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.51Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZXnJFnmrKi
In my class. Not with a bang — no. With a stillness that pulled me in.51Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwtyR2nrNQZ
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.51Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlVZWz0zedF
A twist of fate, or maybe a cruel joke dressed as kindness.51Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4ASEliJztj
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.51Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIV6zFaaxBS
And somehow… the universe whispered back.51Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDZI5TeCY4Z
And somehow, she became my pair.
I still remember the rush — like every word I knew had vanished.51Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMqkv56ksXR
But she broke the silence first.51Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLiMsGVnAom
Anime. Books. Songs.51Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvRiktUzj2Z
She read stories I loved.51Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQIB3y8YkJQ
And she seemed like one.
Both a little introverted, both a little lost in our own worlds.51Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTAAQH8MjRo
But somehow, we found each other in the same chapter.
She smiled when I spoke. I smiled because she listened.51Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO3baU0B4aF
Time blurred. The bell rang.51Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsgj69gNWpr
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.51Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpaKqiW876h
Afraid of saying too much.51Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHHbbC7dsmj
Afraid of being misunderstood.51Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHlV6tdMBrq
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.51Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIHrIO57BoD
Distant. Quiet. But somehow... always there.51Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpWKmfRVgVo
Not burning bright — just being.51Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxPFEX5XVCn
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.51Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC2rIT9lRDS
Moved classes.51Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGa4G0Vo49f
Moved… away.51Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwzBb8zrMH5
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?51Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHp9XXqvACQ
Or was this always the story of a fool who named a girl Seren,51Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6x5FWdoVZL
and never found the courage to tell her why?
and then Add to home screen.