They say time moves people.82Please respect copyright.PENANArzKhLAG4Zm
But sometimes, people just… move.82Please respect copyright.PENANAnQMOcRZvIG
And time only watches.
Ours was a story written in reverse.82Please respect copyright.PENANAvVREcUkRsw
When the year began, our buses stood side by side.82Please respect copyright.PENANAFUCQDoM9iG
Just like us.82Please respect copyright.PENANAxUKwLYIbRv
Close — not always talking, but always within reach.82Please respect copyright.PENANAVb2a8CLVaH
We met under that old tree, beside those parked buses,82Please respect copyright.PENANA4EMaWC1laD
Where the earth still remembered our footsteps,82Please respect copyright.PENANAoYybxPaYGh
And the silence between us felt like the loudest comfort.
That was our place.82Please respect copyright.PENANAqinQ8XzqTu
Not too far. Not too close.82Please respect copyright.PENANAwrDcuEZnab
Just enough to look, to smile, to say everything without a word.
And as the semesters rolled in,82Please respect copyright.PENANAfPUfpWPaZZ
So did distance.
Little by little, her bus began to move.82Please respect copyright.PENANAhDk5ELc6du
Not suddenly. Not loudly.82Please respect copyright.PENANAgnjuSJh7m2
Just like her — with quiet decisions, soft steps, no explanations.
At first, I didn’t notice.82Please respect copyright.PENANA5yKRvhkHT4
Because I was too busy holding on to what we had.82Please respect copyright.PENANANO2cLJ6sUp
But the tree stayed where it was.82Please respect copyright.PENANAQrVxmAhpEX
And so did my bus.82Please respect copyright.PENANA30fH53BoNm
And so did I.
Still waiting. Still hoping.
Her new spot — it wasn’t far in meters,82Please respect copyright.PENANAjlgfiXqiwz
But felt like miles in meaning.82Please respect copyright.PENANAhLN8qO8k9I
Now, her bus stood beside his.82Please respect copyright.PENANAJphBx1h864
Not mine.
And that small shift changed everything.
They laughed.82Please respect copyright.PENANAP8yXvLuolE
They walked.82Please respect copyright.PENANAY3X9zoYTKK
They spoke in the language I thought we built.82Please respect copyright.PENANA2BiN3DfkqT
One I no longer understood.
And me?82Please respect copyright.PENANAyzGWSTvgI6
I stood beside my bus.82Please respect copyright.PENANALm8Hiqz1Wa
Just like always.82Please respect copyright.PENANANYuub7G0Bl
Like a shadow hoping the sun might notice it again.
I don’t blame her.82Please respect copyright.PENANAWgqRtSedHq
Maybe her journey needed a new road.82Please respect copyright.PENANAXI7rImRXwU
Maybe my stillness felt like stagnation to her.82Please respect copyright.PENANAyJEPNEkjz2
Maybe being beside me wasn’t enough.
But I watched that change —82Please respect copyright.PENANAjgGlDPg4WL
Every day after college, every silent evening.82Please respect copyright.PENANAZ2XNbOFyHR
And it hurt.
Because the buses knew.82Please respect copyright.PENANAeInQJ9iLzP
They told a story no one else could see.
Ours was a story of two souls who met where the buses once stood together.82Please respect copyright.PENANA3wSWHVvCTn
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 —82Please respect copyright.PENANAfSjBGPTpaC
in a single season —82Please respect copyright.PENANAvUYEmYuANT
and remembered always.
She moved forward.82Please respect copyright.PENANAeXJg5kGMpf
Or sideways.82Please respect copyright.PENANAqa6hXF71D5
Or somewhere I couldn’t reach anymore.
And I remained.82Please respect copyright.PENANAE3Gspw266I
Not because I couldn’t move.82Please respect copyright.PENANAm0JnB5b9GD
But because some part of me still believed—
If one day, she ever looked back…82Please respect copyright.PENANAnTulP0KqWn
I’d still be there.82Please respect copyright.PENANA4AMyKRYcLi
Beside the same tree.82Please respect copyright.PENANAAFjjiyUyD7
By the same bus.82Please respect copyright.PENANAwzXWICZIJP
Carrying the same love.
Quiet. Constant.82Please respect copyright.PENANArwi2lJErQF
Unseen.