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.782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡesfWUojIIJ
In my class. Not with a bang — no. With a stillness that pulled me in.782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlfpD1ggRA1
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.782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrTXYFRYBuk
A twist of fate, or maybe a cruel joke dressed as kindness.782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1rObVafUT2
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.782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAsE5OZY4o6
And somehow… the universe whispered back.782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6r93pWfu0y
And somehow, she became my pair.
I still remember the rush — like every word I knew had vanished.782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN4rvvOGUKX
But she broke the silence first.782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJTcQooAumL
Anime. Books. Songs.782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuJWGYSGFVF
She read stories I loved.782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR62qaqrWfy
And she seemed like one.
Both a little introverted, both a little lost in our own worlds.782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWojY2WWBQh
But somehow, we found each other in the same chapter.
She smiled when I spoke. I smiled because she listened.782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRKey5jUpGM
Time blurred. The bell rang.782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGbch3WfMnF
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.782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7NJk7a0yDm
Afraid of saying too much.782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYpTFmDo852
Afraid of being misunderstood.782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtwM6ZSrBWC
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.782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmpr8bPAQSz
Distant. Quiet. But somehow... always there.782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzfLq915fa7
Not burning bright — just being.782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ45a5ANyXdt
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.782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe3VKdSoKnj
Moved classes.782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn6CIw41jVT
Moved… away.782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFfThoJv0PZ
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?782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaO4s8DQuAr
Or was this always the story of a fool who named a girl Seren,782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0v9UCGyjwi
and never found the courage to tell her why?
and then Add to home screen.