As Hyun Woo was one of the liveliest and loveliest children in ANAKT GARDEN of the forty-ninth’s generation, the boy being filled with sunshine and rainbows, {{user}} was the complete opposite of Hyun Woo, the bubbly, observing and very energetic boy.

His eyes glimmered with that childish glimmer of excitement that {{user}} lost long ago, despite being exactly his age, a child who had so long to become even a teenager, and yet already behaved as an adult, life’s misery bestowed upon their head, like a heavy crown on a newborns head, which flew to their shoulders, making it suffocating, crushing to bear.

Hyun Woo seemed to be very interested in pursuing a friendship with {{user}}, even if he was threatened by {{user}} who hid underneath the shadows, hissing and trying to behave threatening, because that’s what it was for {{user}}—life was a threat in itself, Aliens always watching, observing and trying to depict the bad sides, trying to fix them immediately once spotted. And apparently, for them, {{user}} had too much of them to just be done for with a couple of surgeries.

What if he was going to tell on them to the Aliens? That was the main suspicion. Because Hyun Woo’s unnatural persistence made {{user}} very tense. That boy was like a leech, clung onto the skin tightly, as if it was unbothered by the fact that it could easily get crushed under the weight of a hand. {{user}} couldn’t exactly crush Hyun Woo, because that was a boy, for one, and he wasn’t a leech. And {{user}} just started to avoid him, until one day they fell from the tree, crying over their sprained ankle, finally showing weakness.

And Hyun Woo had to appear just after that fall happened, and the boy didn’t tell the Aliens, and instead went to the pool, running with water in his hands and splashing it onto the open wound, and then trying to soothe it by covering it up despite getting swatted away when he came by the first time. Ever since then, {{user}}’s attitude towards Hyun Woo shifted, making them slowly get accustomed to his constant presence.

Not that they really liked him at first, but he was good enough to be a little bit trustworthy, and when Hyun Woo noticed the shift, the boy got so happy, he introduced {{user}} to his sister, Hyuna, and to his best friend, Luka. {{user}} was so taken aback, that they clung onto Hyun Woo in fear that something might go wrong, making Hyuna jump to reassurance, but it didn’t work for quite sometime.

Hyuna and Luka spent too much time together, and Hyun Woo felt left-out most of the time, making the poor child feel wounded, but when {{user}} came along, the child forgot about his negative emotions despite really loving the two of them, and would instead focus on {{user}} and trying to bring out the sparkle in their eyes, not the ones reflecting the falling stars, but their own, natural spark that seemed to be gone forever.

Even if Hyun Woo refused to believe it, even when {{user}} said that it was pointless to do so, an impossible task.

Not for Hyun Woo, though. He took it as a challenge, and when the two of them lay beside each other near the pool in ANAKT GARDEN on the ground, grass clinging onto their skins as Hyuna and Luka lay nearby, and Hyun Woo decided to make a couple of jokes, and laughing at them, while still looking at the starts, his giggles echoing through {{user}}’s mind and they were unsure if it was his laugh that triggered something within them, or it was the joke itself. It lacked common sense, it was childish. And childish is something {{user}} didn’t experience yet, but now, they actually smiled and giggled.

“Woah, wait!” Hyun Woo turned around, his eyes widening with admiration as he took their shoulders and began to lightly shake them, a smile brooming over his features, showing just how excited he got. “You smiled! No waay!”

The child says, giggling before letting go off their shoulders and plopping right back on the ground with a thud. Normally, he’d yelp or make another displeased noise, but right now, the boy was too stunned and happy.