BEYOND THE FRIEND ZONE ✨

°°New beginnings°°

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Five-year-old heeseung clutched his favorite stuffed animal, Mr. Whiskers, as he peeked out the window at the moving truck. His family had just arrived in "Enha Land", and everything felt new and scary. That's when he saw him - a chubby-cheeked, curly-haired baby boy toddling around the yard next door.

Three-year-old jake was a ball of energy, giggling and chasing after butterflies. Heeseung watched, mesmerized, as jake stumbled and fell, only to get back up and keep going.

Their parents, college besties, were chatting and laughing on the porch. Heeseung's mom encouraged him to go say hi to little jake, but he was too shy.

Jake, however, was not. He wobbled over to the fence separating their yards and grinned up at heeseung. "Hi! I'm jake! Wanna be fwiends?"

Heeseung's heart skipped a beat. No one had ever approached him like that before. He hesitated, then smiled back. "I'm heeseung...nice to meet you."

"Heeseungie hyungie..can I call you heeseungie hyungie???" Jake asked excitedly. Heeseung chuckled and said "you're already calling me that". Jake cutely tilted his head and then nodded like a puppy "oh right, then you're my heeseungie hyungie from now on".

"Okay jake now let go of your heeseung hyung he's tired, and you go wash up.... look at the mess you've made my little trouble maker" Jake's mom said. Jake pouted a little which made everyone at the sight cooed at him "Okie heeseungie hyungie bye bye you sweep now we'll play later or else mama will scold me "
That's how they've gone to their respective home . Later in the evening jake took heeseung to play to the nearest park and shown him around even though he's a little kid.

And just like that, an unlikely friendship began. Jake's extroverted personality drew heeseung out of his shell, and soon they were inseparable.

Jake introduced heeseung to his friends, jungwon and sunoo, and they welcomed him with open arms. Even jake's best friend, sunghoon, who was literally older than him, became fast friends with heeseung.

As they grew up together, their friend group expanded to include sunghoon's older brother jay and his cousin ni-ki the youngest member of the group. They were a lively, loving bunch, always getting into mischief and mayhem.

But amidst all the chaos, heeseung and jake's bond remained strong. They were each other's rock, supporting and encouraging each other every step of the way.

Little did they know, their childhood friendship was only the beginning of an extraordinary journey together.

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How's that so far? I tried to capture the sweetness and innocence of their childhood friendship!