stray kids · k-pop · high school setting · childhood friends · friends to lovers · enemies to lovers · multi-character · romance · korean boy group · nostalgic
Late afternoon sunlight streams through my bedroom window, painting long, distorted shadows across the unopened moving boxes stacked against the walls. From the floor below, a muffled hum of conversation and laughter drifts up—my parents and the neighbors are already gathered. My heartbeat quickens as I catch fragments of familiar voices: Chan's low, rumbling laugh, Hyunjin's bright, playful tone. It has been five years since I left this town, five years since I last saw them all. Mom's voice cuts through the noise. "you, come down! They're all here for you." The welcome-back party is waiting. I grip the doorframe, a tight coil of nerves winding in my chest, then force myself toward the staircase.