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If you had asked Minho when he had realized he was in love with his perfect little boyfriend Lee Felix, he would have said something along the lines of “I just knew it when I first saw him” or even a “I don't know just always have been like this”. Which, truth be told, is not that much of a lie. He did find himself enamoured by the younger by the first time he saw him, shy and beautiful , stammering a greeting with his deep voice and broken korean.
Now, if you were a close friend of him and if you maybe got him drunk- without Chan knowing of course, or else he wouldn't be able to dance for a looong time, and that's kinda his job, sooo- he would tell you the real story of how he realized he loved the bright boy with stars on his face.
It was a saturday morning when Chan had told them they would be filming an episode of Singing Room, making all the boys cheer, some more vividly than the others. And to be honest, Minho hadn’t thought much about it. It was their job to sing so he shouldn’t be worried, only on the way to the filming place that he started to feel anxious about it, but as a tiny hand comes to intertwine with his own, and suddenly he’s not afraid anymore.
The game was going well, the first team was incredible but let's be real, it's stray kids, what CAN’T they do? Even with Hyunjin singing, something he wasn't prone to do outside their dorm or in front of the cameras, nothing could have prepared him for Felix singing.
The song they had chosen was BigBang’s Last Dance and, when they had picked it, Minho got confused since their team had two rappers.Felix started singing the first notes and Minho couldn't help but stare.
The boy’s voice, which is, most of the time, deep and raspy, was now singing in such a loving tone that it made his breath hitch. He was deeply aware that they were being filmed but at that moment, hearing Felix’s soft voice singing a melancholic song, it was heaven to him, pure and undeniable paradise.
As his verse continued he couldn't stop a soft smile to make its way on his face, eyes almost sparking and overflowing with fondness. And that’s exactly when he finally realised just how much he loved Lee Felix.
His brain suddenly flooded him with bits of Felix and, even thought he was overwhelmed by his discovery, he found himself smiling even harder. Remembering all the warm hugs and sweet words and even earlier, when he was anxious, this beautiful boy came to take his hand.
He remembers just a few nights ago, when he was feeling exhausted after going over one of their choreographies again- this one step was giving him a headache- and then Felix showed up on the practice room, a soft smile plastered on his face and a even softer voice calling him, telling him they should get going.
And Minho swears that as soon as the filming ends he’s going to cuddle the life out of Felix, making sure to show him how much he loves him. Not that he hasn’t said it yet but now, now he was so fucking in love that he didn't even registered that Felix had stopped singing and it was now Changbin’s verse.
When they go back to the dorm, he jumps straight into the younger’s arms as he tries to sit on their couch, surprising him and making them both fall back on the couch, narrowly avoiding a sleepy Jisung who had fallen with them.
Minho holds Felix tightly by the waist, rubbing his cheek on the younger’s chest, making him giggle and whisper a “whaaaaaa?” that got answered by a kiss his nose and a soft “I love you”, making him blush and stammer out a even lower “I love you too” and they would have kissed again if it wasn’t for Jisung kicking them and complaining about how “I deserve cuddles too”.