
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.363Please respect copyright.PENANAhSHWCxrL4a
In my class. Not with a bang — no. With a stillness that pulled me in.363Please respect copyright.PENANAqh4bpEIZ1D
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.363Please respect copyright.PENANAXoOZGJj3vj
A twist of fate, or maybe a cruel joke dressed as kindness.363Please respect copyright.PENANA3hbbBVD3GV
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.363Please respect copyright.PENANA91izujCYLZ
And somehow… the universe whispered back.363Please respect copyright.PENANARTvihnj9Vs
And somehow, she became my pair.
I still remember the rush — like every word I knew had vanished.363Please respect copyright.PENANA45sRRINI7h
But she broke the silence first.363Please respect copyright.PENANAuns6CDUtem
Anime. Books. Songs.363Please respect copyright.PENANAPEYm9ME6gn
She read stories I loved.363Please respect copyright.PENANAy5JcGSEe1L
And she seemed like one.
Both a little introverted, both a little lost in our own worlds.363Please respect copyright.PENANAGnk7iSvMWO
But somehow, we found each other in the same chapter.
She smiled when I spoke. I smiled because she listened.363Please respect copyright.PENANAUzS6E3xR2L
Time blurred. The bell rang.363Please respect copyright.PENANAf2W6TIcnzK
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.363Please respect copyright.PENANA8JWwJUpQpu
Afraid of saying too much.363Please respect copyright.PENANAy2obGGx51x
Afraid of being misunderstood.363Please respect copyright.PENANASUxbn6tmj6
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.363Please respect copyright.PENANA9pVZiF1uMU
Distant. Quiet. But somehow... always there.363Please respect copyright.PENANACCJZGME6yG
Not burning bright — just being.363Please respect copyright.PENANAFCACpubPZt
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.363Please respect copyright.PENANAjIpjBZHcqv
Moved classes.363Please respect copyright.PENANAxrtx41MiE2
Moved… away.363Please respect copyright.PENANAji7wDaOZYh
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?363Please respect copyright.PENANAKA51ae5kCp
Or was this always the story of a fool who named a girl Seren,363Please respect copyright.PENANAZ1lBiUbZxP
and never found the courage to tell her why?