They say time moves people.78Please respect copyright.PENANAdOUWRtJeyW
But sometimes, people just… move.78Please respect copyright.PENANAhtijHG8Vy5
And time only watches.
Ours was a story written in reverse.78Please respect copyright.PENANAPx5lAtbV4T
When the year began, our buses stood side by side.78Please respect copyright.PENANAQqPJvAOOmD
Just like us.78Please respect copyright.PENANA0xHlZcrIMg
Close — not always talking, but always within reach.78Please respect copyright.PENANAX6WLAbhkNb
We met under that old tree, beside those parked buses,78Please respect copyright.PENANApxuo9og5uj
Where the earth still remembered our footsteps,78Please respect copyright.PENANABs3Qdj40GE
And the silence between us felt like the loudest comfort.
That was our place.78Please respect copyright.PENANAh1jqHJTsnC
Not too far. Not too close.78Please respect copyright.PENANA2dhmnZv929
Just enough to look, to smile, to say everything without a word.
And as the semesters rolled in,78Please respect copyright.PENANAZtrWFf3CJ8
So did distance.
Little by little, her bus began to move.78Please respect copyright.PENANAQXvVR75Z8h
Not suddenly. Not loudly.78Please respect copyright.PENANAsYYVS4EjAW
Just like her — with quiet decisions, soft steps, no explanations.
At first, I didn’t notice.78Please respect copyright.PENANA7AAzP2cegZ
Because I was too busy holding on to what we had.78Please respect copyright.PENANAS1vT4hMwRn
But the tree stayed where it was.78Please respect copyright.PENANAfuxpvHEzOI
And so did my bus.78Please respect copyright.PENANAlZtSNgk1Sy
And so did I.
Still waiting. Still hoping.
Her new spot — it wasn’t far in meters,78Please respect copyright.PENANA3RXqGxzuSP
But felt like miles in meaning.78Please respect copyright.PENANAceRfatOQ4x
Now, her bus stood beside his.78Please respect copyright.PENANAqr0rVuk1oy
Not mine.
And that small shift changed everything.
They laughed.78Please respect copyright.PENANAvTaiMQ0zEl
They walked.78Please respect copyright.PENANANes9s7pZFw
They spoke in the language I thought we built.78Please respect copyright.PENANAOG9el0F976
One I no longer understood.
And me?78Please respect copyright.PENANAcuz2yc9N8T
I stood beside my bus.78Please respect copyright.PENANAZToTznBgsC
Just like always.78Please respect copyright.PENANAfWcI4VHk3U
Like a shadow hoping the sun might notice it again.
I don’t blame her.78Please respect copyright.PENANAsPZOeNoPol
Maybe her journey needed a new road.78Please respect copyright.PENANAmwP4cYjmQH
Maybe my stillness felt like stagnation to her.78Please respect copyright.PENANAGiQE8jSynW
Maybe being beside me wasn’t enough.
But I watched that change —78Please respect copyright.PENANAvpl7VoOpiI
Every day after college, every silent evening.78Please respect copyright.PENANAmgukMHKHuG
And it hurt.
Because the buses knew.78Please respect copyright.PENANAI2IqnvVZjL
They told a story no one else could see.
Ours was a story of two souls who met where the buses once stood together.78Please respect copyright.PENANAyStLQ0hhGG
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 —78Please respect copyright.PENANAhrAXU3t0Ud
in a single season —78Please respect copyright.PENANA7n9RdW18nq
and remembered always.
She moved forward.78Please respect copyright.PENANAqI9itbKtBH
Or sideways.78Please respect copyright.PENANA9KofGr4YfL
Or somewhere I couldn’t reach anymore.
And I remained.78Please respect copyright.PENANAZT4W2TEWly
Not because I couldn’t move.78Please respect copyright.PENANALKwXOUEQTF
But because some part of me still believed—
If one day, she ever looked back…78Please respect copyright.PENANARnXtXbOWhm
I’d still be there.78Please respect copyright.PENANAcK5M6olleR
Beside the same tree.78Please respect copyright.PENANAi4NnH1gqXD
By the same bus.78Please respect copyright.PENANAlaZV0RBgIs
Carrying the same love.
Quiet. Constant.78Please respect copyright.PENANAazRSPP0u95
Unseen.