It all happened in a blur.70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVE7uY6DGU1
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.70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXlQkRXMtWi
A few messages. A few replies. A few misunderstandings.70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB0cxqafzgX
So little, yet somehow, I made them… heavy.70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡncb8TERYZk
Weighted them down with emotion I never learned how to express.
That day, we met — face to face.70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0t3SL5aZhK
For once, no phones, no typing bubbles, no delays.70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFGaz9cR75n
Just her. And me.
We argued, gently.70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcxWjdJXwX9
More like scraping wounds that hadn’t healed.70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPrg4ORUKQ6
I brushed it off — said the words that hurt her weren’t even mine.70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHPIyjHj6Hb
"That was just something ChatGPT wrote," I mumbled, eyes looking anywhere but her.70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrr9rlv90PY
It was easier to lie, easier to detach.70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9fOFbrqiw0
Because admitting I meant every word would mean risking everything.70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvod9TkE2Sv
And I wasn’t ready to lose her.70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxmqXx3LYc5
Not yet.70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLMFD9JwxHC
Not ever.
"I just don’t want to say something you never wanted to hear," I said,70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡplTU4JqdrH
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 —70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDHUCPhpesl
She was staying at college late and needed help carrying her luggage to the bus.70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxRltwyuftg
I agreed.
And then, out of instinct or maybe longing,70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCS8dYLSNt8
I turned to Seren.
“Come with me?”
She said yes.
We walked together.70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVNtstLnqda
Not like we used to.70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeHqcdvZSu6
The air was different.70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcNPYToDKRW
But still, she came.
We met the senior, carried the bags.70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBaPbBX2TaZ
The sun was low. The clouds darker.
As we neared my bus — Bus 495 now, no longer 222 —70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFDIf34bun2
It began to drizzle.
And without thinking,70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRM7yYakK9B
I handed her a small bag and told her to hold it over her head.70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj6Dg8gragX
A stupid gesture, clumsy and warm.70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsPkjw2MuzT
Something straight out of the kind of slice-of-life drama.70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2GD8JHVteH
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.70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9H8Zz5qUUM
It was pouring.
Her bus wasn’t beside mine anymore.70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF12n8rTvJJ
It stood at the center of the soaked ground, distant.70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDHYiBUWnJB
Like her.
We waited under the bus shelter.70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1OTytakQyj
Time slowed.
We talked.
Not about the fight. Not about the awkwardness.70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIcsBT05AAM
Just talked.70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG5zVN76FS2
About things that didn’t hurt.70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ15zGfb6nGX
Like we used to.70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlpbeppAZ0G
And it felt like maybe — just maybe — the storm could pass.
But the rain didn’t stop.
We looked for an umbrella.70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5cefIbzqbg
Hoped someone would have one.
Then, through the curtains of rain,70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLj1e3lUE9K
I saw Krish walking to his bus, holding an umbrella like a shield against the world.
Without thinking, I leapt.
Out into the storm.70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFyB3geAjb7
Through the cold.70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnzVsJvQeaf
Feet sinking into mud.70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5pAoCKSb0I
Each step heavy — but not with water.
I ran after him, waited till he was close to his bus,70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpU2Ygbl1Iz
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.70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtebXQqFkNy
We shared the cover.
And as we are walking towards her bus.70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFaHGAdBO3V
Our shoulders touched.
For a moment —70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC3ORdUs2F4
A second that felt like eternity —70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIq93I0SMzG
Everything froze.
And I knew.
I wasn’t meant to be the one holding the umbrella.70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnnemXkkfIf
I wasn’t meant to be the one by her side.
This was a borrowed moment.70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRFKQAzEF1N
A borrowed feeling.
And so, I stepped out.
Let the rain welcome me back.70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNcQbpibYW3
Let it hide the tears that I couldn't let her see.
We walked to her bus together.70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZGdB6U66vX
Her — warm, untouched by the storm.70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIETOZ72NV2
Me — soaked, alone beneath the sky.
When we reached, she turned and smiled.
I just smiled.70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8OF8rtTi3F
No words.70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMdlmIfvOkP
Just the weight of goodbye unspoken.
And then she stepped onto her bus.70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJg9q6o1G0H
And I turned away.70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgwbzShrHb7
And the rain kept falling.
But it wasn’t just rain anymore.
It was the sky grieving with me.
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