Anonymous

Chapter 3

Please don't hate me too much.
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10:33 AM - Practice Room @ JYP Building

Seungmin was more than tired. He had the feeling that he didn't sleep at all.
His eyes landed on the youngest, who looked even more exhausted than he felt. The dark circles under his eyes could not be ignored.
Seungmin could have sworn he heard Jeongin cry the previous night, but the maknae never cried.
Chan also looked more stressed out than usual. He had asked all of them (except for Minho, he was visiting Jisung) to come to the practice room.
"I have something to say," he began, "I've already told Jisung, and we decided it was a joke, but I think it's not. Someone is threatening me that he or she will harm you guys. That's what happened to Jisung."
The room was silent.
Then Changbin spoke up: "Do you have a suspect?"
Chan sighed and nodded. "I think it might be Minho."
"WHAT?"
"I don't want that either! But it all fits! He was eliminated, so now he wants to take revenge. And the caller wrote: 'One down, seven to go' after Jisung had the accident, but it should be 'One down, EIGHT to go', because we're nine."
Stray Kids stared at him in disbelief.
"I hate to say this," Woojin said, "but he kinda has a point."
"I know," Felix sighed, "and that's what I hate the most right now."

01:42 PM - JYP Building

They had practiced for around three hours, and Changbin couldn't feel his legs.
He was dragging himself through the hallways back to the dorm. Jeongin opened the glassdoor to the hallway, holding it open for the others.
Just as Changbin walked through, he stumbled and almost fell, but caught himself before he could. He groaned in pain.
"Grandpa Changbin," Felix giggled.
"Yah!"
"What? I didn't say anything," he said and acted all innocent.
Changbin grabbed him, putting him in a headlock. "So I'm a grandpa? Free yourself, you little-"
"Hello, Stray Kids!!"
A boy came running towards them. His hair was red, and he looked kinda cute but also bad boy-ish with his piercings.
[A/N: Someone like this:

I hope the picture helps imaging him >///<]
"Hey," Hyunjin said, "long time no see, Yejun hyung."
Changbin stared at the boy - Yejun - trying to remember him.
"Who is that?", he asked Felix whisperned, but Yejun heard it.
"My name is Park Yejun, I was best friends with Channie after BamBam debuted. We were roommates."
"Huh...", Changbin scratched his head, "I have no idea who you are."
"That's okay," Yejun laughed. "I only came to say that I'm sorry for what happened to Jisung."
"Thank you," Chan said.
Felix kept staring at Yejun, and it made Changbin feel uneasy.
Suddenly, the younger boy snapped his fingers, startling Stray Kids.
"You're THAT trainee!!"
"Yeah," Yejun smiled, "the boy that didn't make it into Stray Kids because of Chan's standards."
Changbin watched Yejun carefully.
That seems like a good reason wanting to harm Stray Kids... and the part with the 'I will destroy your dream like you destroyed mine' makes sense then...
"You're behaving suspicious," Changbin said.
"Really?", Yejun laughed, "I didn't mean to seem suspicions. Anyways, I hope Jisung gets well soon, and I will leave now. See you guys!!" And then the trainee left.
Seungmin watched him, sighing. "Binnie hyung is right, he DOES seem suspicious."
They began walking again.
"But why not earlier?", Woojin asked. "Why now?"
Chan shrugged, "Maybe to get attention?"
Hyunjin chewed his lower lip, thinking hard. "Maybe..."
They had reached another door and Felix opened it for them.
Changbin waited, until everyone was through, because he wanted to walk with Felix. They hadn't finished their discussion yet (the one about who is a grandpa, Changbin or Felix).
When the door shut, Felix turned to his hyung. "Thank you for waiting," he said, showing off his smile.
And then Changbin saw the ball, coming straight towards the door, which was made out of glass, like all the doors in the JYP building, to look impressive.
Without thinking, he jumped in front of Felix, his back towards the door as it got hit by the ball.
The glass shattered, flying everywhere and hitting Changbin.
Felix watched in disbelief as his saviour and his hyung fell to the floor unconscious as soon as the rain of glass stopped.
He screamed.
In the distance, there was the sound of sirens, coming closer - Chan had called the ambulance.
Then, Chan received a text:

Anonymous:
Oops, my bad. Two down, six to go.
                                             1:54 PM ✔
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Who do you think it was?

Teddy out~