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.47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSjjJCOl2OJ
In my class. Not with a bang — no. With a stillness that pulled me in.47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs6MFYyDOj9
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.47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtnjdVkCccL
A twist of fate, or maybe a cruel joke dressed as kindness.47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK9apHxegIJ
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.47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLY0vOmXL7j
And somehow… the universe whispered back.47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4jL9FsvjCG
And somehow, she became my pair.
I still remember the rush — like every word I knew had vanished.47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV3icIDOK7b
But she broke the silence first.47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSQgPfTjv0X
Anime. Books. Songs.47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3k8XmgxqMc
She read stories I loved.47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnZlr34Tkai
And she seemed like one.
Both a little introverted, both a little lost in our own worlds.47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ97uhHfGx6a
But somehow, we found each other in the same chapter.
She smiled when I spoke. I smiled because she listened.47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAO3VrUsEzD
Time blurred. The bell rang.47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdIhY2msSe6
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.47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDEDJIppBGW
Afraid of saying too much.47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡik6Lp0Hb3l
Afraid of being misunderstood.47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4897dPw5wv
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.47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi8zOLqjgvH
Distant. Quiet. But somehow... always there.47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7UfltuMsoI
Not burning bright — just being.47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYVFGFompSw
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.47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJOPzFsBULq
Moved classes.47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNKxM9JEugs
Moved… away.47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfol4UKgSGk
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?47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbI5MZ11ZXa
Or was this always the story of a fool who named a girl Seren,47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhWbhZcR2AY
and never found the courage to tell her why?
and then Add to home screen.