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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.50Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMFQ1pcrcKk
In my class. Not with a bang — no. With a stillness that pulled me in.50Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwdr3YwwpKZ
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.50Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgadrPBvRvG
A twist of fate, or maybe a cruel joke dressed as kindness.50Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGZFRe0Ni0O
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.50Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgIDaUf1iUj
And somehow… the universe whispered back.50Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlnjBzIZsKW
And somehow, she became my pair.
I still remember the rush — like every word I knew had vanished.50Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRWtUo0L1gp
But she broke the silence first.50Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYDu5S2fKHD
Anime. Books. Songs.50Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5ZtP9HKe8j
She read stories I loved.50Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFaW5PPBToi
And she seemed like one.
Both a little introverted, both a little lost in our own worlds.50Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp1LerMEfTn
But somehow, we found each other in the same chapter.
She smiled when I spoke. I smiled because she listened.50Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc0JxtPh0E2
Time blurred. The bell rang.50Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKiG3o4Gf8I
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.50Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt5Q1MhZo96
Afraid of saying too much.50Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9xc6BkNBEs
Afraid of being misunderstood.50Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUiSrdas6gR
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.50Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfc1QOFLOzc
Distant. Quiet. But somehow... always there.50Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ79UqlY7h5T
Not burning bright — just being.50Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKOo1cTF1OK
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.50Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRa7rQWaHQf
Moved classes.50Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa4VbRsGIxI
Moved… away.50Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMxRDCx8LFm
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?50Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGKSzRuZGLf
Or was this always the story of a fool who named a girl Seren,50Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZORNHPx7tH
and never found the courage to tell her why?
