
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?