tennis | lee minho

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"in this road, i walk alone i want to shine in this darkness, throw your sticks and stones so what if we're different from others, don't mind anything"

- red ; the rose

after a while, they both released the hug and stared the the ground awkwardly. "i'll, just um go. see you later!" hyejin said awkwardly before standing up and brushing dust of her before walking out.

  she quickly jogged up the stairs and into the uni dorms. she found her room, opened the door and went straight to her bed and plopped on it. 

"poor minho..." she said while staring at the ceiling. "why? what happened to him?" jeongin's voice broke hyejin out of her thoughts. "oh what? nothing. don't worry." she said quickly before looking at jeongin, who looked suspicious but didn't say anything.

"hey, wanna go play some tennis with me?" 

hyejin swung the racket over her shoulder before walking briskly towards the court. as she approached the courts, 8 people came into view, each of them also holding a racket. jeongin had invited all of his friends, as they called themselves, 'stray kids.' "ow!" hyejin blinked twice before acknowledging the scene before her. 

changbin was chasing felix with his rackets raised and felix screaming his lungs out. a boy whom she didn't know the name too was sitting there shyly while listening to the other's conversation. jisung, is she remembered corrected was practising hitting balls against the wall and the others were just bouncing balls up and down while having a loud conversation.

"hey?" she awkwardly approached. the conversations immediately disappeared and felix stopped running, resulting in changbin whacking him on the head with a racket. felix screeched before running again at full speed towards hyejin and hiding behind her. "hyejin, help me!" the others laughed before changbin gave up and sighed.

"bestie!" a voice screamed before someone ran at full speed towards hyejin and enveloping her in a gigantic hug, nearly knocking her over. "hey jisung!" she said before returning the hug. "how are you?" 

"good!" he beamed. seungmin was now boiling with jealously, seeing hyejin and jisung have such close skinship. "make it less obvious would you." changbin nudged him and he flinched at the touch. "what do you mean" he whispered back while staring at jisung and hyejin having a loud conversation about twice. 

"your burning holes into the poor boy's back. give it a rest. you lost your chance." changbin muttered, and seungmin felt an ache in his heart. he nodded slightly before shifting his gaze somewhere else. "hey, i'm woojin! i'm pretty sure you don't know me, as i'm not on the tennis team but i heard about you!" the quiet boy from earlier introduced himself to hyejin and hyejin smiled warmly at him. "hey, i'm hyejin. i hope you've heard only good things about me" woojin grinned before nodding.

"yep! don't worry only good things! do you know, changbin and felix?" he asked innocently before pointing at the pair who was busy trying to nudge each other down. they immediately stopped and felix put an arm over changbin's shoulder, resulting in changbin looking at the object over his arm in disgust and slipping out of his grip. "yep! i know them!" she chuckled and someone, who sounded a lot like jeongin yelled out, "the gay couple!" felix grinned proudly like he was a father at that statement, while changbin's eyes widened and quickly fixed it. "ew no, what are you talking about?" he said, but everyone scoffed at that.

"felix and changbin are so gay for each other!" hyunjin explained and changbin tried to deny it but everyone ignored him. changbin, although always denied it, inside his heart, he knew it was true. felix then slipped his arm over changbin's shoulder again before hugging him tightly and making changbin suddenly wheeze and gasp for air. "aw, are you okay babe?" he asked teasingly before everyone cooed around them. get a room! was heard from someone before everyone laughed again.

"right!" chan exclaimed before clapping his hands to get everyone's attention. "let's play!" to say it was a mess was an understatement. it was satan's playroom. they decided to play king of the court which was a game where someone would be the king, and stand on one side of the court. an opposing player would step onto the other side, and have a rally. the first person to lose or not hit the ball back, would go to the end of the line. if the king lost, the other person would be the new king and and the ex-king would have to join back the line.

how was it chaos? everyone was screaming the player to defeat whoever was the king. and if they lost, they would shower the poor player with criticism. and if the kind lost, everyone would laugh at the king before also showering him with a bunch of insults. "hyunjin come on! why did you hit it to the middle court! you could have hit it to the far right, you would have won woojin! it's that simple!" felix was busy tutting hyunjin and he glared the boy. "well then, you have a go if you think it's that easy." hyunjin lashed back and he flicked his hair.

"watch and learn the master." felix boasted before grabbing his racket and stepping on the court. he served the ball and hit it to the middle court, woojin hit the ball back, and the two of them held and intense rally. then, as woojin gave a lob, felix smirked. "it's over for you!" he yelled while jumping and bringing his racket down to smash on woojin.

except that he missed and instead the ball hit him on his private part making him shriek with pain and he stumble back, before tripping over and doing a back roll and landing on his stomach. everyone shrieked with laughter, but no one could beat hyunjin, who laughed the hardest and had tears of joy coming out of his eyes. "oh my- oh my gosh- felix- that was-" hyunjin couldn't speak properly as he was wheezing and gasping for air, before collapsing on the floor and laughing again.

"ow, that wasn't funny!" felix complained, but no one listened to him. even woojin fell to his knees and was now hitting the floor with his fist while laughing. hyejin, who normally held her posture was laughing along before also wheezing. "you guys suck!" felix yelled. 

"hyejin?" a voice from outside the court came, and everyone turned their heads towards the person and immediately stopped laughing. the mood in the atmosphere dropped and turned sour as the 8 boys now stared at the person, glaring daggers into him. jeongin, was perhaps the one who was glaring the most and looked the most angriest. 

"what are you doing here...minho?" woojin asked sternly. 

 + i ship changlix fite me. 

what are your favourite ships in stray kids? mine are changlix and minsung :D