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.358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ57oGTA3qcj
In my class. Not with a bang — no. With a stillness that pulled me in.358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWY0FlSSAqL
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.358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVmxZJgKTM5
A twist of fate, or maybe a cruel joke dressed as kindness.358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwF0ZmuifPN
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.358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtP64zh1RSN
And somehow… the universe whispered back.358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUOZWwouuJg
And somehow, she became my pair.
I still remember the rush — like every word I knew had vanished.358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz2RlfMxxj8
But she broke the silence first.358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfqHfMYDYDh
Anime. Books. Songs.358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPNQgumsE0G
She read stories I loved.358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt0w3Ic1PEI
And she seemed like one.
Both a little introverted, both a little lost in our own worlds.358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF5gjDXMOrT
But somehow, we found each other in the same chapter.
She smiled when I spoke. I smiled because she listened.358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxkMge3Hmbf
Time blurred. The bell rang.358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJyHQcfFvbV
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.358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3Xn2EqfebU
Afraid of saying too much.358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxGGee2WA78
Afraid of being misunderstood.358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7iNTNphX7Z
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.358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaSRTzVaKt9
Distant. Quiet. But somehow... always there.358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6JkrK5ubHD
Not burning bright — just being.358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlhWW7PvzH1
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.358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd3vF2UTf2c
Moved classes.358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRy7EZylcTp
Moved… away.358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgJzdFU0RNz
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?358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfJ1IBBfV8j
Or was this always the story of a fool who named a girl Seren,358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4xJN0XXzkg
and never found the courage to tell her why?
