It all happened in a blur.123Please respect copyright.PENANAJ2MJp02ejg
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.123Please respect copyright.PENANAJZw3vAuDqs
A few messages. A few replies. A few misunderstandings.123Please respect copyright.PENANATNofRKbPlx
So little, yet somehow, I made them… heavy.123Please respect copyright.PENANAaAx25K9SHt
Weighted them down with emotion I never learned how to express.
That day, we met — face to face.123Please respect copyright.PENANAGnE9otfRdr
For once, no phones, no typing bubbles, no delays.123Please respect copyright.PENANABdtSP7usuV
Just her. And me.
We argued, gently.123Please respect copyright.PENANAO57xTcJtE9
More like scraping wounds that hadn’t healed.123Please respect copyright.PENANAFh0zUUjms1
I brushed it off — said the words that hurt her weren’t even mine.123Please respect copyright.PENANAer2AUnFivF
"That was just something ChatGPT wrote," I mumbled, eyes looking anywhere but her.123Please respect copyright.PENANAsVGK4e7IOs
It was easier to lie, easier to detach.123Please respect copyright.PENANAys6YPBNn0x
Because admitting I meant every word would mean risking everything.123Please respect copyright.PENANAAhgDK8kN3L
And I wasn’t ready to lose her.123Please respect copyright.PENANAlIU8kqNozY
Not yet.123Please respect copyright.PENANAQu5QG1AKpg
Not ever.
"I just don’t want to say something you never wanted to hear," I said,123Please respect copyright.PENANA5O7GpOC7lZ
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 —123Please respect copyright.PENANADnhrhoHcVM
She was staying at college late and needed help carrying her luggage to the bus.123Please respect copyright.PENANAqtWKrcqcYe
I agreed.
And then, out of instinct or maybe longing,123Please respect copyright.PENANAINSZwM9fnk
I turned to Seren.
“Come with me?”
She said yes.
We walked together.123Please respect copyright.PENANAz9PsIZjCsf
Not like we used to.123Please respect copyright.PENANA0Rmh2qrNIu
The air was different.123Please respect copyright.PENANAL9pkSpmtHf
But still, she came.
We met the senior, carried the bags.123Please respect copyright.PENANAmT8y6cRbpP
The sun was low. The clouds darker.
As we neared my bus — Bus 495 now, no longer 222 —123Please respect copyright.PENANATKLRQZVnd4
It began to drizzle.
And without thinking,123Please respect copyright.PENANAdpEU99CuvZ
I handed her a small bag and told her to hold it over her head.123Please respect copyright.PENANAySEqvDMziO
A stupid gesture, clumsy and warm.123Please respect copyright.PENANASshOF00Xxu
Something straight out of the kind of slice-of-life drama.123Please respect copyright.PENANAH2fVhrHiQG
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.123Please respect copyright.PENANADzbOUMuJqA
It was pouring.
Her bus wasn’t beside mine anymore.123Please respect copyright.PENANAyYhuFrzJbP
It stood at the center of the soaked ground, distant.123Please respect copyright.PENANAD52ZweSCDr
Like her.
We waited under the bus shelter.123Please respect copyright.PENANAvqAhoc9P9C
Time slowed.
We talked.
Not about the fight. Not about the awkwardness.123Please respect copyright.PENANA1Bnonm8gAO
Just talked.123Please respect copyright.PENANAQ487bzVVw5
About things that didn’t hurt.123Please respect copyright.PENANA5ia9HESZai
Like we used to.123Please respect copyright.PENANAWVgiMDA1jM
And it felt like maybe — just maybe — the storm could pass.
But the rain didn’t stop.
We looked for an umbrella.123Please respect copyright.PENANAQIxoUdqBiR
Hoped someone would have one.
Then, through the curtains of rain,123Please respect copyright.PENANAO5TKbr8z2P
I saw Krish walking to his bus, holding an umbrella like a shield against the world.
Without thinking, I leapt.
Out into the storm.123Please respect copyright.PENANATR2kNX7zS6
Through the cold.123Please respect copyright.PENANANFL91yqLsh
Feet sinking into mud.123Please respect copyright.PENANAGZuaZMUzvz
Each step heavy — but not with water.
I ran after him, waited till he was close to his bus,123Please respect copyright.PENANAoyP5bF6boL
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.123Please respect copyright.PENANAXaAmFdF33O
We shared the cover.
And as we are walking towards her bus.123Please respect copyright.PENANAPfFGGSkmzc
Our shoulders touched.
For a moment —123Please respect copyright.PENANANrBWV6WfHv
A second that felt like eternity —123Please respect copyright.PENANAV64pzP7c4h
Everything froze.
And I knew.
I wasn’t meant to be the one holding the umbrella.123Please respect copyright.PENANADJEndSFN7T
I wasn’t meant to be the one by her side.
This was a borrowed moment.123Please respect copyright.PENANAUzmCgdo0gL
A borrowed feeling.
And so, I stepped out.
Let the rain welcome me back.123Please respect copyright.PENANAm4JxJwGvu5
Let it hide the tears that I couldn't let her see.
We walked to her bus together.123Please respect copyright.PENANAfzQfID57Uu
Her — warm, untouched by the storm.123Please respect copyright.PENANAd2C8QePtdk
Me — soaked, alone beneath the sky.
When we reached, she turned and smiled.
I just smiled.123Please respect copyright.PENANAZDp09NsOC4
No words.123Please respect copyright.PENANAcQPXnsJaqh
Just the weight of goodbye unspoken.
And then she stepped onto her bus.123Please respect copyright.PENANAVHNoDc6dGn
And I turned away.123Please respect copyright.PENANAaJs95XPM4B
And the rain kept falling.
But it wasn’t just rain anymore.
It was the sky grieving with me.
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