1.Crowd Anxiety Jisung
They had just arrived back in Korea, coming from another tour. Everyone was tired, the staff, the managers, and the boys. Since they didn't want to disappoint the fans about not giving enough fan service, they tried to hide their arrival date as much as they could. But there were people who had waited and found out. More than a few they were, and they were crowding all the exits the boys would take. All the hyungs tried partnering with a maknae, to make sure their count was alright. Chan had I.N, Woojin had Seungmin, Lee Know had Hyunjin, Changbin had Felix and that left Leon with Jisung.
When they had just arrived, Jisung was still calm. They had not seen the number of fans outside yet. But once they boarded off the plane, they were greeted by quite a number. Some were calm and like most of their Stays were. But there were pushy and overly excited fans. There was nothing to worry about at first, but some fans were able to break the chain the boys had held each other. Leon and Jisung have been pushed away from the boys, and it caused fans to cause a frenzy. Some want to take a pic, get the accessories, hold hands, kiss the cheeks, and many more. Jisung felt his anxiety come in when someone kept on tugging his shirt and pants. He didn't know how to notify the managers, as they were far away. But Leon took notice. He tried telling that fans off nicely but with the noise, most had not heard him. Seeing as Jisung was nearly shaking, Leon carried Jisung over his back. He secured Jisung like a backpack and used his height as an advantage to move to the crowd. He held tight to Jisung's hands around his neck as he tried as quick as he could to arrive where the other boys were. There were some fans who were not understanding the concern. So he had to raise his voice already. "Stays, if you are as understanding as we know you are. Please understand, let us pass." His voice boomed louder than usual and most had heard him. They noticed him carrying a member and made space so that he could pass.
When Jisung woke up, he noticed he was already in the dorm room. He turned to see his hyung, on a chair beside his bed. When the older heard that the boy was awake he took his attention away from his phone. He had just finished tweeting a thank you for the stays that helped them earlier. "Jisung are you okay?" The younger boy nodded but was still trying to understand what happened.
"Do you want me to get you food? You missed a meal when you were sleeping." The younger boy declined which made the older worry. "Hyung, could you stay beside me as I sleep. Your presence is just...calming me from earlier." The older nodded and made himself comfortable in his chair but the younger butted him. He made space in the bed and waited for his hyung to climb in before hugging him. "Thanks for earlier Hyung. I was so scared." The older just listened to the boy as he was still explaining his anxiety earlier. "Don't worry Sung, Hyung will protect you as long as he could and in any way and time."
2."Rest, I'll be Responsible."
Chan was so tired. Even his insomnia wanted him to sleep. The group had just finished successful concerts but there were a few left. He was lucky even that they had a three day break but he had to make sure that everything was going alright. That none of the other boys were doing crazy things. Or they were tiring themselves too. But he just wanted to rest without feeling guilty.
It wasn't too bad at first. Every member was busy with their own things, but I guess it was evident everyone was tired. There were small annoyances and Chan had to tell them off, since he was the eldest now. It made him miss not being, but sometimes you can't control other things. So he had twice the load, as the eldest hyung and as the leader. Not necessarily keep everyone in line but be there to oversee everything. He didn't want a manager to take his job because no matter how kind their manager was, they were the manager and not a member really.
Chan just wanted to sleep and rest and not think about anything. The boys were arguing over what to eat, some were noisy playing. "Hyung. You should rest," Chan turned to see that it was Leon who had told him. The older explained to the younger that he was supposed to be responsible and take care of the others. But Leon wasn't having any of it. He brought Chan to the couch, wherein Leon asked the other members to move, and made him lie down. "Hyung, I'll be responsible. Take a rest, read, play games, or any other stuff. I'll handle this for tonight at least." The older wanted to argue but Leon had left him no room too.
"Boys!" All the others came stumbling in the living room and had seen Chan lying down. It was Leon who called them. "What do you all want for dinner?" The boys were pitching in everything they wanted and almost arguing. "Listen, I'll call the place I go to. They have everything you guys want, that would offer reasonable serving sizes. Now, I need someone to entertain Chan hyung," Felix, I.N and Jisung offered and Leon allowed them. But giving them instructions to entertain the older but not tire him. "Minho hyung and Seungmin, could you guys please get the finished laundry. I just placed them in the room but I haven't distributed it to the members. I also labelled whose pile is whose." The two boys nodded and immediately went to do what was asked of them. After all it was just easy. "As for you both, Binnie and Jinnie could you both please just check and see to it that all of our plates are ready to use for later. I'll be calling in for the order." The boys nodded and all did as asked. Chan was amazed at how Leon thought.
He was thankful for his dongsaeng for taking charge tonight. It had been a fairly peaceful one.
3. Trying to be Ignorant Changbin
Calling Changbin a pig was something said in a very playful manner. But only the members understood the whole joke. So why were the fans taking it too seriously? Others were already spreading it on twitter, calling the rapper fat and gaining weight. Calling him a glutton and lazy. But he was so far from what they called him. The young rapper tried to not be vocal about it. As he was okay with teasing from his members, but from others it was getting quite...painful.
Some were even discrediting his composing, lyric writing and rapping just to call him lazy. They were focused on that one joke that in all reality was just that. He had reduced weight and decreased his food intake. He was relying more and more on supplements instead of the actual thing because of the comments people left. He wasn't feeling good already but he tried being ignorant about it. That was the reason he never really posted about himself. He wanted to avoid it. But there were times wherein he had to because it was being too suspicious.
So he posted a few hours ago and there were replies that made him so happy. There were people complimenting him and it made him feel good. But then when he saw those "pig oink oink" replies again. He tried to act unaffected but the perfect person caught him. Leon.
"You know those are not true right. It doesn't mean you eat right, it makes you a pig." Changbin widened his eyes as he heard his hyung's opinion. "Don't act surprised Binnie, I always have my eyes on you boys of course." The older ruffled his hair and pressed a gentle kiss to Changbin's hair before handing him his food and heading out.
Changbin thought nothing of the situation earlier, until he had a notification. Someone in their group started a surprise v live. It turned out to be Leon, and it shocked everyone. "Hi guys! So today you're going to watch me have a mukbang. I need people to see how to eat right, and eating right doesn't make you a pig." The way he smirked at the camera made Changbin know that this was what his hyung's response was. "So don't you ever insult anyone with that term, if you are still unsure if it makes them comfortable or not. Especially not one of the closest people to me. Such as my siblings, my family, my friends and most especially my members." It was lightly told but it was an order. "Now, please spam my members. I want them all to eat this food with me." Ever since that day Changbin was okay with his own eating habits.
4.You're Doing Amazing and Thank You
Ever since Stray Kids' lost it's past main vocal, it caused pressure on the group. Most especially to the vocal unit, which now only had two people. Seungmin had seen the tweets and the fans they were losing. He tried his best to match his hyung's talent but he just couldn't. He trained as hard as he could and improved as much as he could. Some were saying and commending him but others were just...making him feel like a disappointment.
There were comments that surprised him on how rude they were said. Seungmin knew he was not the most popular member, but he didn't expect some of the Stays to want to kick him out of the group. Saying his vocals were not enough and were not strong. He knew that hence practice but people were just so harsh. Some fans had passed by him in the fan sign, saying the same thing and it broke his heart. Leon had heard one comment to his dongsaeng and it made him pissed. How these people were so mean to his member yet all flirty and cute in front of him. He got his mic and called the attention of all. "Hello Stays and my members. I know I should thank everyone. And I do, but I have a special mention today. Seungmin, you're doing amazing and thank you. You're my boy and you're helping the team so much. You're doing more than you thought you could. So yes, you're amazing."
The fans all awed and started shipping the two but it meant so much to Seungmin. He saw his hyung smile at him and sent him a wink before talking to the girl in front of him. "Hi Lina? Lina, yes. I want you to do me a favor." The girl nodded and she was so excited what her bias was going to tell her. "Could you help me have more Seungmin stans. That's my boy there and he's amazing. If your bias is me you should consider him as your bias wrecker." the girl suddenly worried if the boy heard her statements but nodded. She understood and thought back to her actions. "Yes Oppa, I will and I am sorry. Please tell Seungmin oppa too." The boys cringed at the honorific but nodded and smiled. But let's say that Leon did tease Seungmin with this later on.