lately, I've been counting my stars

“You’re beautiful,” Kara said softly for the fourteenth time that night. “I don’t care how many times you point out that you’re not. It’s never going to change my mind.”Because to Kara, Lena really was the loveliest thing, not even second to diamonds and the cosmos. So just for the night, Lena stayed silent. She wasn’t vain, she wasn’t even listening to half of Kara’s compliments— but saying those things made Kara’s eyes light up like a billion zircon-colored stars, and she wanted to stare at them for as long as she still could, because even the broadest cliff side had an end.