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.692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSnmGR8nJ1d
In my class. Not with a bang — no. With a stillness that pulled me in.692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHOE7GLlJiq
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.692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkwrnRkSouU
A twist of fate, or maybe a cruel joke dressed as kindness.692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfm2vQKJzYj
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.692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy03N5eEtgL
And somehow… the universe whispered back.692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkonASDMhTb
And somehow, she became my pair.
I still remember the rush — like every word I knew had vanished.692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvldXvJjNRj
But she broke the silence first.692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe3i1KPvIpY
Anime. Books. Songs.692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgKtUMOmnze
She read stories I loved.692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj4R9ep3qz0
And she seemed like one.
Both a little introverted, both a little lost in our own worlds.692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIME4WeJNdM
But somehow, we found each other in the same chapter.
She smiled when I spoke. I smiled because she listened.692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGmJc1syG3K
Time blurred. The bell rang.692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQm8U4rnrkI
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.692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfJpWzrKeXW
Afraid of saying too much.692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡebeBGUweyN
Afraid of being misunderstood.692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX2lBCEqlJ0
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.692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUya8yj1rMO
Distant. Quiet. But somehow... always there.692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE4w7unJTu8
Not burning bright — just being.692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwgbAiUtbXm
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.692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpMdbSCK0AN
Moved classes.692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtlbW264rQr
Moved… away.692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZGBCMnpJis
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?692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡair3aigN8d
Or was this always the story of a fool who named a girl Seren,692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMWjxQQyU3A
and never found the courage to tell her why?
and then Add to home screen.