Stray Kids One Shots || skz ot8

Crazy in Love

Word count: 1775

Tw: knife, blood, death

The screams could be heard throughout the whole apartment, surely the neighbours could hear them as well.

It was the third time they were fighting that week and it was only Tuesday. Their relationship had always been "turbulent", but somehow, they always managed to find a compromise to get along.

This time, the cause of all the screaming was a boy, more precisely a look at a specific boy: Minho, Aera’s best friend since childhood.

Seungmin was not the jealous type, he had faith in Aera, just like she had faith in him, but Minho was the exception. Even before getting to know Aera, Seungmin already knew who he was, the whole school talked about him and his “ethereal appearance” and about how lucky Aera was to always spend time with him and that they were definitely going to get married and live a happy life together.

Those rumours did not stop when Seungmin and Aera started dating. On the contrary, they only got worse; people started to pity him as they were sure she was cheating on him with Minho, but he was “too blind” to see it.

Even now, after all these years together, Seungmin could not even bear the thought of Minho, let alone see him with his fiancée. Every time he came over to hang out with Aera, Seungmin had to hold back from punching him. Minho never did anything bad to Seungmin, he was actually a pretty cool guy, but the fact that he could make Aera happy as well, made him see red.

“You’re being ridiculous, I’ve told thousands of times that we’re just friends” Aera’s cheeks were red because of anger.

“I’ve seen the way you look at each other. We’re about to get married, I don’t want to live a life full of lies” Seungmin dropped on the counter the knife he was using to cut the vegetables and locked eyes with his girlfriend.

“So you don’t trust me.”

“Of course I trust you” Seungmin sighed and clenched his fists. “You know it’s him the problem, not you.”

“Damnit Seungmin, he’s like family. You perfectly know his family took me in when my parents died-”

“That doesn’t mean he can’t fall for you” Seungmin raised again his voice.

“Drop it, that’s absurd. What do you want me to do? Stop talking to him?”

Seungmin did not answer. He knew he could not ask her to do that, even if he would love to. Life would be much easier without him, if he never met Aera, even if his family took care of her when she needed it the most. When they were not a couple yet.

“Just so you know, I’ll never do that” Aera’s eyes were filled with disappointment. “He’s always been there for me-”

“Are you saying I wasn’t? That you prefer him over me?” Seungmin could feel his heart beating extremely fast.

“What? That’s not what I said-”

“You always talk about how good he is to you; how much he’s done for you and how much you love him. It’s like I’ve never done anything good for you, like you’ll always choose him over me.”

“Seungmin, you’re overdoing it” Aera furiously walked to Seungmin and started hitting his chest with his index finger. “I always say nice things about him because you always throw shit at him. I want you to see he’s an amazing person and-”

“Stop lavishing him with all these compliments. ‘Minho this’ ‘Minho that’, I don’t care. Why don’t you date him since he’s such ‘an amazing person’” he said imitating her tone.