this bts 👇

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"no..." aera whimpers, backing away towards the wall, a pout moulded into her tinted crimson lips and eyes holding a warm layer of tears, shaking her head slowly, staring at the elders who are crouched in front of the chair, hoping the child will come out of her little hideout.

the stylists sigh in defeat, moving aside as the boys are almost done with their shoot and will most probably come to change now. aera keeps sitting under the chair, rubbing her eyes and hugging her tiny legs folded to her chest while a light blue elephant plush is sitting near her, being her only friend and source of comfort right now.

the director's voice echoes, telling the boys that they're done with first shoot and it's time for their solo shots and also to bring aera now as after her appearance with bts in the award show where she won the best child artist award, there's been a huge demand from the fans to see her more often. so the agency decided to give it a shot and launched a schedule near bts's anniversary before the d-day including three photoshoots with aera.

the response from the fans was over the top excited for the pictures to be released and behind the scene clips from the shoots. today being the first day of the shooting, aera definitely didn't like being taken away from her daily routine which mostly was her going to school, coming home to her oppas and playing. but today after waking her up at five in the morning to head to the set even though her shoot was in the later half of the day, for her babysitter is on leave and the boys didn't want to leave her alone at home, it made the four-year-old cranky beyond words.

now she's been hiding under the chair ever since the stylists started asking her to choose whichever dress she liked more out of all fluffy and glittery princess dresses, though aera didn't find the colors and shiny material of the clothes much appealing as she kept running away, refusing to get ready despite the staff trying to lure her with candies, ice creams, juices and toys. nothing worked today.

putting the tiny dresses of aera's size away, the stylists go to attend the boys instead as they're here now. jungkook sits on the couch, taking his phone from the manager and puts on the soccer game that he had to leave in the middle earlier. meanwhile taehyung has already taken off the coat that he says is too itchy. namjoon is talking to the manager about something, jin  and yoongi are on their phones too and hoseok is getting his hair fixed the way he thinks will look better.

then is jimin, his eyes roaming about the place with a little frown as he doesn't find aera anywhere at once. he's turning on his feet, about to ask the staff, when the sound of the squeaky shoes makes it to his ears, followed by a pair of tiny arms wrapping around his legs from the side. smiling on his own, he glances down at the sister, then noticing her teary eyes and pouty lips, raising up her arms for him.

without questioning anything, he lifts her up first, not even getting the time to wipe off the tears from her cheeks as she's already hugging him tightly, "hey, what's wrong sweetheart?" jimin pats her back, hugging her gently and glances in the direction of the stylists who were with aera all this while, looking for some reasoning for his sister's agony.

one of the girls raise up their hand, showing him the dress she's holding and then gestures towards the crying child in his arms, making jimin chuckle lightly as he gets the quick message and focuses back on aera, "let's sit down here," he hums, taking a seat on the couch next to jungkook and takes his bottle of water. "look what's jungkook doing? do you wanna watch soccer with—"

"nooooo!" aera whines, sticking to jimin and rubs her eyes with one hand while the other one is holding onto his coat tightly, "home..."

"we'll go home once we're done taking the pictures," jimin consoles her, bringing the bottle closer to aera's mouth and lets her take a sip. he wipes off her tears and smiles, "we have to take a lot of beautiful pictures of riri. you wanna look pretty don't you?"

"i wan' go home..." aera mumbles, shifting a little up until she's on her knees, standing on his thighs and leans onto his body, resting her head on his shoulder. jimin sighs softly, patting her back and nudges jungkook lightly, getting a look from the brother.

jimin gestures towards aera and jungkook sighs deeply, nodding as he changes the match to some hyped up children's song and turns to face the siblings, "hey, look here aera, are those tears i see?" he frowns, peeking at aera's face, "oh my god, ri look at your face, what have you done?"

aera looks at him with a confused gaze, gulping down a sob and rubs her eyes, straightening herself to glance at jimin, "what?"  her lips mumble, touching her face as she talks to jimin for confirmation that jungkook is actually speaking the truth, "somethin' on my face...?"

"yes," jimin says, taking her fingertips over the course of tears on her cheeks.

"i was crying..." aera nods staring at her hand before wiping the tears on jimin's coat, making jungkook snicker.

"good job, we gotta ruin hyung's clothes, obviously," he says and jimin gives him a look, letting aera go to jungkook while he asks the stylists to get the dress aera is supposed to wear.

"look at that, we're gonna get riri ready in that dress and then—"

"no," aera shakes her head, sitting properly on jungkook's lap and wraps his arm around her in a protective manner, "i no' wearing that dwess,"

"why not?" jimin asks softly, keeping the peach colored, fluffy-looking dress with outer net layer and a lot of more layers on the inside to make look heavy and puffy, giving a princess look to it. aera huffs at the dress, kicking it away and leans back against jungkook's chest, feeling much safer until jungkook himself picks up the dress and aera, giving the stylists and his hyung an assuring look.

"i'll get her ready, give me ten minutes,"

"if she cries again," jimin warns, hearing aera whining and wriggling in jungkook's arms to get away, "—consider yourself in trouble,"

"don't worry hyung," jungkook grins, patting aera's back and sits on the couch placed in the extreme corner of the room. he makes aera stand on the couch and holds her waist, keeping her from escaping as she keeps whining and pushing him away, "hey, what happened to you today? what's making riri sad hm?" he sighs softly, cradling her in his arms and lowers his head to rub his nose against her little one.

"le's go home," aera says, touching his cheek, her hand balled into a fist, rubbing her eyes.

"alright, but then don't cry when there are a lot of pictures of oppa, and no picture of riri."

"why not?" aera frowns, "we can take picture at home..."

"we have better cameras here, so that riri looks beautiful. you wanna look beautiful right?"

"no— they makin' riri wear that- that dwess..."

"this one?" jungkook asks, pointing at the dress and aera nods, nuzzling closer in his chest. "but it looks so pretty, aera. you'll look like a princess like you've seen in tv. will you tell me her name?"

"pwincess name? uh she's so pwetty..." aera mumbles, "i' so pwetty too,"

jungkook chuckles, nuzzling his face in her neck and leaves a few smooches, making her squeal as it feels ticklish. he makes her sit properly, facing him and starts unbuttoning her dress, "riri's pretty, but if she wears this dress, she'll look even prettier. then we'll take a lot of pictures togather yeah?"

"with koo," aera stands up, letting him slide doen the dress from her arms once it's open from the front. "koo, i' nakey..."

"ah right," jungkook scrunches up his face, turning around and brings her to stand against the back of the couch, "hey close your eyes everyone! my sister's changing, where are your manners?" he announces, getting a bunch of chuckles from the staff and the members.

he smiles as well, fixing the material of the dress on her while she's busy fiddling with the flowery belt on the waist, "e'ryone was twying to see me nakey,"

"yeah, they're so bad. nobody has manners here." jungkook agrees, suppressing his laugh as aera nods, gasping and points at the back.

"oppa's watching!"

"it's alright, he didn't see anything. riri's ready now," he pats her side gently and stands up.

"there are some things only he can do," one of the stylists say, getting nods of agreement from her co-workers and from bts members too. aera smiles at jungkook, pecking his lips and wraps her tiny arms around his neck.

"koo, le's go,"

"where?" jungkook leans back, placing his hands on her back as she stands on her knees, pouting at him.

"i will go with koo," she says.

"yeah but where?"

"castle!" aera chirps, "i' the pwincess and koo is the pwince!"

"yes, now that's my girl," jungkook grins proudly, hugging the little sister, "will you say it again and let the hyungs hear it?"

"yeah," aera nods nonchalantly, making the elders roll their eyes while jungkook gives them a smug smile, "koo is my pwince,"

"yes, good girl," he praises, standing up and kisses her cheek.

"and chiminie oppa is king! i'm his pwincess!"

jimin laughs, nodding his head and opens his arms for aera, to which she leans forward quickly, giggling as jimin pecks her lips softly. he holds her on to place for the stylists to fix her hair while also responding to her little talks in between.

in a few minutes the boys also get changed in the costumes for the next shoot. it being on a much lighter and cuter side of them, with white flowers in the set and thin white curtains falling from the above. the shoot starts off with jimin and aera together, smiling as jimin looks at his sister who's now touching the dangling chains attached to his earrings, leaning forward to see the shiny object carefully.

"good job," the director nods as a number of flashes continue to shutter to capture all the good angles by the time aera isn't crying.

"ri, look there," jimin says, pulling his head now and points at the camera, making her turn around with her innocent doe eyes, staring right at the camera, lips not smiling and moulded into a subtle pout. jimin too looks over to the cameras, not smiling but holding a captivating gaze for a brief moment before going back to glance at his sister.

then she's placed on her feet, almost whining in discomfort and lifts up her arms again for jimin to keep carrying her. the brother smiles softly, crouching down instead and places his hand on her waist and one on her back, "oppa no... get up," she mumbles, pulling his arm and jimin sighs, making her stand properly and gives her a flowers from around them.

"isn't this a pretty flower?" he says, hoping to divert her mind and aera nods slowly, staring at flower which she puts on her head and picks another one for jimin, giggling when she's stuck it between his hair.

"amazing!" the director voices, "now get closer, jimin hold her,"

jimin chuckles lightly as aera frowns at the director, putting her hand on her lips and gestures him to keep quiet, making the staff laugh. "he's the director, aera." jimin snickers, switching his position so that now he's on one knee and makes aera sit on his thigh, "will you give oppa a kiss?"

aera doesn't think twice, leaning forward quickly and pecks his smiling lips, breaking into a wide grin and claps her hands when the director and producers coo at the cute pictures they've got. "good job, kiddo," one of them speak in the microphone, making aera gasp.

"who's speaking?" jimin chuckles.

"there— that uncle," she points at the director, slipping down from jimin's leg and walks in the man's direction, staring at him with her round eyes and hands held out to take what he has, "gi'mme that p'ease..."

"no, ri c'mere." jungkook calls while the director chuckles, assuring him that it's fine and let the kid play. he sits by the director along with jimin who's going through the pictures and nods in approval.

the setting for the next shoot changes a bit and aera is made to wear a white and yellow romper, having thin elastic bands on the end of the shorts, making the fabric puff up a little on the toddler's thighs. strings are tied on her shoulders, keeping the upper art of the romper together and also attracting aera as she keeps taking her hand up, tugging on the string, then giggling at the stylist when it comes undone.

"ready jungkook?" the director asks, getting a thumbs up from the boy as he stands up while the stylists fix his denim jumpsuit roughly one last time and make sure his hair looks fluffy they way they wanted. even aera's hair is left down, curling them a little to give a bouncy and fluffy look, similar to jungkook's.

the brother lifts aera off the chair, swinging her on his shoulder upside down, making her laugh loudly as he heads to the center of the set, in front of the cameras, "now riri and koo will get a lot of pictures, are we ready?"

"ready!" aera lifts up her hand, still laughing as jungkook brings her forward, cradling her in his arms now, giving time to calm her down. "dilecte— uncle you p'ease take cute picture of koo and riri, okay?"

the staff and bts members stare at aera with fond eyes, melting in their places hearing her adorable request as she picks up a ball from the side and tugs on jungkook's hand for him to play with her. jungkook positions himself a little back, pretending to be the goal keeper while aera kicks the ball towards him, which he misses successfully, letting her have a score and acts disappointed while the four-year-old jumps in her place, cheering for herself.

"alright, jungkook-ah get closer," the director says and jungkook crouches near aera. helping her hold the baseball bat one of the staff members just handed her.

"where's the ball?" aera frowns looking behind her at jungkook.

"i don't know, we're just posing baby. we don't need to play for real."

"no, le's play," she pouts,

"okay fine, le'mme teach you then,"

"mm-hmm," aera nods, standing against him as he holds her hands from behind, still crouching on the ground to minimise the height difference and smiles, swinging the bat lightly in the air, "now ball," the sister looks at the staff, "es'coose me, gi'mme ball p'ease?"

jungkook lowers his head in her shoulder, chuckling lightly and kisses her cheek, "you're so cute," he cooes and aera giggles at him, pecking his lips.

"you so cute," she chirps, cupping his face between her small hands.

"no, you're cute,"

"no, you're cute," aera laughs.

"no, riri's cute," jungkook chuckles as aera pushes him back, making him sit down and climbs on his lap.

"but koo's cute,"

"i think riri's cute,"

"i think koo is cute,"

"then kiss me again," jungkook says and aera gives a more powerful kiss than before, making him laugh as he falls back, shaking his head at his sister's behaviour. the rest watch them with awestruck gazes, never getting enough of aera's playfulness even though she comes to the shoots with them quite often.

once the shoot is done and they've got some aera's solo shots as well as with all the boys together, it finally comes the time to wrap up. aera's on jungkook's shoulder, her legs hanging from either side of his neck, holding a cup of ice cream in one hand and with the other, she digs in a spoonful of the cold treat, putting it in her mouth, doing a little 'ah' to let jungkook know it's tasty.

"gi'mme a bite," jungkook says.

aera hums softly, taking half full of her tiny plastic spoon and leans down to being it closer to his mouth, "it's nice?"

"yeah, one more bite,"

aera nods again, feeding him another bite and peeks at his face with a smile, hoping for a better reaction, which never comes. jungkook just hums deeply at the taste and asks for another bite, making the four-year-old confused. though she says nothing and feeds him again. this carries on for a few more times, until jimin sees it from afar and approaches to smack the younger boy's head.

"let her eat,"

"i'm just tasting hyung," jungkook says, "do you want some too? ri, feed him,"

aera pouts, staring at her almost empty cup and gulps, taking a spoonful of ice cream for jimin too with a heavy heart, "oppa it's finished..." she mumbles, nonetheless never withdrawing her hand without letting jimin taste the ice cream which was actually meant for her as a reward for being a good girl.

jimin sighs, taking her hand back and lets her have it, then brings her down from jungkook's shoulders and glances at the cup of ice cream that barely has anything left now and glares at jungkook, "you have no conscience. she's your littel sister, how hard is it for you to act responsible towards her? you know she's been tired and cranky all day, and still you can't stop messing around with her."

jungkook stares at him with an expression that shows he's shocked, embarrassed, guilty and a little bit mischievous still, "i'm sorry, hyungie," he mumbles, looking at jimin that makes the elder shut up now, glancing around him and realises he just scolded his grown ass brother in front of the whole staff.

his cheeks turn into a pinkish tint, closing his eyes in embarrassment and looks down, "i... i'm sorry, i didn't mean to—"

"hyung, i'm sorry," jungkook says again, suppressing his laugh as he's enjoying teasing jimin like that, "ah jiminie hyung, please don't be mad. i'm sorry—"

"aish!" jimin turns away, shaking his head and follows the members out as it's time to leave now once everybody's changed and done with today's schedule.

"hyung!" jungkook fake whines, throwing his arm around taehyung's shoulders and speaks, "why is my brother not talking to me? i said sorry, do you think what i did was that big of a crime?" he asks dramatically to taehyung, making him laugh while jimin gives him a weird look.

"can you stop?"

"aera, do you hate me too? look jiminie isn't even talking to me because i ate your ice cream," jungkook says ignoring jimin's voice in between, getting a look from aera who's still upset about her ice cream and doesn't respond.

"oppa my ice-c'eam," she looks at jimin, who nods subtly, patting her back with a soft smile.

"we'll get riri another ice cream on the way okay?"

"and chocolate?"

"okay,"

"and chips?"

"fine, that too," jimin sighs.

"and balloon?"

"yes, now sit here," he says, getting in the car and buckles her on the booster seat. he shifts over, making room for the younger brother as well while the rest of the members too, get settled in their respective cars.

"are you mad at me?" jungkook asks again, getting a deep sigh from jimin.

"fine, i'm sorry okay?" he exasperates, "i didn't mean to scold you like that. i shouldn't have—"

"no, it's fine, in fact it was after a long time," jungkook grins, "y'know what that means?"

"what...?"

"that your complains about me not being responsible are getting less. and that is a great progress i made! hell yeah!"

"jungkook-ah, are you doing this to make me feel bad? because if you are, kid you're doing hella good." jimin sighs, chuckling lightly when jungkook frowns, shaking his head quickly, "just kidding, just kidding. but yeah i do need to change this habit right? i mean habit of speaking to you like that. you're not a kid anymore."

"yeah, i'm tall and strong— and, i mean yeah not a kid." jungkook nods, leaning back on his seat and closes his eyes, "but you can keep scolding me. it's fun y'know? when you get mad, it's like you switch to dad mode." he snickers.

"are you calling me old?"

"precisely," jungkook says, earning a gasp from jimin as he smacks his head again, making the younger laugh and scoot away, "okay okay! sorry! you're not old! ri look he's hitting me!"

"nooo! oppa no' hit koo! my koo!"

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a/n- hey guys what's up? i wanna hear something from you guys today. any cute stories from your childhood? moments that you'd like to share for me and everyone?

here's mine, my mom told me that when i was younger maybe around 2 years old or so, this movie was released and from there was this dialogue that the actor said "will you marry me?" and i used to repeat that all the time to my mom or dad. they used to laugh a lot about it. imagine a baby asking you to marry them lol 😂

here's one more, i learnt abc's quite early. when i was around 2-2½ years old i knew half of the alphabets and could write the first few. so whenever i used to like get hirt or smth or if i was throwing a fit doing smth, my mom/dad would be like "hey look what's that? doesn't that look a 'L' or 'T'?" (or whatever shape or alphabet it resembled) andi used to forget about crying. 😂

now please share your cute stories too 😚❤️

bye love you ❤️⚡

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