Struck | STRAY KIDS

The Start

Seungmin wakes up to the sound of the alarm, trying his hardest to pry his eyes open. When he does wake up, he checks his phone and saw a text from his brother, Woojin. Apparently, he's coming to dinner with yet another different person. His brother is bi, sometimes he brings home a girl yet most of the times he would bring a boy. Working as a cop, Woojin never really had the time to date.

Seungmin let out a sigh and got ready to school. Unfortunately for him valentines day was coming up in another two weeks and he had work to do. As in matchmaking his schoolmate which IS part of the job he signed up for at Cupid.Co. He didn't really think that he would be matchmaking at SCHOOL when he first signed up. He thought it was more of a blind date kind of stuff but instead got a blackberry which contains this magical email that makes people spellbound for two weeks and after the effect wears out, the couple would either work things out (which is good because Seungmin gets a bonus for each of those couples) or they would break up (and make Seungmin feel bad because they might've wasted their time with the wrong somebody).

As much as he wants to help his brother, he didn't know anyone in town other than his age group and he would rather not see one of his classmates locking lips with his brother.

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When Seungmin arrives at school, he quickly takes note of the people in the hallway, saying a few quick hellos to his mutual and made way to his locker. After taking his much-needed necessity for class, he was greeted with his two best friends, Jisung and Jeongin. Even though Jeongin was younger, he was very smart hence the reason why he has most of his classes with Seungmin and Jisung.

"Oh look, it's Minho hyung," Jisung said, waving his hands at the older boy. The said boy waved back albeit not with many enthusiasms as Jisung, but the smile on his face was genuine and Seungmin often wonders why both of the boys can't seem to figure out their feelings when it was obvious as hell.

"So, Jisung hyung, are you planning on giving anything to Minho hyung on valentines?" Jeongin asked, and to be fair, Seungmin was curious about that too. Can Han Jisung finally be the confident gay he claims he is?

"What do you even mean?" Jisung denied, but the blush on his cheeks was telling another story. As much as Seungmin loves his job, he never really found the courage to set his friends up(again), not after what happened with Jeongin when he tried to set him up with three different guys at the same time. But that's a story for another day.

Simply put, it was a disaster and after the week ended, Jeongin spent an extra two days at home to avoid more embarrassment. In the end, Seungmin found out that Jeongin had a crush on Bang Yedam, some kid in Biology in Jeongin's actual grade that Seungmin didn't know off

The week might've built Jeongin's confidence with Yedam but he never really asked Yedam out and Yedam simply didn't want to assume things as Jeongin is known for his blinding smile and the incident. So it's safe to say that Seungmin is extremely guilty and does not want to repeat the same mistake TWICE.

As the bell rang, the three of them quickly made way to their literature class.

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During literature, Mr. Tuan gave the students a copy of yet another romance novel that they needed to reinterpret. A disgruntled scowl was heard as a student which Seungmin identifies as Seo Changbin let out a protest saying, "Why are we reading a romance novel again? Can't we read like an actual story or something?"

"Well Mr. Seo, how about our class do some poetry instead?" Everyone knows that reinterpreting poetry is much more of a hassle than a novel and literally everyone in the class was sending Changbin disapproving glares. He heard Changbin reply with a nervous chuckle and decided to take matters in his own hands.

If Changbin was so skeptical of love, what more could change his perspective than him falling in love for himself? Now Seungmin just needs to find someone who could help him change Changbin's thought of love. Someone who is as much as a hopeless romantic as Seungmin is.