It all happened in a blur.53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvA5lSoMy9i
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.53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEOtEDVpmiN
A few messages. A few replies. A few misunderstandings.53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW1B9nRpB4W
So little, yet somehow, I made them… heavy.53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ9bTuggUHU
Weighted them down with emotion I never learned how to express.
That day, we met — face to face.53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF0ZCRCgFMs
For once, no phones, no typing bubbles, no delays.53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsKCDs9haWU
Just her. And me.
We argued, gently.53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJmwzqfoRWF
More like scraping wounds that hadn’t healed.53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzA0wvvr7GM
I brushed it off — said the words that hurt her weren’t even mine.53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzJhx3t42tF
"That was just something ChatGPT wrote," I mumbled, eyes looking anywhere but her.53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtZ9DkGrbcX
It was easier to lie, easier to detach.53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLy0wi6Xpkq
Because admitting I meant every word would mean risking everything.53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxnwapNboGQ
And I wasn’t ready to lose her.53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcRuSqdnHWJ
Not yet.53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoQfjAYvMRs
Not ever.
"I just don’t want to say something you never wanted to hear," I said,53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuK2KpyitXR
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 —53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4baz2MXCyi
She was staying at college late and needed help carrying her luggage to the bus.53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEBfBBk7waD
I agreed.
And then, out of instinct or maybe longing,53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡATMAi50jIP
I turned to Seren.
“Come with me?”
She said yes.
We walked together.53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsFTDJJwypX
Not like we used to.53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgHF1LEOBL8
The air was different.53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWEQisqfXqk
But still, she came.
We met the senior, carried the bags.53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGSx1J4JOo9
The sun was low. The clouds darker.
As we neared my bus — Bus 495 now, no longer 222 —53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu4Rrg4eCjA
It began to drizzle.
And without thinking,53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp67J4TePi0
I handed her a small bag and told her to hold it over her head.53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNOoFam0f8U
A stupid gesture, clumsy and warm.53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXkQioNDqkL
Something straight out of the kind of slice-of-life drama.53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkZku2rEj0o
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.53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhslwscjLH6
It was pouring.
Her bus wasn’t beside mine anymore.53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVtGgujBly0
It stood at the center of the soaked ground, distant.53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs7olIjCbsu
Like her.
We waited under the bus shelter.53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0UqSSBv2hg
Time slowed.
We talked.
Not about the fight. Not about the awkwardness.53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7jlkt54Odd
Just talked.53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEa8u3ZsBQQ
About things that didn’t hurt.53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡERrdq8IgKp
Like we used to.53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCzPpZCxY83
And it felt like maybe — just maybe — the storm could pass.
But the rain didn’t stop.
We looked for an umbrella.53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0W8ITDdT2g
Hoped someone would have one.
Then, through the curtains of rain,53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxBuuuUrHxF
I saw Krish walking to his bus, holding an umbrella like a shield against the world.
Without thinking, I leapt.
Out into the storm.53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOk38ectAaG
Through the cold.53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpgXogsKOAe
Feet sinking into mud.53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7UFwhkylgb
Each step heavy — but not with water.
I ran after him, waited till he was close to his bus,53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfxM0wohvQW
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.53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHMhW3TbW0E
We shared the cover.
And as we are walking towards her bus.53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7LzeSRpIH6
Our shoulders touched.
For a moment —53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKZri49LAmJ
A second that felt like eternity —53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg6EReB6T3X
Everything froze.
And I knew.
I wasn’t meant to be the one holding the umbrella.53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHkakqLQuDi
I wasn’t meant to be the one by her side.
This was a borrowed moment.53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh70dCgIBAw
A borrowed feeling.
And so, I stepped out.
Let the rain welcome me back.53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcnAm0q1d8d
Let it hide the tears that I couldn't let her see.
We walked to her bus together.53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtwbCGlvu7t
Her — warm, untouched by the storm.53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeAw6dloAin
Me — soaked, alone beneath the sky.
When we reached, she turned and smiled.
I just smiled.53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPiKjboOTlj
No words.53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSEGNLqo6t1
Just the weight of goodbye unspoken.
And then she stepped onto her bus.53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ79Abcs8TdJ
And I turned away.53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5f0HozJt8h
And the rain kept falling.
But it wasn’t just rain anymore.
It was the sky grieving with me.
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