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.62Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7qO360kasw
In my class. Not with a bang — no. With a stillness that pulled me in.62Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWJtSNsluF6
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.62Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgr5HWKgGCL
A twist of fate, or maybe a cruel joke dressed as kindness.62Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9peA9XEbqw
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.62Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2lMSFs2y79
And somehow… the universe whispered back.62Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP4IHmgeNUt
And somehow, she became my pair.
I still remember the rush — like every word I knew had vanished.62Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR6xutI4SB7
But she broke the silence first.62Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9EUiLSv4Uo
Anime. Books. Songs.62Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgNgg9goWDq
She read stories I loved.62Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU7M9h7h4XU
And she seemed like one.
Both a little introverted, both a little lost in our own worlds.62Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUT7HRHiQz9
But somehow, we found each other in the same chapter.
She smiled when I spoke. I smiled because she listened.62Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZQQ5HgcxFR
Time blurred. The bell rang.62Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOBf5U3N6Iw
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.62Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGInjIHawPF
Afraid of saying too much.62Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3CoOnIoqGN
Afraid of being misunderstood.62Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUgLK9dapwE
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.62Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ44J1Gg7e5j
Distant. Quiet. But somehow... always there.62Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKr6wvfO9i1
Not burning bright — just being.62Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdSxjOqOsZe
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.62Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW6OSPxR3uw
Moved classes.62Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtGkHfSONVt
Moved… away.62Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWigKmHQR7v
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?62Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOwWSUXbnPc
Or was this always the story of a fool who named a girl Seren,62Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo0DHsh6Nsb
and never found the courage to tell her why?
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