Our Little Leader (ATEEZ littlespace)

Shopping fun! But online...

After that, everything seemed to be falling into place. It was the next day when they called a family meeting. With Hongjoong no longer being little, it made it much easier. Gathering around in their small dorm lounge. Wooyoung and Jongho opted to sit on the floor whilst the others took the sofa. They didn't want to be too squished during this talk as, having so many people around and touching during this kind of conversation can be too overwhelming. They had just eaten their breakfast after getting dressed. Having another day off also made it easier. This way, the conversation didn't have to get put on hold due to their busy schedules.

"Okay so...anyone wanna ask any questions?" It was a little awkward. They hadn't all sat down like this to have a proper conversation in a long while. This type of thing becoming foreign to them. Although it clearly had to happen more often because look where not talking got them.

A hand shot up. "Hyung, can we all be your caregivers? I mean, I don't know about the other guys, but I've totally fallen in love with little Joongie" San always came out with the big questions. To Hongjoongs left, Seonghwa made a face at San as if to tell him 'shush you idiot'. But the boy looked happy with himself. Not at all sorry for what he did.

Several nods and noises of agreement filled the now quite room. Joongie currently had three caregivers. Which was a lot. To go from taking care of himself for his whole life to suddenly three taking care of him was a lot. He wasn't too sure whether he wanted more. "Urm...if you all want to and are sure you want to. Like, you don't do it out of pity" He was staring at his painted finger nail as if it was the most interesting thing in the world. Today it was painted a pretty white colour.

It was surprisingly Wooyoung who was first to speak. Despite what he had done, he felt as if those words his hyung spoke to him yesterday really did something to his mind. It was like a huge smack in the face. With a bat. And it hurt. He felt so guilty but didn't want to show it. Only making himself very immersed in what little Joongie was doing. Wanted to show him that he wouldn't regret having him as his mama. "Hyung, of course we want to. I know I was a major asshole the past couple days, but I promise, we want to." He had also had a very long talk with his roommates, Jongho and Yeosang, two of Hongjoongs caregivers already, and it had also helped to open his eyes on his hyung.

Hongjoong looked up as Woo spoke, slowly looking at each member to see their reactions to hat was said. They all seemed to show sincerity, it made him blush.

People want to look after me? Even when I'm like that?

Slowly his head nodded yes as he sat, open mouthed at the reactions. "Great! Now, hyung, what are our names gonna be if you don't mind me asking. Have you thought of anything you wanna call us?" No, he had not given it any thought as he hadn't been expecting this at all. Wooyoung was already mama and Yeosang was appa.

What else can I call them.

Looking around at their expectant faces, he wracked his brain before coming to a halt. He had it. But he was too shy to say so he looked back down at his painted nail and began to play with the finger. "Hyung?". It was silent for a minute until a quiet voice broke out.

"Yeosang is appa, Jongho is dada, Yunho is Yunnie appa, Seonghwa hyung is mummy"- Seonghwa had to blush at this. He had always been called a mum figure to the group by ATINY, but it had never included Hongjoong as one of his many, hyper children. He was usually the dad of the group because he had the responsibility of being leader. It made Seonghwa smile.

"Wooyoungie is mama, Mingi is daddy and San is papa" When he finished, he slowly turned around to hide himself in Seonghwas shoulder, waiting for judgment. But instead of that, he got 7 coos and an arm slung around his shoulders, causing him to burrow himself into Seonghwas side.

"Now that that's out of the way, can we do shopping?!" Everyone turned to face Yeosang with a confused look. That was something expected to be heard from San, not Yeosang. He just shrugged. "I've been wanting to spoil my baby for a long while now. What can I say?" This caused Hongjoong to, yet again, become flushed and bury his head into the soft shoulder as he groaned.

Jongho ran, well more like hobbled, to get his laptop from his room, quickly turning the device on and searching up a website. It was for littles. How had he known about it? He quickly explained that, once he heard how little stuff Joongie had, he was researching on what websites will discreetly ship these types of things to them.

Apparently he had already spoken to his parents about ordering something and having it sent to theirs so he can pick it up instead of it being directly delivered to them. Which they agreed to. The boys were shocked at how ahead their maknae was and Hongjoong was nearly in tears as he began to feel a warmth spread across his chest. One that he hadn't felt since before his grandparents had passed. He felt loved.

Gazing around the room, he studied the faces of his new caregivers with wonder. How can they love a fuck up like him? One that is supposed to be their leader and take care of them. One by one, each of the boys began to point at cute items on the screen, Jongho added the to the basket. On his other side, Seonghwa was doing some online shopping in a place which he could get toys from.

He could have toys!

Seonghwa had ordered him some more teddies, a huge paint set, a colouring crayon set, some washable markers and some cars and action figures.

The rest were in charge of things like clothes, accessories and more. They got him multiple pairs of cute pyjamas. Some pink after he shyly told them of his favourite colour. That got him a warm smile and a fond hair ruffle. There was also a minion night light, they weren't too sure whether they needed it, but Mingi had insisted. Some hair clips, hello kitty. Normal clothes, ones that were cute and comfortable. The opposite to 'big boy' clothes. Like a denim blue romper. But one with the legs as shorts. As well as a couple more long legged ones in multiple bold colours. Leggings and character t-shirts as well.

But his favourite had to be the dummys that they ordered. (Pacifiers). There was a whole range, from minions to Korean tv show characters, to plain ones or ones with glitter in them. As well as some different character bottles. Ones for when he was really young and others for when he was older and had juice instead. He was on cloud 9. So excited for the order to come.

However, once he looked away, the boys had a silent conversation and decided to order some nappys that they think will be his size. Yeosang had spoken to them about the incident. Especially as it had happened a couple more times since then. But he didn't want to embarrass the boy. So they kept that quiet.

That night, every single member fell asleep with a smile on their face.

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Awe, they have names now! They're all finally coming together!

Also, I know that minions are Hongjoongs thing, but who else remembers that twitter thread where they edited Hongjoong with many hello kitty things? I thought it was just too cute so I had to add it.

Anyway! Hope you enjoyed this chapter. Don't forget, likes are always appreciated and thank you for taking the time to read this chapter!! Stay tuned for more little Joongie!

Bye!!!!