It all happened in a blur.365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOwWyPUJcyj
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.365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmnU99XonOM
A few messages. A few replies. A few misunderstandings.365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0MWPrZmzKY
So little, yet somehow, I made them… heavy.365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOGY0hm2a3m
Weighted them down with emotion I never learned how to express.
That day, we met — face to face.365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡao1PyAbKTf
For once, no phones, no typing bubbles, no delays.365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzI1CD9ZdCR
Just her. And me.
We argued, gently.365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSZAmKQYned
More like scraping wounds that hadn’t healed.365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡArtMdCeLSB
I brushed it off — said the words that hurt her weren’t even mine.365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTKZm0SOwnL
"That was just something ChatGPT wrote," I mumbled, eyes looking anywhere but her.365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ36H6AzAA1n
It was easier to lie, easier to detach.365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhV5OthRYg8
Because admitting I meant every word would mean risking everything.365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg0rEJXp6bZ
And I wasn’t ready to lose her.365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLZxUJuFiH4
Not yet.365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgWRDNLJTTd
Not ever.
"I just don’t want to say something you never wanted to hear," I said,365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtf0EEqzZYK
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 —365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwWIMhUcYur
She was staying at college late and needed help carrying her luggage to the bus.365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡalxSfN5WEe
I agreed.
And then, out of instinct or maybe longing,365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEGIbqUIVVA
I turned to Seren.
“Come with me?”
She said yes.
We walked together.365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLGVMz483DK
Not like we used to.365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7TT4X1nawA
The air was different.365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsIDqwQ3rt3
But still, she came.
We met the senior, carried the bags.365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxjVTh0AE72
The sun was low. The clouds darker.
As we neared my bus — Bus 495 now, no longer 222 —365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL1cqfLccgO
It began to drizzle.
And without thinking,365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG82cWO4nhu
I handed her a small bag and told her to hold it over her head.365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiZ1ZUX4nsy
A stupid gesture, clumsy and warm.365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNw4MPAGTos
Something straight out of the kind of slice-of-life drama.365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5f5HRGx7bd
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.365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBDv60gUhZd
It was pouring.
Her bus wasn’t beside mine anymore.365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXvAm3iR2iM
It stood at the center of the soaked ground, distant.365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXWrDapdE7f
Like her.
We waited under the bus shelter.365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4Cjh82USJb
Time slowed.
We talked.
Not about the fight. Not about the awkwardness.365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4tRTR6bM6p
Just talked.365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5YA5sIzwaA
About things that didn’t hurt.365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4XMhnsr0W9
Like we used to.365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFTzYoq13CW
And it felt like maybe — just maybe — the storm could pass.
But the rain didn’t stop.
We looked for an umbrella.365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfiAnHzjzMh
Hoped someone would have one.
Then, through the curtains of rain,365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq4pPKQAaA0
I saw Krish walking to his bus, holding an umbrella like a shield against the world.
Without thinking, I leapt.
Out into the storm.365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLoFw7zc8cD
Through the cold.365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvVV41U8kPk
Feet sinking into mud.365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxdmTd620hN
Each step heavy — but not with water.
I ran after him, waited till he was close to his bus,365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkoXnS9SfNq
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.365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjX48axnZcV
We shared the cover.
And as we are walking towards her bus.365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡldA2czuL09
Our shoulders touched.
For a moment —365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlwXwT4W6H0
A second that felt like eternity —365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqTpsMszx1S
Everything froze.
And I knew.
I wasn’t meant to be the one holding the umbrella.365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYXEHwdSuch
I wasn’t meant to be the one by her side.
This was a borrowed moment.365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjqxHzx75la
A borrowed feeling.
And so, I stepped out.
Let the rain welcome me back.365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2z2SxfAJNM
Let it hide the tears that I couldn't let her see.
We walked to her bus together.365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvsV2cBje8V
Her — warm, untouched by the storm.365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOTTgGTbs3h
Me — soaked, alone beneath the sky.
When we reached, she turned and smiled.
I just smiled.365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo7s1KaanSa
No words.365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNIWXZDH7zj
Just the weight of goodbye unspoken.
And then she stepped onto her bus.365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJdYFK68wmj
And I turned away.365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0BT5JxGGhd
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.