It all happened in a blur.427Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRIEJiuvSoC
A single evening, stitched together with words I didn’t mean, silences I couldn’t break, and a downpour I’ll never forget.
It started with something small.427Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjykZ06JiSM
A few messages. A few replies. A few misunderstandings.427Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTAat7ZlcgF
So little, yet somehow, I made them… heavy.427Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6Lp5oFETG4
Weighted them down with emotion I never learned how to express.
That day, we met — face to face.427Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1KJpGeiNiv
For once, no phones, no typing bubbles, no delays.427Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfQQ5nqHj42
Just her. And me.
We argued, gently.427Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9xKxzEmX8T
More like scraping wounds that hadn’t healed.427Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs8767lCOTZ
I brushed it off — said the words that hurt her weren’t even mine.427Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMb8ytTdMtl
"That was just something ChatGPT wrote," I mumbled, eyes looking anywhere but her.427Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqErgeYPekt
It was easier to lie, easier to detach.427Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDelp5kaiQx
Because admitting I meant every word would mean risking everything.427Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD4qOpZQxNW
And I wasn’t ready to lose her.427Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEg1gkSihQ2
Not yet.427Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTWEEi4bYVk
Not ever.
"I just don’t want to say something you never wanted to hear," I said,427Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ679GZv2Fq9
But the truth was, I never even got to say what I really felt.
Then came something… unexpected.
A senior from my bus asked for a favor —427Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWZEyhrTdip
She was staying at college late and needed help carrying her luggage to the bus.427Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy5OCw5DYQU
I agreed.
And then, out of instinct or maybe longing,427Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGX1uySRt2w
I turned to Seren.
“Come with me?”
She said yes.
We walked together.427Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHPdhcU7GsJ
Not like we used to.427Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0TbxprQLVl
The air was different.427Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5Lrt63a1Kz
But still, she came.
We met the senior, carried the bags.427Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpK7jxwQLO4
The sun was low. The clouds darker.
As we neared my bus — Bus 495 now, no longer 222 —427Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpqxyVcJ2qx
It began to drizzle.
And without thinking,427Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBH3T2OnSeY
I handed her a small bag and told her to hold it over her head.427Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEm38yssxrn
A stupid gesture, clumsy and warm.427Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjRCtK35GvS
Something straight out of the kind of slice-of-life drama.427Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaZgbLznAxT
And suddenly — I realized what I had done.
I was acting like I still had a place beside her.
I turned and ran to the bus, flushed with shame.
She followed. Quiet laughter in her steps.
By the time we reached the bus, the rain wasn’t gentle anymore.427Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSxdiEMubMz
It was pouring.
Her bus wasn’t beside mine anymore.427Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLopIwnJVWS
It stood at the center of the soaked ground, distant.427Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMQ88x9X7Dj
Like her.
We waited under the bus shelter.427Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7psWscP3CZ
Time slowed.
We talked.
Not about the fight. Not about the awkwardness.427Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2angIrEgNX
Just talked.427Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡycMiqwUM3M
About things that didn’t hurt.427Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIMrTJ35fNN
Like we used to.427Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoNtx8KYVKr
And it felt like maybe — just maybe — the storm could pass.
But the rain didn’t stop.
We looked for an umbrella.427Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaMxOGINh8T
Hoped someone would have one.
Then, through the curtains of rain,427Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQFBj5y8WEw
I saw Krish walking to his bus, holding an umbrella like a shield against the world.
Without thinking, I leapt.
Out into the storm.427Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBSdnCPdaeM
Through the cold.427Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7woh3OVaut
Feet sinking into mud.427Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjbNvc8qQuW
Each step heavy — but not with water.
I ran after him, waited till he was close to his bus,427Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4l1hvjpTsj
Asked — no, pleaded — and grabbed the umbrella.
Then I ran back.
Drenched. Shivering. But somehow… relieved.
I handed her the umbrella.
She stepped forward, close.427Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9BgZFmz7nw
We shared the cover.
And as we are walking towards her bus.427Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpzqG8rfOGk
Our shoulders touched.
For a moment —427Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5FZTCZDrrE
A second that felt like eternity —427Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDvCaZhlnv0
Everything froze.
And I knew.
I wasn’t meant to be the one holding the umbrella.427Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNJkW2DBVUf
I wasn’t meant to be the one by her side.
This was a borrowed moment.427Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq0DIDEQp1e
A borrowed feeling.
And so, I stepped out.
Let the rain welcome me back.427Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjwMTh9kJPR
Let it hide the tears that I couldn't let her see.
We walked to her bus together.427Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXsJYLot4zL
Her — warm, untouched by the storm.427Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy0q2T3BRzQ
Me — soaked, alone beneath the sky.
When we reached, she turned and smiled.
I just smiled.427Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1tjt8347rR
No words.427Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6vSjHYhUBt
Just the weight of goodbye unspoken.
And then she stepped onto her bus.427Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNItqDgjHNq
And I turned away.427Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZt6X49GE8u
And the rain kept falling.
But it wasn’t just rain anymore.
It was the sky grieving with me.
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and then Add to home screen.