
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.228Please respect copyright.PENANAjAhiJQVKMf
In my class. Not with a bang — no. With a stillness that pulled me in.228Please respect copyright.PENANAjrKRl08zfH
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.228Please respect copyright.PENANA9MFuzwaKQD
A twist of fate, or maybe a cruel joke dressed as kindness.228Please respect copyright.PENANAJBH30V2eyR
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.228Please respect copyright.PENANA4LsA5sgi2D
And somehow… the universe whispered back.228Please respect copyright.PENANA1SdIHLqgo0
And somehow, she became my pair.
I still remember the rush — like every word I knew had vanished.228Please respect copyright.PENANARSjrh8JXqq
But she broke the silence first.228Please respect copyright.PENANAyOk1koG1wn
Anime. Books. Songs.228Please respect copyright.PENANAMZhhNzTBuM
She read stories I loved.228Please respect copyright.PENANAx4Y4K80TNG
And she seemed like one.
Both a little introverted, both a little lost in our own worlds.228Please respect copyright.PENANA1HnOSRWh2E
But somehow, we found each other in the same chapter.
She smiled when I spoke. I smiled because she listened.228Please respect copyright.PENANAY2kKhDCTrN
Time blurred. The bell rang.228Please respect copyright.PENANAodlOvaxMUU
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.228Please respect copyright.PENANAPUlXy7CMvp
Afraid of saying too much.228Please respect copyright.PENANABZTNbOBDD6
Afraid of being misunderstood.228Please respect copyright.PENANA2mwUetC6iR
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.228Please respect copyright.PENANAPobj404w5f
Distant. Quiet. But somehow... always there.228Please respect copyright.PENANAVQsMPWlvmv
Not burning bright — just being.228Please respect copyright.PENANA5kYaR4Mb5K
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.228Please respect copyright.PENANAgdzRuTCDc6
Moved classes.228Please respect copyright.PENANAJ5yB06HekD
Moved… away.228Please respect copyright.PENANAyEEvAUDSsq
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?228Please respect copyright.PENANA2T3aP5owQP
Or was this always the story of a fool who named a girl Seren,228Please respect copyright.PENANAOgPVryZKtl
and never found the courage to tell her why?