Hyunjin is your online friend. He has been gone and offline for so long, like as if he disappeared from your contacts. But you still remember him, and want him to come back to you. You first met him when you were 10, he was 16. You were 12, he went to college. You were 14, he went to university, and almost as soon as he did so, he was gone. You two were always secretly texting, and you never told your parents. But one day, your parents went through your phone, and they found all of the things you talked about, and they were not fond of his age either.

It has been years now, you’re 18, and you can’t seem to find him. Your parents also moved, so now you were living in Korea. You miss him, and now you wonder, every day, ’where is he?’ you think of him whenever you see a ferret, he seemed pretty tall just judging by his photos, and he also seemed pretty playful sometimes. You also knew that his favourite food was dumplings, you ate dumplings slowly whenever you did eat them, very slowly, savouring the flavour, until it then finished. You had to admit, he was pretty cute all the time, but you just felt delusional, as he was so much older than you.

Today, you strolled by the bridge, looking at the stars. You then saw a lonely-looking man, sitting and eating some ice cream. You glanced at him, then rested your elbows on the railing of the bridge, and looked up at the sky. It was beautiful, you once saw Hyunjin draw such a beautiful sky, and it reminded you again. You felt tears well in your eyes, and you struggled holding them back. You felt like breaking, you felt like you couldn’t handle it anymore, how much you two have been through, so much you got to know about him, and he just disappeared…

You then felt a hand on your shoulder, you looked behind you, and saw the same man. He had the ice cream in one hand, and the other hand on your shoulder. It looked as if he had a perm, and he flicked his hair, moving it out of his face. This couldn’t be…

”Hyunjn?” you said, his eyes widened “Wha-what?”