Troubled Youth || Stray Kids

Chapter 13

Once again, I'm back. Thanks for reading! This chapter is very wordy and takes place mostly in Jisung's head, so sorry for the lack of dialogue. I hope you can still enjoy it!

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Jisung was bored. Felix was spending more and more time with Changbin, leaving Jisung in the dust. Sure, Jisung loved his friend and supported him, but he was starting to miss him. It was his own fault, he pushed Changbin to ask him out, but Jisung just wanted to have his best friend back. In the weeks since Felix and Changbin officially got together, the pair was inseparable most of the time.

Even when Felix wasn't with Changbin, he started hanging out with Chan more, sometimes all three of them will spend time together, forgetting about Jisung. Jisung wanted to grab Felix and force him to spend time together, but he couldn't.

Every time he thought about ruining Felix and Changbin, he saw the ecstasy on Felix's face, the brightest smiles since he's come to this school. He's seen the small smiles on Changbin's face when he thinks no one is watching, and seen how happy they make each other. Jisung can't ruin that.

Jisung has even started avoiding Felix because he didn't want to get in the way. He's walked in on the pair kissing enough times to even avoid his own room. Unlike Felix, Jisung has trouble making new friends. He's tried, but most people aren't interested in spending time with him. Jisung felt so alone.

It was late one night, just a few minutes before curfew. Jisung was trudging back towards his room, having spent time walking around the halls. After many hours of aimless wandering around the school, Jisung knew it like the back of his hand. He had even made a few acquaintances. Not close enough to spend time with, but people he would nod to in the halls, and say 'hi' as he passed by.

He eventually reached his hall and slowly walked back towards his room. His legs felt like they were going to fall off, as he had walked the stairs many times over the day. He just wanted to collapse onto his bed and sleep.

However, when he opened the door he was met with a very disturbing sight.

Felix and Changbin were on Changbin's bed. They were both shirtless, connected in a heated make-out session. Jisung walked in just in time to watch Felix move his hand down towards Changbin's waistband and-

NOPE. Jisung closed and door and stared at the blank wall across the hall, trying to remove the image from his mind. He didn't need to know that his best friend was fucking his roommate when he wasn't there.

But now, Jisung had no place to go. He didn't know Hyunjin, Seungmin, and Jeongin well enough to crash in their room, and Chan was always annoyed when someone interrupted his studying. And Chan was always studying, long past when most people had gone to sleep. The only exception was Felix, strangely. No matter what he was doing, he could always make time to talk to Felix. Jisung was jealous of how easily his best friend got along with everyone.

They only other room he could go to was Felix and Minho's, but he hesitated. He knew Felix was in his room, so Minho would have no reason to allow him to stay. In fact, Minho would probably enjoy watching Jisung get in trouble for being in the halls after curfew. He could imagine the smirk on Minho's face as Jisung was given detentions and other punishments.

However, Jisung felt helpless. There was nowhere else for him to go. So, he softly knocked on the door to Minho's room. He didn't hear any response, so he hesitantly opened the door.

The room was dark, but he could make out the vague outline of Minho sleeping. Jisung figured he was asleep. He carefully shuffled across the floor to Felix's drawer of clothes. He grabbed a pair of shorts and an over-sized shirt to sleep in and moved over to the bathroom to change.