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.343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb3Qw9oAzWJ
In my class. Not with a bang — no. With a stillness that pulled me in.343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKHoy5K36US
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.343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtCBzaGDUJx
A twist of fate, or maybe a cruel joke dressed as kindness.343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyf9669nubO
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.343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtSEBvPaqbG
And somehow… the universe whispered back.343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9Ii4i4lpao
And somehow, she became my pair.
I still remember the rush — like every word I knew had vanished.343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0X6TnubKOX
But she broke the silence first.343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXzIunQm1bo
Anime. Books. Songs.343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfl1Z0fFiif
She read stories I loved.343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq2bIlaJVbw
And she seemed like one.
Both a little introverted, both a little lost in our own worlds.343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqaenLodeF3
But somehow, we found each other in the same chapter.
She smiled when I spoke. I smiled because she listened.343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNXXKGFi0hM
Time blurred. The bell rang.343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZxTynLnOsb
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.343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIbA2BWmVWO
Afraid of saying too much.343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN7erzdmNhq
Afraid of being misunderstood.343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡguYiKZaBoU
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.343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl22ynABQXU
Distant. Quiet. But somehow... always there.343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjTwdAONHNS
Not burning bright — just being.343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVxvRwDfY9a
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.343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvQcs3d2U2e
Moved classes.343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvPp6U4H6Ab
Moved… away.343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR3BR5LM4Ol
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?343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ36yaFJiUd
Or was this always the story of a fool who named a girl Seren,343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJtYWX5MZeF
and never found the courage to tell her why?
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