STRAY KIDS: THE 9TH MEMBER

Chapter 10 (New Format)

AAAHHHHH PICTURES ARE WORKINGGGG!!!!! That's Jihoonie up there hehe...credits to the person in the photo, whoever you are, damn u gorgeous 💜

Also you can go to previous chapters to see how everyone else looks. Sorry for the delay of photos but me iPad was being a real big bish 😔 but everything should be all g now 😁

*TIME SKIP TO 2017*

*Bold in English, Normal in Korean*

*Seungmin POV*

To be in the advanced singing class from day one was pretty big to me, and very much nerve racking, but there I was, standing in the corner of the classroom waiting for either someone to approach me or for the teacher to walk in.

"Hello," a girl said. "Are you new? Or maybe lost?"

I looked at her in confusion. "Well, unless this isn't the advanced singing class, then I'm pretty sure I'm in the right place."

"Oh, sorry!" She exclaimed. "We don't usually get new students, and if we do, they would've been here for a while. I know everyone's face here, so when I didn't recognize yours, I thought you weren't meant to be here..."

"It's okay,"

I really wasn't mad, it was honest mistake made by a seemingly honest girl.

"I'm Aera." She said, sticking out her hand.

"Seungmin." I replied.

"Nice to meet you."

"Aera, class is starting!" A boy dragged her away and she waved goodbye to me and I smiled, doing the same.

The teacher called on me and I introduced myself to the class. As I told everyone my age, an older boy called out at me, commenting on my age (18), and telling me I was the youngest. I took this as a compliment and continued with everything. Things seemed to be going really well for me.

Until they weren't.

After class, the same boy came up to me and began to threaten me.

"If you don't tell me how you managed to make it, imma beat your ass!" He hissed. His sudden change of personality scared me a lot, and I probably would've been pummeled, had the boy who had dragged Aera away earlier not come in to save me.

"Hey Hyung! You making friends with Seungmin?" He said cheerfully, somehow not registering how menacing the older boy looked.

"Yeah. Take care of him something bad might happen if you don't." He said, glaring at me. I shivered but tried to fix myself you getting the message not to tell anyone if what the boy was doing. Said boy walked away.

"So, Seungmin, make any friends yet?" The boy asked.

"N-no. Not yet." I scratched my arm uncomfortably.

"Oh. Come join me and the others. I'm Chan by the way." He extended his hand and I shook it. Seemed like I had made a friend now.

*Jihoon POV*

I was sitting quietly at the back of the cafeteria, my friends who were training with me had an extra class, and so I had no one else to sit with. I picked at my food a little and began to eat after a little while. As I was ready to get up, I heard a whiny, shrill, girly voice call out.

"Jihoonie Oppa!"

I groaned internally. A small, pretty girl skipped over to me, her long black hair flowing behind her as she did so. "I was looking for you~!"