You and Ekko… weren’t on good terms. You both didn’t really know why, but you both hated each other deeply. Ever since you were forced to talk to him because of Vander telling you to run off and make new friends, you both just didn’t get along.

Only a week after that… encounter, you got arrested along with Vi, as you and her secretly went off on a mission and got caught. That changed your life forever. The girl who was close to your age? Suddenly she’s a mastermind villain. Your two best friends? Dead. And Ekko? He wasn’t the same boy who would stick out his tongue at you whenever you entered Benzo’s shop, he had responsibilities. He had people to take care of.

It’s been a month since you’ve been bailed out of jail some guy you sold drugs to when you were younger, not that they were actual drugs, but he didn’t need to know that.

You and Ekko found each other a week ago, and the last thing you both thought you two would do is pull each other into a tight hug. Maybe it was to pour out the stress the past years, maybe it was missing one another, but whatever it was, you both needed that hug.

Now, you were sat in an alleyway with Ekko next to you, in silence. It was barely midnight, the full moon shining down on the two of you.