxKIZS2qX
And so did my bus.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKVWca4idCE
And so did I.
Still waiting. Still hoping.
Her new spot — it wasn’t far in meters,13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEC2LYDaiJe
But felt like miles in meaning.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtPkGu2HmUq
Now, her bus stood beside his.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBpRgMaxqWK
Not mine.
And that small shift changed everything.
They laughed.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW0D1EHVZ7z
They walked.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0HSruEYS1x
They spoke in the language I thought we built.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4j0Y9WwDHo
One I no longer understood.
And me?13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGcZOV5Xgof
I stood beside my bus.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7f1rsKjWEo
Just like always.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8X4TfbcPMu
Like a shadow hoping the sun might notice it again.
I don’t blame her.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4316K36y0R
Maybe her journey needed a new road.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiEVREy28Ca
Maybe my stillness felt like stagnation to her.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyRUdnpXghb
Maybe being beside me wasn’t enough.
But I watched that change —13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKx4vWgRxsc
Every day after college, every silent evening.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg8yHppaReA
And it hurt.
Because the buses knew.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJjPV9pyHgX
They told a story no one else could see.
Ours was a story of two souls who met where the buses once stood together.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡifuhuIZsE1
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 —13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ23TOjb0hCK
in a single season —13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfJuQNvJIcQ
and remembered always.
She moved forward.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3ld9C9YKY4
Or sideways.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSS6Z4ZoUvh
Or somewhere I couldn’t reach anymore.
And I remained.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡraBbXlISBI
Not because I couldn’t move.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQfihvm90NK
But because some part of me still believed—
If one day, she ever looked back…13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFXCaAkbPrX
I’d still be there.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrIfHvmRNhW
Beside the same tree.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ68W6CUJvTc
By the same bus.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡceeeFefMgU
Carrying the same love.
Quiet. Constant.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaGEXGsoteH
Unseen.
