
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.236Please respect copyright.PENANAtbAYbUL0G3
In my class. Not with a bang — no. With a stillness that pulled me in.236Please respect copyright.PENANAN3HhVDqLoi
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.236Please respect copyright.PENANAnaA487Gg9i
A twist of fate, or maybe a cruel joke dressed as kindness.236Please respect copyright.PENANAEBzQxaS1S8
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.236Please respect copyright.PENANANmM1WTfJSU
And somehow… the universe whispered back.236Please respect copyright.PENANAID11aCkyOD
And somehow, she became my pair.
I still remember the rush — like every word I knew had vanished.236Please respect copyright.PENANAjZzYIlEk0X
But she broke the silence first.236Please respect copyright.PENANAX9U8LAty5C
Anime. Books. Songs.236Please respect copyright.PENANAv7OH5E6y5r
She read stories I loved.236Please respect copyright.PENANAC3165XqHL3
And she seemed like one.
Both a little introverted, both a little lost in our own worlds.236Please respect copyright.PENANA8FZuwPynUD
But somehow, we found each other in the same chapter.
She smiled when I spoke. I smiled because she listened.236Please respect copyright.PENANA12h5QqPQwS
Time blurred. The bell rang.236Please respect copyright.PENANAPu0CwGBrwx
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.236Please respect copyright.PENANAxch8pvzcPL
Afraid of saying too much.236Please respect copyright.PENANAizKg8j4UDr
Afraid of being misunderstood.236Please respect copyright.PENANAubhTjcikON
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.236Please respect copyright.PENANA9VM78JTrEA
Distant. Quiet. But somehow... always there.236Please respect copyright.PENANAtTC9mTI0tD
Not burning bright — just being.236Please respect copyright.PENANAIIUY18rQDw
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.236Please respect copyright.PENANAZ1dMbyLB93
Moved classes.236Please respect copyright.PENANAIfpgbRAoTr
Moved… away.236Please respect copyright.PENANAvhTjCE99n8
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?236Please respect copyright.PENANAdxsv5q7R6F
Or was this always the story of a fool who named a girl Seren,236Please respect copyright.PENANAmoj0g7DtP0
and never found the courage to tell her why?