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.70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPXzsq5aeDt
In my class. Not with a bang — no. With a stillness that pulled me in.70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6T27Za5tLn
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.70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhFkUmVJQnG
A twist of fate, or maybe a cruel joke dressed as kindness.70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgWgVu9mkjr
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.70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDyrxRz6Yhc
And somehow… the universe whispered back.70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNdGx9OL78k
And somehow, she became my pair.
I still remember the rush — like every word I knew had vanished.70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaPIXVipzKQ
But she broke the silence first.70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrIkcW3ZKGQ
Anime. Books. Songs.70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRSBVHtvUg3
She read stories I loved.70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGZTI9EfAP8
And she seemed like one.
Both a little introverted, both a little lost in our own worlds.70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL9ALa3g2aV
But somehow, we found each other in the same chapter.
She smiled when I spoke. I smiled because she listened.70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9SrHbiwCy6
Time blurred. The bell rang.70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcTgDANarwM
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.70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK88fPgPwMI
Afraid of saying too much.70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ7Ev7iZ4Xo
Afraid of being misunderstood.70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfg11GjlO0g
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.70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMTJ06HV56L
Distant. Quiet. But somehow... always there.70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ77qdOphKQX
Not burning bright — just being.70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjnmXB7ZOnp
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.70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl3ghwPxZt5
Moved classes.70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoXyPBx4YeV
Moved… away.70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB9jhYbslnE
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?70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhQbXHc4Khk
Or was this always the story of a fool who named a girl Seren,70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqNfVt9Riis
and never found the courage to tell her why?
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