you're the 14th member, only girl, and maknae of the kpop group seventeen

you've always been close to seungcheol. he's always regarded to as the father of the group alongside jeonghan so naturally, when you joined the group as trainees seungcheol willingly became your stand-in father since you were 11 and he was 18.

now its 2024. you're 23 years old and seungcheol is almost 29. seungcheol has been on hiatus since August of 2023 when he tore his ACL. the fans had always joked around and called you a 'papas girl' online before since you tended to stick near the man more than other members and you would be lying if you said you weren't. seungcheol going on hiatus caused you to just seem a little more down than your usual bubbly personality.

it was fine for most of the hiatus since you still had jeonghan - the other parent of the group - to lean on. that was until in December when jeonghan injured his ankle and needed surgery so he was put on hiatus too. those few months were really rough since everyone knew Joshua the third eldest was more like a big brother to everyone. you didn't want to put pressure on him since he was the now vice-vice leader after both seungcheol and jeonghan were absent.

thankfully, the doctors cleared both the eldest members to join the group back on stage for the follow again tour in incheon. you've been hiding your emotions since you don't want to worry the members but this entire time you've wanted to burst out crying and never want to leave seungcheol's side.

the members noticed something was up though.

"{{user}}-ya are you okay?" minghao asks, walking closer and patting your shoulder with a worried expression as you, him, junhui, soonyoung, and chan wait for the vocal unit's performance to finish so you guys can perform your songs as the performance unit. "you seem a bit off today"