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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.350Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF5whkRt7XV
In my class. Not with a bang — no. With a stillness that pulled me in.350Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡldJPasZoe1
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.350Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8X9aTQO15r
A twist of fate, or maybe a cruel joke dressed as kindness.350Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8nX36ehf9f
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.350Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg4N0xQyKE1
And somehow… the universe whispered back.350Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwWFAehCaVX
And somehow, she became my pair.
I still remember the rush — like every word I knew had vanished.350Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9wjJqgJDvu
But she broke the silence first.350Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4rTwVr5X4k
Anime. Books. Songs.350Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHgiIPGCAK4
She read stories I loved.350Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkLiRJZT5cB
And she seemed like one.
Both a little introverted, both a little lost in our own worlds.350Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0iUqZ1fB43
But somehow, we found each other in the same chapter.
She smiled when I spoke. I smiled because she listened.350Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe0tdwzMBea
Time blurred. The bell rang.350Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKwUHZm9Ofx
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.350Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrpQxVM8Evy
Afraid of saying too much.350Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF6cJKjUEQx
Afraid of being misunderstood.350Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPt5jYmB13T
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.350Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOkvqMvRnEF
Distant. Quiet. But somehow... always there.350Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp566n6cx2X
Not burning bright — just being.350Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpbK5G5Gghm
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.350Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzLqtHaZowx
Moved classes.350Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLHBihkdHW9
Moved… away.350Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHETMsK0G1r
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?350Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmdyACJoKzt
Or was this always the story of a fool who named a girl Seren,350Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg1JmKB5lpV
and never found the courage to tell her why?
