It all happened in a blur.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡABqnvOpNqh
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.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS5rOEXLPT4
A few messages. A few replies. A few misunderstandings.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS62T1xRs5h
So little, yet somehow, I made them… heavy.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP02QLGSkW9
Weighted them down with emotion I never learned how to express.
That day, we met — face to face.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXxVOUzQLtm
For once, no phones, no typing bubbles, no delays.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPNA8ee3CQN
Just her. And me.
We argued, gently.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2FTV0LMZZr
More like scraping wounds that hadn’t healed.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ96hYVwMVEf
I brushed it off — said the words that hurt her weren’t even mine.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyDIcsqAbi7
"That was just something ChatGPT wrote," I mumbled, eyes looking anywhere but her.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfwzOvPuBJh
It was easier to lie, easier to detach.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYB7eH9DZZL
Because admitting I meant every word would mean risking everything.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3xAy1l6ek5
And I wasn’t ready to lose her.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtY20k0em1k
Not yet.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzHj1rvhhmk
Not ever.
"I just don’t want to say something you never wanted to hear," I said,119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ52113mffkR
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 —119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8BVEnK2zu5
She was staying at college late and needed help carrying her luggage to the bus.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHRhxG7zCPg
I agreed.
And then, out of instinct or maybe longing,119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr5dhyueyRF
I turned to Seren.
“Come with me?”
She said yes.
We walked together.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnp6nsTmh7A
Not like we used to.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoT7rwat8Kf
The air was different.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1Y1SSGyAyk
But still, she came.
We met the senior, carried the bags.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnVh9VwMQha
The sun was low. The clouds darker.
As we neared my bus — Bus 495 now, no longer 222 —119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXi17QJeltI
It began to drizzle.
And without thinking,119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcciZHGhNL4
I handed her a small bag and told her to hold it over her head.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTVytYynNP9
A stupid gesture, clumsy and warm.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGSFJsQGfBQ
Something straight out of the kind of slice-of-life drama.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTs1uo6UoBX
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.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4P9cYZaQrb
It was pouring.
Her bus wasn’t beside mine anymore.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSZ3JSKWZQi
It stood at the center of the soaked ground, distant.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnIqhw4JxOy
Like her.
We waited under the bus shelter.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡszOiHZ4C5p
Time slowed.
We talked.
Not about the fight. Not about the awkwardness.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu7Oujd3Lnd
Just talked.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzJZHKHkDzd
About things that didn’t hurt.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiT6MUUkliA
Like we used to.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLa9hH4HrY1
And it felt like maybe — just maybe — the storm could pass.
But the rain didn’t stop.
We looked for an umbrella.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNAb4rNNOEQ
Hoped someone would have one.
Then, through the curtains of rain,119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8m57SRgRUj
I saw Krish walking to his bus, holding an umbrella like a shield against the world.
Without thinking, I leapt.
Out into the storm.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1bF1gPddO8
Through the cold.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKJWkOwhQ6L
Feet sinking into mud.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ17Cl6Zg6W
Each step heavy — but not with water.
I ran after him, waited till he was close to his bus,119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqWapKxB6bN
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.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIUIuGc7KDX
We shared the cover.
And as we are walking towards her bus.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEdpj73tvsm
Our shoulders touched.
For a moment —119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEoJlgnK5zJ
A second that felt like eternity —119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfYnDqDFCFK
Everything froze.
And I knew.
I wasn’t meant to be the one holding the umbrella.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ945fZVSFRf
I wasn’t meant to be the one by her side.
This was a borrowed moment.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9Gabk9k9BZ
A borrowed feeling.
And so, I stepped out.
Let the rain welcome me back.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrYEaenhVcw
Let it hide the tears that I couldn't let her see.
We walked to her bus together.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGgj73KrDdH
Her — warm, untouched by the storm.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh6wxJTIFYg
Me — soaked, alone beneath the sky.
When we reached, she turned and smiled.
I just smiled.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZxil3dxw9S
No words.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXvyvOWZ1dy
Just the weight of goodbye unspoken.
And then she stepped onto her bus.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7nDyEfeBEN
And I turned away.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiC9TPkXAca
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.