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I wasn’t looking for love.
Not then.
Not at the beginning of a new life in BTech, when everything felt so loud and unfamiliar.
But then… there she was.57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxY5vf0JLZf
In my class. Not with a bang — no. With a stillness that pulled me in.57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV2OyORcMcL
Her eyes weren’t just eyes — they were answers I hadn’t known I was asking for. The way she carried herself, unaware of the spell she cast…
She wasn’t trying to be seen. That’s probably why I couldn’t look away.
And then — something close to a miracle.57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9iJRXPMQPP
A twist of fate, or maybe a cruel joke dressed as kindness.57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ62mFUYUNgZ
Our English teacher split the class into boy-girl pairs for an icebreaker — apparently to help us “communicate better”.
A task I would’ve laughed at on any other day. But that day, I whispered a prayer.57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTl9nkfrlVQ
And somehow… the universe whispered back.57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWkoqbs7bam
And somehow, she became my pair.
I still remember the rush — like every word I knew had vanished.57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv53o2BHh7y
But she broke the silence first.57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0Ci4s37hFa
Anime. Books. Songs.57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOcsnN8VQUd
She read stories I loved.57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV67iOmYslo
And she seemed like one.
Both a little introverted, both a little lost in our own worlds.57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcxUYQAfHLw
But somehow, we found each other in the same chapter.
She smiled when I spoke. I smiled because she listened.57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡosJw6KKoHf
Time blurred. The bell rang.57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFX8Dh813SR
And just like that — it ended.
And we never spoke again.
But something strange kept happening — our buses, parked side by side every day. Coincidence? Maybe. Or maybe a second chance, parked beside me daily.
Still… I said nothing. Because I was afraid.57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7m09iJQorS
Afraid of saying too much.57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZTLRBJ6V9G
Afraid of being misunderstood.57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL0C0ooRgUJ
Afraid of being too much for someone who never asked for me in the first place.
I never even knew her real name. Not then. But I gave her one — quietly, in my own head.
Seren.
It means "star" in a language I don't speak, but somehow understood.
Because that’s what she felt like.57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡclPxWVsFyN
Distant. Quiet. But somehow... always there.57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAokkudgVRe
Not burning bright — just being.57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6fkdBtGCtI
A kind of calm I wanted to orbit.
She never knew, of course. She never knew she was Seren to me.
I told myself — four years is a long time. I’ll talk to her again. When the time is right. But fate isn’t always patient.
In amidst of all, one day, she changed her branch.57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpS9Coh0TDx
Moved classes.57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡejwUKu7MIF
Moved… away.57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ28XE2TcKlg
And I was left wondering…
I stood there, not broken — but almost.
“How foolish of me,” I thought.
Waiting for the right time, without ever trying to make it right.
So now I ask— Will our paths cross again?57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ67iFcJureU
Or was this always the story of a fool who named a girl Seren,57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ56RwvO6ZK
and never found the courage to tell her why?
