It all happened in a blur.122Please respect copyright.PENANAW8Z6psWept
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.122Please respect copyright.PENANA491ZOiGp89
A few messages. A few replies. A few misunderstandings.122Please respect copyright.PENANAL10NF8OHKm
So little, yet somehow, I made them… heavy.122Please respect copyright.PENANAyFKi3l1O0W
Weighted them down with emotion I never learned how to express.
That day, we met — face to face.122Please respect copyright.PENANA6Phryv1Z1t
For once, no phones, no typing bubbles, no delays.122Please respect copyright.PENANA8UTdjm6dge
Just her. And me.
We argued, gently.122Please respect copyright.PENANAe9PLMTEHQo
More like scraping wounds that hadn’t healed.122Please respect copyright.PENANAdlXZTtI4wA
I brushed it off — said the words that hurt her weren’t even mine.122Please respect copyright.PENANAe7KDWYXl6a
"That was just something ChatGPT wrote," I mumbled, eyes looking anywhere but her.122Please respect copyright.PENANAPEFH7DWZHe
It was easier to lie, easier to detach.122Please respect copyright.PENANAg6D9JY3MFG
Because admitting I meant every word would mean risking everything.122Please respect copyright.PENANA32hvn3mdQF
And I wasn’t ready to lose her.122Please respect copyright.PENANAEiwiTaYY68
Not yet.122Please respect copyright.PENANAx406dXxmGZ
Not ever.
"I just don’t want to say something you never wanted to hear," I said,122Please respect copyright.PENANAbaOU8fxxUW
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 —122Please respect copyright.PENANAfV6sHyFRC3
She was staying at college late and needed help carrying her luggage to the bus.122Please respect copyright.PENANASRm59rGg2v
I agreed.
And then, out of instinct or maybe longing,122Please respect copyright.PENANABQ6iSLShA8
I turned to Seren.
“Come with me?”
She said yes.
We walked together.122Please respect copyright.PENANAj6YaSAD6qp
Not like we used to.122Please respect copyright.PENANALdyk9WeuLG
The air was different.122Please respect copyright.PENANATUHoca3vbP
But still, she came.
We met the senior, carried the bags.122Please respect copyright.PENANA4zLebHVBo5
The sun was low. The clouds darker.
As we neared my bus — Bus 495 now, no longer 222 —122Please respect copyright.PENANAlDtS7YVmtL
It began to drizzle.
And without thinking,122Please respect copyright.PENANA0lFzHiGwVX
I handed her a small bag and told her to hold it over her head.122Please respect copyright.PENANAlSM9wUWw9U
A stupid gesture, clumsy and warm.122Please respect copyright.PENANAmbGuwwn5Bk
Something straight out of the kind of slice-of-life drama.122Please respect copyright.PENANAh4lES1IeI9
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.122Please respect copyright.PENANAjwAdsTFro2
It was pouring.
Her bus wasn’t beside mine anymore.122Please respect copyright.PENANAlysS1iDU9P
It stood at the center of the soaked ground, distant.122Please respect copyright.PENANAFPsjJ2glfC
Like her.
We waited under the bus shelter.122Please respect copyright.PENANA4F6qgxsySk
Time slowed.
We talked.
Not about the fight. Not about the awkwardness.122Please respect copyright.PENANAVuB4pv2nVf
Just talked.122Please respect copyright.PENANAnK382oGbHM
About things that didn’t hurt.122Please respect copyright.PENANAdeyEagN3N5
Like we used to.122Please respect copyright.PENANAGGdlwtD2tm
And it felt like maybe — just maybe — the storm could pass.
But the rain didn’t stop.
We looked for an umbrella.122Please respect copyright.PENANAEuhxbVDOaJ
Hoped someone would have one.
Then, through the curtains of rain,122Please respect copyright.PENANAPaadXiHu8a
I saw Krish walking to his bus, holding an umbrella like a shield against the world.
Without thinking, I leapt.
Out into the storm.122Please respect copyright.PENANAEJw11RBXyS
Through the cold.122Please respect copyright.PENANAZtYNAvChTU
Feet sinking into mud.122Please respect copyright.PENANAx0cvBsHGhO
Each step heavy — but not with water.
I ran after him, waited till he was close to his bus,122Please respect copyright.PENANAdeQmJ63B7p
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.122Please respect copyright.PENANAobWJFPPFp2
We shared the cover.
And as we are walking towards her bus.122Please respect copyright.PENANA7xyghOc33G
Our shoulders touched.
For a moment —122Please respect copyright.PENANAxCDjYYhM11
A second that felt like eternity —122Please respect copyright.PENANAXfbgkB4224
Everything froze.
And I knew.
I wasn’t meant to be the one holding the umbrella.122Please respect copyright.PENANAAe9bk6sQV6
I wasn’t meant to be the one by her side.
This was a borrowed moment.122Please respect copyright.PENANAsvInFsql8B
A borrowed feeling.
And so, I stepped out.
Let the rain welcome me back.122Please respect copyright.PENANAoDPIaaxh8d
Let it hide the tears that I couldn't let her see.
We walked to her bus together.122Please respect copyright.PENANAAhc52Ep33r
Her — warm, untouched by the storm.122Please respect copyright.PENANAD5FTLxuKIr
Me — soaked, alone beneath the sky.
When we reached, she turned and smiled.
I just smiled.122Please respect copyright.PENANAjKtxCXXg2Q
No words.122Please respect copyright.PENANATyHac0ZNfJ
Just the weight of goodbye unspoken.
And then she stepped onto her bus.122Please respect copyright.PENANAzK17SnzssS
And I turned away.122Please respect copyright.PENANASh9QjnKDhy
And the rain kept falling.
But it wasn’t just rain anymore.
It was the sky grieving with me.
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