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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.319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFNEYt45VDe
In my class. Not with a bang — no. With a stillness that pulled me in.319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWUt8pJfnnV
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.319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZVR0sQSvaa
A twist of fate, or maybe a cruel joke dressed as kindness.319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwDIBAtkxkZ
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.319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRkgNpO67J7
And somehow… the universe whispered back.319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI8VhwsgDro
And somehow, she became my pair.
I still remember the rush — like every word I knew had vanished.319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMDlDqS1kvV
But she broke the silence first.319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdN6lcYiVJV
Anime. Books. Songs.319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUMnFSVjfNy
She read stories I loved.319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSlFhtC1yNK
And she seemed like one.
Both a little introverted, both a little lost in our own worlds.319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb7MqGNvngl
But somehow, we found each other in the same chapter.
She smiled when I spoke. I smiled because she listened.319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYfg8V1nE18
Time blurred. The bell rang.319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLXuD52938f
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.319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDIiM8Q8U2J
Afraid of saying too much.319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRypw0VDuhU
Afraid of being misunderstood.319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3AzLivM9K8
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.319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSzl4BtjLsy
Distant. Quiet. But somehow... always there.319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMagl3qxDaM
Not burning bright — just being.319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpwHG1RpcWB
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.319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT7McRNY0Ms
Moved classes.319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4wLtfzznDC
Moved… away.319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVbQdjrMhQu
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?319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN1taOPDZXK
Or was this always the story of a fool who named a girl Seren,319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYIgnr9CWtR
and never found the courage to tell her why?
