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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.292Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9L4DLr2kBH
In my class. Not with a bang — no. With a stillness that pulled me in.292Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2Rv2aP0qzX
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.292Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQNvWPhh3DE
A twist of fate, or maybe a cruel joke dressed as kindness.292Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡinBzd414wF
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.292Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmr5ECYALFl
And somehow… the universe whispered back.292Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUmDkrTwhtH
And somehow, she became my pair.
I still remember the rush — like every word I knew had vanished.292Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRAvzMkWhUo
But she broke the silence first.292Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk8fbQr1a4J
Anime. Books. Songs.292Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs0yyrSSX0b
She read stories I loved.292Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrp1OTphxUH
And she seemed like one.
Both a little introverted, both a little lost in our own worlds.292Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCotCtjkz4E
But somehow, we found each other in the same chapter.
She smiled when I spoke. I smiled because she listened.292Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ19bTetU828
Time blurred. The bell rang.292Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjsDZdvBGGG
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.292Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf6JJhE7Ehy
Afraid of saying too much.292Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpN2btHco4b
Afraid of being misunderstood.292Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqDuDhFi2iX
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.292Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCzeh6LCF2X
Distant. Quiet. But somehow... always there.292Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfjkWvnqfl2
Not burning bright — just being.292Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7K2eCIex0Y
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.292Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpvq7ni05NE
Moved classes.292Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbZMN1YwZob
Moved… away.292Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFtBz801nBz
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?292Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVyUCPiouxI
Or was this always the story of a fool who named a girl Seren,292Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4dYJlugBtk
and never found the courage to tell her why?
