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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.55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIFj3G7eSRD
In my class. Not with a bang — no. With a stillness that pulled me in.55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4zyzp9I4tq
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.55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE7OHGzAY5Y
A twist of fate, or maybe a cruel joke dressed as kindness.55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd6fr1OsZYN
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.55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlTm7Bms2Lj
And somehow… the universe whispered back.55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHFYdAuX4pK
And somehow, she became my pair.
I still remember the rush — like every word I knew had vanished.55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRTeTMGb0IR
But she broke the silence first.55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnlryDHpMSc
Anime. Books. Songs.55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡERgJGicLnO
She read stories I loved.55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUq677sv2E1
And she seemed like one.
Both a little introverted, both a little lost in our own worlds.55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9uPWH59Mao
But somehow, we found each other in the same chapter.
She smiled when I spoke. I smiled because she listened.55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjrOe8FMF5D
Time blurred. The bell rang.55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXVF3IKWNOE
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.55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkjQfZshrk6
Afraid of saying too much.55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTiWXNKdm4E
Afraid of being misunderstood.55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ15BxShTZn5
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.55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuLHf9fPfSH
Distant. Quiet. But somehow... always there.55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAGw5BJ7LIV
Not burning bright — just being.55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJk7MHYXmjl
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.55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnwUjNt6een
Moved classes.55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE7GBjwyv8S
Moved… away.55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ591xYaUbO2
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?55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR1YwgmejoT
Or was this always the story of a fool who named a girl Seren,55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaFhz2KNmA8
and never found the courage to tell her why?
