They say time moves people.280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwZhixypjMi
But sometimes, people just… move.280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUnMbdD0NsS
And time only watches.
Ours was a story written in reverse.280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoN5VUzBcOQ
When the year began, our buses stood side by side.280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPm9Zh6D1N5
Just like us.280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNllzQyf3GP
Close — not always talking, but always within reach.280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBNqkQ451Fz
We met under that old tree, beside those parked buses,280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOgPiSQMzEG
Where the earth still remembered our footsteps,280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSR4LaSP5jS
And the silence between us felt like the loudest comfort.
That was our place.280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXgNtMupTJz
Not too far. Not too close.280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡThidfJFvN7
Just enough to look, to smile, to say everything without a word.
And as the semesters rolled in,280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWFny15gMrz
So did distance.
Little by little, her bus began to move.280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHVQlvQmTPG
Not suddenly. Not loudly.280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfBgXsoT29L
Just like her — with quiet decisions, soft steps, no explanations.
At first, I didn’t notice.280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqTTgJaPTm1
Because I was too busy holding on to what we had.280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ41GlIyrOgn
But the tree stayed where it was.280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8xUjr1Zz48
And so did my bus.280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLmPAeagjPh
And so did I.
Still waiting. Still hoping.
Her new spot — it wasn’t far in meters,280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhToTjfrr1t
But felt like miles in meaning.280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3QUyCeNwTj
Now, her bus stood beside his.280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGAsh0QTVBF
Not mine.
And that small shift changed everything.
They laughed.280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2kjzr63FZ6
They walked.280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4Vkv4ttaer
They spoke in the language I thought we built.280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg2lUmmXhG1
One I no longer understood.
And me?280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0gp64fCAqp
I stood beside my bus.280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN5V6GTST0o
Just like always.280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBOWnEs5Zi7
Like a shadow hoping the sun might notice it again.
I don’t blame her.280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKSV4K9r7zs
Maybe her journey needed a new road.280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaE8MWMm3gz
Maybe my stillness felt like stagnation to her.280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUDWL7uS5T8
Maybe being beside me wasn’t enough.
But I watched that change —280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqPPcchNNZp
Every day after college, every silent evening.280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeI2hMYi0En
And it hurt.
Because the buses knew.280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcxpcnnTtys
They told a story no one else could see.
Ours was a story of two souls who met where the buses once stood together.280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS2estBQoAn
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 —280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB7Np4YGbbU
in a single season —280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbepsoGIsou
and remembered always.
She moved forward.280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPNXwb2NlXE
Or sideways.280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvBkHOTCr56
Or somewhere I couldn’t reach anymore.
And I remained.280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ06an5WhUyy
Not because I couldn’t move.280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHojAQRUFgP
But because some part of me still believed—
If one day, she ever looked back…280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaAU0D0JZhU
I’d still be there.280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkt5BPmHUn3
Beside the same tree.280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWDLgCRsxeM
By the same bus.280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNQcT0XDkcs
Carrying the same love.
Quiet. Constant.280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡac1jDJjn4e
Unseen.
and then Add to home screen.