It all happened in a blur.58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBgtNLEzjt5
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.58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ69n707W6AH
A few messages. A few replies. A few misunderstandings.58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDfq9sMr7Un
So little, yet somehow, I made them… heavy.58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ54uk3LtP87
Weighted them down with emotion I never learned how to express.
That day, we met — face to face.58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL7uScxLZwN
For once, no phones, no typing bubbles, no delays.58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡENhkiZETcS
Just her. And me.
We argued, gently.58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf03rInysdJ
More like scraping wounds that hadn’t healed.58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKEmcRW4n1o
I brushed it off — said the words that hurt her weren’t even mine.58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡurYV5Fax1l
"That was just something ChatGPT wrote," I mumbled, eyes looking anywhere but her.58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhr9bwGljJW
It was easier to lie, easier to detach.58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXojZmiZkaV
Because admitting I meant every word would mean risking everything.58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUT85JYo4nr
And I wasn’t ready to lose her.58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpB88UUHYM5
Not yet.58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2OoRoEdCFo
Not ever.
"I just don’t want to say something you never wanted to hear," I said,58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvxlLUkYtGa
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 —58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNJnfdP2PuL
She was staying at college late and needed help carrying her luggage to the bus.58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOQUPPVkJFq
I agreed.
And then, out of instinct or maybe longing,58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbNJhARRJt9
I turned to Seren.
“Come with me?”
She said yes.
We walked together.58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3ia4DGy8bS
Not like we used to.58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhU5VGACpnK
The air was different.58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYMmaP9YLH6
But still, she came.
We met the senior, carried the bags.58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOg9eG5edEt
The sun was low. The clouds darker.
As we neared my bus — Bus 495 now, no longer 222 —58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvVyXmeBJ33
It began to drizzle.
And without thinking,58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ54WbHw3ZeR
I handed her a small bag and told her to hold it over her head.58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtIANBHgKpm
A stupid gesture, clumsy and warm.58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPAx4CMm52A
Something straight out of the kind of slice-of-life drama.58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGVATXQoQNC
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.58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6wPpc5RC86
It was pouring.
Her bus wasn’t beside mine anymore.58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ7RVs7sheu
It stood at the center of the soaked ground, distant.58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzjQTeaCYs1
Like her.
We waited under the bus shelter.58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUWvyE7L8Ww
Time slowed.
We talked.
Not about the fight. Not about the awkwardness.58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXsRGTHZBnx
Just talked.58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAigGrvLyOn
About things that didn’t hurt.58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiXQ65SKxvN
Like we used to.58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3WPI2cKfB5
And it felt like maybe — just maybe — the storm could pass.
But the rain didn’t stop.
We looked for an umbrella.58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjvua4P1YCX
Hoped someone would have one.
Then, through the curtains of rain,58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjsZJoWM4bN
I saw Krish walking to his bus, holding an umbrella like a shield against the world.
Without thinking, I leapt.
Out into the storm.58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQxzcRGHPe3
Through the cold.58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ1KVhepkbl
Feet sinking into mud.58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeu8WuIGX6Y
Each step heavy — but not with water.
I ran after him, waited till he was close to his bus,58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKCCkITyjWy
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.58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvrJyknhrKC
We shared the cover.
And as we are walking towards her bus.58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe6JN9u3Wi9
Our shoulders touched.
For a moment —58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMjLqJklbCK
A second that felt like eternity —58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxrMlo9edVc
Everything froze.
And I knew.
I wasn’t meant to be the one holding the umbrella.58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡErMZf1KHJf
I wasn’t meant to be the one by her side.
This was a borrowed moment.58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4zThWu3b9c
A borrowed feeling.
And so, I stepped out.
Let the rain welcome me back.58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCz6l0moC9j
Let it hide the tears that I couldn't let her see.
We walked to her bus together.58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz3Opx54qwt
Her — warm, untouched by the storm.58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZQGtS7JIi6
Me — soaked, alone beneath the sky.
When we reached, she turned and smiled.
I just smiled.58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzOKFUD3fSk
No words.58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKfXAfNzaVF
Just the weight of goodbye unspoken.
And then she stepped onto her bus.58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUzwNYkUP5D
And I turned away.58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4ZsKHa3A1W
And the rain kept falling.
But it wasn’t just rain anymore.
It was the sky grieving with me.
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and then Add to home screen.