TRIGGER WARNING ;; MENTIONING OF INJURIES AND BLOOD.

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Ekko had found himself awakening in his room, eyes squinted in adjusting to the lighting shining down towards him. An audible groan left his lips, blinking slowly and shuffled about in his bed.

He abruptly stopped himself from moving out of the bed, from his breath being hitched within pain. His nose twitched in the endurance of pain, glancing to see his side wrapped up in bandages and was mostly painted up from the blood from previously.

His frown could only deepen from re-calling what had happened before. One of Jinx's bombs seemed to have gone off, and he happened to be too close to it. The white-haired boy let out a small grunt, gritting his teeth in pain from how it was seemingly jabbing the increasing pain at him.

"You shouldn't move too much, it'll hurt even more." A voice spoke up, causing the other to widen his eyes in shock, then relaxed slightly upon seeing that it was just Eden. The pink-haired girl could only smile softly, though her concern was thorough and evident.

"I know. Just, what happened?" Ekko questioned, rubbing his forehead and felt his hourglass paint be slightly smudged.

"You passed out from the bomb, and you got carried back in here. [Name] tended to your wounds, and--"

"Wait, [Name]?" Ekko questioning within shock, slowly sitting himself up and grunted in another form of pain. Eden sent him a look on how he shouldn't be moving about.

"Yes, [Name] helped to bandage you up. Also, stop moving around; you'll end up hurting yourself even more." She could shake her head, frowning deeply at Ekko's compliance to get out from the bed.

"No-No, I've got to do work. All the time I missed out from being in here." It was evident that Ekko was rarely just in his room, in general. Since, he was too consumed with working on helping others and his occasional missions or just all together, pissing [Name] off.

Before Eden could argue back, Ekko rushed out from the room and ignored his pain. The pink-haired girl sighed within seething annoyance and walked out of the room. 

"[Name's] gonna kill me for telling him....Well, shit."

...

[Name] was hoverboarding around the giant tree, smiling brightly, as the rush of thrill and wind rushed throughout the course of themself. A small sigh left their lips, coming to a halt upon having been forced into a train of thought.

They wondered how things were going to go for Ekko, after the whole incident of him being injured from what appeared to be one of Jinx's bombs. "That idiot. He should be more careful..."

Was the sentence muttered out from their mouth, starting up their hoverboard again and did a few more laps around the tree, before swirling down to the bottom. Setting the hoverboard away, [Name] decided to head over to the greenspace.

...

Making their way in, [Name] took in a deep breath and mustered a smile. Grabbing their gardening gloves, they went down onto their knees and started to create a hole in the dirt. Placing the newly-grown Orchid into the ground.

Their eyes were narrowed within concentration, lips pressed within a thin line and pushed the dirt in to make sure it wouldn't make the Orchid easily go on out. [Name] adjusted the dirt for a while, before getting up and grabbed a watering can.

Then, they poured the water onto the Orchid and let out a content sigh in accomplishment. "Okay, that's the Orchid checked off the list. Now, to deal with the Honeysuckle flowers 'n Bluebell flowers."

At this, they nodded to themself and started to digging small holes in the dirt. Then, placing seeds in each of them and covered them up with the help of the dirt source. The watering can was used yet again, pouring it over each of the patches and little signs were rooted into the ground to show where the flowers each were.

[Name] clasped their hands together, moving back to see what they had accomplished so far in their gardening scheme and a smile etched upon their face.

"I never knew you did gardening." The sudden voice perking up, causing [Name] to jump in shock.

"Uh, you just never asked, Ekko. Also, what are you doing here? You're supposed to be resting, idiot!" They exclaimed in shock, grimacing to see his bandaged gash.

"I'm fine, besides; I was looking for you, I came to talk to you."

Setting the gardening tools aside, [Name] could only fold their arms and furrow their brows within utter confusion. "About, what? Is it because I pissed you off earlier? If so, I know-I know: I'll get the rubbish collected up--"

"No-No, it's not about that." Ekko interrupted them, placing his hands on both of their shoulders and shook them a bit to put a halt to them questioning what he wanted to speak up of. "I just-- wanted to say; thank you for helping me with my wounds."

[Name] could only hold the same confusion upon their face, until realisation dawned upon them. They gaped their mouth in response and went on to uttering out,

"Did Eden tell you? I bet she did, didn't she?" [Name] could feel their boosting ego going away even more, feeling as if, the white-haired boy would use this as every opportunity to tease the living daylights out of [Name].

"She did, after I woke up. I just came to say thank you and all." Ekko responded quickly, keeping his gaze onto [Name] and awaited their answer.

"Uhm, you're welcome?" To this, Ekko could only let out a small sigh of relief and merely mustered a smile.

This moment seemed to be getting more awkward by the moment.

"Actually, before I leave: can I help you out with the gardening?" This very question caught [Name] by surprise, hearing it from Ekko's lips. They blinked rapidly and hesitantly nodded.

"Sure, just grab a weed-puller. I can't believe I'm saying this, but...I need some help pulling out the fuckers." [Name] grumbled within irritation, grabbing a weed puller and went over to a weed, whilst Ekko had a weed puller in his grasp and walked over to another weed plant of his own.

...

[Name] was already done with pulling off their own batch of weed plants, but Ekko decided to be bold and go for the biggest of the bunch.

"Dumbass, you made it all the more harder for yourself. Here, let me show you how it's done." [Name] began, going up behind Ekko and placed their head upon his shoulder, grasping both his hands. They helped him position it the right way on the weed puller.

Moving back away, Ekko's posture stiffened and he let out a small exhale of relief. It seemed like the boy was quite flustered and slightly embarrassed that he let himself off on that close contact with [Name]. He was quite pissed off at himself, for being more seemingly less annoyed at [Name] than before, because of his sudden revelation.

"You were holding the weed-pullers wrong, idiot. Now, try and pull the fucker off." To that, Ekko complied and pulled it off.

"Finally, for fuck's sake! I can grow more fruits and vegetables here now." [Name] exclaimed within relief, glancing at Ekko and awkwardly patted his shoulder, in trying to show their thanks in somewhat way.

"Uh, you didn't do that shitty, Ekko."

"Oh, uh, thanks..." Ekko muttered in response, scratching his cheek. Silence later evolved around the two, but it was put to a halt by the throat of [Name] beinmg cleared.

"You should go, and rest--"

"--Yeah, I should. Uhm, bye?"

"Yeah-Yeah, bye."

With that, Ekko's quite flustered and slightly embarrassed self walked out of the greenspace. And, [Name] was left utterly confused on how that interaction had gone on to be so awkward.

"What the hell just happened there? That was awkward, as fuck."

At least, [Name] was correct on that statement.