The stars on the left and your heart on the cleft
Them having some peace and a break from pain <3
A minute ago, they were on the bench, gold rays coloring the wood.
He was smiling so brightly
She looked peaceful
In his eyes, she was his peace
. .
"Woah! Be careful when you walk on that" he said, a laughter in his voice.
"Aiden, I have a good sense of balance."
She carefully walked on the edge of the wall, ending the distance between them.
"I think it's a good place here" he sat and tapped on the stony surface beside him, he then lifted his head towards her.
"Really?" She said curiously while sitting beside him, wondering if the stars were as visible as he said.
The stars were bright tonight, as white as the purest pearls.. she was mesmerized by each one of them.
"I was never able to watch them so clearly.." she murmured, her gaze was stuck to the pearly sky.
Aiden wishes he could say the same, but his eyes were too focused on her expression.
"You're not looking, Aiden"
He jumped a bit when she turned her head towards him, he didn't bother hiding it.
"Yeah, I was just surprised to see you so amazed by the stars. You've never seen them before?"
He gave her a tricky smile, which was followed by her rolling her eyes at him before replacing her gaze towards the stars.
He didn't know what to way, was there a need to have words? The silence between them felt almost too good to end.
Suddenly, one of the stars seemed to run across the sky.
"Oh!" Ashlyn suddenly got on her knees and pointed at the stars.. a bit too fast.
So fast that Aiden barely had the time to be startled, Ashlyn lost her balance and fell forward.
"Ash-!"
He grabbed her hand, focusing more on catching her rather than staying in place.. the fall made him lose his balance too.
They both fell with no time to think about landing safely, gladly for them, the fall wasn't too hard.
Mostly due to the low wall not being that tall, and therefore them not being that far away from the ground.
"Ouch.." she winced while rubbing her head, Aiden was right beside her already in a sitting position.
Still in shock, it took him multiple seconds to realize Ash was beside him and wincing in pain.
".. Ash? You alright?"
He carefully got closer to her and put a hand behind her head to help her sit in a better position.
"Are you bleeding or just bruised?" He asked her, checking for any wounds with his hand. She was still wincing, barely looking at him. Her hands covering her ears and her breathe becoming steady.
It didn't take long for him to realize that she lost one of her earbud while falling, the sound of the shock must have been harsh for her.
He stopped talking and put his own hands on hers, making a calm breathing pattern for her to follow.
Once she seemed to have calm down he started to search for her lost earbud, it was some meters away from them.
"Feeling better?" He asked, in a murmured tone.
She glanced towards him and nodded.
".."
He lifted his head and looked at the sky, from this distance they were just as bright.
"From here, we can still see them so clearly.."
He smiled at her and made a gesture with his head to point at the ground.
"If we lay down like this, we will at least spare our necks from constantly raising them to look at the stars"
She seemed dubious but followed him on the ground and laid down.
'it's true' she said to herself. It did feel nicer to look at them that way.
She closed her eyes, so far away yet it felt like the stars were sharing their warmth.
Aiden kept his eyes open, he was scared that if he closed them;
she would disappear.
His hand was close to hers, he approached his own closer;
he didn't dare to take her hand, but being close was enough.
At least it was.
He opened his eyes
he wasn't afraid of closing the gap between his hand and hers
His head felt heavy in the ground, so was her hand
The air was cold, so was she
So was he.
He wondered, how many stars will he see if he turned his head to the right
But he was so afraid of looking at her.
So he derived his eyes to the sky
Pearly white
Shiny, bright like her eyes when she looked at them
He resented them in a way, he was sure if they were shining less brightly, it would have left her some of it
"Ash, look"
He squeezed her hand
"Ash, the stars are so clear even from here"
Her eyes stayed closed
"I wish the stars could grant you warmth again"
( SIKE, lol sorry i play on both sides of this war.)
( for anyone who's confused, the first part was a happy memory. The last part was them both dying, on the ground, holding their hands, they're not dying from the fall, imagine it more as a theorized end of the webtoon, in the other dimension being mixed with the real world.)