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.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTxCAlbZ0Zx
In my class. Not with a bang — no. With a stillness that pulled me in.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNSIc0niNxP
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.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6xzm0XMLik
A twist of fate, or maybe a cruel joke dressed as kindness.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2vkBK6v55y
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.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjW0t57HwPF
And somehow… the universe whispered back.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPWIO9LZaGT
And somehow, she became my pair.
I still remember the rush — like every word I knew had vanished.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1FudZXeEF5
But she broke the silence first.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH2aaEp1Tzf
Anime. Books. Songs.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPfr4C5UST5
She read stories I loved.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnTRvSzRcAb
And she seemed like one.
Both a little introverted, both a little lost in our own worlds.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEJKNwy5Z2U
But somehow, we found each other in the same chapter.
She smiled when I spoke. I smiled because she listened.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7WBUge9TUU
Time blurred. The bell rang.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlvk9lDRmNE
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.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgKupkyj4qv
Afraid of saying too much.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1ztwtnLhKU
Afraid of being misunderstood.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsrluAaTnNg
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.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ09KW6ZKrqR
Distant. Quiet. But somehow... always there.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLdrdosFSk8
Not burning bright — just being.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyHNYYFVmsp
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.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡer1aipPD4d
Moved classes.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ85dMg2sKIB
Moved… away.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK2ijSt26gq
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?175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZR50r1hMxG
Or was this always the story of a fool who named a girl Seren,175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡckMJtrX5j1
and never found the courage to tell her why?
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