
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.323Please respect copyright.PENANAzxUZqgt5Me
In my class. Not with a bang — no. With a stillness that pulled me in.323Please respect copyright.PENANAiE7NuOzsy9
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.323Please respect copyright.PENANA8AhQAlcmOj
A twist of fate, or maybe a cruel joke dressed as kindness.323Please respect copyright.PENANAhSlPGFenj7
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.323Please respect copyright.PENANAdybNgaOPIF
And somehow… the universe whispered back.323Please respect copyright.PENANAm6fGQs7fYa
And somehow, she became my pair.
I still remember the rush — like every word I knew had vanished.323Please respect copyright.PENANAripfaBvtRL
But she broke the silence first.323Please respect copyright.PENANAtkvinfCXJD
Anime. Books. Songs.323Please respect copyright.PENANAQAIC3i3BFT
She read stories I loved.323Please respect copyright.PENANA9udm9DDgfe
And she seemed like one.
Both a little introverted, both a little lost in our own worlds.323Please respect copyright.PENANAbemVQrXkGL
But somehow, we found each other in the same chapter.
She smiled when I spoke. I smiled because she listened.323Please respect copyright.PENANA7IlceLRgoS
Time blurred. The bell rang.323Please respect copyright.PENANAlndqq3JHLg
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.323Please respect copyright.PENANAhKUQvYl6fo
Afraid of saying too much.323Please respect copyright.PENANAXbR9ieE46w
Afraid of being misunderstood.323Please respect copyright.PENANALO5DKw1ACk
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.323Please respect copyright.PENANASJFMqs5wIt
Distant. Quiet. But somehow... always there.323Please respect copyright.PENANAbpCb0k6TNa
Not burning bright — just being.323Please respect copyright.PENANAII57MGcpNO
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.323Please respect copyright.PENANAOlq4XcUX9n
Moved classes.323Please respect copyright.PENANAiAcBAaKjLz
Moved… away.323Please respect copyright.PENANATcz10FhP08
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?323Please respect copyright.PENANABpM7oLKLNp
Or was this always the story of a fool who named a girl Seren,323Please respect copyright.PENANAUYVNrVC5Vl
and never found the courage to tell her why?