Promises Were Made | Stray Kids Bang Chan

Twenty-One

"Hyung are you going to do it?", Felix asked who was thinking if he should or not do it. "To be honest I have no idea if I want to do it or not. The idea of it is intriguing and it is something that I've been wanting to do for some time already", he said in response to Felix's question.

"Well, I think it is a great opportunity Hyung~", Felix said and Chan just nodded.

The boys were practicing day and night, Chan was even doing extra by staying so late that he didn't even realize that he had been working for almost 10 hours straight without break. "Gosh, I need to stop before I burn out", Chan said to himself as he took a nap on the sofa. He eventually fell asleep on the sofa until the sun came up.

The 3rd episode was premiering that night and Iris had invited the boys to her house to view it together as they did for the 1st episode. Because of work, Iris didn't have the time to cook like usual for the boys, so she had the hotel chefs whip up something delicious for her.

"Have a good night, Miss Iris", "Thank you Chef for making the food, it smells delicious! And you too, have a good night", she said as she closed the trunk of her car and drove back home to set clean up a little bit before the boys arrive.

She carried all the food back to her house and set them up on her counter. Iris cleaned the house a little bit before she changed into a much more comfortable outfit and freshen up a little. Just as she was grabbing a hoodie, the door rang. She ran to the door and greeted all of the eight boys, "Hi, boys!", "Hey, Noona!".

As they all came in and brighten the house, Iris noticed that Seungmin was hiding something behind him. "What do you have there, Seungmin?", she asked as he was visibly trying to hide it from her. He just giggled as he knew he couldn't hide it anymore, when Iris saw it she couldn't but laugh at the stuff that he was hiding. It was a bouquet, but a very unique one; a bed of flowers with the SKZOO plushies in the middle.

"Ahhh! This is so cute! What the hell!", Seungmin handed the bouquet to Iris as she caressed all the plushies. Chan then noticed Iris's facial expression, "Oh, no~ please don't tell us that you already have them?", Iris couldn't help but just smile and laugh. "Seriously, Noona?".

"Technically, I don't quite have them physically with me just yet. They are on their way~", she said as she excused herself to place the plushies in her office. "Please dig in while the food is still warm, I won't be long", she said as she placed the plushies on the shelf along with the other merchandise.

I'll preserve these flowers and keep you guys here for now

Iris had been preserving or drying the flowers that she had received from the boys since the beginning. She then laminates them and keeps them, that way she'll always remember them and how caring they are.

"Hey, Noona~ Kingdom is starting soon", Felix came to the office which made Iris startled and almost dropped the laminated flowers everywhere. "Sorry, Noona", he said as he came to Iris who was in her own world.

"Oh, what's that you're holding?", Felix saw that Iris was holding a stack of laminated flowers. "Why do you have these flowers laminated?", he asked her and she smiled before answering, "These are all the flowers that you guys have gotten me, from the first bouquet up until the recent one".

"No way!", he said as he looked through all the flowers which all had a little note and date next to them. "You even put the date on them", "It's because I don't want to ever forget when I received them", she said. "Alright, come on now~ Kingdom is going to start soon and I don't want to miss anything", Iris said as she dragged Felix out of the office with her.

The nine of them gathered in front of the TV with their food as they watched the 3rd episode of Kingdom together;