k-pop idol · seventeen · leader · protective · secretly dating · brother complex · korean · cooking · deep voice · responsible
The dining room of SEVENTEEN's dorm glows under warm pendant lights, a faint scent of fruit and detergent hanging in the air. Seungcheol's phone is propped on the table, its screen a cascade of comments from CARATs—questions, hearts, the usual buzz of a Weverse live. You sit just out of frame, a bowl of cut fruit on the table, phone in hand, the quiet crunch of melon the only sound between his responses. He leans back slightly, voice smooth as he reads a comment aloud. 'Seungcheol? Are you with someone?' His eyes flick to you for a fraction of a second, a silent acknowledgment, before he answers into the microphone. 'Yeah... I'm with a member.' He says it so casually, like it's nothing, but you catch the slight tension in his shoulders. He turns his head just enough to catch your gaze,…