extra chapter as a special for hitting 1 million :) thanks everyone! also, your gift is a new cover haha

this takes place on the same day they found yoongi's diary

"I'm booooooored," Taehyung drawled, lying on his back and staring up at the ceiling. "Entertain me."

Jungkook just snorted, and Jin didn't answer, too busy on his phone.

"Hyung," Taehyung whined, and Jin still didn't answer.

"He's probably sending nasty pictures," Jungkook said. He should have whispered, but he didn't expect Jin to focus in on their conversation anyway.

He didn't.

"Probably pictures he takes when he thinks we're asleep. Ewww," Jungkook added, and Tae stuck out his tongue.

"Ew indeed," he agreed before rolling over. "Jin."

Jin texted away.

"Jin-hyung."

Jin texted away.

"Jin-oppa."

Jin texted away.

"Car door guy," Tae said.

It was one of Jin's nicknames, one of the ones that had died since he'd upgraded to popularity. Before he'd made the football team, Jin was an old-fashioned dork just like the rest of his brothers, and he'd been running late for school one day when someone had started getting out of their car, and Jin flew straight into the door, his head making a comical sound as he bounced off the glass and onto the pavement. He'd won a bloody nose, and the window had won a second of intimate physical contact with Jin's face.

A real win-win.

"Jin, Jin, Jin, Jin, Jin-" Taehyung cut off, sitting up straight immediately, and Jungkook stared at him.

Jin looked over. "Tae? Was that you?"

Tae blinked, still shocked by the deep sound that had just come out of his throat. "Was what me?" His eyes grew larger. "What's going on?"

"Hey, Jin, I have a joke for you," Jungkook said, grinningly gleefully, and Jin looked over, hesitant. He wasn't supposed to like stupid jokes, but it didn't hurt if he listened, right? "What did the son of the egg-head do?"

Jin blinked.

"He cracked," Jungkook said, purposefully making his voice higher on the first word and deepening his voice on the second word before rolling around in his bed giggling. Jin smiled before trying to straight his smile out, but it just made his lips look like a confused caterpillar wriggling up and down.

"Shut up Kookie!" Tae yelled, and Jungkook immediately snapped out of it, shocked by the depth of Tae's voice.

"You sound a lot more convincing like that," Jungkook said in wonder. "Maybe it's like a magical power, like you can command people to do stuff..." He leaned over his phone and texted furiously for a minute before looking back up. "Yugyeom says that there's a 90% chance you have a magical attribute." He looked back down at his phone. "He also said to look up voice cracking on something called Urban Dictionary." Jungkook looked over to Jin. "Hyung? What's Urban Dictionary?"

But Jin was already back to texting.

Jungkook rolled his eyes before sweetly saying, "Hyung? I'm going to check out the sight, okay? Don't say anything if it's okay."

He waited two seconds before pulling up the internet and finding the site.

"According to Urban Dictionary..." Jungkook began, and Tae grimaced but still leaned forward to listen. "Voice crack is when you or someone talks and their voice makes a funny noise all of a sudden."

"So what?" Tae asked, rolling his eyes, but Jungkook squinted down at the screen.

"It also says...'comes mostly when you're in puberty.'" Jungkook stared at Tae suspiciously. "Are you in puberty?"

"No, he's in a house," Jin mumbled before laughing softly at his own joke. As the room fell silent, he looked back down at his phone and pretended that he wasn't eavesdropping.

"Answer me, Tae! Have you been holding out on me?!" Jungkook demanded, and Taehyung bared his teeth at Tae.

"I don't know! It's not like there's a fu-" He paused, looking over at Jin to gauge whether or not Jin was listening and would scold him for language. "fricking sign with an arrow saying, 'puberty dead ahead' or something.'"

"Really?" Jungkook asked conversationally. "I always thought I would get like a notification on my phone or something. Like it would be added into my calendar. You have puberty scheduled today from 8:00 AM to the foreseeable future."

"Maybe it is a phone notification," Tae said, smirking. "You wouldn't know though, would you?"

Jungkook glared at Tae before holding down the home button on his phone.

"What can I help you with?" Siri asked.

"Am I going through puberty right now?" Jungkook asked, blinking anxiously as he awaited Siri's answer.

After an agonizing five seconds, Siri delivered.

"Searching for pasta places within five miles of your current location."

Jungkook groaned and threw his phone against the wall, whereupon it slid down behind the bed and fell onto the floor. Meanwhile, Tae just laughed his ass off.

As Jungkook got on the floor to retrieve his phone, he thought of another idea. "Maybe Yoongi would know something about it?" Jungkook asked, snatching his phone before looking up at Tae to confirm his theory.

"Why do you think Yoongi's already gone through it?" Tae asked before making a face of distate and punching his chest. "Frick, it's stuck," he muttered. "Maybe if I- never mind, it's fixed now."

"Well, Yoongi's so grouchy now and stuff, that's because of puberty, right?" Jungkook asked, and Tae stared at Jungkook weirdly.

"He's always been grouchy."

"Ah, right." Jungkook's eyes widened immediately. "How long has he been in puberty?"

"Shut up- frick, it's back," Tae said, groaning.

"Wait," Jungkook said suddenly, horrified.

"What?" Tae asked, caught off guard. "Is something wrong?"

"Well, you're older than me by like a full two minutes, and Jimin is older than you, so..."

"No. No way," Tae denied, shaking his head. "There is absolutely no way that Jimin went through puberty before me."

Their argument turned into a petty squabble before they all went outside to play, and at night, Tae waited for the others to fall asleep before taking action.

***

They woke up the next morning, and Kookie was the last up, as he liked to lie in bed longer than the others.

Tae pretended to be asleep though, and he pretended to groggily wake up when he heard Jungkook shout.

"TAEHYUNG! IT'S REAL! I TOLD YOU!" Jungkook yelled, immediately climbing down the ladder and jumping into Tae's bed, landing on his ankle, and Tae winced.

"What's real?" he asked, faking a yawn, and Jungkook held his phone in front of Tae's face.

Calendar notification

You have puberty scheduled today from 8:00 AM to the foreseeable future.

"Would you look at that," Tae said, pretending to be amazed. "Well, check the calendar. How long is the foreseeable future?"

Jungkook excitedly opened up the app. "It looks like I'll be in puberty for-" He stopped, heartbroken. "Two weeks? Only two weeks? That isn't enough time for anything!"

"Shame," Tae muttered, rolling over so his face was pressed into a pillow to hide his smirk. "Better luck next time."

"I don't have a next time! This was my one chance! I was supposed to become muscular and tall and gorgeously attractive!" Kookie whined.

Tae knew that this was the perfect cue to be a good brother and flatter Jungkook by telling him You're already all of those things.

Instead, he went for the kill. "Well...I guess we can always place our hope on Jimin."

"What? No! NONONONONO!"

Tae laughed but stopped laughing when the laughter hit an octave far below his range. "You know what? I could get used to this-" Tae glared at the pillow as his voice regressed from the deep, seductive tone it had temporarily borrowed. "Not cool, puberty. Not cool."

someone requested this chapter so here it is :) thanks again for 1 million!