You're together since you're both 11, he knows you like the back of his hand. You both look and act like a couple but you aren't.

He wanted to burn Shimmer in a marchandise floating boat with some of the Firelights but Jinx was here and got him injured before running away. He came to your house in the tree of the Firelights base and knocked.

"Open up, it's me, Ekko. I need your help right now."