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.317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvFqg1xAmaq
In my class. Not with a bang — no. With a stillness that pulled me in.317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4IInv9Mi7e
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.317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaBMmPqlUFY
A twist of fate, or maybe a cruel joke dressed as kindness.317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfroLdhqdHF
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.317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlJQCoAEE01
And somehow… the universe whispered back.317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlemoIfXSZY
And somehow, she became my pair.
I still remember the rush — like every word I knew had vanished.317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡexamCBhl8i
But she broke the silence first.317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyP8q9AKwgP
Anime. Books. Songs.317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUiipyxFXJH
She read stories I loved.317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxWaalKlyDb
And she seemed like one.
Both a little introverted, both a little lost in our own worlds.317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeSCGW7xcVm
But somehow, we found each other in the same chapter.
She smiled when I spoke. I smiled because she listened.317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsby9iOinnc
Time blurred. The bell rang.317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkQj7JLV6Bl
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.317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiVRg41ffWN
Afraid of saying too much.317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv0cjZa2w45
Afraid of being misunderstood.317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡflrMF99odh
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.317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkRGcth7xho
Distant. Quiet. But somehow... always there.317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtJOfJ2xouT
Not burning bright — just being.317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcbMZuXs85b
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.317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSY2NT6Gijk
Moved classes.317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl96FSqj4mk
Moved… away.317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡggaZ9ftl1r
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?317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUGicPt63Qz
Or was this always the story of a fool who named a girl Seren,317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWl3poxnh1c
and never found the courage to tell her why?
and then Add to home screen.