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it’s easy to believe people are made up of stardust.
correction: namjoon makes it easy to believe people are made up of stardust.
and taehyung only knows this because he knows the stars like the back of his hands—maybe the stars are his hands, or his hands are the stars, whatever.
taehyung knows namjoon is made of stardust because he’s studied countless constellations, seen high resolution pictures of stars so powerful in their beauty you instantly feel tiny standing on Earth.
he’s studied so many stars for so long that it’s easy to recognize them in someone’s eyes.
that someone being namjoon.
and taehyung has to laugh (it really is funny, it really isn’t that funny) because out of all the people he could’ve fallen for, it had to be the one that’s made up of stars.
of course he’d fall in love with a star-filled soul.
hell, he’s a star-filled soul himself.
maybe that’s why they connected so fast; maybe that’s why they can’t get each other out of their heads.
something to do with the stars above them and the stars dancing between them pulling the two together, taehyung guesses.
no, taehyung is certain.
taehyung is also certain that his love for the stars, in turn, made him fall in love with namjoon.
but namjoon makes it easy to fall.
so easy.
the love comes from both sides, too—namjoon being just as in love with taehyung as taehyung is with namjoon. he makes sure taehyung knows so every chance he gets. taehyung gets shy and always tells him to stop being so cheesy, but truthfully, he never wants it to stop. he hopes it never stops.
and for a while, taehyung could never understand why people said “falling in love” because to him all it felt like was the feeling of flight. then the longer he heard the older male’s laugh and his wonderful words, felt his soft touches and lovely gazes, then he realized.
this is falling.
hard, fast, no getting up.
but namjoon makes it easy to want to fall and honestly? taehyung never wants to get up.
namjoon makes it easy to believe people are made of stardust,
because taehyung never has to look up to study the stars anymore.
not when the whole Universe is in namjoon’s eyes, just waiting to be explored.