ir
The Chronicles of a StarA relationship is born when two strangers sit together at a table for the first time. What’s he thinking? Awkward small talk fills the air until gravity pulls them closer, and like a ball of hydrogen in space, everything begins to fuse. / H becomes He. A single AIM convo becomes a series of texts exchanged despite freezing fingers. A string of unrelated conversations becomes 81 Post-its on a clean white wall. Somehow, across the span of a month, the heat increases, and as the couple warms up, their feelings expand, swelling to fill the space of a boisterous red giant. / When the initial passion dissipates, fusion begins again. They swap secrets over rainbow-filled flash games, and helium reacts to form carbon. Everything besides the core doesn’t matter - it’s all blown away, leaving a miniscule white dwarf, what two people feel for one another, aglow with the words that no longer need to be spoken.