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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.322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPVeynLPDCr
In my class. Not with a bang — no. With a stillness that pulled me in.322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEH3e2xSskS
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.322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKFJmu3T95o
A twist of fate, or maybe a cruel joke dressed as kindness.322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0HGL1dm0Hn
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.322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtC8pTVcLxr
And somehow… the universe whispered back.322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOXkPjKsbG8
And somehow, she became my pair.
I still remember the rush — like every word I knew had vanished.322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmDig5B1SJC
But she broke the silence first.322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjkjU5tTzi8
Anime. Books. Songs.322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4FtxE1Dlkv
She read stories I loved.322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNuaV1kqDRL
And she seemed like one.
Both a little introverted, both a little lost in our own worlds.322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4T7VMY0uiB
But somehow, we found each other in the same chapter.
She smiled when I spoke. I smiled because she listened.322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJKWw9lN50h
Time blurred. The bell rang.322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEoZ7Zj5DAN
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.322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7TjQKeCzUF
Afraid of saying too much.322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWIoBMcDAVs
Afraid of being misunderstood.322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9pyCRkWMRw
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.322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡke5xK40DrX
Distant. Quiet. But somehow... always there.322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVbg5jXQS7i
Not burning bright — just being.322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQpp3vlcquX
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.322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzEOx70nxTe
Moved classes.322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVfIuvMNeiH
Moved… away.322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMfSnZQXh7T
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?322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuuQFeMmUnQ
Or was this always the story of a fool who named a girl Seren,322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3SYYKdjCYS
and never found the courage to tell her why?
