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.291Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCHebMFNewZ
In my class. Not with a bang — no. With a stillness that pulled me in.291Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡphhGGNZbQQ
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.291Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡngm7T8awkN
A twist of fate, or maybe a cruel joke dressed as kindness.291Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAtNLw4Empi
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.291Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8HjTUNmaSl
And somehow… the universe whispered back.291Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2eQbWZsBgi
And somehow, she became my pair.
I still remember the rush — like every word I knew had vanished.291Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfDhzNvv0fb
But she broke the silence first.291Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAsESESAFOW
Anime. Books. Songs.291Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZtfKBu3k3D
She read stories I loved.291Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXYCnqAaMaO
And she seemed like one.
Both a little introverted, both a little lost in our own worlds.291Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfSINzeHlFi
But somehow, we found each other in the same chapter.
She smiled when I spoke. I smiled because she listened.291Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYoNIiuvmnn
Time blurred. The bell rang.291Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2r3xPyVP1q
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.291Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM5mCq5K4n1
Afraid of saying too much.291Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkmFABsGJ5G
Afraid of being misunderstood.291Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡflWTTcoYtZ
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.291Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUXmoLuWZ63
Distant. Quiet. But somehow... always there.291Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFpVqA0YE25
Not burning bright — just being.291Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8zCtFUL6lW
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.291Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYZE1dFfA1p
Moved classes.291Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpl8gcQfgUl
Moved… away.291Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3wQ0XqSGzD
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?291Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQQ45bygUjh
Or was this always the story of a fool who named a girl Seren,291Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQVBHE0aIyP
and never found the courage to tell her why?
and then Add to home screen.