They say time moves people.56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ3G53f1MMV
But sometimes, people just… move.56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjtz5cnVyMe
And time only watches.
Ours was a story written in reverse.56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtDsxRuorKz
When the year began, our buses stood side by side.56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIn8o42zADn
Just like us.56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa7TRSpfecc
Close — not always talking, but always within reach.56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo9TqwwUE98
We met under that old tree, beside those parked buses,56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTNTazywjDG
Where the earth still remembered our footsteps,56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6gVrpsG9xL
And the silence between us felt like the loudest comfort.
That was our place.56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj7ekJjub9R
Not too far. Not too close.56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCi4rpzTtYP
Just enough to look, to smile, to say everything without a word.
And as the semesters rolled in,56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOtIe0HmGGn
So did distance.
Little by little, her bus began to move.56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl8zbMDGzPM
Not suddenly. Not loudly.56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡowQugAJLWR
Just like her — with quiet decisions, soft steps, no explanations.
At first, I didn’t notice.56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1pbUIzyPIZ
Because I was too busy holding on to what we had.56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH0sxZ56Nml
But the tree stayed where it was.56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8foFdBsgxT
And so did my bus.56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoMMb32uE6J
And so did I.
Still waiting. Still hoping.
Her new spot — it wasn’t far in meters,56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgPxepRULRK
But felt like miles in meaning.56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY61YDAopsk
Now, her bus stood beside his.56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1LohLu97ve
Not mine.
And that small shift changed everything.
They laughed.56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaZ70SyrE92
They walked.56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiSDhILCjKV
They spoke in the language I thought we built.56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz722BRaJ56
One I no longer understood.
And me?56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡerB1XhRJJc
I stood beside my bus.56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtmdjaVjGoH
Just like always.56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡagZFFJ02n4
Like a shadow hoping the sun might notice it again.
I don’t blame her.56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfOzJav0iWM
Maybe her journey needed a new road.56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWDiYER0Brl
Maybe my stillness felt like stagnation to her.56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNpNTm0SbdD
Maybe being beside me wasn’t enough.
But I watched that change —56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqGWrc7G99W
Every day after college, every silent evening.56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlPFyXtF8Hd
And it hurt.
Because the buses knew.56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlZk81gQlMZ
They told a story no one else could see.
Ours was a story of two souls who met where the buses once stood together.56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8r2FMwnRoh
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 —56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHPjX5mxmQ8
in a single season —56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPeqRKj0rHS
and remembered always.
She moved forward.56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLydg2tkgHy
Or sideways.56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaifN5pvllo
Or somewhere I couldn’t reach anymore.
And I remained.56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYFpI8wMcr0
Not because I couldn’t move.56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAVTyt3bcGR
But because some part of me still believed—
If one day, she ever looked back…56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcts95Go670
I’d still be there.56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOGIfkp4j9z
Beside the same tree.56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgYrx7OhnuL
By the same bus.56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuzUg9hRaWM
Carrying the same love.
Quiet. Constant.56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2BAZNcsBCd
Unseen.
