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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and then Add to home screen.