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.174Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIwS7kXTdkp
In my class. Not with a bang — no. With a stillness that pulled me in.174Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5rfkkMrmw2
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.174Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBuJUvbOzWY
A twist of fate, or maybe a cruel joke dressed as kindness.174Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXFJB2M5fTT
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.174Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdx7ccPQ2PO
And somehow… the universe whispered back.174Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp2J64M641n
And somehow, she became my pair.
I still remember the rush — like every word I knew had vanished.174Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqQBDawlX7X
But she broke the silence first.174Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK4VcWN5L6e
Anime. Books. Songs.174Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8ImYJpd4SQ
She read stories I loved.174Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdFwxpc5teE
And she seemed like one.
Both a little introverted, both a little lost in our own worlds.174Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMC4F5zuzGq
But somehow, we found each other in the same chapter.
She smiled when I spoke. I smiled because she listened.174Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5YdAOXdo9O
Time blurred. The bell rang.174Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjyzeOmy9RH
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.174Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMWGnQKk2hb
Afraid of saying too much.174Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXRR6LFQIqf
Afraid of being misunderstood.174Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVjEe6gVgUp
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.174Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ07S0lA5Xum
Distant. Quiet. But somehow... always there.174Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlATSopypHR
Not burning bright — just being.174Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxJvqj70Bs7
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.174Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeH6cUQr1P3
Moved classes.174Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyhd9bd2QgE
Moved… away.174Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiDrtFYujgm
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?174Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX4VoiKOnGP
Or was this always the story of a fool who named a girl Seren,174Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV7543pDok4
and never found the courage to tell her why?
and then Add to home screen.