A/N - I have smth to tell you, but you can go ahead and read the chapter first :) enjoy!

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A Week Later —

"You should go and sleep now, Aera" Yoongi said, patting her back.

The girl shook her head, resting back on the couch as she waited for Jungkook to finish whatever work he was doing. Yoongi sighed and glanced at Jin.

She had been like this ever since she came back home after Jimin's death. She wouldn't go anywhere alone and always wanted to stay by Jungkook. The boys knew it was hard for her to get used to everything this way now. So they mostly kept her accompanied with something or the other whenever Jungkook had some work and had to go out for a bit.

"Oppa" She called slowly, standing up finally and walking near Jungkook. "Let's go and sleep."

"You can go first, I'm coming in a bit." He said having his eyes fixed on the laptop screen while he discussed something with Namjoon.

"No, come with me" Aera huffed, pushing his laptop aside and sitting on the table in front of him. Jungkook inhaled deeply, running his hand through his hair as he shot a strict glare towards her.

"What?! I told you I'm coming, didn't I?!" He shouted in frustration, making her flinch, her dreamy eyes glistened dimly with a thin layer of tears while staring at her brother.

Aera stood up quietly, mumbling a small sorry and walked up to the stairs. Charley followed behind her, somehow knowing that she was sad.

Yoongi glared at Jungkook and stood up, "Why do you think you can yell at her like that?"

"I know hyung," Jungkook sighed, "But think about it, she's been clinging to me ever since she came back. I too have work, I can't be available to her 24/7–"

"Are you out of your mind?!" Yoongi shouted, pulling the younger boy to stand up, "Do you even hear yourself? She's just ten for god's sake Jungkook, you can't expect her to get over something as traumatic as her brother's death that soon! And about wanting to stay close to you, you know why she doesn't leave your side? She's scared Jungkook. She's scared to lose you. I don't know how you're not understanding this, you are all she has now. She loves you, and she's scared that you might leave her as well. Please get that inside your head, because of you don't, I won't be very nice to deal with."

Jin patted Yoongi's shoulder gesturing him not to be that harsh, "I'm saying the truth." Yoongi said, "Jeon Jungkook, you are an adult, not her. You can probably hold yourself together, but Aera can't. So you have to do that for her. I'm sure Jimin wouldn't be happy if he saw you behaving like that with your sister, especially after everything she faced at such a young age."

His eyes wandered towards the rest of the boys and walked upstairs, not saying anything to anyone again. Yoongi stopped in front of the room which was supposed to be empty, sighing with a heavy heart, he slowly opened the door to Jimin's room, seeing Aera sitting on the bed hugging her big teddy bear that Jimin gave her before going to Tokyo with them. However he felt his heart dropping at the sight of the kid sobbing quietly while Charley occasionally licked her face to make her stop crying.

He stepped in the room drawing attention from the girl. She wiped her tears and turned to the other side, bringing the teddy closer. It was at this moment that he realized the teddy had a shirt on, Jimin's shirt.

"Aera" he said softly, sitting on the edge of the bed.

She didn't answer him and just kept hugging the teddy while leaning on Charley. She was probably missing Jimin and decided to make her teddy wear Jimin's shirt so it smells like him. Yoongi blinked away his tears and went to sit next to her.

"Will you not talk to your Appa?"

Aera looked down for a second, and turned to face him, "I miss my oppa..." She whimpered, falling in his arms as he rubbed her back gently.

"I know princess, but we can't do anything, you have Kookie and we're here too to take care of our Aera right?" He said in tender voice.

Aera shook her head and looked up at his face, "Koo changed, he- he gets mad at me. I didn't wan'ed to annoy him... I thought he must be missing oppa too, so I should stay with him..."

"He didn't pay attention to his words, baby. He didn't mean to shout at you."

"he wasn't like this when Ji- Jimin oppa was here" Aera sobbed, "he changed... please do something, bring my Jiminie oppa back. I don't like it here withou' him, I wan' my oppa back please I'll be a good girl an- an' do everything you say, jus- please tell Jimin o-oppa to come back..."

Yoongi averted his gaze away and hugged her tightly instead of saying anything. What was he supposed to tell her? Even though Aera knew dead people don't come back, she was still believing that maybe if Yoongi, Jungkook and the others tried then Jimin will come back.

Aera pulled away from Yoongi and sat on his lap properly, leaning on his chest, "you know that day, whe- when we were there and he was holding me like this...he told me if I close my eyes and then he will be there...with me, but appa I- I wan' him when my eyes are open...please?"

Yoongi nodded subtly, tears threatening to fall from his eyes as he heard Aera's fragile voice. She stopped and looked up watching his tears dropping to his cheeks, although Yoongi was quick to wipe them off.

"He is with us, princess" they heard another voice. Jungkook's.

The boy entered the room and knelt on the carpeted floor right in front of the bed where Aera sat with Yoongi. He took his hand in hers, gently caressing the back with his thumb;

"Jiminie is here and always will be with us, he promised right?" Jungkook said, earning a small nod from the girl. With a soft smile, he placed Aera's hand on her chest. "Feel that? Jiminie's there and he's saying that he loves Aera a lot and she shouldn't cry because of him."

"He liked your smile right?" Jungkook asked, making Aera break into another sob. She leaned forward, reaching out for him which Jungkook instantly realized and sat on the bed, pulling her in his warm embrace.

"bring him back Koo, he will listen to you..." Aera mumbled in chest while crying as her hand fisted on his T-shirt, holding onto him tightly.

"I'm so sorry, love. I can't bring him back now. He's gone with the angels, near Mom and Dad."

"I wanna go there too!" she whined in frustration, kicking her legs into pillows and cushions, crying for the deceased brother.

Jungkook felt his heart stop beating for a second on hearing that from his ten year-old sister. He glanced at Yoongi who had a soft expression as well. Jungkook pulled her in his lap and patted her back, while hugging her.

"Shh, breath with me. Breath in..." he looked at her and inhaled, gesturing her to do the same. Once she started following him, he nodded and smiled softly, "breath out"

"Breath in"

"Breath out"

"You're doing great baby, once more okay? breath in"

"Breath out." He exhaled, "Good job, look you're fine."

She closed her eyes and laying quietly in Jungkook's lap. Yoongi nodded at him and stood up, not wanting make any noise and leave without disturbing the girl as he knew she was exhausted now. Jungkook adjusted his position and laid down with Aera, holding her closely.

She looked up once opening her eyes and noticed her brother's soft gaze. He patted her back gently and kissed her head, "You know Aera, I love you very much, even if I scold you sometimes and act stupid, I still love you and I'll always keep loving you. Please don't talk about going away again, I can't bear another loss, especially of you."

"...I'm sorry" Aera said, glancing up at him but he wasn't looking at her now. "Koo, I'm sorry...are you mad a' me?"

"No, just I don't know how to put this... you won't understand." He said letting out a small chuckle. How was he supposed to explain that Aera was the reason he was hanging on now, and he won't be able to survive if she leaves him too?

So instead he just said, "Let's sleep okay?"

Aera stared at him for a moment before swiftly pulling his head down and kissing his cheeks. Smiling at her, he told her to close her eyes and started humming to one of her favourite songs that Jimin used to sing for her to put her to sleep;

"I can show you the world
Shining, shimmering, splendid"

Tell me princess now
when did you last let your heart decide"

Aera lifted her head, her eyes traveling up to look at her brother's face. With soft gaze and a sweet voice, Jungkook sang to her while gently patting her back with his hand.

"I can open your eyes
Take you wonder by wonder
Over sideways and under
On a magic carpet ride~"

He raised his eyebrow once and a small smile displayed on his lips that looked pink under the dim moonlight entering the room precisely, his right hand moved and covered the girl's eyes, as a gesture to tell her to relax and sleep; her brother is right here.

"A whole new world
A new fantastic point of view
No one to tell us 'No'
Or where to go
Or say we're only dreaming"

"A whole new world
A dazzling place I never knew
But when I'm way up here
Its crystal clear
That now I'm in a whole new world with you~"

Jungkook glanced out of the window one last time, looking at the night sky, hoping his brother was watching them. The clouds, moved away letting the moon shine at its brightest, rflecting the tears in his eyes after Aera's closed ones; would it be different if he was in Jimin's place and Jimin in his?

"Unbelievable sights
Indescribable feelings
Soaring, tumbling, freewheeling
Through an endless diamond sky"

Aera's eyes were half closed and breathing was calm, he noticed, blinking a few times in an attempt to remove the watery liquid that was collecting in his eyes, but ended up dropping the pearly tears which ached Jimin's heart whenever he saw them.

"A whole new world
A hundread thousand things to see
I'm like a shooting star I've come so far
I can't go back to where I used to be"

"A whole new world
With new horizons to persue
I'll chase them anywhere
There's time to spare
Let me share this whole new world with you"

The doe eyes wandered involuntarily to the picture at the nightstand that Jimin never removed, saying it was something that gave him strength. A picture of him, Jungkook and Aera with all the smiles coming alive. Only if they could actually come alive, but there's nothing wrong to think that way right?

"A whole new world
A new fantastic point of view
No one to tell us, 'No'
Or where to go
Or say we're only dreaming"

"A whole new world
With new horizons to pursue
I'll chase them anywhere
There's time to spare
And then we're home
Let me share this whole new world with you"

"A whole new world
That's where we'll be
A thrilling chase
A wondrous place
For you and me~"

Jungkook carefully adjusted himself, glancing at Jimin's smiling face in the picture before turning to face Aera, smiling lovingly he leaned down and planted a soft kiss on her forehead that lingered slightly longer.

"Oppa loves you princess"

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A/N-

Did you cry?

If yes, thank you that's a compliment for me as a writer. (😁)

Now, how I came up with the naming of this book-

It was the time a few months back when I had a sudden upheaval of writing a loss, maybe a lover's loss or a friend's or maybe family, but I didn't know what and how. I made a draft and named it several times, nothing worked, I didn't like any of the names. So I decided to let it be nameless for a while and moved on. That was also the time I reheard A whole new world, by Zayn and Zhavia Ward. I had heard it before like a hundred times, but that one time, damn! It hit completely different.

For a moment my brain just froze, it was like I could feel the lyrics in my heart and the music, the beats the tune in my veins. Lemme tell you I'm a Disney fan (if you haven't guessed yet). I rushed back, finding my phone and coming here on this app and renamed the draft. But it still wasn't fully satisfying.

But I thought it was just me overthinking, so I continued with my work and wrote the first chapter of the draft. It was a mafia story with similar kind of plotting. After a few chapters, I wasn't sure about that book. Maybe you guys would've liked it if I published, but for me it was jus another mafia au and nothing else, which is not enough.

Now as a writer (not professional yet) I was thinking of ways to make my plot and story lines better and more appealing, that's when I thought something. At around 10 at night, I grabbed my phone and started writing a new chapter where I knew I had to kill someone and I'll figure out who as I keep going further. And guess what? It happened to be Jimin.

I cried a lot while writing that, I was imagining everything and making a hell in my head. I'm not lying when I say it took me a whole week (with breaks every ten minutes when I started writing) because I couldn't write, my eyes were getting blurry with tears every ten minutes.

Those drafts were too lengthy and at least 6-7 chapters long. So I edited it again and again and finally made this Mafia AU (1,2,3,4) after inserting the song into the plot and naming this book on the song's lyrics.

✨ I'm satisfied with this series, are you?

Thank you for reading ❤️

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