Innocent Criminal [Stray Kids Fanfiction]

Chapter 5 ~ Friends...

As Beomji slowly walked down the stairs, she could hear Felix screaming from a few metres away, sounding like a Pterodactyl having a seizure. She hurried down worrying only to see Felix with his phone. Slightly rolling her eyes, she approached him and asked him about his whereabouts.

"I'm going to go where Chan hyung is going," he said while playing with his phone.

Beomji, who was hesitant, bid him farewell. She wanted to be alone at that moment to jump into a hole and never come back. Hence, she walked out of the building while dragging her heavy feet.

She decided to walk home as the bus would be crowded at a time like that. Her shoes screeched endlessly against the concrete ground. The pavement happened to be caught in deep silence. Beomji honestly did not like the lonely feeling. She wanted to be comforted.

"Hey,"

Speak of the devil, her lips twitched and her eyes fluttered. She looked behind her to see Jisung rubbing his nape while smiling at her. Surprised, she bowed to him and smiled back. Awkwardness filled the air. Jisung wanted to break the ice and proceeded to start a conversation.

"I never actually saw you walking here before," he asked nervously.

"it's because I take the bus," she replied.

Jisung walked beside her slowly as they both got interested in the talk.

"Is your mind filled with too much information that it is too much for you to handle?" Jisung tried to understand after seeing how swollen her eyes actually are.

"How- How do you? Are you a mind-reader?" Beomji was a little shocked.

"Nope, I'm just smart"

Beomji could not help but crack a smile. She did feel happier when he was around. She did not feel lonely and hated like before.

"Do you like, not want me here?" Jisung suddenly attacked her with a question.

Beomji panicked because she did not want to break his feelings. What he had said was not true.

"No way! I like that you're here. I'm just feeling lonely and I'm happy that you came to me first. I appreciate it a lot." Beomji laughed awkwardly at how cringey her sentence was.

Jisung grinned at her sincerity.

"So, am I just a stranger to you? Or a classmate?" Jisung sounded out to her.

Beomji, who was so scared that she would answer it wrongly, accidentally yelled out without being aware,

"We are friends!"

Her eyes were wide opened and her mouth sagged down. Then he gives her a smile that was just so genuinely sweet that unexpected warmth rushes through her. Beomji did not know that she was blushing hard at that time. Her lips curved upwards while laughing along with Jisung, her new friend. Only to know that deep inside her heart, she was dying. She might never be able to see him and the others again.

Once they've reached her house, Jisung grabbed her wrist before she entered.

"Your number..?"

Beomji immediately took out her phone after realising what he was saying. They both exchanged numbers while saving weird contact names.

"Thank you for everything. I'm just glad I met you," she cast a smile on her face.

Jisung smiled back at her and waved at her before going. She slowly went in the house to see her little brother who just returned from his school, sleeping on the floor.

They lived in a house with just three rooms, the hall, the kitchen and the washroom. The family of two sleeps on the floor in the hall. They just could not afford a bed. Beomji wanted to buy at least a mattress for her brother but that was hard to do so.

She placed her bag under his light head and covered him with a blanket. She felt guilty for not being able to give everything that he deserved. She wanted him to live normally like a 5-year-old, but that seemed impossible.

The cold floor that was followed by frozen air in the sapphire room. She looked around and breathed deeply. Maybe she wasn't that lonely. She had Chan, Felix, her brother, and maybe even Jisung. All of that could help her but her heart was never fully satisfied. It was still empty...

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OMAigAd I got a distinction for my Music examinations!(ू˃̣̣̣̣̣̣︿˂̣̣̣̣̣̣ ू)

I actually wrote this chapter on the day that Felix got eliminated :"(( but that's okie because Stray Kids has already debuted with a sick album! I hope they do well and even become successful in the future! - Eunkyungieeeeee