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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.113Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtoyj4SL8AA
In my class. Not with a bang — no. With a stillness that pulled me in.113Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2vtBoUVVx1
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.113Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡroM4i0FMiN
A twist of fate, or maybe a cruel joke dressed as kindness.113Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAi9dLK2UVP
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.113Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdrV7YW9ttY
And somehow… the universe whispered back.113Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsBozy6SY6M
And somehow, she became my pair.
I still remember the rush — like every word I knew had vanished.113Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOFxy1Y5tBq
But she broke the silence first.113Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJjxaPCggE1
Anime. Books. Songs.113Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL6dz2I3Okc
She read stories I loved.113Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqAUeVjTYQY
And she seemed like one.
Both a little introverted, both a little lost in our own worlds.113Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnQB7Y6DFOW
But somehow, we found each other in the same chapter.
She smiled when I spoke. I smiled because she listened.113Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRTdVhPhJ4R
Time blurred. The bell rang.113Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlVw7HrhWQC
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.113Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrHb3bLEjPv
Afraid of saying too much.113Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6BIESNR8q3
Afraid of being misunderstood.113Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9qntffQpr9
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.113Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOAjaWxSxd7
Distant. Quiet. But somehow... always there.113Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLZtsgjHXUm
Not burning bright — just being.113Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpoMCood4Pw
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.113Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNWygc77ndi
Moved classes.113Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxujIZENCzX
Moved… away.113Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYvoRBFchDm
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?113Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3JSgKhmXep
Or was this always the story of a fool who named a girl Seren,113Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtl56AjxvGt
and never found the courage to tell her why?
