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.362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4GZJFO7zVO
In my class. Not with a bang — no. With a stillness that pulled me in.362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDFyKHBeLOO
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.362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgCH3NZhSvL
A twist of fate, or maybe a cruel joke dressed as kindness.362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCJCcdOORBc
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.362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSbThAQeD4k
And somehow… the universe whispered back.362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs88VB6nwhL
And somehow, she became my pair.
I still remember the rush — like every word I knew had vanished.362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyl1gX2kMOX
But she broke the silence first.362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ05A8qyfMVD
Anime. Books. Songs.362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5ll710p09o
She read stories I loved.362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdsyV4dQGKd
And she seemed like one.
Both a little introverted, both a little lost in our own worlds.362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrLDOOWcA2w
But somehow, we found each other in the same chapter.
She smiled when I spoke. I smiled because she listened.362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr2RKaBq0JQ
Time blurred. The bell rang.362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYWV8cw1CFe
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.362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFqg0CVazua
Afraid of saying too much.362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡScE0rYpfmd
Afraid of being misunderstood.362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZNd3UWfE1D
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.362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡixHtDccRtF
Distant. Quiet. But somehow... always there.362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjyWtZrvsPa
Not burning bright — just being.362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKU5K07ZzRB
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.362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqYauLUmYA2
Moved classes.362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh5JBKEaGXO
Moved… away.362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBc1vJGfqhK
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?362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0Z6KWt8Rt5
Or was this always the story of a fool who named a girl Seren,362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGDrrFDQhuX
and never found the courage to tell her why?
