𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐬 𝟓 𝐨𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟎 𝐖𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐱𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐦𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐀𝐮 ✨

𝑰𝒏𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒔 ☆

Dedicated to sleepywoonie and xuniqrose

It all starts with a small constellation still fragmented, six small stars abandoned to themselves along the banks of the Seine, not yet realizing that they need each other.

Paris 5 October 2020

The sound of the flowing water acted as a lullaby to that autumn evening. Wei Ying sat silently on one of the benches scattered on the bank of the Seine River. Her black hair, long down to the base of her back, fluttered under the force of short but continuous bursts of wind. They repeatedly slammed on his shoulder at the end of the fall, colliding with his long black coat. The thin face, however, was hiding in the collar of the shirt, leaving the nose out as red as the cheeks. The hands remained still in their pockets as if abandoned. They remained there to hide their long, tapered fingers together with the snow-colored nails. He sat there with his legs crossed, in the miserable and faint light of a lamppost. He watched the other side of the river as if enchanted, his almond-shaped eyes half closed. He remained motionless, doing nothing, waiting for time to flow like small waves of ink over the railing. His thoughts were lost in the noise of cars, which passed on the bridge not far away, or in the faint voices of the few people who walked. He did not know what often pushed him to remain motionless. Why didn't it move? Why didn't he walk instead of sitting? Yet those observations did not touch him, he was too busy silencing any sensation that was preparing to hit him. He took a deep breath until his nostrils stung from the cold, hitting himself in an automatic reaction shortly after, curling up in his coat. He felt alone, on that cold evening, where not even the stars could keep him company.

Yet at that moment Wei Ying was wrong ...

Other small 5 stars sat in solitude on one of the benches of the Seine river, some with music too loud, some who cried, some with hot tea in their hands, some with a drawing pad to impress their feelings, some with a smile on the lips. All were divided between the north and south banks, still small, dull, unable to give off their glow.
Six small stars were wandering on the banks of that immense river, suffocated by the city lights, without knowing that they belong to one and only constellation ... And I was one of them.

Wei Ying stayed a few seconds longer to watch the water flow. The Seine River was one of the most beautiful places, even when it was small it often went there. With his family he went for walks in the moonlight. He loved that place even though he preferred it in the evening, when there was hardly anyone there during the autumn period. He waited a few seconds, getting up once he heard a particularly annoying hiss; he glanced at the other side, as if looking for that invisible noise. He felt the air blowing light on her face like an imperceptible caress perhaps, but I felt it. Every time he looked at the body of water, he wondered if other people could see the dark aura of silence and the shadows that surrounded him like a cloak. It seemed as if its DNA was different from others, as if it had been modified. Every time she walked by that river she felt like a very strong emotion and the clear feeling that fate was reserving her a surprise of unknown entity.

He shrugged his angular shoulders, letting his hair sway before his eyes. I heard his voice, a melodious voice accompanied by a loud laugh. Small steps that get closer and closer from afar. His heart began to beat frantically. He approached and with his soft lips kissed him, a soft kiss to the touch. It was light and delicate as if he was afraid of hurting me. I let myself go and with a touch of fear I moved away from a kiss that seemed infinite. New emotions at times fearful; Yes I was afraid, afraid that our love would not last. I hid from my fears while he kept repeating the same phrase to me: - "We were two stars belonging to a large galaxy, which will be infinite as long as it lives". I realized later in time that the infinite was there ... he was my infinite, he was my reason for living, the only person who would have been close to me until I died ...

We were two lost souls and only one path. Destined to be together. Small stars fell into this immense sky made of large luminous points that with their light illuminated this great void. Light steps and nervous breaths ... I felt this the first day I met you, you met by chance on the banks of the Seine. Time stopped, our meeting had been written in the firmament ... Galaxies so far and so close, everything seemed clear and even nothing makes sense. I was looking for and looking for lies in the large meadow, I smiled and turned around in search of the only thing that made me alive and happy ... And then I saw you, a beautiful creature who spoke to me with great grace, was it perhaps a dream or a reality? One last look, one last smile and everything disappears. You are there and you are not there! You are perhaps nothing or eternal. I realized that my world was you and that not even time would have corroded us. Like a diamond we will shine in the sky and be together forever. With our kiss we had sealed our eternal love, leaving an indelible mark on the city of Paris that he and I had loved so much.