They say time moves people.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRjhtC3fz68
But sometimes, people just… move.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡasxBAlIMbx
And time only watches.
Ours was a story written in reverse.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRqcoUpTjtx
When the year began, our buses stood side by side.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAew9iLLyUG
Just like us.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0t5VSHdgyr
Close — not always talking, but always within reach.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJInB6yo377
We met under that old tree, beside those parked buses,19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrxKX3Ti1mH
Where the earth still remembered our footsteps,19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKvBeNj5J7E
And the silence between us felt like the loudest comfort.
That was our place.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVvnYMlEYZM
Not too far. Not too close.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIwEVk8epzz
Just enough to look, to smile, to say everything without a word.
And as the semesters rolled in,19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO20kz1UDJg
So did distance.
Little by little, her bus began to move.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWDoLpwv1m2
Not suddenly. Not loudly.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGVvKU9D8J7
Just like her — with quiet decisions, soft steps, no explanations.
At first, I didn’t notice.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsyiNNfKbwI
Because I was too busy holding on to what we had.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCQblkMNEUD
But the tree stayed where it was.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGptlbaRfLZ
And so did my bus.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7ve8ZWJRFP
And so did I.
Still waiting. Still hoping.
Her new spot — it wasn’t far in meters,19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu4KPk8yiqU
But felt like miles in meaning.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxXFa2OFCVx
Now, her bus stood beside his.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtVvNsd7ePS
Not mine.
And that small shift changed everything.
They laughed.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPnBNq87Npt
They walked.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMwBo8C3h6N
They spoke in the language I thought we built.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf5QKTjUdaI
One I no longer understood.
And me?19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoh3RyFsp4P
I stood beside my bus.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfooeeRi8fI
Just like always.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu9prNDPBWd
Like a shadow hoping the sun might notice it again.
I don’t blame her.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJdnqQ68kxy
Maybe her journey needed a new road.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF3a3GrT39Q
Maybe my stillness felt like stagnation to her.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMWuBRXrIky
Maybe being beside me wasn’t enough.
But I watched that change —19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkQVEgcPosR
Every day after college, every silent evening.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI9QceY8dam
And it hurt.
Because the buses knew.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbxJ3zXIFMg
They told a story no one else could see.
Ours was a story of two souls who met where the buses once stood together.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgbyaBJJqsx
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 —19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFhqw7fSxm6
in a single season —19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeReAzo1cGu
and remembered always.
She moved forward.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ49CpsA6gyB
Or sideways.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlUCGVDx2vi
Or somewhere I couldn’t reach anymore.
And I remained.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzVq0TsbZIa
Not because I couldn’t move.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw2lrCzNct7
But because some part of me still believed—
If one day, she ever looked back…19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ5QtFUY7rP
I’d still be there.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuRMUOGNkDX
Beside the same tree.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4IadLcdxVx
By the same bus.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe3HWsZ37mS
Carrying the same love.
Quiet. Constant.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfO6dB5Bhak
Unseen.
