It all happened in a blur.128Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6iBpCEQxPD
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.128Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHnwL7tDstF
A few messages. A few replies. A few misunderstandings.128Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvGhLp925me
So little, yet somehow, I made them… heavy.128Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZaBH79d5TT
Weighted them down with emotion I never learned how to express.
That day, we met — face to face.128Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaB5sq5Bd9z
For once, no phones, no typing bubbles, no delays.128Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJKeWa8CKfk
Just her. And me.
We argued, gently.128Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMnMMsxJBPb
More like scraping wounds that hadn’t healed.128Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡatBnHIk6fb
I brushed it off — said the words that hurt her weren’t even mine.128Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd415SUTJHn
"That was just something ChatGPT wrote," I mumbled, eyes looking anywhere but her.128Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7rv77U0zQP
It was easier to lie, easier to detach.128Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUfBaaJPd3z
Because admitting I meant every word would mean risking everything.128Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxZ31JhskPU
And I wasn’t ready to lose her.128Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ91HCqI2Wl6
Not yet.128Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgq11ETsqhH
Not ever.
"I just don’t want to say something you never wanted to hear," I said,128Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL9alHmJibW
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 —128Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡob7LpApQdL
She was staying at college late and needed help carrying her luggage to the bus.128Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh0OLZ9bnpb
I agreed.
And then, out of instinct or maybe longing,128Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyctcoikmOw
I turned to Seren.
“Come with me?”
She said yes.
We walked together.128Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYlRUrsFXtx
Not like we used to.128Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU4qyIRIG1I
The air was different.128Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2QowE0APrd
But still, she came.
We met the senior, carried the bags.128Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbOeRjEhNui
The sun was low. The clouds darker.
As we neared my bus — Bus 495 now, no longer 222 —128Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKFj5HOoJSi
It began to drizzle.
And without thinking,128Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBMQDuqI0Sr
I handed her a small bag and told her to hold it over her head.128Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNgyDgiK0pB
A stupid gesture, clumsy and warm.128Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNuUr36DTep
Something straight out of the kind of slice-of-life drama.128Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoTB3ZLmHed
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.128Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsvuvjnSe25
It was pouring.
Her bus wasn’t beside mine anymore.128Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPFdJfVH3YU
It stood at the center of the soaked ground, distant.128Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGsV9GZaLjE
Like her.
We waited under the bus shelter.128Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrRGVdUA8B0
Time slowed.
We talked.
Not about the fight. Not about the awkwardness.128Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg4BxsD3htr
Just talked.128Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlmnxkeJf3R
About things that didn’t hurt.128Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDWYh6va6Fa
Like we used to.128Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQTe9FVCQnR
And it felt like maybe — just maybe — the storm could pass.
But the rain didn’t stop.
We looked for an umbrella.128Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx7RVmY8wyT
Hoped someone would have one.
Then, through the curtains of rain,128Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ99PSVTPrO8
I saw Krish walking to his bus, holding an umbrella like a shield against the world.
Without thinking, I leapt.
Out into the storm.128Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuJy0UAasux
Through the cold.128Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBXwTr2WzoI
Feet sinking into mud.128Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpniT01T6Vj
Each step heavy — but not with water.
I ran after him, waited till he was close to his bus,128Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1QdUoeQqrL
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.128Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYWFY7QUAww
We shared the cover.
And as we are walking towards her bus.128Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGvAEgJ8r6q
Our shoulders touched.
For a moment —128Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKBiOKRUY5r
A second that felt like eternity —128Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpSaEWJ1eFE
Everything froze.
And I knew.
I wasn’t meant to be the one holding the umbrella.128Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2DFBFIAGdn
I wasn’t meant to be the one by her side.
This was a borrowed moment.128Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMKZFxcWUe3
A borrowed feeling.
And so, I stepped out.
Let the rain welcome me back.128Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmR9DcloYmm
Let it hide the tears that I couldn't let her see.
We walked to her bus together.128Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqyoQ7Z46aZ
Her — warm, untouched by the storm.128Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTIOTeRyg4A
Me — soaked, alone beneath the sky.
When we reached, she turned and smiled.
I just smiled.128Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuLX67fn03y
No words.128Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡopKsk7cmps
Just the weight of goodbye unspoken.
And then she stepped onto her bus.128Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF3CcEBH6Gz
And I turned away.128Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnMSr3EYkJ0
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.