Secrets || Straykids ff✔️

s p e c i a l c h a p t e r t h r e e

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Journal log #xx, year 2xxx

I knew a lot.

In fact, I knew everything that happened.

I was just 5 years old at that time, and I was scared for me and my siblings. It was unusual for a kid like me to remember everything, but here I am, still replaying everything that happened inside my head.

It was a peaceful morning, and an old multiverse traveller went into our house. He dragged all 9 of us out and shoved us inside his unusual vehicle. I could hear my siblings crying from his painful grip and I was scared. We're too young for this, we don't deserve this. And that was the last time we were in our own universe, our own dimension.

Inside that vehicle, as we travelled, I comforted my siblings while having tears in my own eyes. I knew they were counting on me as the eldest, so I don't have time to cry with them. Y/n and Jisung were the ones crying the most, and I did my best to make them feel better.

After a few hours of travel, I saw a whole world almost similar to ours. The setting was just like our world, but the ambiance was different. And right there, the old traveller started to give away my siblings to different couples and families right in front of me. I was scared, feeling powerless as I watched him handed my siblings away, one-by-one.

When he was about to give Y/n away, I insisted to the old man if I could be given to the family related to hers so I could look out for her. He was reluctant at first, but he agreed anyway, and that's why we became cousins.

Y/n was given to the old man's son and daughter-in-law, while I was given to his daughter-in-law's sister, and we grew up in Australia. Ohh, Felix also mentioned to me that he also grew up there, but was kind of far from our place. The rest of our brothers were left in Korea.

She was the only child of that couple, so I became her big brother, although technically, I really am her big brother. I protected her, played with her, and gave the support she needed while also being a brother figure to my siblings in my family.

Eventually, I moved to Korea just to make sure my brothers there were alright. A few weeks after I arrived, I received a call from the old man. He wanted me to meet him, so I came, not expecting all of my brothers to be there as well. I was on the verge of tears, but I held it back as I don't want them to see me crying.

It has been years since I last saw them, and they all forgot about me, about our real bond as siblings. I don't blame them, though it hurts. We introduced ourselves, and thankfully, their names weren't changed. Then, there was this other guy who was part of the team, he's harmless at first look, but there was something off about him the longer we spent time together.

The old man formed us in a team and we worked under him. In the first few months, we only received a little bit of money from him, but after that, he gave us 3 times more than before. We also enjoyed working as he only ordered us to do some errands. The money I earned helped me buy the things I want, also to help my foster family, to thank them for raising me.

All 9 of us talked about purchasing some properties, just in case we have to go somewhere safe. I bought my own house and a hidden underground base in the middle of a barren land. Most of them kept their properties a secret, as they wanted it to be a surprise. We already went to some of them, like Minho's condominium unit, Hyunjin's residential house, Felix's villa house, and Jeongin's private resort.