They say time moves people.13Please respect copyright.PENANAoqcsGzsm57
But sometimes, people just… move.13Please respect copyright.PENANAhAVVMhzrth
And time only watches.
Ours was a story written in reverse.13Please respect copyright.PENANApJxAiFeN7w
When the year began, our buses stood side by side.13Please respect copyright.PENANAirdwXIgtsz
Just like us.13Please respect copyright.PENANAIrI4Sf5Ou8
Close — not always talking, but always within reach.13Please respect copyright.PENANAusFhik7tNS
We met under that old tree, beside those parked buses,13Please respect copyright.PENANAwVr6jNKu23
Where the earth still remembered our footsteps,13Please respect copyright.PENANARBuNDafS4Q
And the silence between us felt like the loudest comfort.
That was our place.13Please respect copyright.PENANABgS6xE1QMM
Not too far. Not too close.13Please respect copyright.PENANAcWRM8i8b4d
Just enough to look, to smile, to say everything without a word.
And as the semesters rolled in,13Please respect copyright.PENANAhAtiuCTTVu
So did distance.
Little by little, her bus began to move.13Please respect copyright.PENANAEXjTFXz8qz
Not suddenly. Not loudly.13Please respect copyright.PENANAryoesztsYN
Just like her — with quiet decisions, soft steps, no explanations.
At first, I didn’t notice.13Please respect copyright.PENANAJotldLpxWq
Because I was too busy holding on to what we had.13Please respect copyright.PENANAWV6fFVLiA9
But the tree stayed where it was.13Please respect copyright.PENANAkWhZMagUjM
And so did my bus.13Please respect copyright.PENANAI3fk6i8J4L
And so did I.
Still waiting. Still hoping.
Her new spot — it wasn’t far in meters,13Please respect copyright.PENANAhWjiUZNfik
But felt like miles in meaning.13Please respect copyright.PENANAgKRfelrzUB
Now, her bus stood beside his.13Please respect copyright.PENANAcWhqe02el0
Not mine.
And that small shift changed everything.
They laughed.13Please respect copyright.PENANAynEcuUu5bw
They walked.13Please respect copyright.PENANA6zT92GvlO9
They spoke in the language I thought we built.13Please respect copyright.PENANAIM26ns10BT
One I no longer understood.
And me?13Please respect copyright.PENANACgcN3ih3vd
I stood beside my bus.13Please respect copyright.PENANAayJ4Pu2WCq
Just like always.13Please respect copyright.PENANASfNVxDZxOI
Like a shadow hoping the sun might notice it again.
I don’t blame her.13Please respect copyright.PENANA033K35Pc6R
Maybe her journey needed a new road.13Please respect copyright.PENANAlCEEarNJxg
Maybe my stillness felt like stagnation to her.13Please respect copyright.PENANAgQxxW4ivth
Maybe being beside me wasn’t enough.
But I watched that change —13Please respect copyright.PENANAOVeuWLCoPj
Every day after college, every silent evening.13Please respect copyright.PENANATm3I5dZp8C
And it hurt.
Because the buses knew.13Please respect copyright.PENANAfUhCeyxhYf
They told a story no one else could see.
Ours was a story of two souls who met where the buses once stood together.13Please respect copyright.PENANA9OvH4lD70A
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 —13Please respect copyright.PENANApnsJTRWH95
in a single season —13Please respect copyright.PENANAPoeUmwUtki
and remembered always.
She moved forward.13Please respect copyright.PENANALcZFSHXyMd
Or sideways.13Please respect copyright.PENANAEGkvle0g4V
Or somewhere I couldn’t reach anymore.
And I remained.13Please respect copyright.PENANAl7l1uli9c1
Not because I couldn’t move.13Please respect copyright.PENANARFac8ynEcK
But because some part of me still believed—
If one day, she ever looked back…13Please respect copyright.PENANABeRuFNkWKv
I’d still be there.13Please respect copyright.PENANAhOEcEp2ZYW
Beside the same tree.13Please respect copyright.PENANANwODtfxhlK
By the same bus.13Please respect copyright.PENANAP0XcE8jM8h
Carrying the same love.
Quiet. Constant.13Please respect copyright.PENANADR4x9tM1ZH
Unseen.