Some of the things they said were true, Minho was better than him. Jisung doesn't deserve him.

As his first tear rolled down his face, the school doors slammed open.

The loud noise echoed through the entire school and everyone jumped at the noise. They turned their attention to the entrance and saw five boys stomping towards the crowd. Minho was leading and he did not look happy at all, there was blue flames emanating from his entire body. Minho quickly spotted where his boyfriend was standing since he was right in the middle of everything. Jisung looked at his boyfriend with wide eyes and the gang member saw the tear that had fallen down Jisung's face, he felt his blood boil. Minho immediately walked over to Jisung and scanned his boyfriend, looking for cuts or bruises or anything that would've shown that he was physically hurt.

"Minho?" Jisung whispered in surprise.

"Tell us Minho. You're not actually dating Jisung are you? You don't actually like him right?" Hwajoon questioned, confident that Minho would agree to what he was saying. The gang member didn't spare a glance at Hwajoon, he kept his eyes on his boyfriend.

Instead of saying anything, Minho cupped Jisung's cheeks and connected their lips. The whole school gasped. Hwajoon and the group of people behind him, were taken aback as their jaws dropped. Jisung didn't notice the gasp from the students because all he could focus on was Minho and the kiss. It wasn't rough or lust filled. It was a gentle kiss that lingered for a few seconds, it ended almost as quickly as it started. Jisung hid his face in the crook of Minho's neck after realizing what they just did in front of the whole school. The gang member wrapped his arms around his boyfriend, fascinated at the fact that he could make Jisung flustered with just one kiss.

"Does that answer your question?" Minho looked at Hwajoon for the first time today. The new kid opened his mouth and closed it many times but never said anything, he was speechless.

A girl stepped forward. "B-but you should date someone who's good for you-"

"And what, you think you're good for me?" Minho snapped back at the girl. He laughed mockingly, "Hate to break it to you but I'm gay. And even if I was straight or bi, I would rather be tortured than date you."

The girl quickly shut her mouth and felt her cheeks heat up from the fact that she publicly got insulted by Minho. The group of students cowered under Minho's harsh glare and soon ran off, not wanting to know what will happen to them if they stuck around any longer, but also because they couldn't take the embarrassment or the glare anymore.

"Y-you aren't being serious are you?" Hwajoon tried to give Minho the benefit of the doubt. "Him?" The new kid pointed to Jisung, making the latter unconsciously loosen his grip on Minho and look down.

Fury roared through Minho's mind at the disrespect that Hwajoon was showing. Before the new kid could flinch or before Jisung could stop him, Minho let go of Jisung and appeared in front of Hwajoon. Minho brought his hand back and gave the arrogant male in front of him, a five star slap to his left cheek. The force of Minho's hand was so powerful that the impact of his hand against Hwajoon's cheek not only made the boy's head snap to right, but it also made Hwajoon lose his balance as he fell to the floor with a thud. The sound of the slap echoed through the halls and everyone cringed at how painful that slap was.

"Don't ever fucking talk to my boyfriend like that. You are absolutely no one to be disrespecting him." Minho spat at the boy on the floor who was rubbing his cheek, thinking it would evaporate the pain away. He didn't look up at Minho, he was too afraid to. The absolute pure fear was evident in Hwajoon's eyes and he was shaking on the ground.

Minho looked like he was about to kick Hwajoon so Jisung quickly grabbed Minho's hand. The latter looked at his boyfriend. "Don't waste your time on him anymore." Jisung told him softly.

Minho contemplated if he should proceed to punch the bastard or to leave him alone. Ultimately he sighed and nodded, he couldn't not listen to his boyfriend after he told him so nicely. Minho turned back to Hwajoon. "Keep a ten feet distance range from Jisung. If I see you any closer than that then I won't hesitate to pound you to the fucking dirt. Don't talk to me or him or about him if you know what's good for you." Minho spat. "Do you understand?"

Hwajoon quickly nodded, fearing for his life. Minho turned back to Jisung and held his hand, taking him to their classroom. Hyunjin, Seungmin, Felix, and Changbin close behind.

While being dragged away, Jisung could hear Chan telling everyone in the hall, in the deepest tone he's ever heard, "Don't fucking touch Jisung, Felix, or Seungmin. If anyone in the gang finds out that you hurt them mentally, physically or in any other way, then you better be on your fucking knees begging them for forgiveness before we find you and make you regret your life choices." The tone of Chan's voice was very familiar to Minho's when Felix told him everything, calm but there was an obvious underlining of a serious threat. The leader wasn't even talking to Jisung but the latter felt threatened. The coldness of the older male's voice sent chills down Jisung's spine and he was lowkey scared for everyone.

"Baby are you okay?" Minho worriedly asked his boyfriend once they were in the classroom.

Jisung nodded, "I'm fine." But Minho didn't believe him. Jisung saw the worry still evident in the other's eyes and gave a smile to reassure that he was actually okay.

"I'm gonna kill that motherfucker." Minho mumbled under his breath.

"No you are not." Jisung placed his hand on Minho's chest to calm him down and the other frowned at him. Jisung pecked Minho's lips. "Don't worry about him. He's not gonna bother us anymore, not after you scared him half to death." Jisung giggled.

"Fine. But if he ever talks to you then please tell me." Minho asked.

"Deal." Minho finally relaxed. "You almost just killed him though, I'm surprised he lived through that slap." Jisung said making the gang member roll his eyes playfully.

"I didn't even hit him that hard."

Jisung scoffed and grabbed Minho right hand, observing it. His palms were bright red and it looked like it was throbbing, "Oh my god, is your hand okay? Do you want me to get an ice pack from the nurses office?"

Minho chuckled and grabbed Jisung's hands to get his attention. "Trust me, my hand doesn't hurt. I know it looks really bad but I promise you, I feel no pain. Hwajoon's the only one in a lot pain." He said once Jisung made eye contact with him.

The shorter nodded before asking, "Why are you at school? Didn't you guys have things to do?"

"We did, but Felix called and told me what was happening and I came here as fast as I could."

Felix's head popped up at the mention of his name and Jisung ran to him, engulfing him in a hug.

"Thank you." Jisung said against Felix's chest.

"For what?" Felix confusedly returned the hug.

"For calling Minho."

Felix finally understood what Jisung was talking about. He squeezed him tighter. "No need to thank me. I didn't want you to experience what I went through."

"And you!" Jisung pulled away from Felix and turned to Seungmin, pointing his finger at the boy. The taller boy looked at Jisung with his eyes opened wide.

"What'd I do?"

"You can't go fighting Hwajoon. I don't want you to get hurt." Jisung pouted.

Seungmin stared at the boy, "You think Hwajoon will get the chance to hurt me?" He was kind of offended of his friend's lack of belief in him.

Jisung huffed, amused. "No, I know Hwajoon wouldn't get a chance to swing back at you. I meant, I didn't want your hands to get all bruised and sore from hitting Hwajoon too much."

"No promises. If Hwajoon comes back at you when Minho isn't there, then I'm gonna be the one punching him back in his place." Seungmin shrugged.

Jisung gave a warm smile, he hugged his tall friend, "I love you Minnie."

Seungmin returned the hug, smiling. "Yeah yeah, I love you too Ji."

Suddenly everyone started to walk into the classroom, spooking Jisung a little bit from the noise of the door opening. Minho was quickly at his boyfriend's side for protection but the students walked in with their eyes on the floor, too afraid to make eye contact with any of them after what just happened and after Chan's threat. They didn't mean any harm to the six boys. The students were scared to move, they didn't want to accidentally do anything that would offend the the boys.

Hwajoon came last, he sat at his desk as quickly as he could. He kept his head down and didn't lift it up until the teacher came in, ignoring everyone's stare on him. On his left cheek, there was a bright red outline of Minho's hand that was very evident compared to the normal fair skin he had.

-

During lunch no one dared to look anywhere near the gang's table. No one sat at the tables next to them either, everyone tired to sit as far away from them as possible, even if it meant sitting on the floor.

Jeongin almost tackled Jisung in a hug, surprising the latter. "Woah Jeongin. I'm going to die if you don't loosen your grip." Jisung laughed.

Jeongin immediately loosened his grip. "I'm sorry. I was worried about you."

"I'm fine. Seriously." Jisung smiled.

"Are you sure?" The younger pouted.

Jisung flicked his pout, "No pouting, I'm okay and I'm not hurt or anything. Now go sit next to your boyfriend." He smirked.

Jeongin's eye widened at Jisung and the brown haired male started laughing. The younger frantically looked at Yedam, checking if he heard what his friend had just said. Luckily, Yedam was too busy talking with Woojin to hear what was said. Jeongin let out a giant breath of relief and glared at Jisung.

"I can't believe you just said that. That was so loud, he could've heard it." Jeongin whispered aggressively.

"I wish he did." Jisung imitated Jeongin's whisper. "Maybe I should hint some things..."

Jeongin narrowed his eyes at his friend, "I'm watching you. Don't you dare do anything or I swear to god, I will fall off the face of this planet."

Jisung held his hands up in surrender, "I won't, I won't! I'm just playing with you, now go sit next to your crush."

Jeongin rolled his eyes at Jisung before he sat down next to Yedam.

The rest of the school day went by peacefully. No one bothered the group anymore, Hwajoon left for the day at lunch. Once the last bell rang, everyone in the classroom rushed to get out. They wanted to leave as soon as possible, not wanting to be in the same room as the gang members anymore, scared that they would do something that would result in a bad way.

"Oh my gosh. You really scared them." Jisung said amused.

"Good. Now they won't mess with you." Minho smiled.

Minho leaned back against his desk, waiting for Jisung to gather all his things. "I hope you didn't forget about our date tomorrow." He said once his boyfriend faced him.

"Date? What date?" Jisung joked making the gang member scoffed at him.

Jisung smiled, "How could I forget? I was looking forward to it all week."

"I'll pick you up at 4. Wear something comfortable."

"Will do."

-

"Wait wait wait, so what happened?" Yeonjun asked totally lost. He was speaking for the whole gang since no one was catching on to what the leader was saying.

The boss growled and slammed his hand on the table. "How do you not understand this? It's not that hard to grasp. I'm going to explain this one last time. At JYP High school, Hwajoon exposed to the whole school that Minho and Jisung are dating. Hwajoon and a group of other people started to bully Jisung and bring down his self esteem."

Some of the gang members snickered as the boss continued, "Out of nowhere the doors slammed open and Stray Kids marched in. Minho immediately noticed Jisung and quickly went to his side. Hwajoon asked if they were really dating and if he actually liked Jisung. Minho suddenly kissed Jisung and totally went off on Hwajoon and the group of people for what they were doing to Jisung. The group ran away like cowards and Hwajoon got slapped in the face by Minho. Then Chan basically threatened everyone at school that if they harmed Jisung and his friends then they would for sure regret it."

"Okay... Why are you telling us. We already know that they're dating, so why is this story important?" Taehyun asked, not understanding the point of the story.

"Because, this is the first time Minho has stood up for someone who was getting bullied. Usually he just ignores it like it isn't his problem."

"Well no duh..." Keonhee thought it was obvious that Minho would stick up for Jisung since they're dating, so why was this a big deal?

"And, it shows that he actually really cares for Jisung. This is perfect for our plan. We can use this to our advantage." Hwanwoong answered for the boss, finally understanding what he was trying to say.

"Yes exactly." The leader said, glad that at least someone in his gang had a brain cell. Everything clicked inside the gang's minds and they all knew why this story was important.

"So what's our first move?" Yeonjun asked excited.

"Nothing." The boss deadpanned. Yeonjun looked around the room to see if the other members had heard what he had heard. It seemed like they did since everyone was equally as confused as Yeonjun.

"Uh... What?"

"We can't do anything... At least not yet."

"What do you mean? Yes we can." Beomgyu replied with confusion and the members all seemed to agree with what he said. The whole gang thought their boss was crazy, he's been wanting this for so long and now that he has someone to use, he's just going to keep waiting? No where did that make sense.

"We have to wait until we are one hundred percent sure that Minho is in love with him." The boss said slowly.

"Are you listening to yourself? You just explained a whole story about how Minho stood up for Jisung and threatened the whole school, when he's never done that before. Also note the fact that he's never had a boyfriend, let alone showed any interest in liking anyone ever, and you're still not one hundred percent sure that he's in love with Jisung? What's not clicking?" Yeonjun was not following his bosses train of thought.

"Yeah I'm pretty sure that he's in love with Jisung." Huening Kai said as it was the most obvious thing ever. "Why can't we just start the plan already? I'm getting bored. He fits perfectly in the plan, especially for you. What more do you need?" He told the boss.

"Because you're 'pretty sure' that he's in love with Jisung. You're not one hundred percent sure." The boss could see in his member's faces that they were doubting him, which made him angry at their lack of trust in him. "Don't question anything I'm doing! We have to do this perfectly, there is no room for mistakes. Do you understand?"

The members' eyes widened at their boss's sudden outburst. They looked down and nodded, showing that they wouldn't doubt their leader anymore.

"Good. I'll tell you guys when something else happens at the school. Until then, don't do anything stupid." He growled before he left the room.

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who do you think the boss is?

in the next chapter:
- the date
- will jisung grow some balls and ask minho about his scars?

tell me what you think is gonna happen in the next chapter :)