"The stars look beautiful today..." Tae says reluctantly.
I chuckle at how flustered he looked and ask, "yeah they are, you know who else is beautiful?" he blushes and flashes a wide grin.
"Suga! He's my bias and he's mine. He looks so ethereal ahhh...." I say and snap back to reality.
He looks at me and mouths a 'seriously?' while I took out my phone. I scroll through my gallery and open an album named 'lil meow meow' and show Tae all the pics.
He patiently listens to me rant about how perfect Yoongi looks and finally places a hand over my mouth to stop me. He parks the car next to a huge tree and both of us walk to a park.
We sit on the bench and take a deep breath and inhale the fresh air. Looking at the starry sky, I chuckle and say, "Isn't it sad how the stars are stuck in a position and are bound to stay there permanently? They have no choice but to disappear once the sun comes out. Like cowards, they shine only when the whole world is sleeping..."
"But they still shine. Even if no one admires them late at night, they still shine, unmindful of any recognition. The ones who don't appreciate their beauty are idiots, busy sleeping, and assume they're superior. Little do they know how the stars move with fantastic speeds and we humans are nothing in front of them. Indeed, they don't get appreciated enough for twinkling so bright, but the night sky would just be empty and useless without the stars."
".... but come on, we humans are definitely superior. We were the ones who came up with the theory of constellations and bullshit. The sun is the one with an insolent demeanour. How selfish it is to steal the stage light of poor side roles. Well, the stars still have to shine and waste energy to make something else beautiful. Do they even have a say when the sun comes? I'm a star. A star who burns to pleasure the dark sky, just a star amidst million brighter ones, a star up there all alone " I say with a sigh.
He looks into my eyes with a sad smile. His eyes, shining like one of the stars strangely comforts me.
"... a star who's the sun of a different solar system. It doesn't mean you aren't the sun of a different planetary system. Just a star to this planet, but an everything to someone else. Earth is just a huge chunk of soil supporting billions of stupid earthlings. If not earth, you can be and will be the brightest star for a different planet, and I, Kim Taehyung will live there. Live on a planet where only you are the most radiant and will never give up admiring you. I'll be an alien, your alien!" he says with a wide grin.
I giggle at how he managed to change the depressing mood so quickly with just a smile. We talk for a while about his childhood and how he hated maths. He was pretty intelligent though, even I couldn't have come up with such a deep understanding of a mere star.
"I've been talking about myself for so long... let's talk about you!" he says and turns to me.
"I.... hated my childhood. Going to school with an empty stomach after feeding the only slices of bread to Seok Woo, working in three part-time jobs to suffice the monthly expenses, and sleeping for just two hours every day because I had no time to study in the morning. I had to go through all this because I lost my parents in a car accident. I'm not going to blame them though. I just wish... I was the one who died instead of them."
He frowns at me and puts an arm around my shoulder. As his warm palms reassure me, he says, "Hey! it'll be dark then!"
"What will be dark?" I ask perplexed.
"My universe. My universe will be dark if the brightest star disappears. What did this poor alien do to get punished so cruelly?" he says with a pout.
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I laugh at his comment and remove his hands. As he interlocks his fingers with mine, I hear a click sound. Before I could turn to check where the sound had come from, he asks, "have you dated anyone?"
Looking at me avert my gaze, he cackles at how embarrassed I was. "Stayed single for a long time, huh?" he asks, covering his mouth.
I scoff at him and pull my hands away. "At least a crush?" he asks again, eagerly waiting for an answer.
"Hmm... not exactly crush but I had developed an infatuation with my math teacher and I kinda liked B-Bang Han Gyeol. Guess what! I even asked him out once! He just friend-zoned me and didn't give a shit about my feelings. He also told the whole college that I liked him. That's why I've decided to never fall in love. He literally played with my feelings, but I still can't get myself to hate him. First love sucks..." I say thoughtlessly.
"Ok, that's crazy. Well honestly, even I liked my senior once. I guess her name was Baek Aera," he adds.
