FELIX X SKZ OT8

Distance - SKZ💚🥀

Felix begins to distance himself from his members. The reason for his behavior, however, remains unknown to his friends and they seem to be worried about their ray of sunshine.

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'Is Felix so touch-starved or why is he literally stuck to the others?'

'He is so disgusting to his members!'

'Why can't he leave my Hyunjinnie alone. The poor guy can hardly breathe because of all the hugs.'

'Just how cringe is his behavior?'

'How old is the boy actually? He acts like a toddler.'

'Ugh such childish behavior.'

'He's so desperate for hugs!'

'Did his family not love him enough or why does he always touches his members?'

'Ouch!' Felix knows he shouldn't read the comments, but he can't stop. It hurts to see how many fans hate him hugging his friends or touching them. He thought everyone knew how much Felix loves skin-ship, but in the end they're just disgusted by him.

'I am pretty sure the others hate Felix. I mean who would like a clingy child as bandmate or roommate... disgusting!'

'Is that true?' Felix can't help but rack his brains about it right now. He knows he should be thinking about the upcoming concert, but instead he sits here in his room and reads through comments from various videos and picks out exactly those comments. The comments that criticize him for his affectionate and clingy behavior. He can't help it. It hurts so much, but maybe they're right. After all, these are Stays with their attentive eyes. They see every abnormality and every inconsistency. Should Felix believe them and start staying away from his members? At least for a few weeks... or months. After that, he can be himself again... Can't he?

"Felix are you coming? We have to go... Dance practice!" Minho calls out from the corridor in Felix's direction. The boy is immediately torn from his thoughts and thrown back into reality.
"Coming!" Felix calls back and runs to his bag. As he picks it up, he sees a photo in a picture frame that he printed out a few days ago. It's a photo with all his members. They were very happy there, but Felix only notices one thing... how attached he is to Changbin and actually Changbin looks a bit annoyed with Felix or is Felix just imagining it? No, Changbin has never liked skinship. Of course he's annoyed by Felix and so are Hyunjin, Minho, Jeongin and Seungmin. Chan and Jisung are the only ones who accept skinship, but they don't like it as much as Felix.

He knows how Jisung sometimes pushes him away because it's too much for him, or how Chan walks away from Felix so he doesn't have to endure a hug from the boy. Or how Jeongin frees himself from Felix's hugs and how Seungmin always pushes Felix away. Minho, Hyunjin and Changbin also hate being touched or always say that Felix's closeness is too much or too hot.
His members hate the way Felix is, but don't say anything because they're afraid of hurting his feelings
But now Felix knows.
He can change now and become better. He just has to pull himself together and avoid his members for a few days. Then the problem will solve itself and Stay will also be happier with him.
"You can do it Felix!" the boy whispers quietly to himself.

He picks up his bag and then goes to join Minho and the others, but they still have to wait for Jisung and Changbin, so Felix drops onto the single armchair.
Normally, this is unusual for Felix. Normally he would sit on the big couch between one of the members or on someone's lap, but not today. The others seem to notice, but see Felix close his eyes and just think that the blond is too tired.
When Jisung and Changbin finally burst into the living room, they can go to the vans. While everyone is already walking ahead, Jisung notices Felix not moving from the chair and taps him on the shoulder.
"Lixie, come on, let's go," he says and Felix looks at his sunshine twin and cuddle buddy with glassy eyes. "Mmm, you must still be very tired, aren't you?" Jisung asks the sleepy boy as he strokes his soft blond hair.