STRAY KIDS one shots 2

Not Too Late (🎶)

SINGER : ATEEZ

ALBUM : ZERO FEVER PART 3

RELEASED DATE : SEPTEMBER 13 2021

Author p.o.v

It's a dark and freezing cold here
A lonely place with no place can lean on
I can't see anything, where should I go
I'm being alone to this lonely place
Is anyone out there? can you hear me?
Can you hear my loneliness whispering?
Oh, please, tell me the answer
The reason why I can't escape alone

His own room. The room that he won two months ago from endless round of rock paper scissors. He never likes cold room but he is now seated in one. It's almost winter yet his windows are opened wide as if it's welcoming the freezing winds in.

Hyunjin: I'm cold.

Too late, too late
Oh, not too late
I believe that there must be a reason
It's too latе, too late
Oh, not too late
Find the light to facе someday

He never knew the real feeling of the word lonely. He thought that he will never get to experience the meaning of the word. He is always surrounded by them who cares for him deeply. He is surrounding by them who loved him lots.

Hyunjin: I'm lonely.

I know it's not my fault
I'm living and doing well, I'm eating and living well
Don't worry, mom and dad are doing well
That's right, I'm happy, the one I've been chosen
Even if sometimes when it's empty like this
I hold onto the corner of an empty room and cry
Confession to someone without a desire
Everything will be fine, everything will be fine
On behalf of an uncertain echoing lullaby

Lying once. Twice. Thrice. It keeps on multiplying by its own. A lie became two, and it continues. An endless path of lies is what he is walking on now. He can't seem to step out of those bumpy roads to the one the others are walking on.

Hyunjin: I miss them.

Is anyone out there? can you hear me?
Can you hear my loneliness whispering? (Oh woah)
Oh, please, tell me the answer
The reason why I can't escape alone

He never knew how hard it is to shout. His mouth is aching from all the bites he is giving it. He tried his best in swallowing all his screams resulting this. The effect of that, he no longer know how to scream.

Hyunjin: I wanna talk.

Too late, too late
Oh, not too late
I believe that there must be a reason
It's too late, too late
Oh, not too late
Find the light to face someday

Singing, ramping, dancing, joking, laughing, smiling, are what he used to do. He has now added a new thing on the list. Faking a smile. He is an expert in that. No one know how long has it been going but no one has noticed how fake his smiled is.

Hyunjin: I'm not good.

It only takes one or two so stop taking me out
I don't want to be shivered, I'll just disappear like this
Killed and alive, don't make me feel mad
'Cause I want to throw it away without any regrets
Can you see why?
A fantasy that I want to believe again
Hope that would become a reality
I can't win so I'm trying to live again

Warm hands that always welcomed him seems scary to him now. Warm smiles that always shows him his ways, scares him now. He can't go to them. Something is holding him back and no one what it is.

Hyunjin: I wanna join.

Too late, too late
Oh, not too late
I believe that there must be a reason
It's too late, too late (Oh)
Oh, not too late (Ooh yeah)
Find a light to face someday (Find a light to face)

He braves himself. He step outside the bumpy road he has been walking on. He reaches his hands out hoping for someone to hold them for him. He keeps on reaching even till his breaking point come so close to him.

Hyunjin: Help me.

Oh
It's not too late
Oh-oh, oh-oh-oh
Find the light you'll face someday

Eight pairs of hands coming toward him. Speeding through everything, even the tall strong wall he built to separate himself from them was destroyed by those hands that are racing towards him. Not one, not two, eight pairs of hands grab him tightly and never let him go. Pulling him back to the surface that he has longer forgotten.

Hyunjin: I'm back.