It all happened in a blur.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDYZe4Y3hVg
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.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡilGxTtm59C
A few messages. A few replies. A few misunderstandings.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLskTwT2Ej5
So little, yet somehow, I made them… heavy.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJcVYRmoCVP
Weighted them down with emotion I never learned how to express.
That day, we met — face to face.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf71UGOmkEl
For once, no phones, no typing bubbles, no delays.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1Gcpiod1Vg
Just her. And me.
We argued, gently.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ77pSmNX3bk
More like scraping wounds that hadn’t healed.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzyAWah2iyF
I brushed it off — said the words that hurt her weren’t even mine.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD9A0Zv3K98
"That was just something ChatGPT wrote," I mumbled, eyes looking anywhere but her.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡft1uckXmie
It was easier to lie, easier to detach.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF0x9ezJj3x
Because admitting I meant every word would mean risking everything.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡifDX6E6IJR
And I wasn’t ready to lose her.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU3iLaZdv8t
Not yet.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzwi7Jor3Cp
Not ever.
"I just don’t want to say something you never wanted to hear," I said,76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCV0wsvpUjm
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 —76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtPvPSLOUTc
She was staying at college late and needed help carrying her luggage to the bus.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfmd95AEzWz
I agreed.
And then, out of instinct or maybe longing,76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbtlpF4XFl1
I turned to Seren.
“Come with me?”
She said yes.
We walked together.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKQzTnKWxi0
Not like we used to.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUnIh1om0mW
The air was different.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9e2SVxxmr7
But still, she came.
We met the senior, carried the bags.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡurupXuLVON
The sun was low. The clouds darker.
As we neared my bus — Bus 495 now, no longer 222 —76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSuwqqoX2n4
It began to drizzle.
And without thinking,76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡapR17FrVtZ
I handed her a small bag and told her to hold it over her head.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm1QzMxzCYt
A stupid gesture, clumsy and warm.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRq0JHqS6LV
Something straight out of the kind of slice-of-life drama.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNvpP4y5aEk
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.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmkgd0Rswit
It was pouring.
Her bus wasn’t beside mine anymore.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0UllhCwKBt
It stood at the center of the soaked ground, distant.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkw7h6Wkg19
Like her.
We waited under the bus shelter.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjg6elHMvHz
Time slowed.
We talked.
Not about the fight. Not about the awkwardness.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8SNpd9ogMN
Just talked.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAujwpPpGhm
About things that didn’t hurt.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFEKWL0xTuK
Like we used to.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT7lBxlSjR3
And it felt like maybe — just maybe — the storm could pass.
But the rain didn’t stop.
We looked for an umbrella.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6jxa6KNIUb
Hoped someone would have one.
Then, through the curtains of rain,76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM9Z0FuFCft
I saw Krish walking to his bus, holding an umbrella like a shield against the world.
Without thinking, I leapt.
Out into the storm.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuyKQw9doE0
Through the cold.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0NSsyU2H5x
Feet sinking into mud.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY7jdFIkRWd
Each step heavy — but not with water.
I ran after him, waited till he was close to his bus,76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWrkJPNQBWD
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.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEnPxps0ASX
We shared the cover.
And as we are walking towards her bus.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR9x96OZl6e
Our shoulders touched.
For a moment —76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvgx3HLhRVS
A second that felt like eternity —76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCZeCQ8LrwU
Everything froze.
And I knew.
I wasn’t meant to be the one holding the umbrella.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMQNUL51Anp
I wasn’t meant to be the one by her side.
This was a borrowed moment.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh85WzK0bYO
A borrowed feeling.
And so, I stepped out.
Let the rain welcome me back.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq62KwD3Ytb
Let it hide the tears that I couldn't let her see.
We walked to her bus together.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoFOB4yHGc6
Her — warm, untouched by the storm.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWCbuqsQlLV
Me — soaked, alone beneath the sky.
When we reached, she turned and smiled.
I just smiled.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKVKVakWife
No words.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7XgGscxKFR
Just the weight of goodbye unspoken.
And then she stepped onto her bus.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD014SYnEFg
And I turned away.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPJu5y9PERD
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.