The villa trip had been a whirlwind of laughter and activity, the kind that left me feeling light and full of energy. But now, as the bus rolled down the highway in the stillness of the night, the excitement of the day had drained away, and all I wanted was peace. The quiet hum of the road seemed to whisper through the bus, the faint sound of tires on asphalt lulling me into a calm haze. Outside the window, the darkness stretched endlessly, the dim glow of streetlights flickering past, each one a tiny moment of light lost to the vastness of the night. I leaned my forehead against the cool glass, feeling the bus sway gently with the rhythm of the highway. One by one, the voices around me faded as everyone else succumbed to sleep, leaving me in a fragile, quiet world of my own. The hum of the engine was the only sound, lulling me further into drowsiness. My eyelids grew heavy, and before I could stop it, I drifted off. When I woke, it wasn’t the window that greeted me, but something soft...
In a moment of words unspoken, a heart found its place.