They say time moves people.329Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0cVRnL01NI
But sometimes, people just… move.329Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfEEGYpZEt5
And time only watches.
Ours was a story written in reverse.329Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7xDZj5wy29
When the year began, our buses stood side by side.329Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7Hsu5vZxxa
Just like us.329Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQWoMNI4oto
Close — not always talking, but always within reach.329Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9Lr7rwmeVh
We met under that old tree, beside those parked buses,329Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6uataaN9AU
Where the earth still remembered our footsteps,329Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJgQVuuOHBq
And the silence between us felt like the loudest comfort.
That was our place.329Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAzPxBg0Trj
Not too far. Not too close.329Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdZ8q70yOLL
Just enough to look, to smile, to say everything without a word.
And as the semesters rolled in,329Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLPD2tERgyP
So did distance.
Little by little, her bus began to move.329Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSNu9mAuWLv
Not suddenly. Not loudly.329Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ90Valva9N9
Just like her — with quiet decisions, soft steps, no explanations.
At first, I didn’t notice.329Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ96eMvbrMYN
Because I was too busy holding on to what we had.329Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtWKL6xGPhW
But the tree stayed where it was.329Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFrTi5CsdRB
And so did my bus.329Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7MSR8oQ5on
And so did I.
Still waiting. Still hoping.
Her new spot — it wasn’t far in meters,329Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡax92RXdiWn
But felt like miles in meaning.329Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLBrMswl7iQ
Now, her bus stood beside his.329Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8rlopwSh6z
Not mine.
And that small shift changed everything.
They laughed.329Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxo43FFbQIe
They walked.329Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPjBo8BN72h
They spoke in the language I thought we built.329Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUL6j6tYelE
One I no longer understood.
And me?329Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ11xm4nbDgB
I stood beside my bus.329Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNTmSrZhHw1
Just like always.329Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB45iKailFG
Like a shadow hoping the sun might notice it again.
I don’t blame her.329Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQqOGOeoXaY
Maybe her journey needed a new road.329Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjL8bM843RO
Maybe my stillness felt like stagnation to her.329Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn7U42EcLRa
Maybe being beside me wasn’t enough.
But I watched that change —329Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL6Rs7PhqDJ
Every day after college, every silent evening.329Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGfeNYyHMfH
And it hurt.
Because the buses knew.329Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0n5V8HDZl0
They told a story no one else could see.
Ours was a story of two souls who met where the buses once stood together.329Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9F5lbBFCKu
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 —329Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEnz9SZ11Ar
in a single season —329Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDMerh4ZV3d
and remembered always.
She moved forward.329Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK55ilXSLKC
Or sideways.329Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡozuXMNB8qB
Or somewhere I couldn’t reach anymore.
And I remained.329Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8de4hNuZIq
Not because I couldn’t move.329Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZVEqauWg7w
But because some part of me still believed—
If one day, she ever looked back…329Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh7hUmlqNCi
I’d still be there.329Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeTggVis3zD
Beside the same tree.329Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3FfZWJM66P
By the same bus.329Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC2djw6MeU3
Carrying the same love.
Quiet. Constant.329Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkfeNAK4x62
Unseen.
and then Add to home screen.