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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.323Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu5YZJgzH8L
In my class. Not with a bang — no. With a stillness that pulled me in.323Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡulTAWBbu7t
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.323Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuIrlBCw8Kz
A twist of fate, or maybe a cruel joke dressed as kindness.323Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUY7gQuY432
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.323Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuJ4F6aWoTU
And somehow… the universe whispered back.323Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSZWqdomvxJ
And somehow, she became my pair.
I still remember the rush — like every word I knew had vanished.323Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzoDDZhTtxA
But she broke the silence first.323Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWfkLhdF3k5
Anime. Books. Songs.323Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHrAnCmQOPk
She read stories I loved.323Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8CA1YUYv1v
And she seemed like one.
Both a little introverted, both a little lost in our own worlds.323Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr6TCy0kn60
But somehow, we found each other in the same chapter.
She smiled when I spoke. I smiled because she listened.323Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoxJ12Ehzf3
Time blurred. The bell rang.323Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrLM2ysq8BH
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.323Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKHqvdR53Vt
Afraid of saying too much.323Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmbKVf0DGY0
Afraid of being misunderstood.323Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjZb61vYSBy
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.323Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNIFke49Lww
Distant. Quiet. But somehow... always there.323Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡouxWJwXWja
Not burning bright — just being.323Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡconYJjtG9L
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.323Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3BzNNH4gA9
Moved classes.323Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMLMvYtLCOg
Moved… away.323Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2bmODqZVjJ
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?323Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhM5SJMb87g
Or was this always the story of a fool who named a girl Seren,323Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7pkBKCybok
and never found the courage to tell her why?
