Off Key

#26

"Okay, I called this meeting because Minho has something to say," Chan said as he sat crisscrossed.

They were all on the rooftop, sitting in a circle. It was lunchtime. "We have a problem," Minho said, getting straight to the point.

"Jang Kimmy." He said and everyone gasped except Jisung, as he already knew. "Who is it this time?" Chan asked, sounding almost furious. "Jisung," Minho said, now feeling furious.

Jisung held his head low and brought his knees closer to him. They all felt Jisung's energy and assumed that Minho had told him about her. "How do we know for sure it's her?" Seungmin asked. "She asked him for a kiss.." Minho said sighing.

They all gasped. "Shit.." Felix said. "What do we do?" Felix asked. "Minho has a plan," Jisung said, speaking up. All their attention turned to Minho. "Yeah, I'm gonna stay with him. I'm moving out Felix." Minho said, trying to add some humor. "Wait, you're gonna live with him?" Felix asked. Minho nodded his head.

"What about mom? And his mom?" Felix asked, feeling confused. "Well, we all have to talk to our parents about the band and-" Minho was interrupted. "We're not telling my mom, I don't want to worry her," Jisung said.

"Okay, but then what do we tell her?" Minho asked. "Tell her that Jisung needs your vocals for a couple of songs?" Chan suggested. "I guess, that could work," Jisung said. "Okay, but we still need to talk to the rest of our parents about it because what if one day we need help or something."

"Good idea, we should all talk to our parents tonight and tell them." Many felt uneasy with this but if it was for their friend, it was worth it. Everyone agreed and before they could end their meeting, Hyunjin got a message from a classmate.

"Chan.. you're dating my sister?" Chan was confused, as well as the rest. "What are you talking about?" He asked. Hyunjin handed him the phone and suddenly everyone else got text messages about what was going on.

As Chan was reading an article that a student made, his eyes widen.

'Leader and member Bang Chan of Stray Kids and sister of Hwang Hyunjin, a fellow member of Stray Kids, Hwang Yeji, dating!!'

'The two have been spotted hugging each other in the hallway, smiling at each other.'

'Will this cause chaos between the two members and for the rest of the group?'

'How long have these two been an item?'

'How will the fans react?'

'We'll let you know more on this in the future.'

Chan couldn't believe what he read. "She was thanking me, who the hell made this?" He said as he looked up and all saw the rest in shock after reading the same article.

"There's nothing between you guys, right?" Hyunjin asked sounding a bit furious. "Of course not! You're going to believe this article and not me?" Chan asked as he felt hurt.

"No, I don't believe the article, I just wanted to hear what you said," Hyunjin said as he relaxed after hearing Chan. "What are the people going to think?" Changbin said, setting down his phone.

"I guess we'll find out, in 4 minutes," Jeongin said as he looked at his phone for the time.

~~~

Lunch was over and Yeji had just got done with some work. She had been working in the library during lunch.

She hadn't checked her phone, and once she turned it on, there were thousands of messages from her friends and she had been tagged in many posts. What the...

She clicked the link that one of her friends sent her and read the article. She couldn't believe what she was reading.

"Who the?" She mumbled to herself as she got up and packed her stuff. As she was packing she heard the bell ring and groaned.

"Shit." She already knew people were going to ask and come to her.

She was leaving the library when people starting looking at her, mad. Everyone was pissed that she was dating Chan even though it wasn't true.

She walked to her locker when she saw Ryujin on her phone. Oh, I can ask her right now. She thought as she started walking towards her.

"Hey, Ryujin, can we talk in private?" Ryujin rolled her eyes as she got off her phone and she was about to curse Yeji out for how pissed she was. "Please," Yeji asked. Ryujin's anger dropped down, immediately. She hated it when Yeji had this effect on her.

"Fine." Ryujin grabbed Yeji's hand and pulled her into an empty staff room. "What do you want?"

"W-well," Yeji sighed, she didn't know why she felt so nervous, and not angry because it's Ryujin. "I wanted to know if you wanted to sign up for my dance lessons," Yeji said showing Ryujin a soft smile.

Ryujin could've died right there with that smile, but she couldn't help but feel confused. "You're... asking me... to join... you're... dance lessons?" Ryujin asked, skeptical of what Yeji was up to. "Uh, yeah," Yeji said.

Ryujin didn't understand what Yeji was trying to do. "Why? We hate each other." Ryujin said crossing her arms. "Because after our fight, I think this can bring us closer, and besides you're good at dancing." Ryujin's eyes widened.

"How do you know that I dance?" She said while glaring. "I saw you one day," Yeji said, ignoring her glare. As much as Ryujin was pissed at her for seeing something personal and special to her, she realized she's trying to make a change. Damn her.

"Fine, I'll do it," Ryujin said, rolling her eyes. "How's your boyfriend?" Ryujin said sarcastically, but couldn't help but feel a little hurt. "He's not my boyfriend, I was just thanking him about Hyunjin," Yeji said as she crossed her arms.

Ryujin felt a little better after hearing that response but didn't let it show. "Oh, sorry," Ryujin said. Yeji smiled. "No, it's fine." Ryujin couldn't help but smile back at Yeji from seeing her. Yeji's smile suddenly dropped but came back immediately but even bigger and brighter.

"What?" Ryujin asked curiously. "You have a pretty smile," Yeji said casually. "I-I- no," Ryujin said leaving the staff room and storming down the halls, with rosy cheeks and a light smile.