Our Little Leader (ATEEZ littlespace)

Baby space

As soon as the door closed the rest of the members began to crowd around Yeosang and Hongjoong, watching with fascination.

"So...this is what hyung is like?" Mingi, ever the curious kitten, questioned. He really felt bad and wanted to help his hyung as much as he could.

"Yeah. Although, I don't know what age he's at right now. Usually he's 2 to 3 or 4. It all depends on how he's feeling."

"Ahh"

They moved over to the lounge area in the dorms, Joongie still in his appas' arms. Quiet chatter began to break out amongst the members. Wooyoung just stood, leaning against the wall as he watched everyone coo over their leader.

He's our leader guys. Not our resident baby. That's anyone but him.

"Unnng" A quite whine broke out. Everyone immediately quietened. San began basically vibrating with excitement. Jongho saw this and put his hand on Sans knee to calm him. One look got the excited kitten to stop.

Joongie began to stir, slowly opening his puffy eyes.

appa?

He didn't know where he was. All he could feel was arms wrapped around him. His little mind couldn't process what was going on. Quickly, tears began to fall until he was full on bawling. Screeching with confusion and exhaustion.

Appa, appa, wan appa.

All the members who haven't seen Joongie like this were freaking out. "Is he okay?", "OMG WE MADE HIM CRY!" "Hyung..."

"Baby, my little kitten, appa's here. Shh sweetie" Yeosang began bouncing him in his lap whilst his hands were rubbing up and down the boys back, still in his lap.

Yunho got up and walked away, reappearing only moments later with a minion plushie.

"Hey little one, look what hyungies got" He gave a kind smile and passed the teddy to the hands that were currently making the grabby hands motion towards him.

"aaap" Hongjoong couldn't form any words. He tried so hard, but none were coming out. Causing him to become more frustrated.

"I know baby. Too young to speak huh?" Yeosangs face was drawn up in a smile, kind eyes glancing around the room to gauge the rest of their reactions. Even was watching with fascination as their leader chewed on Yeosangs T-shirt, drooling all over it without a care in the world.

"So...this is little Joongie. As I said earlier, he's usually older than this. I don't know why he's this young if I'm being honest. Only when something bad happened is he like this" Yeosang glance around at everyone, eyes landing on Wooyoung. He looked...guilty? "Wooyoung-ah...what did you do?"

Everyone's head whipped around to the direction that Wooyoung was standing in.

"I...I...Well, hyung...Ugh" Hands wrapped around his head as he tugged at his hair.

This isn't fair.

"Wooyoung, how is it that you found out Joongie was a little?" Seonghwa.

"I may have ran into him yesterday..."

"And?"

"He was crying..."

"And you left him alone?!"

"...Not exactly..."

"YA! JUNG WOOYOUNG!"

Everyone jumped at Sans piercing voice. Jongho sighed as Joongie started getting fussy again, turning to look at the other members for the first time. "unggg" He spat out Yeosangs tshirt and made grabby hands for Jongho.