Astronomy:When Stars and Planets Align.

Chapter VII

North and Night were back at theater club since the drama act will take place soon, so they needed to help out more. North still hated it, but it was more tolerable seeing Night in his work mode. He also got to spend time with Ongsa, since the girl spent most of her time flirting with Sun.

While they took a break from the preparations North saw Night sitting on the wooden floor reading. Seriously? It's break time but this little one is still immersed in reading. Does he not understand the meaning of a break?

"What are you up to?" North asked as he took a sit next to Night.

"Reading." Night curtly replied.

"I can see that... what are you reading?" North asked.

"About LTT9779 b." Night replied, still being curtious.

"Okay genius! Can you please use normal human language for the rest of us normies." North said flicking Night's forehead.

"Hey!" Night replied rubbing his forehead.

"So can you tell me about this LL-thing you are reading about." North said.

Night has been avoiding him since their last kiss, he wasn't as enthusiastic as before. Even when North would bother him to get a reaction out of him, he would just avoid him entirely.

Even in Astronomy club, Night wouldn't even look at him. When he would try to give him a ride home, he would come up with excuses and run away. So now stuck in theater club, North took this opportunity to clarify things.

"It's LTT9779 b, and it's an exo planet." Night replied with his eyes still glued on his iPad.

"Tell me more about it." North said, trying to continue this conversation. And what better way to do it than talking to Night about his favorite things, stars and planets.

"What do you wanna know about it?" Night replied looking at North in the eyes the first that day.

"Everything." North replied with a bright smile, hopping it would tug at the heart strings of the younger.

"Well LTT9779 is the most reflective exoplanet ever found, it is an ultra-hot, Neptune-like world gleaming in distant space." Night replied and North could see the younger's face light up.

"Go on." North replied with a warm smile.

"Well the planet reflects around 80 percent of the light that hits it from the star it orbits, so in comparison, only 30 percent of our sun's light bounces off Earth. And Venus, our solar system's shiniest planet, reflects 75 percent of sunlight." Night said with his eyes sparkling brightly.

"What makes it like that?" North asked out of genuine curiosity. Although he initially hated stuff like this, but since he had taken interest in Night stuff like this were now intriguing to him.

"So well researchers determined that metallic clouds, made mostly of silicate- Well silicate is-"

"Silicate is the substance that is found in glass and sand." North replied cutting Night off. Although North didn't seem like an academic due to his average to slightly above average marks, he came from a scientific background with his grandfather being an astrophysicist and his mother being a theoretical physicist.

So he was pretty clued up about somethings.

"I forget that you have a brain behind that thick skull of yours." Night said laughing, which made North smile. He loved Night's laughter and how the younger's eyes would turn into a crescent moon-like shape whenever he was genuinely laughing.

"Are you going to tell me about this miraculous planet or are you going to make fun of me Nong?" North asked flicking Night's forehead again.

Night glared at North while rubbing his forehead.