They say time moves people.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7k2bUp2tHH
But sometimes, people just… move.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB9y8HTmPty
And time only watches.
Ours was a story written in reverse.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnQO02kP8Ol
When the year began, our buses stood side by side.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡID4ArOgrfM
Just like us.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGKjssVBr4E
Close — not always talking, but always within reach.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡan4H0tc8pO
We met under that old tree, beside those parked buses,86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiTNbpCmaiR
Where the earth still remembered our footsteps,86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmnZRT63eVX
And the silence between us felt like the loudest comfort.
That was our place.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsFHBkUenVD
Not too far. Not too close.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpX2hiGjIIz
Just enough to look, to smile, to say everything without a word.
And as the semesters rolled in,86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcPLpew49j5
So did distance.
Little by little, her bus began to move.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgKxaHVy69T
Not suddenly. Not loudly.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWixz9DoPva
Just like her — with quiet decisions, soft steps, no explanations.
At first, I didn’t notice.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUUnnJ94cYd
Because I was too busy holding on to what we had.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtulmRrkHW4
But the tree stayed where it was.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡniOXzRPrzC
And so did my bus.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKCh6WPZIlH
And so did I.
Still waiting. Still hoping.
Her new spot — it wasn’t far in meters,86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8gMwTft8GB
But felt like miles in meaning.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP3b0JeAh96
Now, her bus stood beside his.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnLoBiU1vIZ
Not mine.
And that small shift changed everything.
They laughed.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3LCRshxCt3
They walked.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdy3QTAc8Ho
They spoke in the language I thought we built.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6LKX3p5OiU
One I no longer understood.
And me?86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlvqjyuCt0B
I stood beside my bus.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡixu5FRBOTp
Just like always.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYxrUgtpnRK
Like a shadow hoping the sun might notice it again.
I don’t blame her.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡym0duIyHvt
Maybe her journey needed a new road.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNY2zE0z20K
Maybe my stillness felt like stagnation to her.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZcLULxsaRH
Maybe being beside me wasn’t enough.
But I watched that change —86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXQImxj1XVr
Every day after college, every silent evening.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDWwisVoIcH
And it hurt.
Because the buses knew.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKcpQhKn7y7
They told a story no one else could see.
Ours was a story of two souls who met where the buses once stood together.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ64wd2uYsiS
A bond that bloomed between the roots of familiarity and the branches of hope.
But not all flowers bloom forever.
Sometimes, they’re just meant to be admired once —86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYvAZwDtv2X
in a single season —86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ26m3AjFY82
and remembered always.
She moved forward.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq7O1XOovE7
Or sideways.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGdQ6yTZbCu
Or somewhere I couldn’t reach anymore.
And I remained.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPV9D8itZww
Not because I couldn’t move.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkJ3JNd3WUv
But because some part of me still believed—
If one day, she ever looked back…86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg4n4Roq1jh
I’d still be there.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVKLonmP0LL
Beside the same tree.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvQVZcBKf55
By the same bus.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5d4vGrConW
Carrying the same love.
Quiet. Constant.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeJ4iYCPPZs
Unseen.
and then Add to home screen.