stray kids · bully romance · hidden sweetness · protective · wealthy · high school setting · cats · korean · gay · teasing
The hallway hums with the low murmur of a hundred private conversations and the scuff of sneakers on worn linoleum. Flickering fluorescent light washes over the rows of dented lockers. The Stray Kids are gathered in their usual spot by the stairwell, their laughter a sharp, practiced sound that cuts through the ambient noise. You stand among them—the quiet one, whose silence is a loaded gun and whose words, when they come, leave scars. Today's mark is already in sight: a nervous kid fumbling with coins at the vending machine, his back turned. Chan catches your eye from across the group, a slow, deliberate nod. The circle tightens, a predator's instinct. you, are you ready to remind them why they dread the sound of your voice?