|| Stray Kids Oneshots

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"Stay away from Seo Changbin," they all told me when I first moved to this school. When I asked why, all I recieved in response was, "Because he's only going to hurt you. Don't give him that opportunity." Then they would walk away with no further explanation.

I tried to follow their advice and keep as much distance as possible, but their words only sparked my curiosity. When they spoke of you, they were always vague and their tone was dark, hateful. It was like they were hiding something, like they held knowledge of something they refused to share with me. I wanted to know what it was. I needed to know why you lived in such notoriety. The mysteriosity drew me in like a moth to flame.

Well they've always told me that curiosity killed the cat. This time, I happened to be playing the role of the intrigued feline. I was willing to take that risk, though. I just needed answers to the questions that were like a downpour of rain from the dark clouds of people's words, flooding my mind with higher waters every second. Every one of the figurative raindrops held one word, which asked many questions all in one syllable. Why?

Why won't they give me direct answers? Why would you hurt me? Why do they hate you?

I met a new friend, Kim Seungmin. He was my first friend at this school. I didn't know he was your friend as well. He was the first person I ever heard standing up for you. He told them they were wrong, and they mentioned an "incident" that supposedly happened three years ago. I found it quite fatuous to hate a person for an event so long ago, but I guessed it was something pretty big if they still cared so much about it.

"You should meet my other friends, I think you'll like them a lot," Seungmin told me one day. I didn't see any problem with agreeing, so I did. That day at lunch, he showed me over to the table with six people waiting for him to show up. I nervously followed as he walked up to the table and said to his friends, "Hi guys, I wanted you all to meet Hyunjin! He moved here recently, and I met him a few weeks ago.

In that moment, I noticed your gaze was fixed on me, while the others were watching Seungmin as he spoke. I couldn't read your expression. Your eyes held no visible emotion or intention. I was nervous, but more curious than anything. You had a mysterious aura that drew me in, an imaginary magnet stronger than any real one.

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The next day, I was invited to sit with the group at lunch. Everyone gladly welcomed me with warm smiles and greetings. Only on person did not, and it was you. You didn't speak, but you never glared. You just kept your gaze fixed on me, which made me anxious, but more importantly caused a million more questions to stir and race in my mind.

I tried not to think much of it though, and I eventually joined the conversation with everyone else. I wanted to fit in, to get along with the others, because this group was the first few friends I had made at this new school.

After lunch was Dance class, my favorite hour of the day. That was the main reason why I had moved to this school, because it was a music and arts school. My old school was not, and I had hated it.

The teacher wasn't in class that day, so we ended up going to the production classroom. You were there, and so were Chan and Jisung. The other two smiled and waved, beckoning for me to come over. You just sat there, staring and not speaking. Your expression was unreadable as usual. I forced my mind off of your intense gaze, focusing on the project being shown to me by the other two.

But just a fragment of a heartbeat before I looked away, I saw something change. A hint of softness in your previously somewhat-cold eyes. Maybe they were all wrong, just as I had wanted to believe they would be.

Perhaps rather than hurting me, you would protect me from being hurt, physically and emotionally. Maybe you just hadn't been given as much kindness or as much of a fair chance as you deserve, because people were more willing to judge than to learn.

Then you smiled for another short moment, for the first time I've seen since I moved to this school. You never smiled in classes we had together, which was many throughout the day. But you smiled now. You smiled at me, full of what I could tell was genuine warmth and kindness. Your smile was beautiful.

Everyone told me that curiosity would kill the cat, but I truly believe that in my case, it only led to the figurative feline discovering a tenth life.

Ok Star, wtf is that ending? Like the last paragraph? What are you yapping about bestie? What happened to your good endings from the Stars line or something?

Why am I yelling at myself in the authors note? Idek 💀

A bit of hyunbin for y'all!!

I low key forgot abt this book tbh since I've been focusing on my other two books (that my sleep deprived self forgot the names of 💀)

I also haven't had many oneshot ideas lately idrk why

I kinda want to do a Q&A about myself and any of my books/writing, etc. Would that be interesting? I would probably post it as it's own seperate part, but like at the same time as I post an actual update?

Anyways, thank you for reading, lovely Constellations! Shine bright and take care of yourself! In case you haven't heard anyone say this lately, I'm so proud of you all!!

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