It all happened in a blur.55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIoATlhEIPx
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.55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVwwhY009Nk
A few messages. A few replies. A few misunderstandings.55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsz3xSDqACm
So little, yet somehow, I made them… heavy.55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNT0gb31zaZ
Weighted them down with emotion I never learned how to express.
That day, we met — face to face.55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV9DHJdi4Za
For once, no phones, no typing bubbles, no delays.55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOQVCTjpyX4
Just her. And me.
We argued, gently.55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOdiPI8VWBv
More like scraping wounds that hadn’t healed.55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvKtsOVGlvh
I brushed it off — said the words that hurt her weren’t even mine.55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ07uqBuHxu2
"That was just something ChatGPT wrote," I mumbled, eyes looking anywhere but her.55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyNmocdLrEj
It was easier to lie, easier to detach.55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMGbD7jeKfc
Because admitting I meant every word would mean risking everything.55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuG30Tu6p1J
And I wasn’t ready to lose her.55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtGT26cM2tU
Not yet.55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeJZkEqCPnG
Not ever.
"I just don’t want to say something you never wanted to hear," I said,55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUKoujuW1iH
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 —55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzU7uJDAnPz
She was staying at college late and needed help carrying her luggage to the bus.55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOIiFWRi1aA
I agreed.
And then, out of instinct or maybe longing,55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuFjXxb8muQ
I turned to Seren.
“Come with me?”
She said yes.
We walked together.55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNW0tuHOh1H
Not like we used to.55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBGCcZnkfLN
The air was different.55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7PcLDdJrex
But still, she came.
We met the senior, carried the bags.55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfSvFuoGflS
The sun was low. The clouds darker.
As we neared my bus — Bus 495 now, no longer 222 —55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7Pncn7g0Xz
It began to drizzle.
And without thinking,55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3do0DJn0O0
I handed her a small bag and told her to hold it over her head.55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoRj1kQu0DS
A stupid gesture, clumsy and warm.55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJpsdbImw4G
Something straight out of the kind of slice-of-life drama.55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjfFP8xkheo
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.55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ18IYD434Us
It was pouring.
Her bus wasn’t beside mine anymore.55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5xOAEVtvm2
It stood at the center of the soaked ground, distant.55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7i0Ylg9xwF
Like her.
We waited under the bus shelter.55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiRDaGgUdC6
Time slowed.
We talked.
Not about the fight. Not about the awkwardness.55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpoDRW6THTG
Just talked.55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU67e5c5ieJ
About things that didn’t hurt.55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4XQ17T21ND
Like we used to.55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiuHaJ8wyxZ
And it felt like maybe — just maybe — the storm could pass.
But the rain didn’t stop.
We looked for an umbrella.55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzxSNZ34jBX
Hoped someone would have one.
Then, through the curtains of rain,55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0P22tYxUvQ
I saw Krish walking to his bus, holding an umbrella like a shield against the world.
Without thinking, I leapt.
Out into the storm.55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡumM4uqZ47E
Through the cold.55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtWYS6x2b9f
Feet sinking into mud.55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdfPXGA66Cz
Each step heavy — but not with water.
I ran after him, waited till he was close to his bus,55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAWcSVHGP9J
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.55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRId9wo6vt4
We shared the cover.
And as we are walking towards her bus.55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWGxbDCKdLw
Our shoulders touched.
For a moment —55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡstexnNkcZh
A second that felt like eternity —55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhoS2R9URtp
Everything froze.
And I knew.
I wasn’t meant to be the one holding the umbrella.55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXrlPJpnaqe
I wasn’t meant to be the one by her side.
This was a borrowed moment.55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡttZ9xlGRSo
A borrowed feeling.
And so, I stepped out.
Let the rain welcome me back.55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5PFbLJvSOS
Let it hide the tears that I couldn't let her see.
We walked to her bus together.55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwBWRzSaf14
Her — warm, untouched by the storm.55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIkEveQkocd
Me — soaked, alone beneath the sky.
When we reached, she turned and smiled.
I just smiled.55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDh2a2iHofo
No words.55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR8laewkBz1
Just the weight of goodbye unspoken.
And then she stepped onto her bus.55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡchUDeLiEAj
And I turned away.55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAEN70EY0bO
And the rain kept falling.
But it wasn’t just rain anymore.
It was the sky grieving with me.
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