9th Member | Stray Kids <3

35 / Past

"For the end of this year we are coming out with an EP and another album." Chan started this meeting.

"Another one? Damn do y'all ever rest." Summer kidded.

"Rest is for the weak." Jisung joked.

"Well start recording for the EP tomorrow, It's only four songs which shouldn't take too long. It's a Christmas one called Christmas EveL. And then our other album is SKZ2021. We're going to have quite a few songs on that one." Chan concluded, "I'll give more details when we finish with Christmas EveL. So everyone take today easy. Recording starts in the morning!" He said.

"Nap time!" Summer threw her head down on the table.

"Summer." Felix nudged her, "At least wait until we get home." She looked up at him and laughed.

"I guess I could do that." She jokingly rolled her eyes.

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The rest of the day was just hanging around, mostly everyone was just in their rooms either napping or on their phones taking a break. Summer yawned as she walked out of her room into the kitchen to see Minho, Jisung, Hyunjin and Felix all sitting on the couch.

"Girl it's 6. Have you been sleeping this whole time?" Hyunjin laughed as she walked out.

"Maybe. Maybe not. Maybe I just wanted to ignore you all for the day who know." She laughed as she sat down on the couch with them, "It's okay though i'm here now. I know you all missed me so much."

"We did miss you." Han turned serious which caught her off guard.

"We always miss you Haeun." Felix was also serious.

"Guys I was just kidding. Why are you being so serious?" She looked a little frightened as they started coming closer to her.

"We almost died without you around." Minho said as he too was getting closer.

"You can't leave us like that ever again." They were surrounding her now.

"Guys what the-" They all jumped on her and hugged her.

"Hah you looked so scared." Felix laughed.

"We did miss you but we wanted to scare you a little." Jisung laughed as they all let go.

"You guys are absolute weirdos." She smiled.

"But you love us weirdos." Hyunjin ruffled her hair.

"Yea whatever floats your boat." She kidded, "What are we watching?"

"We were watching reruns of when we were on Kingdom: Legendary War." Minho filled her in.

"Oh seriously? I remember that. Damn I wish I was in it." She snapped her fingers, "What episode is it?"

"This is the end of the first one." Felix told her. They sat and watched.

A/N: I'm so sorry the timelines don't add up with this, but just pretend like this was technically before she joined their group

"I remember watching this live. I was at work when it was airing and I got carried away watching it on the TV's the whole time." She laughed, "You guys did so good in this show. I was so proud to call you my friends. I ran around work like 'Hey I know them' and 'They're my friends'"

"You bragged about knowing us?" Jisung asked.

"Of course I did. Do you know how cool you guys are? Most of my ex co-workers were huge Stays. They wanted me to set them up with some of you sometimes. But I told them I hadn't been in touch with you guys recently enough for that." She laughed.

"What do you mean?" Minho paused the show and asked her.

"After you guys debuted you didn't talk to me as much, which duh obviously that would have happened and at first I didn't care much because I had ITZY, but after what happened, we still talked every now and then but It just wasn't a lot. You all were still my closest friends tho. I really didn't talk to anyone for those two years after not debuting. So even though we barely talked, you guys have been my closest friends since we met. But I also didn't want to be annoying and text you guys all the time and shit, so I ended up drifting away from you all and only talking to you guys once a month or so because I knew you were all busy and had other more important things to do. And then one day you all showed up and asked me to join. So here I am." She smiled.

"You mean a lot to us." Felix started, "Of course we had things to do, but you were always the closest friend we all had besides eachother."

"We talked about you a lot too actually." Hyunjin spoke up.

"You did?"

"We missed you a lot after we debuted and moved out of the trainee dorms away from you and the ITZY girls. We always loved hearing from you when you did talk to us. I remember Chan ran through the house one day like 'HaEun is calling me everyone get in the living room!'" Minho mimicked Chan.

"That sounds like him." She laughed, "That's really crazy. I'm sorry for not reaching out more."

"Don't be sorry Summer. You're here now, that's all that matters. Plus If we were still around eachother all the time after debut you and Minho would have probably been dating by now." Felix laughed.

"That's what Him and I were talking about yesterday actually. If we started dating then I would have still debuted with ITZY, and still been in it right now. That feels so weird to me." She laughed.

"I'd rather not date her then and have her in our group now then have dated her then and not be around her as much." Jisung was caught off guard by Minhos comment. Did he like her now? Did Jisung have more competition? Could she ever even like any of them?

"Thank you both for being complete losers and not telling each other your feelings." Hyunjin laughed a little.

"Sometimes I think having a little crush is more fun than the actual dating. It keeps you on your toes." She said, this made all of them in the room more curious. They wondered if she liked one of them, and just wouldn't say anything for the fun of it. Maybe someone had a shot, "If you guys aren't going to say anything back can I play the show. We're almost at your performance."

"Yea play it I want to see how cool we look." Jisung laughed.

A/N: I'm very excited to do ODDINARY so I may kinda get through Christmas EveL and SKZ2021 Pretty quickly. Apologies if you're looking forward to this part but it will be very quick. Also I am aware Skz went on tour in april of 2022, however i'm not going to do a lot of chapters about the actual tour, i'll get pretty bored writing the same concert stuff over and over again so i'll probably just do chapters revolving around where their concerts are