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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.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?
