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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.54Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6licjyLkhC
In my class. Not with a bang — no. With a stillness that pulled me in.54Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV3XzLq9m8F
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.54Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNBQvUHTc7E
A twist of fate, or maybe a cruel joke dressed as kindness.54Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2Dh6FktDa2
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.54Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzAmIjE0BdF
And somehow… the universe whispered back.54Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYLoWbuwOk9
And somehow, she became my pair.
I still remember the rush — like every word I knew had vanished.54Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXNI0k44ndi
But she broke the silence first.54Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡauGdU0wThp
Anime. Books. Songs.54Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFBYt4DHE3o
She read stories I loved.54Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4bHrHlL11u
And she seemed like one.
Both a little introverted, both a little lost in our own worlds.54Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC5U5efka7z
But somehow, we found each other in the same chapter.
She smiled when I spoke. I smiled because she listened.54Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡklLthpqXI1
Time blurred. The bell rang.54Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT7XXG3VbFI
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.54Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK6OrTbt58B
Afraid of saying too much.54Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkvPv8ytrvf
Afraid of being misunderstood.54Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCi8e2wjAnV
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.54Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuGJsGrDJSU
Distant. Quiet. But somehow... always there.54Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPiA4lIbxrh
Not burning bright — just being.54Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkd9Z7h2cYc
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.54Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7YQS3QthGb
Moved classes.54Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8K06rVkLhe
Moved… away.54Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡivstrgvdSJ
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?54Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvkxHqS18A8
Or was this always the story of a fool who named a girl Seren,54Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh20B5E13hb
and never found the courage to tell her why?
