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.647Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7JpOsNzOO0
In my class. Not with a bang — no. With a stillness that pulled me in.647Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ83kmBfIRA3
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.647Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqWckHdpxTK
A twist of fate, or maybe a cruel joke dressed as kindness.647Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4vQ1HJZQ2q
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.647Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSSTQp1K3Ef
And somehow… the universe whispered back.647Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ83zrIx6CJ5
And somehow, she became my pair.
I still remember the rush — like every word I knew had vanished.647Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwNIMvRdIsH
But she broke the silence first.647Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1ANq2IcWmL
Anime. Books. Songs.647Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ97BWUoB0Mx
She read stories I loved.647Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhPQr1k8LEA
And she seemed like one.
Both a little introverted, both a little lost in our own worlds.647Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJIAORV5E8I
But somehow, we found each other in the same chapter.
She smiled when I spoke. I smiled because she listened.647Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ91pyG0q3Dn
Time blurred. The bell rang.647Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIIPfl80fND
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.647Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6RoHeIe0k4
Afraid of saying too much.647Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEQ9OUhzTds
Afraid of being misunderstood.647Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfxbeRkafp0
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.647Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ8nV3neTa6
Distant. Quiet. But somehow... always there.647Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ41Vt8I9wn0
Not burning bright — just being.647Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxkxXWfNK2t
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.647Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxMxC8e6k89
Moved classes.647Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdv4ekqI6cT
Moved… away.647Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf0ofiAHHHR
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?647Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWkQUNCL7tK
Or was this always the story of a fool who named a girl Seren,647Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtG0Atehpwv
and never found the courage to tell her why?
and then Add to home screen.