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.306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCMUD2WdTqP
In my class. Not with a bang — no. With a stillness that pulled me in.306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwOt1adZx17
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.306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL0yQrGKRnj
A twist of fate, or maybe a cruel joke dressed as kindness.306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeEvRdwC2zm
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.306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsfxzVnoWyt
And somehow… the universe whispered back.306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoMXcUMZjZf
And somehow, she became my pair.
I still remember the rush — like every word I knew had vanished.306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJz3m19LXBV
But she broke the silence first.306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOlTrDYyawf
Anime. Books. Songs.306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxkgxV0o6Xx
She read stories I loved.306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvRhuFtytfx
And she seemed like one.
Both a little introverted, both a little lost in our own worlds.306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcdV0FGRnmR
But somehow, we found each other in the same chapter.
She smiled when I spoke. I smiled because she listened.306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdXkkorhHZY
Time blurred. The bell rang.306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIGH34SI9v9
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.306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡluUGBpHjo8
Afraid of saying too much.306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJegT3bnPlG
Afraid of being misunderstood.306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsAScG4HuoL
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.306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9u8mElEU2x
Distant. Quiet. But somehow... always there.306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ27OAXNZJkS
Not burning bright — just being.306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡshMv48hLj4
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.306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJeENYvQC1Q
Moved classes.306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdvn4ii48u3
Moved… away.306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3I0HstapaK
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?306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU3fz7g2v58
Or was this always the story of a fool who named a girl Seren,306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKy8ijsFXXu
and never found the courage to tell her why?
and then Add to home screen.