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.213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHakRrMZaF5
In my class. Not with a bang — no. With a stillness that pulled me in.213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6ij8ghJEE8
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.213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrXOJ2aM0cG
A twist of fate, or maybe a cruel joke dressed as kindness.213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxUfhVFxjCR
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.213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUoeSNhir2A
And somehow… the universe whispered back.213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6ts56paC9X
And somehow, she became my pair.
I still remember the rush — like every word I knew had vanished.213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZj0azfLKI6
But she broke the silence first.213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZapg6SCWkJ
Anime. Books. Songs.213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlI7yTUgtmm
She read stories I loved.213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw4SfY3kXic
And she seemed like one.
Both a little introverted, both a little lost in our own worlds.213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7EKPD8oCpe
But somehow, we found each other in the same chapter.
She smiled when I spoke. I smiled because she listened.213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAdbQtAwROb
Time blurred. The bell rang.213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ41hVhMVvbK
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.213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwcNQ0lCv4A
Afraid of saying too much.213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTp73IlDDEp
Afraid of being misunderstood.213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe647dQyEzZ
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.213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbS9W04gBdE
Distant. Quiet. But somehow... always there.213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNLa4DFidCi
Not burning bright — just being.213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXdd1bkmCIu
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.213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlELZihb4Ty
Moved classes.213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe0TwSQ4lR8
Moved… away.213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwUR5etOhaG
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?213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKtE4AGhKLq
Or was this always the story of a fool who named a girl Seren,213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhlMR91Cf6H
and never found the courage to tell her why?
and then Add to home screen.