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.94Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnI9cGQJtrJ
In my class. Not with a bang — no. With a stillness that pulled me in.94Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8p7yTMUMOl
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.94Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkiltr0OzYV
A twist of fate, or maybe a cruel joke dressed as kindness.94Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4jf7bigAqt
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.94Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5t0iAEayxv
And somehow… the universe whispered back.94Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ993ZtR3COI
And somehow, she became my pair.
I still remember the rush — like every word I knew had vanished.94Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoZOHanTqOS
But she broke the silence first.94Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGJ1FrN091c
Anime. Books. Songs.94Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDx7RdwkoSv
She read stories I loved.94Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkFg3TIjAUw
And she seemed like one.
Both a little introverted, both a little lost in our own worlds.94Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHmMheESepc
But somehow, we found each other in the same chapter.
She smiled when I spoke. I smiled because she listened.94Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJpxiN3pU9u
Time blurred. The bell rang.94Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4H90dTP31e
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.94Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6OZrZnl1C5
Afraid of saying too much.94Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjvrBAIdvKc
Afraid of being misunderstood.94Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQaPeKwxnKC
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.94Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMv8m8fctp7
Distant. Quiet. But somehow... always there.94Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7taFWtzLk1
Not burning bright — just being.94Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgE0IIXnXXv
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.94Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6SqIqoMwlm
Moved classes.94Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBTSM4vqhjW
Moved… away.94Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr28AV6laaE
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?94Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVdRiwKoJzu
Or was this always the story of a fool who named a girl Seren,94Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGd6fVRwSph
and never found the courage to tell her why?
and then Add to home screen.