“What do you think they are anyway?” he asks, pointing up at the sky.

“My father says they’re all burning spheres of gas…” the boy responds, tilting his head upwards, following Sehun’s finger.

“He might just be making it up though,” Sehun responds.

“Why would he lie to me?”

“Grown-ups lie all the time…” Sehun says bitterly.

“Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny… even the Tooth Fairy!”

The other boy shakes his head at him. He lets this outburst go.

“Have you ever made a rabbit out of stars?”

“Like a constellation?” Sehun asks.

“Yes.”

There is a pause, as Sehun thinks to himself.

“Not a rabbit. I’ve thought of other things… never a rabbit before though…”

“Do you want to make one?”

“Yes!”

The boy points up at the sky.

“Look!”

Sehun tries to follow the other boy’s finger, but he can’t see it.

“I don’t see it,” he mumbles.

The other boy takes Sehun’s hand and presses his head on his shoulder.

He tries his best to see from Sehun’s perspective, and runs Sehun’s finger up in the air, tracing his imagined constellation.

“See? That big star… the moon. Up above it, there’s the ears,” he points to some particularly bright stars just above the moon.

He trails his hand downwards once again, his finger fluttering through the air.

“And down here, see the tail?”

Sehun gasps and nods excitedly.

“I see it! The moon is it’s big round belly!” The smaller boy smiles happily.

They look at each other and laugh freely.

Sehun looks like he likes the feeling of the other boy’s hand in his own, as Baekhyun notes. He blushes furiously and turns his gaze away.




Baekhyun remembers his and Chanyeol’s first date. They had only just passed their first field exam; carried out on an actual person and not a theoretical test.

Chanyeol had piled Baekhyun into the car. He didn’t know where they were going at all, not until the park had come into view.

Chanyeol had jumped out of the car excitedly, opening the boot of his car and pulling out a small thatched basket and a colourful rug.

He ran around and opened Baekhyun’s door, taking his hand and dragging him to right beside the pond.

Baekhyun wasn’t sure that being at such a close proximity to the territorial ducks, with food no less, was such a good idea.

And it wasn’t.

Chanyeol had gotten very angry when a stray duck had ripped his sandwich right out of his hands, and had grumpily chased the duck around the grass for a good fifteen minutes whilst Baekhyun sat there laughing at him.

Chanyeol was so angry, in fact, he slipped and took a nose-dive into the pond. Baekhyun had to pull him out, and whilst he was doing so said territorial ducks stole the remainder of their lunch.

They still had the rug though, and Baekhyun fondly remembers how he’d lifted the rug off the ground, shaken out any dirt and debris, and wrapped it around Chanyeol. He looked like a puppy, his wide eyes flashing at Baekhyun.

Baekhyun knew Chanyeol would catch a cold afterwards, but he didn’t mind; he was too preoccupied with the feeling of his arms around the taller teen.

Baekhyun still hadn’t really come to terms with his uality, but Chanyeol had caught him hook, line and sinker.




“What do you think they really are? The stars I mean…” Sehun asks. The smaller boy shrugs.

“I… I’ve never told anyone but… I’ve always thought they were lighthouses.”

Sehun looks at him weirdly.

“Lighthouses?”

“Billions of lighthouses… stuck at the far end of the sky.”

Sehun rocks back in his chair.

“Wow, it must be so lively up there!”

The other boy looks saddened.

“But it isn’t.”

Silence. Sehun gapes at the other boy, awaiting further explanation.

“They can see all the other lighthouses out there, and they want to talk to them. But they can’t, because they’re all too far apart to hear what the others are saying. All they can do is shine their lights from afar… So that’s what they do. They shine their lights at the other lighthouses, and at me.”

“Why you?” Sehun asks.

“Because one day… I’m going to befriend one of them, so that they aren’t alone anymore.”

Sehun nods and rests his hand on the bench.

“What’s in your bag?” the boy asks.

“Oh, a prize I won down at the carnival!” Sehun says excitedly. “Wanna see?”

He pulls out the small stuffed teddy bear from before, and things finally begin to click into place in Chanyeol’s mind.

“You mean…?” Baekhyun hushes him.

“…I wish I could win one myself,” the boy says, holding the bear in his hands. “…But I’m just too clumsy…”

“SEHUN!” Chanyeol jumps a bit at the sudden noise. The environment had been so peaceful, only to be cut off.

Sehun looks around, his eyes finally hitting someone at the bottom of the cliff.

“Come down from there, it’s time to go home!”

“Coming mother!” Sehun calls back.

“I have to go now…” he tells the other boy. He looks sad to go. The smaller boy goes to return the bear, but Sehun stops him.

“You know what… keep it, it’s yours!”

“Mine?” the boys asks.

“Yeah. I can always get another!” Sehun grins.

There is a pause.

“Will you be here next year?” the boy questions nervously.

“Yes. Will you?” Sehun chuckles.

“Yes.”

“Same place, same time?”

“Yes… but what if you don’t come? What if you forget?” the other boy looks panicky.

“Then we can always regroup on the moon, silly!” Sehun exclaims. “Right on the rabbit’s tummy!”

“SEHUN!”

“Coming, mother!” Sehun yells.

Sehun jumps off the bench, slamming his feet to the ground. He picks up his bag and waves enthusiastically at the other boy. Just as he is about to jump down the hill, he turns around.

“Wait… I never got your name… what is it?”

“Luhan.”

Baekhyun shakes his head and turns away.

“Don’t tell me you didn’t see that coming.” Chanyeol remarks, holding his boyfriend carefully.

“I did. It just…nevermind.” Baekhyun thinks for a moment.

“I suppose now… we know what we must do to send him to the moon.”

Chanyeol furrows his brow.

“What do you mean? Baekhyun?”

Chanyeol’s eyes widen.

“Wait… no! You’re not actually going to do it, are you?” he says horrified. Baekhyun merely nods.

“It’s our job, Chanyeol… It’s what we’re contracted to do.”

Chanyeol shoves Baekhyun aside, looking him dead in the eyes.

“You’re being serious…” Chanyeol exclaims, worry etched on his face. “You can’t!”

Baekhyun mumbles under his breath and drags his stylus across the screen.

“WAIT!”

But he’s are gone.

“Baekhyun…”

Chanyeol fades out seconds later.