They say time moves people.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoVQbaQNQJ2
But sometimes, people just… move.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsFbc1GaVe5
And time only watches.
Ours was a story written in reverse.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz5n21jXMnA
When the year began, our buses stood side by side.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeW6SSf9p1P
Just like us.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0Fc7ZEeGvX
Close — not always talking, but always within reach.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMXhBRuum7f
We met under that old tree, beside those parked buses,13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVyi2ht4rEW
Where the earth still remembered our footsteps,13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpMWorY1Ed5
And the silence between us felt like the loudest comfort.
That was our place.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpwLhiLqCvb
Not too far. Not too close.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2sXTI2a2s4
Just enough to look, to smile, to say everything without a word.
And as the semesters rolled in,13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡizWmPyo4Ce
So did distance.
Little by little, her bus began to move.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeJdMi5AbJY
Not suddenly. Not loudly.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP8Cygu10wC
Just like her — with quiet decisions, soft steps, no explanations.
At first, I didn’t notice.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3MEifESPGK
Because I was too busy holding on to what we had.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr2vAkHKdGH
But the tree stayed where it was.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT33mITg1ds
And so did my bus.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZUUeJS8zo0
And so did I.
Still waiting. Still hoping.
Her new spot — it wasn’t far in meters,13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIrLngvvtjw
But felt like miles in meaning.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgH0VfXu8NR
Now, her bus stood beside his.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡydD6LDqwZ7
Not mine.
And that small shift changed everything.
They laughed.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIIfHS4dYCw
They walked.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡboz6MI1Mcd
They spoke in the language I thought we built.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6N9Ryb5moi
One I no longer understood.
And me?13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFO25Re8Era
I stood beside my bus.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuQTNIU61YX
Just like always.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ62GULMn4hk
Like a shadow hoping the sun might notice it again.
I don’t blame her.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmLSZylhsR6
Maybe her journey needed a new road.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHhwkDdicLQ
Maybe my stillness felt like stagnation to her.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNtXtv77sF3
Maybe being beside me wasn’t enough.
But I watched that change —13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt9tXRxC3Va
Every day after college, every silent evening.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6P85QZ4HAs
And it hurt.
Because the buses knew.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvQTzIGCz7s
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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfEREL9qRyW
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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡepU3nt10pw
in a single season —13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCjmNrwmiqK
and remembered always.
She moved forward.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdoaqAlvTrW
Or sideways.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ674OUutCI3
Or somewhere I couldn’t reach anymore.
And I remained.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFbLXkvVmEp
Not because I couldn’t move.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqNr2YPjnqE
But because some part of me still believed—
If one day, she ever looked back…13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHp0vSZ5zPu
I’d still be there.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIKKLbjL3Go
Beside the same tree.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEqKmEbYEUQ
By the same bus.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡODPvtoSru1
Carrying the same love.
Quiet. Constant.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPcPiqeYAf2
Unseen.
