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6 years
It was late at night as Chan was finishing up the last things on the song he had been working on for the last few days. He smiled at the progress he had made and he couldn’t wait to show it to the other members.
He looked at the time and noticed it was past midnight and the day of Stray Kids' anniversary. He smiled and pulled out his phone to send a silly message to stays. He started packing his stuff together as the replies started to tick in from bubble.
크리쯔
6주년이다아아아아아아아
크리쯔
6th Anniversaryyyyyyy
As he zipped up his bag, took on his jacket, and swung his bag over his shoulder, he picked up his phone again and started looking through all the messages that people were sending back to him. He giggled as he kept scrolling as he walked out of the door and locked up the studio.
He continued to scroll as he walked towards the exit. He shook his head at all the silly things that the fans were sending back to him. He pocketed his phone as he walked out of the building and thought to himself that they honestly had some of the best fans. Even though they could sometimes go completely overboard with how protective they could be over the members and the messes that they sometimes caused, at the end of the day, Chan really appreciated them and how far they had managed to get Stray Kids.
As he got into the car he thought about how far they had come from when they started and he thought of how proud he was of every single one of his members. How much they had all grown as individuals and as a team. How the company hadn’t believed in them and they had to fight their way to where they are now. Chan didn’t know if he would have been able to do all of this without the members. And now all the members were doing things that were even bigger than they all had expected, going to big fancy fashion shows, becoming ambassadors for massive global brands, to being called the leaders of 4th generation.
As he looked out of the window at the streets of Seoul passing by him, he also knew that they still had a long way to go and had so much more to show and to achieve as a team and as individuals.
When he made it to the dorm, he thanked the driver, walked up to the door, and let himself in. He toed his shoes off, slipped on a pair of slippers, and quietly walked towards his room so as to not wake up any of the members. As he entered his room he dropped his bag by the door, threw his jacket over the chair, pulled off his clothes, and collapsed on the bed. He turned over on his back, pulled the sheets up, and immediately fell asleep.
He had probably only been asleep for a few hours before he was startled awake by someone jumping on him and shouting all around the room. He looked around the room in deep confusion as he noticed all the members had come into his room and complete chaos seemed to have broken out between them. He looked at who had jumped on top of him and was met with a mop of blonde hair.
“Felix, what are you doing?” he asked.
“HE IS AWAKE,” Felix shouted and sat up. Immediately everyone went silent and turned towards the bed and before Chan had realised what was happening, every single one of the members had jumped on the bed and on top of him.
“Please, guys, please, what is going on?” he desperately tried to ask, as they all piled on top of him. He was so confused about what was even going on and he still had no answer.
“It is Stray Kids day,” Jisung said loudly straight into Chan's ear and he flinched at how loud he said it.
“And we wanted to show our appreciation for you,” he continued.
“You could have done that by making me sleep a little bit longer,” Chan grumbled and tried to move a bit so he could be able to breathe properly again. As he moved both Changbin and Hyunjin ended up falling off the bed and onto the floor with a oof.
“Are you guys okay?” Chan said with a worried voice as he tried to look over Felix's head, who was still cuddling up to Chan with his head on his chest.
“Yeah, we are fine, hyung,” they both said.
Accepting their reply, Chan tried to move again, but quickly realised that it was not gonna happen as he had Felix on one side, Jisung on the other side and Jeongin, Seumgin and Minho were draped over his legs. He sighed and just gave up.
“So are we just going to stay like this?” he asked.
“Yup,” they all replied.
Chan sighed again as he accepted his fate and wrapped his arms around Jisung and Felix. He might have been acting annoyed about the entire situation, but in reality he was very content with it as he had his entire found family with him.
As he laid there with all the members around him, listening to them chatter to each other about something he wasn’t sure of, he felt that this is where he should be at all times and that these seven boys were one of the main reasons that he was here and why he hadn’t given up on his dream.
He knew at that moment that even though they might disband as a group one day, that they wouldn’t leave him and that he would never be alone in his life again as these boys would always be there for him and he would be there for them at any given point.
“I love every single one of you and thank you for making me a better and happy person,” he said with a small smile on his face and he hugged Felix and Jisung tighter to him.
Minho and Seungmin let out a sound of disgust and complained that he was being sappy, while Felix and Jisung hugged him tighter back. Changbin, Hyunjin and Jeongin just laughed at his sappiness.
“I will never leave any of you guys behind,” he continued.
“And we will never leave you behind, hyung,” Changbin said from the floor and all the others nodded along. Chan smiled at this and closed his eyes and started to slowly drift off again.
This was his home, a bit rowdy and chaotic at times, but still a home filled with unconditional love to each and everyone and he wouldn’t have it any other way.