note: jungkook is 22, jimin is 24.

i'm sorry i noticed many of you couldn't comment earlier so i'm re-posting this chapter. please let me know if this works. irdk what's wrong with this app sometimes 😭😭

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jungkook admires his body. others do too, but his admiration is different than theirs. a satisfactory smile tugs the corner of his thin lips as he shakes his head, letting his dark bangs fall down his forehead again while he stares at the mirror right up with the white sink, starting just behind the shining faucet up till a little above his height, reflecting the body he built with all the gym work-outs and diets.

he turns a little to the side, rubbing his hand over his stomach that has grown hard and toned behind the abs defining his strength and muscle. for a moment his eyes linger on his right arm, noting the inked skin with precision, from his fingers and knuckles to his forearm and up his bicep. a low chuckle rolls out of his lips when an idea clicks in his head, quickly grabbing his phone he opens the camera and holds it in front of the mirror.

placing one hand on his head, fingers tangled with his hair that he grew slightly longer this once, he tilts his head at angle, staring at the soul of his own reflection with a confidence that shows how sure he is of perfection of the picture.

"people gon' love it."

of course

"no,"

jungkook frowns, shifting his gaze from his phone back to mirror where a head is shown peeking in from the door, "why not?"

"because you're naked." the sister says, scrunching her face.

"i'm not naked," he states, pointing at his grey sweatpants on his lower body.

"there," aera points at his chest, "your boobies are showing."

"ri... oh my god!" he exasperates, closing his eyes in embarrassment as he mentally facepalms himself. "guys don't have boobies kiddo."

"no, you said they do..." aera looks at him with a frown of confusion, making him sigh deeply.

"girls," he emphasizes, "girls have boobies."
when aera looks down at herself, most probably at her chest, jungkook's eyes widen, having a miny panic attack as he shakes his instantly and kneels down, "big girls have!"

"oh, okay" she nods, grinning as another subject draws her attention now. she steps closer in her brother's embrace, fascinated just as the day he first came home with the tattoos inked on his arm.

he chuckles when aera gasps finding another design different than the previous one from yesterday and looks at him, "it's ri!"

"yeah, and what does that mean?"

"me!" she chirps, giggling at him, wrapping her arms around his neck for a hug that is as usually followed a quick peck on his lips.

"yes, you know why there's ri written on oppa's hand?" he asks fondly, caressing the side of his thumb where he got his sister's name inked along with a little smiley and a heart. aera shakes her head in response, keeping her arms on his shoulders as he stands up, carrying her in his arms and walks back to his room.

"because ri is the biggest reason making oppa smile. and oppa loves ri so much."

"thank you, i love oppa too." she says, making jungkook chuckle at the adorable reply.

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a few hours later

"where's aera?" jimin asks, walking downstairs with his eyes roaming to jungkook sitting on the couch, smiling proudly at his phone. "kook, where's aera?"

"i don't know," jungkook replies before sliding the phone in his pocket and stands up, "she's not playing in the backyard?"

jimin shakes his head, glancing around the house which is abnormally quiet today, giving it off to the brothers that the youngest must be up to some mischief. jungkook cracks his neck, chuckling on hearing some music playing in the theatre room, assuring the elders that she's not burning or breaking or damaging anything.

"aera?" the eldest calls, heading towards the room followed by jungkook who is still feeling full of himself from the tremendous appreciation he's receiving on social media for that one picture his sister didn't like.

opening the door, jimin stops on his track gawking inside with an expression that is a mixture of confusion and astonishment. jungkook covers his mouth to prevent himself from laughing as his eyes watch the  half naked sister dancing to his song with a marker in her hand which she must have used to draw on herself.

"ri?" jungkook clears his throat, entering with the elder brother and mutes the television to grab the girl's attention. she turns around with a frown, soon breaking into a giggle on seeing the brothers standing there. "what are you doing?"

"i'm playing," she says, taking the remote from jungkook and turns on the volume again, swaying side to side as she goes back to drawing on her arm.

"my goodness! stop it! why are you drawing on yourself?" jimin hisses, taking the marker away and shoots her a strict glare. "and why did take off your clothes? do you wanna catch cold and be sick?"

"nooo!" aera frowns at him, "i'm making tattoo!"

"tattoo?" jimin stares at her, "you're making tattoos?"

she hums, nodding her head and points at jungkook's bare upper body, where he has tattoos inked up his arm till his shoulder, making jimin sigh deeply while jungkook laughs, "jesus! aera he didn't draw them, kiddo." jimin tells her.

"he told me they have a pen and they put tattoo on him," aera says, turning to jungkook, "they do that right koo?"

"uh well, it's not a marker, princess." he chuckles, patting her head and sits on the couch, pulling the sister on his lap, "so you've been making tattoos on yourself all this while?"

"yes, look i made abs too," she says, showing him her stomach where she's made square boxes. jungkook laughs silently, glancing at jimin who shakes his head sitting next to them and sighs.

"you have more abs than me and jimin oppa," jungkook jokes, eyeing the grid of three-by-four on her stomach. "i just have six packs, riri has twelve."

aera hums, looking at her abs that resemble a numerical dialpad of cell phones, making it look funny as doesn't know how abs are meant to look. she turns to face jungkook and counts his abs, frowning when it's actually just six and hers is twelve.

"i don't want twelve, oppa." she pouts, standing up and grabs a tissue from nearby. jungkook holds it, waiting for an instruction from her to make sure he doesn't do anything wrong and upset her.

"it's okay, more abs means you worked out more and you're very strong."

"stronger than oppa?"

"of course," jungkook nods, busy watching her arms where his sister has tried her best to copy what jungkook has on his arm. he chuckles finding an eye, a flower, a bony hand and something scribbled in a miserable handwriting. aera stands up showing it to them, especially the one on her ribs which wrongly spells out "nevermind", making jimin chuckle.

"it's n-e-v-e-r-m-i-n-d, nevermind." jimin tells her, "why did you do all this?"

"because oppa has tattoo," aera shrugs, picking up the marker again and gives it to jimin, standing between his legs as she points behind her ear, "make one here," she asks him.

"no, enough drawing on yourself. it's not a good thing to do." he says, "now go and wash yourself properly."

"no, my tattoo will go away," aera says, "i can't shower."

"i'm serious, aera. go and clean this off or your skin will start itching."

"no," the girl says, stepping away from jimin and sticks her tongue out at him. shrieking in a high pitched voice when jimin stands up, ready to catch and drag her to the bathroom.  "oppa!"  aera climbs over the couch, stopping behind jungkook, hugging him tightly and shakes her head for jimin to let go of her.

"hyung," jungkook stands up, "let her be, i'll get her to shower later."

"she's doing it right now. you know how her skin reacts to anything like this. i can't bear staying up all night with a cranky six-year-old crying out of an itchy rash." jimin declares.

"okay fine," jungkook sighs, turning around and picks aera up over his shoulders, "let's go aera, oppa's right. we'll take a shower right now—"

"but my tattoo!"

"oppa showers too, honey." he says, holding her properly now and glances at her, "did i ever accidentally wash off my tattoos?"

"no..." aera shakes her head and touches her arm, "my tattoo will stay too?"

"probably," jungkook nods, "and if they don't, then it means they're bad quality."

"i want good quality,"

"sure, but that's when you grow up a bit more alright?"

"promise?" she looks at him and jungkook nods, bumping his forehead against hers gently, "i want tattoos like you and jiminie oppa,"

"sure, whatever you like. but don't draw with markers on your body okay? if you get a rash or something, then you won't be able to get a tattoo."

aera gasps, nodding her head quickly and jungkook puts her down, "i'll go and take a shower quickly!" she says, waving at him and jimin before running out of the room.

"aish!" jimin breathes out,"kids amaze me. i had no idea she could think all this and start drawing on herself."

"really," jungkook nods, laughing loudly as he throws his head back, "our riri is really a curious kid. she keeps experimenting with everything."

"it's good, but also kinda scary y'know?"

"i agree to that,"

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at night

"oppa," aera crawls to jimin, tugging on his t-shirt while he's busy watching a movie and jungkook is sprawled on the couch with his headphones on and eyes pinned on his ipad.

the eldest hums faintly, subconsciously bringing up his hand to feed her a popcorn, not taking his eyes off the television screen. the sister leans forward to eat it quickly and makes herself comfortable on his lap. she glances at his face, cupping the soft cheeks and forces him to look at her, "oppa!"

"yes what?" jimin sighs, glancing at her briefly, then focuses back on the movie.

"sleepy," she mumbles, tugging on his shirt again. jimin hums again, laughing to himself when one of the characters did something funny. when he doesn't pay attention to her, the girl huffs climbing down from the bed and walks over to jungkook, shaking his hand in hope for some support.

"koo, oppa don't listen to me," she mumbles, pointing at jimin, yet gets no response from the brother. "koo!" she whines, hitting his arm harder than before which makes him wince and tug down the headphones.

"what?"

"oppa not listening to me," she pouts.

jungkook glances at the elder brother, sighing deeply when he realises he's too engrossed in the movie to pay attention. so he turns to aera and pulls her to lay with him, "do you need something?"

"i'm sleepy," she says, letting out a yawn and rests her head on jungkook's chest, making him smile as he pats her back gently.

"hyung," he grumbles, glancing at the elder brother, "ri's trying to sleep."

"hm?" jimin looks over at him, pausing the movie for a second, "did you say something?"

"yeah," jungkook sighs, "ri wants to sleep,"

"oh, yeah," the elder nods, finally turning off the television and gets up, gesturing for the youngers to take the bed instead of squeezing themselves on the couch.

"are you going to the kitchen?" jungkook asks, getting up with aera, carrying her in his arms and lays her on the bed as she's already fallen asleep and covers her with a blanket.

"yeah," jimin stretches his body, nodding his head subtly, "i'm kinda hungry,"

"hm, wanna eat ramen?" jungkook snickers, earning a smack from the elder brother as they both exit the room laughing at the popular reference.

"you know what? let's have pizza," jimin says and jungkook laughs harder.

"no, ramen!"

"jeon jungkook say that one more time and you'll be starving for two days."

"what? i'm asking for some ramen, hyung. why is it so bad?"

"brat," jimin mutters, putting on some water for heating and places two bowls on the counter. "choke on that ramen and die."

jungkook snorts harder, falling on the floor as he's laughing too hard at the elder's words.

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a/n- okay so i hope this works now (please work😭😭)

have you ever had bts in your dream? if yes, please share it with us, well unless it's an 18+ dream lmaoo

i actually had jiminie and jungkookie in my dream last night and kook was arguing with me and jimin was just watching us. he apparently wanted me to stop embarrassing him on social media posts and mentioning abt chelsea. so i was like -_- bro u legit own the book and ur pissed abt this?! my readers enjoy that! he was offended and said he would leave the book, me and jimin had to put a lot of effort to make him stay :')

wtf is this dream 😭😭😭 why would i ever fight jk 😭😭😭😭

anyway vote if you liked the chapter nd i really hope u can comment now 💀

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