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“A falling star fell from your heart and landed in my eyes
I screamed aloud, as it tore through them, and now it's left me blind“
“Hello,” a giggle had escaped from the boy with glittering bright blonde hair, as he sat on an open field with a small crater lying beneath him. The boy wore silky white clothing that shimmered and seems to be the brightest sight among the current darkness.
No. Yoongi thought the brightest sight was the boy himself and the smile that was directed at him.
“Hello?” Yoongi questioned confuse as ever for the boy he is talking with had appeared out of nowhere when Yoongi had thought he was chasing a falling star with hope in his heart. The boy tilted his head as his eyes meant Yoongi’s, the boy had a look that spoke centuries of wonder in his gaze.
“My name's Park Jimin what is yours?”
The boy said with the most soft-spoken voice Yoongi has ever heard.
For a second Yoongi thought he can almost feel a light touch of warmness to his heart that has been frozen over and left to rot for years now. He tries to lift his lips into a gentle smile, his dry lips cracking not use to the new motion.
“My name is Min Yoongi.” He said and the boy beamed brighter as he waved at Yoongi.
“It’s nice to meet Yoongi-ssi! I’m the star you wished upon.”
“No dawn, no day, I'm always in this twilight
In the shadow of your heart”
Yoongi lied in the quiet field as flowers and wheat grass surrounded him, ever so softly moving with the graceful touch of the wind. His thoughts consuming him until he was drowning in a world, not of his liking. Even with the radiating sun beaming down on him, Yoongi could only see darkness. No sun was bright enough to break through his facade abyss.
“Yoongi hyung !!! Look it's so pretty!!!”
Yoongi turned his head towards the voice that has called him. There he was, Jimin. His own fallen star granted to him by his own wish. Jimin wanders over to him, laying down beside him as he held up a bundle of baby breaths, his soft giggles flowing amongst the open air.
“I’ve always love flowers...but I only got to gaze at them from afar.” Jimin twirled the flowers in his hands giving them a fond smile.
Yoongi turns his head to the side so he may gaze at the boy who was emitting a golden glow beneath the sun, filling Yoongi chest with unfamiliar warmth again. Jimin turns his head as well to match Yoongi's longingly gazed, reaching out a hand he gently pushed Yoongi’s hair behind his ear and placed a single baby breath right where his hair used to be. Jimin smiled softly
“Hyung...the flowers may be beautiful but they will never be as ethereal as you are.”
Yoongi felt his heart stuttered, for the dark abyss that’s not visual to any other eyes but his, seem to have grown a single tiny crack letting in a small vibrate ray of light and if Yoongi reach out his hand to touch the light he knows he would feel the comfort of warmth along his fingertips.
It was small but it was the first light he has seen in his abyss.
“in the dark, I can hear your heartbeat
I tried to find the sound
But then it stopped, and I was in the darkness,
So darkness I became.”
It was only the two of them on the land that held Yoongi’s cottage isolated from the real world but finding comfort within each other through subtle touches that Yoongi as comes to search for from Jimin. They find life through the sweet whispers they share in the night under the stars, they find warmth through the smiles they give in the early cold mornings and they find a lost love through the passing gazes of each other's eyes.
The crack in Yoongi abyss slowly growing and letting in more warmth.
He finds that his favorite song is the laugh that bubbles deep within from Jimin chest everytime Yoongi does something clumsy, he tries to resemble the sound through the melody of his piano.
They’ve grown towards each other something intimate blooming between the two souls.
Yoongi was coming to realize what happiness meant again…but
Yoongi should have known better... eventually the light will always burn out.
“The stars, the moon, they have all been blown out
You left me in the dark”
The rain pelted down hard on the cottage windows and thunder boom in the sky shaking the roof ever so slightly. Yoongi was lost in the keys of his piano, the final play of a finished song that fills the dusty empty pages of his Journal that held forgotten songs until now.
Yoongi lets a smile grace his face an expression he hasn't known in years as he plays the tune of a certain boy’s laugh through a melody, putting all the unsaid words within a single song. As Yoongi was about to play the last note lighting struck above and a deeply unsettling feeling resonated within his soul.
The noted ended in a sour sound and any traces of happiness wipe itself clear of Yoongi's face. He notices the deathly silence of his home frantically looking around there was not a trace of light shining through.
Where was Jimin?
Yoongi got up and ran his instincts taking him to the cold outside that was shrouded in darkness from the storm. Barefooted and loose clothes becoming soaked from the rain, he ran until he was standing in the middle of the field where he first meant the light of his life.
“JIMIN!” Yoongi's voice carried with the storm.
Jimin turn around he had put on the clothing that he first came with but not a drop of rain had tainted his light. As he looks at Yoongi from afar he could see sadness written in his eyes.
Yoongi ran closer until he was just inches away from Jimin
“Yoongi hyung….” Jimin whisper. Yoongi notices he had residue of tears left on his round cheeks.
“When stars are wished upon...often not we do not grant those wishes...we know it tends to only end in sadness. Stars are always meant to return to the sky Hyung..” Jimin spoked softly as he looks up at the sky with a sense of dread.
Yoongi breath hitched at Jimin’s words he could see his light slowly slipping away through the cracks in his abyss.
“No dawn, no day, I'm always in this twilight
In the shadow of your heart”
“Jimin...you don’t mean-“
“Your wanting was so strong Hyung...the sadness that surrounded you caused my heart to ache. I don’t know what it was but I couldn’t hold back. I came down for you in hopes to bring light in your life again...but like all stars, I had fallen for a love bigger than the cosmic itself.”
Jimin turns to Yoongi slowly decreasing the space between them until he could clutch the ending fabric of Yoongi’s sleeve in his fist.
Yoongi didn’t hesitate as he gently cupped Jimin face in his hands, his thumb slowly tracing soothing circles upon his cheeks.
“Jimin you did bring light in my life...you are the only light I have. You have broken walls I build to stay forever, You have brought a soothing melody into my home again. I-I’m not sure what you mean...but I believe stars such as you deserve love too.”
Yoongi whisper a secret shared just for Jimin who only let his tears fall as he gazed longingly at Yoongi. He reached up and squeezed Yoongi’s wrists in his tiny hands.
“I was afraid so….The stars they call me back Yoongi. My place is in the sky not on earth.” Jimin cried
“Your place can be with me Jimin.” Yoongi desperately pleated
“If I stay….I turn to stardust.” Jimin confessed.
Yoongi felt his heart shattered once again as he too let out a sob of sadness.
“I-I love you Jimin…” Yoongi spoke through his sobs. Jimin squeezed his wrist tighter.
“I love you too Hyung. please never forget that never let the light leave you again. Learn to love again for I will always watch over you from afar Hyung.” Jimin whisper as he leaned his forehead on Yoongi’s, both of them breathing each other’s scent into memory.
Yoongi could see the light around Jimin growing stronger but he squeezed his eyes shut, therefore, he could pretend the unsettling isn't happening.
“Remember I will always shine for you and only you.”
Jimin closed the distance as he ever so softly placed his lips on Yoongi’s. They both stilled just taking in the feel of each other’s soft plush lips. Yoongi grasped Jimin’s face a little tighter moving his lips slowly with Jimin not ever wanting to let go.
He could taste the saltiness of Jimin tears but he didn’t care when the taste of love was stronger.
The kiss shattered his abyss
The kiss felt as warm as the sun
The kiss illuminated a million stars behind his eyelids.
And just as quick as lighting the kiss had disappeared in a flash.
Yoongi opens his eyes only to confirm his light had left him, the trace of warmth replace with the coldness of the outside. Spikes of electricity left in his fingertips the only reminder his star was once present.
He fell to his knees as a scream tore from deep within him.
This time Yoongi welcomed the darkness.
“I took the stars from our eyes, and then I made a map
And knew that somehow I could find my way back”
Yoongi lost count of how many nights have passed for he did not care, not finding an ounce of will left in him. Any source of light stayed off in his home, for now, light only brought sadness for what he longs for and could never had.
One late night where Yoongi sorrows were drowning him the most and the rain once again was pelting his windows, did he happen to stumble into the room where his piano stayed.
His music sheets left skewed just as he left them that dreadful night. A finished song waiting to be played but never heard by the one it was written for.
Yoongi frowned.
Jimin never got to hear his song. He never got to listen to Yoongi’s unsaid words, his true emotions and he absolutely couldn’t have that.
Jimin last words playing as a broken record in his memory
“I will always watch over you from afar Hyung.”
Yoongi didn’t think twice as he threw everything off his piano, and search for a roped finding one in his shed, he ran back to his house tying up his piano that was luckily on wheels and placing the small bench on top. He gripped the rope in his hands and eyed the outside taking in the beginning night.
Jimin will hear his song.
Mustering up every ounce of strength Yoongi had, he pulled the piano outside of his house managing to get it out through his back door. He did not stop no matter how much his muscles protested, no matter how much the rope burn his palms, he kept on pulling until the piano settles in the middle of the field with the many haunting memories.
The rain came down hard.
Yoongi deeply inhaled as he sat down on the bench in front of his piano.
“Jimin please hear my song...please let the stars accept my love for you.” He whispered.
Yoongi poured all the lasting of his emotions into the melody he played through the piano. It sounded louder than the rain and the rustling of the wheat around him. His music carried with the wind to the open sky where the stars seem to shine a bit brighter.
He played the sweet laughter Jimin made everytime Yoongi cracked a joke,
He played the soft touches of comfort they would share when Yoongi thoughts consumed him,
He played the sweet morning smell of breakfast he would share with Jimin,
He played the warmth he felt when Jimin came into his life,
He played the secret whispers full of love they shared.
Yoongi stopped playing for a brief second until he played again but this time he added the heartbreaking melody of the day the thunder clapped
The melody of the rain and the last taste of the sweetest lips he’s ever known.
He played his lost love for the boy in the sky.
“Then I heard your heart beating, you were in the darkness too
So I stayed in the darkness with you”
Yoongi played Jimin song every night, each night his longing and his only wish getting stronger, each night his darkness only getting more prominent when everytime he glances up to the stars at the end of his song and he would see a single one shining brighter than any of the others.
Knowing that was his star that was out of reach.
Yoongi played and played with his hope slowly dimming from his heart when each passing night he was still alone. Yoongi played until his finger bled from blisters until his hands were so sore he could barely move them, he played even through the pain. He cried each time he played. The longing of warmth more painful than his hands.
Yoongi played until he had broke. His song came to abrupt end in the quiet night, the skies were clear, the stars now noticeable more than ever but felt as if they were taunting him now.
Yoongi wailed as his hand cried in pain and his heart shatter.
He had to keep playing for Jimin, for his star but he couldn’t bring himself to play anymore mentally or physically. He let his head rest on his piano as his memories surrounded him.
Not daring to move until the night ended.
“The stars told me they have never seen a love so pure...not since the moon had meant the sun gifting us the earth. They cried when they heard your song.” A voice broke the silence of the night, making Yoongi’s heart stop.
He opens his eyes but not moving afraid that what he was hearing was just a twisted trick of his brain.
Maybe he was losing it.
“I cried when I heard your song...stars aren't allowed to make wishes for we only have one purpose and that is for us to use our light to guide lost souls. Each night you played I was losing my purpose of being a star….so I made a wish to the moon to return me to my love.”
Yoongi breath hitched as he heard the rustling of footsteps coming closer towards him until he felt a presence behind him and arms circling around his neck, warmth blooming across his whole back as he felt the breathing of another. Yoongi couldn’t believe it.
“I wished to be with you forever Hyung...even if that meant giving up being a star I’d give up anything to be with you….so please turn around,” Jimin whispered in Yoongi’s ear.
Yoongi scramble to get up turning around abruptly making Jimin stumble, he threw himself at Jimin tackling him into the ground, falling together Jimin giggled as Yoongi smother him with a hug squeezing tighter when the sweet sound return to his ears.
His star had returned to him.
“I-I could never forget you or let you go Jimin. Your everything to me that’s why I played every night so you can feel how strong my love is for you, I hope with every emotion I had.” Yoongi cried as he placed soft kisses all over Jimin face that was smiling brighter than the stars.
“I heard you Hyung!!! The stars heard you! Maybe even the whole universe...I could feel your love miles away you know” Jimin giggled and Yoongi smiled down at him as he caresses his face gently
“I know.”
Jimin tightly held on to Yoongi before pulling himself up to capture his lips in a longing kiss full of the stars. Yoongi hummed breaking the kiss, he gazes into Jimin eyes
“Even if your not a star anymore you’ll always be my star.” He confessed
“Cheesy…” Jimin smiled before he gasped pointing towards the sky
“Look Hyung a shooting star!! Another star has fallen for an earthling.” Yoongi turns over to lay right next to Jimin as they intertwined their hands together looking at each other with so much love. He reminisced how once Jimin was his fallen star he had wished upon not even realizing what he had wished for, but it did not matter anymore because he got everything he could ever ask for, next to him in the form of a smiling boy.
“Jimin-ah I love you.”
As the stars shine down on the couple and the moon whisper to the sun there will be a tale told across the universe of two lost souls who found a love so pure it will change the way the universe turns for know star or comic will ever shine as bright as the two souls
Cosmic Love.
~The End