"-so as i was saying, if you haven't guessed from the title," jungkook grins at the camera, leaning back on his gaming chair as he opens his arms, posing like a king, "this is the day we're gonna be pranking aera. she joined the war between me and tae, and now she gotta pay right?"

a confident smirk lines his thin lips, raising one corner of his mouth in an unhealthily attractive way for his viewers, the people who are head over heels for him and simping over him like crazy, be it his videos on youtube, or dying to play online with him whenever he's available on discord, or his music videos, or the music itself. jungkook has a power over these millions of hearts, and he knows it. so there's no chance of missing any opportunity to make his dearest fans heartbeats faster.

he straightens himself, standing up and grabs his phone over the table, leaning closer to the camera as he shows the screen, "it's 8:40 right now, i came to the studio early morning today and ri was still sleeping then. so let's go back and wake her up in the wildest ways, and if she's up then... no she won't be, sundays are meant for sleeping."

jungkook picks up the camera and exits the studio, whistling and singing all along as sat on the driver's seat of his car and sets the camera on the stand, stopping for a moment to fix his hair and nods to himself, continuing with the song he left in the middle.

"-if it's not you, it's not anyone~" his gaze is fixated on the street, occasionally glancing at the camera, too absorbed by his own harmony for the song. driving with one hand and the other naturally resting on the gear selector.

a chuckle leaves his mouth, suddenly remembering something, "guys," he says, "i'll be doing pretty much everything to annoy my sister, but lemme tell you i'll stop if she cries. other than it's fine."

"anyways let's go," he smiles at the camera, getting out of the car and heading towards the porch, "you've seen our house already haven't you? i think tae gave you a tour or somethi-"

"hey bud, where have you been? it's time for breakfast come and eat." jin's voice makes him grin at the camera, "you're recording something?"

"yeah, just wanted to." he shrugs, "where's aera?"

"sleeping," the eldest says, making him smile at the camera as he nods and heads upstairs.

"ri?" he calls slowly at first and opens the door, seeing the her feet peeking outside the covers, but quickly hides inside with the rest of her body curled into a ball.

jungkook smiles at the sight, setting camera on the table quietly and gestures towards aera, keeping his index finger on his lips as he approaches the bed without any noise and tugs on the blanket.

"aera" he whispers, "get up, your candies are dancing."

"mm?" she stirs in her place.

"yeah, your candies are dancing."

"my candies..." she nods gradually, but stops realising what jungkook just said, "they're dancing?"

"yeah do you wanna dance too?"

"later...i'm sleepy" she mumbles.

"ah okay," he smirks, turning to the camera and pulls out a small snake from his pocket. "lemme give you hug," he leans down and putting the silicon reptile under her covers.

aera moves a little feeling something cold on her stomach and looks down, pulling out the weird thing, taking a few seconds to realise it's a snake. "aahhhh!" the drowsiness vanishes in a blink as she throws it away and clings onto her brother who is now laughing, being pulled down while aera hastily grabs his shirt, climbing on top of him to maintain as much distance as possible with the snake.

"oh my god!" jungkook snorts, clutching his stomach, earning a question look from the girl until it hits her that it might not be real. she turns around quickly, crawling till the edge of the bed and gasps, throwing the snake toy at the laughing brother.

"i thought it's real!"

"that's why it's called a prank." he states, "wasn't it cool?"

"no! you're so mean!" she whines, kicking him with covers tangled in her legs. "i was scared!"

"it was funny though." he laughs again, grabbing her feet and pulled her in his lap, hugging her from behind, ignoring the whines of protests from the girl. "aw don't be mad, little kookie."

"leave meeee! oppaaaaa!"

"what's going on?! come and have your breakfast!" one of the hyungs call from downstairs, making jungkook chuckle as he stands up, now noticing that aera isn't wearing her pants, just her t-shirt and her underwear. he glances at the camera and sighs, giving a note to himself to edit it out later.

she rubs her eyes, glaring at jungkook once and runs down, leaving him alone, as he shrugs and picks up his camera, "the first one was successful, but i'm sure she'll look out for the rest of the day." he chuckles.

"put on your pants first," he heard jimin saying and snickers at aera's habit of staying half naked at home, inspired somewhat from jungkook and the boys, that induced the boy-ish behaviour in her too.

"no" she shakes her head, sitting on the chair between jimin and yoongi.

"it's not a hood habit, kiddo."

"no oppa," aera gulps her juice down and looks at him, "my legs don't like pants."

jimin sighs at the excuse, and gestures her to just focus on eating. throughout the breakfast, aera rants about how jungkook scared her with a fake snake and she almost cried, making the boys laugh at the siblings' silly behavior. meanwhile jungkook had his eyes focused on his camera, going through the cuts and videos, deciding on what to keep and what to delete.

"eat up jungkook," yoongi says, "your camera isn't going away."

"yeah" jungkook nods, placing the camera on the table and gets up, "smoothie people?"

"yes!" aera chirps, "strawberries please!"

"sure," jungkook nods, smiling at her and then the camera which taehyung notices and raises his eyebrow at the younger male. he picks up the camera and stalls near jungkook, earning a quick side glance.

"no, shut up." jungkook hushes before taehyung said anything, making him snicker silently.

"oh my god, no you're not!" taehyung whispers, turning the camera to show jungkook chopping beetroot for strawberries, carrot for kiwi, and adding a bunch of other veggies sneakily, smirking at the drink as he pours it in aera's favourite cup.

"relax it's healthy," he directs to taehyung and the camera, "guys, if you're on a diet, you can definitely have this. but y'know it sucks, like literally sucks. i feel bad for my baby,"

"i know right?" taehyung shakes his head sympathetically, while jungkook makes a normal fruit smoothie for himself and taehyung to make the prank more believable.

"alright, done." the younger smiles at the camera, raising the big glasses for them and aera's small one as he brings it to her. "enjoy,"

"thank you," she picks it carefully, while taehyung casually walks up to her, bending down to her height and starts talking, ready to record the reaction.

aera takes a sip, pulling away instantly with a weird face staring at her cup and then at jungkook, "what is this?"

"smoothie?" he arches up his right brow, "is it not?"

"no..." she shakes her head, taking a sip again but ends up coughing, "it's so bad, it's not smoothie! what did you put in this?"

"what are you even saying?" jungkook scoffs, taking a sop from his glass, "see, it's perfectly fine. hyung, you drink yours and tell her."

taehyung takes a sip from his glass and nods, "yeah, it's fine."

"see? stop acting, and finish it." jungkook says after gulping his drink down at once and places the empty glass on the counter.

"no, it taste so bad." she huffs pushing the cup away. jimin frowns at jungkook, taking a sip from aera's cup and makes a weird face.

"what the heck jungkook?!" he sneers, glaring the brother who laughs now, raising his arms up as he surrenders. "what in the world did you put in this to have it taste so bad?"

"beet, carrots, a little leafs aaaand... yeah, stuff like that." jungkook admits, earning a loud whine from his sister who stands up quickly, hitting him swiftly as taehyung laughs, filming their bickering.

"tae was in it too!" jungkook says, stepping back to save himself from an angry thirteen-year-old.

"y'all are baaaaad!" she shrieks, stomping upstairs, making the elders sigh while jungkook and taehyung chuckle, glancing at the camera.

"that's what happens when babies get mad." jungkook says, "anyway, guys welcome your tiger, drum rolls please, kim taehyung!"

"heyyy! y'all good?" taehyung smiles widely, throwing his arm around jungkook's neck as he leans in near the camera, showing his flawlessly handsome, "since i'm already into this, let's carry on together."

"sure-"

"she didn't eat." jimin mentions, glaring at the younger two who fall silent and nod slowly.

"seriously, you two," yoongi shakes his head, "what is all this?"

"actually, uhm y'know how me and tae hyung do pranks on each other and on others?" jungkook says, earning nods from his hyungs, "well, today i've decided to do it on our lovely aera, for the whole day."

the boys roll their eyes at the stupid idea and continue having their breakfast while jin calls for aera, telling her to come and eat. she huffs, glaring at jungkook and sits near jimin, eating with him instead from her plate, making taehyung and jungkook chuckle lightly which doesn't past long as yoongi glances at them, cocking an eyebrow as if asking what was so funny.

"if i see her crying, you two are in trouble." he states calmly before getting up and placing his dish on the sink, making the two choke on their food as they stare at their hyung and then at the camera.

"do you wanna continue?" taehyung asks quietly.

"...yeah, we won't make her cry, it'll be fun don't worry." jungkook shrugs, turning to the camera, "come on guys, you gotta like this video amd subscribe, 'cause i'm really risking my life today."

"yeah, make sure to hit the like button, he might not live if aera cries." taehyung laughs.

jungkook sighs nodding, "guys, the last time was about 1.5 million or so, i wanna aim at least two this time."

taehyung smirks, laughing as he leans back on his chair, sitting like a king, "i got three!"

jungkook sighs, shaking his head, looking at the camera, "see? i've been going through this since last week, now you guys please like my videos more than his!" he huffs, making taehyung laugh louder.

by the time evening fell and the sky gleamed in shades of red, orange and yellow, the boys had successfully got on aera's nerves, carrying on with scaring her with a clown when she got out of her room, getting water on her while she was playing with namjoon and jin, putting chilli flakes in her brownie for snacks, earning several temper tantrums and whines from the girl, and a warning from both jimin and yoongi to leave the kid alone.

now the boys were on their way to pull the next prank after getting worth watching reactions the whole day. taehyung stands casually, leaning against the wall while jungkook stalls over to aera who's busy climbing on the monkey bars that were there along with the swing set for as long as she could remember.

she glances at jungkook, carefully looking at his hands to see if he's holding something to scare her again. she sits on her place, hanging her legs on one side and kicks towards him, "go away!"

"hey, won't you let me join?" he asks, holding her feet to avoid getting hit.

aera shakes her head, "what do you want?"

"nothing, i just thought i should apologize for being so mean to my baby." he says, standing in front of her as she stopped kicking him now.

"really?" she asks, making him nod as he places his arms either side of her for the height of the bars is not too much, just till his shoulders.

"look at this," taehyung comes forward, standing beside him as he held out a rose, making the girl smile. she takes it quickly, having the boys staring at her in anticipation.

aera frowns as the rose seems fake. it pops open and a black beetle flies out, making her scream and move her hands in the air to get the insect away, pulling herself back while jungkook and taehyung are busy laughing and recording her reaction.

panic washes over aera's features as she realises she leaned back too much and quickly reaches out to hold jungkook or taehyung or the bar, anything that would be her support and keep her from falling. the laughter ceases and before the boys could do anything, their eyes expanded seeing aera crying loudly on the ground, having fallen backwards from the top of the bars.

tears are trickling down her cheek and a heavy feeling of fear and guilt engulfs the boys who release a breath, grasping the depth of their stupid action as the girl cries, clutching her shoulder. taehyung puts the camera away, kneeling near aera with jungkook to see if she's okay for she was crying too much.

"what happened? jeon jungkook and kim taehyung, what did you do now?" yoongi glares at him, being the first one to come on hearing aera's crying voice.

"sh-she fell..." taehyung says slowly, pointing at the bars and then at aera, making yoongi frown at him while jungkook carries her and heads inside.

"what's going on? why's ri crying?" jimin asks, as the rest of the boys come down quickly. he sits next to her on the couch, "your shoulder?"

"oppa... it hurts," she cries, "i can't move my arm..."

"lemme see," he sighs softly, bringing her in his lap and touches her shoulder joint gently. tugging on her shirt a little, he notices the swelling and redness, and says, "move your arm slowly."

"ah ahh no! it hurts oppa..." aera sobs, shaking her head.

"it looks bad, jimin. i think we need to go to the hospital." hoseok says, studying the kid's soulder that looks more swelled ever second. jimin nods, standing up with aera as he supports her arm, walking outside.

"i'll get the car," jin says, jogging out.

yoongi glares at jungkook and taehyung, not saying much at the moment for his focus is more on aera's cries. between the thick silence and we-are-so-dead looks being exchanged between the two boys, they constantly pray for their sister to be fine as they regret coming up with the ridiculous idea of involving a child in their prank wars.

the drive to the hospital felt longer than eternity to them with aera's tired sobbing in the background. jin finally pulls in front of hospital and they head towards emergency room straight away.

jungkook and taehyung stand quietly on the side as the doctor showed them the x-ray images of aera's shoulder joint, explaining about the partial dislocation of the bone due to the torn ligaments as an impact of falling right on her shoulder from a height.

the doctors had already performed the closed reduction process of moving the bone back into place which made the kid cry out even more despite the pain relievers she was given beforehand. she was resting on the bed now, sitting quietly while the pills still had their effect.

"there are some medicines and slow exercises that will help her heal. please avoid any excess movement or straining that involves moving her shoulder joint for at least the next four weeks." the doctor says.

"yes, thank you." jimin nods, earning a smile from the lady as she takes her leave. he sighs and sits himself near the girl, wiping the tear stains from her cheeks and says, "i've told you so many times to be careful when you're playing, especially on the swing set. see, now you've gotten hurt."

"i was careful" she mumbles, "koo and tae oppa gave me a bug and i got scared, then i fell down..."

"what?" jimin frowns along with the rest of the boys, turning to look at jungkook and taehyung, "you did that?"

"i didn't mean to hurt her hyung. i'd never do anything to hurt riri, it was supposed to be a harmless prank but... she fell from there and i couldn't hold her. i'm so sorry..." jungkook says.

"yeah, i'm sorry too. we didn't mean to hurt her." taehyung adds.

jimin glares at the two, heaving out a deep sigh, his jaw clenching in anger, but decides not to say anything right now, "let's go home and talk." his voice is firm and deeper than usual, letting the boys know that they messed up a big time.

"come on, aera." yoongi says, ignoring jungkook and taehyung's entire presence as he helps her get up without hurting her arm and walks out with her.

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at home

"take her upstairs," yoongi says, "hoseok-ah, go with her."

hoseok only nods in response, not having enough courage to speak to yoongi right now. he places his arm around aera's engaging her in a talk as he asks what movie she'd like to watch, earning a soft mumble saying the little mermaid.

"we're sor-"

"shut it" jimin growls, "i don't wanna hear your sorries. don't waste your time in that, just give me one good reason for thinking it was fine to annoy your sister for the whole freaking day, pulling weird pranks on her?!"

the younger boys have their heads hanging low as jimin's eyes are busy shooting daggers at them, standing in front of the two, he continues, "you wanted a reaction right? did you get it now? a good reaction from her for your thumbnail?!"

"it's not like that hyung..." jungkook shakes his head, tears pooling in his as well as taehyung's eyes at the unfortunate outcome.

"who's idea was it?" jimin sighs deeply, raking a hand through his hair, trying his best not to shout again or lose his temper.

"m-mine" jungkook says after a moment of silence.

"yours, of course." the elder brother mocks, "you had nothing better to do than pulling this shit on your sister?! and don't you dare say it was for fun, jeon jungkook, it's fun if you do it once or twice, making sure nobody gets hurt. but you both crossed the line, from the moment she woke up you didn't let her breathe in peace today! tell me, how many times did she tell you to leave her alone?! how many times did the hyungs tell you to stop?!"

"ji-"

"no hyung, please, i'm sorry." jimin sighs, shaking his head for jin to stay out of it today and let him handle it, "let me get this in their heads very clear today, that aera is their sister, not to be used for views or likes! if i ever see her being a part of anything you two do for videos and stuff, i'll make sure you'd be finding another job for yourselves."

ignoring the tears from the youngers' eyes, jimin cracks his neck, heading upstairs, leaving the boys to ponder to themselves and let his words sink in. jin sighs softly, going near the two while yoongi and namjoon leave as well.

"hyung, i swear we didn't want to hurt aera," jungkook says, looking at the eldest with crying eyes, "why would we do anything to hurt her hyung? please talk to jimin hyung, he was- he was so mad at us..."

"i know bud, don't cry." jin says, stroking jungkook and taehyung's hair, "i know you didn't do anything on purpose, we all know that, jungkook. jimin is just mad, y'know aera got hurt pretty bad. there could've been a possible surgery if the dislocation was more severe. he was worried and just said too much in anger. but he knows you didn't do it on purpose."

"we never used her for views, hyung..." jungkook adds, "i- i'll stop this forever, i swear. i'll quit youtube and gaming forever, but just trust me, i never brought aera with me f-for views and likes. we genuinely enjoy her company, it feels nice to have her around. and the people like watching us with her, they say they don't have such a bond in their lives so it feels great to watch someone who- who has it."

"he's right hyung, aera liked being with us too. and what happened today was an accident, we're sorry for that." taehyung nods after jungkook.

"i know," jin says softly, "jimin didn't realise what he said, he was just too mad today. he shouldn't have said that, but tell me one thing, don't you think you went too far today? aera told you to stop, your hyungs told you to stop, but you didn't listen. and now see? aera hurted her shoulder. that's why we were telling you that it's enough of playing for today. you're grown up adults, but aera's not. she's just a kid and a little bit of carelessness can be a big mistake, for instance, take today."

the younger boys nod slowly, understanding jin's words, "we're sorry, hyung."

"you should say that to aera," jin smiles softly, "and don't worry about the rest of the boys, you can make up with them one by one. now go before she falls asleep."

the boys exchange glances, nodding slowly as they hug jin together for hearing them out and not getting mad. "thank you hyung," taehyung's mumble makes jin smile, patting their backs as a gesture that it's fine.

jungkook sighs, knocking on the door of aera's room and entered with taehyung on hearing a hum from inside. jimin and hoseok are there while aera is sitting on the bed as jimin adjusted her shoulder immobilizer sling after changing her clothes, making her wince with even the slightest of movements.

"now what?" jimin says firmly, not looking at the two boys yet.

"uh we wanted to talk to riri..." taehyung says.

jimin stays quiet, not even saying a no, so the boys come in, taking it as a yes. aera stares at them with her brows frowning a little and a pout on her lips.

"i'm sorry aera," jungkook speaks first, kneeling in front of her on the floor while she's sitting on the bed, "i annoyed you a lot today, and you got hurt because of me. i'm really sorry, princess."

aera glances between him and taehyung, "are you going to do another prank? i'm tired and my arm is hurting now, please stop..." she says with tears brimming her eyes and turns to jimin, "oppa... tell them i don't want more pranks..."

jimin sits next to her hugging her carefully, not sparing a single glance at jungkook and taehyung who have glassy eyes, watching the girl crying as she thinks they'll pull another prank on her like the last time.

"no, baby, we're sorry for that." taehyung says.

"no, go away, you said wanted to apologize and give me flower. but you're so bad, you were lying!"

taehyung glances at jungkook who shares the same expression as him, he reaches out to hold her hand, but pulls away quickly on hearing her wincing.

"ouch it hurts! stop!" she cries.

jimin pushes jungkook's hand back, keeping his eyes on aera as he smiles softly, "don't cry, they're not doing anything."

"i'm tired oppa..."

"i know, let's sleep alright?"

"how?" aera points at her shoulder, "it hurts..."

"it won't. just lay down carefully." jimin says, helping her lay on the bed and glances at hoseok who smiles sadly at them, "hyung, please close the door when you leave."

"sure," he nods, leaning near aera and kisses her forehead, "good night, get some rest."

a tear drops from jungkook's eye as he stands up quietly with taehyung, both following hoseok out and closed the door;

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a/n- here ya go!!! i hope you enjoyed! please vote if you did.

uhm just a random question, what's your bias's favourite color? and what is your favourite colour?

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