An Intergalactic Love Story of Cosmic Proportions

Andromeda was a big, beautiful galaxy who knew what she wanted. She longed to collide into another galaxy and become one. Not just any galaxy. She wanted the Milky Way.

She'd always dreamed of smashing her solar systems into his, her suns colliding into his suns, her planets crushing into his with such force, all gravitational fields would be erupted. Together they would create a new galaxy.

She was ready to lose herself. Her love was that strong.

Andromeda pined and pined and pined for him over billions of years, but Milky Way didn't even look at her. He remained out of reach. Why did she have to have a thing for the galaxy next door?

As she waited for him to notice her, she never expected to be whisked off her axis by a dark, handsome stranger.

She didn't even notice him at first, mostly because he was so small. There was something mysterious about how he sucked in all light and matter. What he lacked in size, he made up for in intensity, possessing the kind of charisma that made her forget all else. The space incubus winked at her, mesmerizing her with his spell.

They didn't just have chemistry; they had physics. He made her feel something she'd never felt for Milky Way--a gravitational attraction. Even so, she didn't know if she could risk losing her heart yet again.

"You're beautiful. There's no other galaxy like you. Let me pull you into my embrace and crush you with my love," he said.

Naturally, she was suspicious. "I bet you say that to all the galaxies."

"No, only you," he said.

He was politely persistent and patient. As patient as she had been for Milky Way to notice her.

"No other galaxy is like you. I long to taste your double nucleus. No stars twinkle as brightly as the massive star cluster at your heart," he said.

She was flattered he'd noticed. She imagined what it would be like to make a beautiful singularity together.

"I like big galaxies, and I cannot lie," he said.

"You had me at 'let me crush you with my love,'" she admitted. "But let's take things slow."

He teasingly drew her closer. Over billions of years, he gathered her into his embrace. She was helpless against his gravitational force. He was just as powerless to stop hers. Time and space distorted as she lost herself. Once she was in his range, she was a goner.

Black holes had a way of doing that.