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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.242Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy6Pd9wqMQM
In my class. Not with a bang — no. With a stillness that pulled me in.242Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0QVj9Ya8oL
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.242Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7Tq2HL2ULR
A twist of fate, or maybe a cruel joke dressed as kindness.242Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJnsdsA6C1w
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.242Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡupusi5lWZk
And somehow… the universe whispered back.242Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnfQfQc2zme
And somehow, she became my pair.
I still remember the rush — like every word I knew had vanished.242Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqqqBGZyqNE
But she broke the silence first.242Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl0xL9RYusL
Anime. Books. Songs.242Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8WbUYLADkm
She read stories I loved.242Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrVKEW5IhZZ
And she seemed like one.
Both a little introverted, both a little lost in our own worlds.242Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS9S2PnTWEW
But somehow, we found each other in the same chapter.
She smiled when I spoke. I smiled because she listened.242Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTUMpWcnzIm
Time blurred. The bell rang.242Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvW1TPhuwet
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.242Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ03wfJnOY4x
Afraid of saying too much.242Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8wFasGGHAN
Afraid of being misunderstood.242Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEcsWZTeFOF
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.242Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡboRd4fGIGa
Distant. Quiet. But somehow... always there.242Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyFVemnbdOA
Not burning bright — just being.242Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNVmVmY616v
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.242Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL8K1JHCU7m
Moved classes.242Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj3XJjQ0cYo
Moved… away.242Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGS8JNm6LwA
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?242Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxcxXp1XhSr
Or was this always the story of a fool who named a girl Seren,242Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNhVuaJeeGX
and never found the courage to tell her why?
