
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.184Please respect copyright.PENANAfO3I60rRjP
In my class. Not with a bang — no. With a stillness that pulled me in.184Please respect copyright.PENANAgDsCyO3iJ1
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.184Please respect copyright.PENANA7DZVYQZBwb
A twist of fate, or maybe a cruel joke dressed as kindness.184Please respect copyright.PENANATHd7keIHau
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.184Please respect copyright.PENANAzr0sOCFCuL
And somehow… the universe whispered back.184Please respect copyright.PENANAzqaAo7kfIt
And somehow, she became my pair.
I still remember the rush — like every word I knew had vanished.184Please respect copyright.PENANAl7qblJbzSz
But she broke the silence first.184Please respect copyright.PENANAD16a6XDswk
Anime. Books. Songs.184Please respect copyright.PENANAmKOTSFcVZ3
She read stories I loved.184Please respect copyright.PENANAZRWGtZvSCr
And she seemed like one.
Both a little introverted, both a little lost in our own worlds.184Please respect copyright.PENANAnk0aBQ5l7G
But somehow, we found each other in the same chapter.
She smiled when I spoke. I smiled because she listened.184Please respect copyright.PENANA8Rmkxfn9ld
Time blurred. The bell rang.184Please respect copyright.PENANAY7GDvlmCPu
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.184Please respect copyright.PENANA2OPH8vBORi
Afraid of saying too much.184Please respect copyright.PENANAy4zC8bmjlP
Afraid of being misunderstood.184Please respect copyright.PENANAsCWWEVY8aR
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.184Please respect copyright.PENANAzJIn786uvr
Distant. Quiet. But somehow... always there.184Please respect copyright.PENANAfY1w8Fyup8
Not burning bright — just being.184Please respect copyright.PENANAN49SNjLKjb
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.184Please respect copyright.PENANAXu0u2QB2e6
Moved classes.184Please respect copyright.PENANAGMl9Dq2w8H
Moved… away.184Please respect copyright.PENANAAVqrkSjLFV
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?184Please respect copyright.PENANAQAhyGQi0lx
Or was this always the story of a fool who named a girl Seren,184Please respect copyright.PENANAp18wWSIz6a
and never found the courage to tell her why?