They say time moves people.80Please respect copyright.PENANAQCnQTw2cOz
But sometimes, people just… move.80Please respect copyright.PENANAStYBD03BbZ
And time only watches.
Ours was a story written in reverse.80Please respect copyright.PENANAw8hHLj6uwG
When the year began, our buses stood side by side.80Please respect copyright.PENANA3QkMffyGFP
Just like us.80Please respect copyright.PENANAjuKOcNbe2e
Close — not always talking, but always within reach.80Please respect copyright.PENANA07V5D1JBe9
We met under that old tree, beside those parked buses,80Please respect copyright.PENANAm3UcWDEsl3
Where the earth still remembered our footsteps,80Please respect copyright.PENANAnpqfUhWlLQ
And the silence between us felt like the loudest comfort.
That was our place.80Please respect copyright.PENANAsKOA39VUmV
Not too far. Not too close.80Please respect copyright.PENANAPLjfFevZYj
Just enough to look, to smile, to say everything without a word.
And as the semesters rolled in,80Please respect copyright.PENANAsaoZdVLEMQ
So did distance.
Little by little, her bus began to move.80Please respect copyright.PENANAI84S2p4Pko
Not suddenly. Not loudly.80Please respect copyright.PENANARghaiDegEo
Just like her — with quiet decisions, soft steps, no explanations.
At first, I didn’t notice.80Please respect copyright.PENANAenzlyoDWXT
Because I was too busy holding on to what we had.80Please respect copyright.PENANAM1ol9iivGF
But the tree stayed where it was.80Please respect copyright.PENANA0BgVSR6YCd
And so did my bus.80Please respect copyright.PENANAeiyfw2kcWP
And so did I.
Still waiting. Still hoping.
Her new spot — it wasn’t far in meters,80Please respect copyright.PENANAJKKigD8xPM
But felt like miles in meaning.80Please respect copyright.PENANAXsWIt60nPY
Now, her bus stood beside his.80Please respect copyright.PENANAcFB3hZKUq0
Not mine.
And that small shift changed everything.
They laughed.80Please respect copyright.PENANAw5vDcuiKLy
They walked.80Please respect copyright.PENANA2ziWtrKVkK
They spoke in the language I thought we built.80Please respect copyright.PENANAOzcYMAbl3V
One I no longer understood.
And me?80Please respect copyright.PENANALMzEtLociF
I stood beside my bus.80Please respect copyright.PENANAzunP4KtMMz
Just like always.80Please respect copyright.PENANAxHNqJCMRML
Like a shadow hoping the sun might notice it again.
I don’t blame her.80Please respect copyright.PENANA0dnZGD8jTW
Maybe her journey needed a new road.80Please respect copyright.PENANA8G3ahXA4h4
Maybe my stillness felt like stagnation to her.80Please respect copyright.PENANAzR7Jvk24fr
Maybe being beside me wasn’t enough.
But I watched that change —80Please respect copyright.PENANANoolU6Cnx0
Every day after college, every silent evening.80Please respect copyright.PENANA3pCoL4NMvu
And it hurt.
Because the buses knew.80Please respect copyright.PENANAYQJXT6rNDd
They told a story no one else could see.
Ours was a story of two souls who met where the buses once stood together.80Please respect copyright.PENANAYX8gjyrmAk
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 —80Please respect copyright.PENANAVWQk5MpEy0
in a single season —80Please respect copyright.PENANAPdZKwbVo54
and remembered always.
She moved forward.80Please respect copyright.PENANAirdYCk2rm9
Or sideways.80Please respect copyright.PENANALPvYJF8O0S
Or somewhere I couldn’t reach anymore.
And I remained.80Please respect copyright.PENANA8EWUArOha6
Not because I couldn’t move.80Please respect copyright.PENANAN8UsFzOfHZ
But because some part of me still believed—
If one day, she ever looked back…80Please respect copyright.PENANA9cT3RekchH
I’d still be there.80Please respect copyright.PENANAlowFVK1jcP
Beside the same tree.80Please respect copyright.PENANArzVYRjxjm8
By the same bus.80Please respect copyright.PENANAXe1RceP5GZ
Carrying the same love.
Quiet. Constant.80Please respect copyright.PENANADFxbuJ7tk6
Unseen.