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.394Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlLKkEzfLTx
In my class. Not with a bang — no. With a stillness that pulled me in.394Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡloJvbnMS7I
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.394Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCMyxWxrS3F
A twist of fate, or maybe a cruel joke dressed as kindness.394Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAfsrZi0G01
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.394Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0uNIdlKAYv
And somehow… the universe whispered back.394Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUjndCQPMz5
And somehow, she became my pair.
I still remember the rush — like every word I knew had vanished.394Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv33TSRhoiK
But she broke the silence first.394Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAVLh7Nup5v
Anime. Books. Songs.394Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6a5LyvAQva
She read stories I loved.394Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIrbEG3Ornm
And she seemed like one.
Both a little introverted, both a little lost in our own worlds.394Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEvlOTPV3YQ
But somehow, we found each other in the same chapter.
She smiled when I spoke. I smiled because she listened.394Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvNkDCR02dm
Time blurred. The bell rang.394Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrxv2GWEyhE
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.394Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd6JU9bScH7
Afraid of saying too much.394Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDCZsSWwJRN
Afraid of being misunderstood.394Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwlZCMbh7P0
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.394Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡccs7IASKoP
Distant. Quiet. But somehow... always there.394Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXXF48uvS13
Not burning bright — just being.394Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK7VltAxtL6
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.394Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsTlmDNQNEN
Moved classes.394Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoSG1erGvEq
Moved… away.394Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs7qRCEA3Al
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?394Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQDoZqbITpk
Or was this always the story of a fool who named a girl Seren,394Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdWFUwyqRnh
and never found the courage to tell her why?
and then Add to home screen.