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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.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeyr75WdEde
In my class. Not with a bang — no. With a stillness that pulled me in.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjeGiClotwl
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.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq7OUvTCsg2
A twist of fate, or maybe a cruel joke dressed as kindness.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPhjFsbOSix
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.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB1dOnx6ogS
And somehow… the universe whispered back.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfU3scRforo
And somehow, she became my pair.
I still remember the rush — like every word I knew had vanished.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfpVmjgm2Ec
But she broke the silence first.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaEn8NJStJz
Anime. Books. Songs.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKOT3TW9Sys
She read stories I loved.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZInPfLzhNr
And she seemed like one.
Both a little introverted, both a little lost in our own worlds.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPHMemu14wp
But somehow, we found each other in the same chapter.
She smiled when I spoke. I smiled because she listened.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOCv9whaW10
Time blurred. The bell rang.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUmNST4rW8h
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.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGji4rscsbR
Afraid of saying too much.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcvpE4JBEzA
Afraid of being misunderstood.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtGhfFFbQ0a
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.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡknnW57kE9l
Distant. Quiet. But somehow... always there.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKucBUwVSXa
Not burning bright — just being.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPMkB1af2l4
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.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYqtn8xhUDw
Moved classes.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYLSULJHUoA
Moved… away.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJFFINUWbaf
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?168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLPRR8quJew
Or was this always the story of a fool who named a girl Seren,168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDatcd06zLx
and never found the courage to tell her why?
