It all happened in a blur.52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt4pfxNakCj
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.52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTJpQQCFUfd
A few messages. A few replies. A few misunderstandings.52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZXoxg4eftj
So little, yet somehow, I made them… heavy.52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWTWGBG5Zog
Weighted them down with emotion I never learned how to express.
That day, we met — face to face.52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnpxJC8egeC
For once, no phones, no typing bubbles, no delays.52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ69xGNDwzpn
Just her. And me.
We argued, gently.52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrPE3XPTFc3
More like scraping wounds that hadn’t healed.52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk6145YLg4Q
I brushed it off — said the words that hurt her weren’t even mine.52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJxEWFpBu5p
"That was just something ChatGPT wrote," I mumbled, eyes looking anywhere but her.52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ97oUa4lWvF
It was easier to lie, easier to detach.52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1PeAkRZkSo
Because admitting I meant every word would mean risking everything.52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuBQoTzNOXh
And I wasn’t ready to lose her.52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvOxhXFfg1u
Not yet.52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiaHBxtH0H6
Not ever.
"I just don’t want to say something you never wanted to hear," I said,52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5HWRiEdVV0
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 —52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡefySSHTj3L
She was staying at college late and needed help carrying her luggage to the bus.52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdq4jXRL57O
I agreed.
And then, out of instinct or maybe longing,52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtFLHS386xC
I turned to Seren.
“Come with me?”
She said yes.
We walked together.52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPZV4fZfi45
Not like we used to.52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoJnGrGBnOg
The air was different.52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHrQL1GZWbP
But still, she came.
We met the senior, carried the bags.52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn5JHsgeXKL
The sun was low. The clouds darker.
As we neared my bus — Bus 495 now, no longer 222 —52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡStiST7FCe0
It began to drizzle.
And without thinking,52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg0RzToR5gf
I handed her a small bag and told her to hold it over her head.52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIFqw6KhZdX
A stupid gesture, clumsy and warm.52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSVxE18xZvF
Something straight out of the kind of slice-of-life drama.52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk9GPZlDdQf
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.52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp9WSoJ7VF5
It was pouring.
Her bus wasn’t beside mine anymore.52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjvkZGhSwnU
It stood at the center of the soaked ground, distant.52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGTlHEgOoST
Like her.
We waited under the bus shelter.52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb3zNaFtIEm
Time slowed.
We talked.
Not about the fight. Not about the awkwardness.52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1r2GISfq1B
Just talked.52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeSqZI0jpY5
About things that didn’t hurt.52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDKWYsQ1CRJ
Like we used to.52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxfSElvBLDw
And it felt like maybe — just maybe — the storm could pass.
But the rain didn’t stop.
We looked for an umbrella.52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTExEWBOB0p
Hoped someone would have one.
Then, through the curtains of rain,52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡapgMKHsqEi
I saw Krish walking to his bus, holding an umbrella like a shield against the world.
Without thinking, I leapt.
Out into the storm.52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDMjcqpBntG
Through the cold.52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq3yhDQTp66
Feet sinking into mud.52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ0B48wEZvk
Each step heavy — but not with water.
I ran after him, waited till he was close to his bus,52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXsBoLLHOZ8
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.52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVtEAXrhuZh
We shared the cover.
And as we are walking towards her bus.52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBzW4V6wW0D
Our shoulders touched.
For a moment —52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPW2ImI7ljv
A second that felt like eternity —52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFL22BVYwFp
Everything froze.
And I knew.
I wasn’t meant to be the one holding the umbrella.52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRDshudHon5
I wasn’t meant to be the one by her side.
This was a borrowed moment.52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvvLNeeeybS
A borrowed feeling.
And so, I stepped out.
Let the rain welcome me back.52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2chAmhHhAz
Let it hide the tears that I couldn't let her see.
We walked to her bus together.52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXNaIuglbXT
Her — warm, untouched by the storm.52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNLZjBF6GsE
Me — soaked, alone beneath the sky.
When we reached, she turned and smiled.
I just smiled.52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBbWflGNiwH
No words.52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3OHpCQc9YJ
Just the weight of goodbye unspoken.
And then she stepped onto her bus.52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7Sc56qkvXp
And I turned away.52Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy1ieIIRE3x
And the rain kept falling.
But it wasn’t just rain anymore.
It was the sky grieving with me.
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