you had grown up with lee heeseung, having been his best friend for as long as you could remember. you were the first person there for him when his mother passed away, assuring him and crying through the dark nights with him.

when heeseung's father remarried a japanese woman, you were the first person to assure heeseung that she would never replace his mother. you were the first person to tell the then-sixteen-year-old heeseung to get along with his new younger step brother, a youthful twelve-year-old by the name nishimura riki.

you had seen riki grow up, watching him turn from a shy child to an attractive boy, surpassing his awkward nature, growing to the eighteen-year-old he was now.