Hannah is sitting around the kitchen table, all dressed up in a white dress with the nicely decorated cupcakes on a cake plate at the centre of the table. On the kitchen worktop is the shrimp dish getting colder and colder. In front of Hannah, soundlessly lying on the table is her new Samsung cell phone. Each time she blinks she thinks she will open her eyes to see a text message arriving, but each time she opens her eyes the display is as black as when she closed her eyes. Jonghyun’s “one hour late” has become two hours, and he hasn’t texted her or said he is on the way, that he will be later than expected…

With a sigh she picks up her cell phone, seeing the display lighten up and show a self-taken picture with the members of her group all smiling when trying to get their faces together for the picture. Always looking so happy when trying to do a good self-taken picture, she guesses. She looks at the recent things on Instagram and Twitter, sighs anew when seeing she is still not getting a text message.

“Hannah…”

She looks up at Maria standing by the entrance to the kitchen. Maria looks sadly at her, and Hannah looks down at her phone to not start crying.

“Have you texted him?” Maria wants to know, not stepping inside the kitchen but staying where she can hug on to the frame of the entrance. Hannah shakes her head, putting her cell phone back down on the table. Maria knows that Hannah doesn’t want to be the kind of girlfriend who shows her concern; if he doesn’t show up Hannah will pretend she didn’t wait. “Maybe he can’t get away.”

“Mm…” Hannah sighs, on her nails.

“It’s not like Jonghyun to not text you, so I’m sure he can’t get the chance to do so,” Maria continues.

“I know,” Hannah mumbles. Her chin lowering even more when she looks down at the dress she has borrowed from the leader, the fitting and y dress that Hannah personally would never pick out to wear if it wasn’t for her ladies. Jonghyun texts her endlessly every day, whenever he gets the chance, she knows that because even when she is on set working he keeps texting her, but she still gets sad that she has prepared all this for the first time and he isn’t even here.

“You should text him, ask where he is,” Maria suggests. Before Hannah can sigh or give a mumbling answer, Emelia comes inside the kitchen with her eyebrows in a frown, leaving dishes on the kitchen worktop.

“You should text him to say you are going to bed and you can do this some other day. He can’t just come and go however he wants. And he is missing out Hannah in a white minidress!” Emelia is angry. “Let’s go to bed, Hannah. Don’t stay up for this guy.”

“Shut up,” Maria says and waves at Emelia when turning to Hannah. “Don’t listen to her. Jonghyun is probably on his way. Maybe he has prepared his own surprise for you?”

“I haven’t heard anything about that,” Emelia comments.

“Shut up!”

“Are you raising your voice at me, pig-nose?” Emelia growls back at her.

“I raise my voice at whoever I want, you pale-face butthead! Now get the heck out of here and leave our baby alone!”

Hannah sighs at their voices, thinking that Jonghyun often consoles with the ladies when he is preparing something; none of them have heard anything. She grabs her cell phone and gets out of the kitchen, blocking their voices out when she tells them she is going out to clear her head. Maria is fast to ask in sweet tone if she wants some company, but Hannah says no and gets inside the hall, grabbing the high heels she wore when they went to Istanbul some days ago and with a jacket in hand she stops as Ryo is in the hall with her, all excited that someone is going out. She takes the leash, puts it on him with a sigh and gets out.

She takes the stairs, figuring out the high heels was a bad decisions while walking down but she comes downstairs and pulls on the jacket before walking out of the building and she lets Ace happily jump around while she just spaces out, walking down the street slowly. It has been cloudy outside all day but it hasn’t been cold at all, not even now in the middle of the night she is freezing. It is a little chilly on her bare legs but nothing that goes on your nerves that you just want to hurry inside. She keeps walking with the leash in one hand and the cell phone in the other and what goes on her nerves is that her cell phone stays quiet. Why can’t he simply write a text message to say he’ll be even later than planned or say they should do it another day because he can’t make it? It goes on her nerves because she is too stubborn to text him and ask why he isn’t there yet.

She had succeeded with both the cupcakes and the shrimp dish; her members had liked it. If he doesn’t come she won’t save anything for him.

Hannah nods like a child by the thought, pouting but agreeing with her thinking and she sighs when turning around. “Ryo, come boy, let’s go back.”

The way Hannah grew up she has learned to not lean on any man. She is a woman and she can live on her own if she so needs to, but it is still annoying that he hasn’t texted her. If he is three hours late, she will not be accepting an apology since he hasn’t texted her.

The white puppy has gotten calmer after jumping around a bit. Hannah thinks he has been on his feet all day since Julia’s mother arrived, and now when coming outside he is finally starting to relax, so Hannah is in no hurry to get back inside. She has no idea of what to do when getting inside either; should she text him or should she just go to bed? Looking at the time on her cell phone she notices she has to get up in at least five hours. It is a lot, but it will take time until she falls asleep tonight.

With a sigh she opens the door to the apartment-building, letting Ryo go first and when she is about to take her first step through the door she hears someone come behind her.

“Nabi!”

With a cold stare she turns around, and as the only person in the universe calling her ‘butterfly’, Jonghyun comes running up to her. He is wearing jeans and a white v-neck t-shirt, a leather jacket. In hand he is holding a simple white package, but Hannah doesn’t take notice of that. He looks stunning, but Hannah just stares at him, stopping with her back leaned against the door to keep it open. “Where have you been?!” she asks in an angry voice. “WHY haven’t you texted me?!”

“I know, I’m sorry! I got caught up with work and time just flew by-” Jonghyun starts to explain. He stops by the door to be just a few centimetres away from her, but he stops talking and looks down at her legs, even leaning back a little to see better. “You look y!”

Hannah is too angry to care that she is all dressed up for him. She makes a sound of annoyance and heads inside; knowing he follows behind her, and she forces Ryo to go with her though the puppy wants to greet the guest.

“Hannah, I’m sorry, okay?” he follows tightly behind as they reach the elevator, moving to see her face. “I’m sorry I didn’t texted that I would come later than late – I didn’t know what time it was. We were working… I’m truly sorry.”

Walking inside the elevator, he makes a meter’s distance between them, still taking in the sight of her. Hannah presses the floor-button before leaning against the wall furthest away, crossing her arms over her chest, letting Ryo get enough length on the leash to reach over to Jonghyun as she looks at him with an upset face-expression. He looks up and down at her, stunned. Really: a white minidress to the s-line body, the long blonde hair and a pair of angry blue-green eyes glaring at him. Jonghyun smells really good, as if he put on something on the way here, but Hannah focuses her eyes to look angry; she will not let the scent of him distract her.

“You look absolutely gorgeous,” Jonghyun swallows, scanning her up and down without taking notice of the puppy waving his tail by his feet.

“Are you hungry?” she coldly asks him, not caring about his compliment.

“Starving,” Jonghyun says in the deep of his throat, looking down at her body again.

“Good,” Hannah says and walks right past him when the elevator-door opens. “I hope the members have eaten it all up.”

Jonghyun frowns by her comment and stumbles after her. “You cooked?”

Ignoring him completely, Hannah walks inside the apartment, letting Ryo loose and she takes off her jacket and shoes before walking inside, getting shorter when the shoes are off, not looking but knowing Jonghyun takes off his outdoor clothes and follows her. In the living-room, the others are sitting. Hannah ignores but sees their face-expression when seeing Jonghyun walk after Hannah who is heading inside the kitchen. Jonghyun is fast to greet politely when seeing the older version of Julia sit in the sofa, and he is also well aware of the looks he gets from the members which makes him escape to the kitchen where Hannah is.

She looks over her shoulder when he comes inside. “Sit,” she orders and points at the table. She is standing by the worktop, have already taken out the plate for where Jonghyun sits down and she walks to the table with the shrimp dish. “Happy anniversary,” she mutters and sits down in front of him, leaning back in the seat with her arms crossed over her chest again. She will not be the shy and embarrassed girlfriend when he is this late.

“You made this?” Jonghyun looks at the food with fascinate, already have noticed the cupcakes on the table too. He is already ready to eat when he takes a look at Hannah. “It’s not poison in it…?”

The joke doesn’t seem to do good as Hannah’s glare focuses on his face, and he takes a deep breath at the try before starting to eat. When seeing his face after the first bite, Hannah’s face loosens up right away, just a little. She leans forward a little, continuing to watch his face (the way he chews his food) when quietly asking if he likes it.

“It’s divine,” Jonghyun breathes and takes another bite. Hannah doesn’t know what that Korean word means, but on his face to judge; he likes it. “Is there anything you are bad at, Nabi? This is delicious…”

“I’m bad at relationships,” she mutters. Though he didn’t expect an answer, she didn’t really think before saying it either.

Jonghyun sighs, glancing down at the food. He does feel bad for forgetting the time when working, especially when seeing how much Hannah did. “I’m really sorry, Hannah. I didn’t know you had prepared so much, I’m really sorry.” He gets out of his seat, walks over to her to apologize again, kissing her lightly on the lips. “I love you. And the food you have prepared.”

“I love you too,” Hannah whispers, touching his chin lightly for him to know she wants another soft kiss. His lips taste like shrimp – she like shrimps.

“Will I be able to eat up before the ladies attacks me for being late?” Jonghyun whispers, smiling when she smiles. He is too aware of that he gets four girls nagging on the side when being with Hannah; it’s the price for being with her.

“I’ll talk to them,” she answers and gets up, guiding him back to his seat for him to eat and she then walks out to the living-room. The volume of the TV is very low, and she knows they have been trying to listen to what’s been going on in the kitchen. Maria smiles sadly at her when seeing her come in, and Carolina turns the volume up awkwardly as if she has been caught eavesdropping.

“Everything okay?” Maria wants to know, speaking in Swedish because of Julia’s mother sitting there.

Hannah nods. “Everything’s okay,” she answers. “He got caught up in work…”

“What does he think of the dress?” Maria wonders in a big smile, curious, extremely curious to know. Hannah smiles shyly, blushing by the memory of how he looked at her in the elevator. She gives the thumb up for answer, and pouts when Emelia asks if he isn’t being kicked out.

“Please don’t do anything,” Hannah begs the rapper, her oldest friend. “When he’s done eating we’re going upstairs… Is that okay?”

All of them nods (even Julia’s mother nods), beside from Emelia who is just looking upset. Maria promises to keep an eye on the rapper and adds that she will make sure the bathroom is romantic and welcoming when they will go upstairs. Hannah returns to the kitchen and Maria hurries upstairs with Ace to prepare the bathroom and sees that Jonghyun is taking more of the shrimp dish. Without a word she sits down in front of him again, this time resting her elbows on the table and her head in her hands to look at him eat. Jonghyun keeps eating, enjoying the dish she has prepared and he keeps glancing at her, smiling at her while chewing the food. He really takes his time to finish it all, slowly eating but chewing in a fast pace, and he keeps looking at her with a loving face. Hannah ends up smiling at him. He looks adorable. No one is as attractive when eating as he is, she thinks.

“You’re not mad anymore?” Jonghyun guesses, taking the last bite of the shrimp dish.

“You want me to be mad at you?” Hannah coolly wonders, but smiles the moment he smiles with food in his mouth. He looks down, covering his mouth briefly and it is such a handsome way he does it that Hannah smiles even wider. “Who can be mad when watching you eat?”

“It’s delicious,” he comments, and she laughs when seeing him glance at the cupcakes.

“You don’t have to eat them now,” she tells him.

“What if your members eat them up…?”

Hannah keeps smiling at her boyfriend, suddenly so happy that he likes what she has prepared – well, what she has prepared so far. When he is done eating she puts the dishes away, aware of that he is again checking her out, and when she tells him to come upstairs with her, he grabs the cake plate to take it with them. “Just in case,” he tells her. Maria is the only one not sitting in the living-room when they walk by (the eyes are looking more at the cupcakes this time than glaring at Jonghyun). On the way up the stairs, Hannah bites her lip when Jonghyun touches her bare legs from behind but she seems to not care about it as they walk inside her bedroom. Jonghyun puts the cake plate on the side, hiding it from the hungry hyenas in the building, and Hannah smiles when taking his hand to take him out of the room again. That, he did not expect.

He is confused when leaving the bedroom, first thinking they are going downstairs again when heading that direction but looks utterly clueless when she directs them to the bigger bathroom. Hannah touches the doorknob before turning around, whispers for him to close his eyes, and the clueless boyfriend does as she says. Nervously she holds both of his hands in hers, her heart beating uneven out of nervousness when she backs inside the bathroom. She stops when they are both inside, a sweet scent of candles and soap is in the room, she guides him to stand inside the bathroom before she closes the door behind him and gets up next to him to see his face.

“You can look now,” she whispers, biting her lips in anticipation for his reaction.

Jonghyun opens his eyes slowly, and his jaw just drops when seeing the dimly lit bathroom. The white bathroom has the long sink on the left, following the wall between the door and the Jacuzzi bath. On the sink and at the tiny table next to the bath there are a lot of candles. Not the pretty kind of candles he had prepared for her birthday, but these are big candles, that not just give a dim light but actually lets you see your surrounding (though not too much). The Jacuzzi is lightened up by lamps in the water, bubbles covering the surface with bathing foam and the whole room just looks like being prepared for a honeymoon at a romantic hotel room or something. Jonghyun looks at Hannah standing on his right side, and probably for the first time he has no idea of what to say. Hannah can’t stop looking nervous, because when he doesn’t say anything she isn’t sure if it’s good or bad.

“The ladies helped me,” she says when he doesn’t say anything, “I didn’t know how to use the Jacuzzi and … and Maria helped me to order candles too. I didn’t know what else to do so-”

“I love it,” Jonghyun chuckles, embracing her for a hug. “Stop worrying so much, Nabi. And here I thought you weren’t the romantic type.”

“I’m not,” Hannah simply says and gets out of his hug to reach for something, looking up at him. “Put these on?”

Jonghyun gets a pair of bathing trunks. Hannah smiles at his face-expression.

“My stylist bought them for this,” she explains and Jonghyun raises his eyebrow at her.

“Yong Hyun bought them for me?”

She nods, giggling when ing his jeans slowly, knowing he is probably thinking of 5 Pieces’ gay stylist imagining Jonghyun in these…

“I’m going to give you a face-mask too,” she tells him with a smile, stepping over to the sink when she has ed the jeans, letting him do the rest himself. Jonghyun is still a little puzzled. She has prepared all this? For the past five years he has known Hannah, she has repeatedly told him that she isn’t the romantic type, not wanting him to prepare surprises or events and such, though he has slowly been doing more of that, but never did he think his girlfriend would prepare something like this; dress like that, cook a meal and prepare a spa bath – all on the same night. No wonder she was upset he came so late.

Hannah smiles when feeling his hands on her hip, standing behind her. “Will I get to give you a facial-mask too?” he asks in a smooth voice by her ear, all his charm is out, before he kisses the cutout-shoulder part of the dress, his lips soft on her skin. “It’s the least I can do for being late.” Slowly he takes up one hand, removing her hair to kiss her neck softly, and he does notice how she holds on to the sink with both hands, holding it harder when his lips touch her skin.

“I’m wearing make-up,” Hannah comments.

“Let’s remove it then,” Jonghyun mumbles against her skin, “It’s our anniversary, and since I ate with you just looking at me… I think we both should do this part.”

If it was anything with their relationship where she had never shown herself without make-up, she wouldn’t remove it. But since he has seen her without make-up, he has even helped her remove make-up before; Hannah doesn’t hesitate to begin wash away the make-up. Jonghyun stays behind her, holding her hair away. For some reason, just this feels the most natural thing for Hannah all night. To cook and bake is something she rarely do (mostly because she doesn’t have time), and to prepare a romantic/cheesy event in the bathroom is probably her first and last time ever doing, and to wear this minidress she borrowed from Maria is definitely a last time doing. Her members trick her into doing things way too easily.

Stepping inside the warm bath, Jonghyun takes a seat with his back against the room, groaning over how nice it feels to sit down in a warm bath and he leans his head back, looking to the side to try seeing Hannah. And his eyes get huge.

The dress is hanging on the side in the bathroom, and Hannah steps gracefully inside the bath wearing a white bikini.

“Don’t stare,” Hannah whines and sits down to hide herself in the water and foam, laughing at Jonghyun’s face-expression.

“You’re wearing a bikini,” he points out, sounding and looking impressed. “I think it’s the first time I see you wear one…”

“But you have seen me in underwear; it’s the same thing,” Hannah comments, sitting down facing him, trying to not smile too much at his face.

“Definitely not the same thing,” Jonghyun swallows. Hannah throws some foam towards him, though it doesn’t reach him, and they both laugh at the fail. “I think you need to explain yourself a bit, Hannah… Why am I not allowed to do these kind of memorable and y events for you, but you do them for me?”

Hannah puts her head on the side, taking her wet fingers through her hair. “You like romance … but since you are the perfect boyfriend, you don’t do these kinds of things since I don’t like it. And since you now do like romance, I needed to do something for you,” she tries to explain, speaking slowly. “Since you do so much for me, beside from being late, that is…”

Jonghyun chuckles at her answer, raising his eyebrows briefly as if he agrees with her. “If I could go back in time, I wouldn’t have been late.”

“And, you do these kind of events for me,” Hannah corrects him a little late. “My birthday, for example”

“That was more of a … sweet gesture,” Jonghyun smiles charmingly, moving around the foam on the surface of the bubbling water. Hannah giggles, not agreeing.

They sit there for a while, talking, toe-flirting and with their eyes and smiles flirting as well. It’s calming to sit in the bubble bath, the water is warm and their low voices sounds nicely between the bathroom’s walls. Eventually, they bring up the facial-masks, and Jonghyun goes under water to get totally wet, and then stays where he is sitting leaned back against the Jacuzzi with just his face and neck above the surface of the water. When Hannah moves he barely blinks, looking as she gets up next to him to reach for the facial-mask by the sink, she is aware of that he is once again checking her out when she sits down in the water again.

She sits astride his legs, opening the facial-mask with a smile when feeling his hands resting by her hips under the water. With the mask not even opened yet she holds it in one hand while the other hand goes up to his hair, and Jonghyun closes his eyes when she takes her fingers through his wet hair from his forehead to the back of the head, making him lean his head back and he can feel how she is leaning forward, her s almost touching his chest before her lips presses against his for a kiss. Jonghyun parts his lips as soon as he feels her lips, and his insides are not sure what to do when she slowly takes her tongue inside his mouth, deepening the kiss for them both. His hands go higher up, feeling her skin under his in the water, her tongue playing with his, and he holds her waist firmly. She is a distraction though his hands can feel how she has lost weight, her ribs felt under his thumbs (he hopes she holds the promise about not loosing more weight).

Hannah smiles and bites his lip when leaning away. Jonghyun breathes out, looking up at her with a fast beating heart. Hannah bites her own lip when turning her focus back to open the facial-mask package, and Jonghyun takes his finger over his lower lip where she bit him. It’s kind of a cool thought to think back three years, and know that everything she has learned about kissing and seducing has been practiced and showed with and for him. Jonghyun is proud to have his own butterfly, someone innocent and fragile that is just for him to touch, just his.

When starting to put on the yellow honey mask, it on his face with her fingers, Hannah starts to giggle. Jonghyun is fast to defend himself;

“You’re sitting on top of me, in bubbling water, wearing a bikini; don’t judge me, Hannah,” Jonghyun mumbles with his eyes close. “And the bikini is white.”

“It had to match the dress,” Hannah answers, and only on the last part that he said. She can’t help but to giggle at the bulge in his pants, and she leans down to give him a small peck on the lips before continuing to put on the facial-mask.

He is quiet for just a few seconds. “Kibum was worried I was going to propose to you on our anniversary,” he mumbles. He is good to keep his eyes closed, barely moving his mouth either because Hannah is putting the mask on him.

“Why?” Hannah wonders, focusing to apply the honey mask on her boyfriend’s nose.

“Because I’m crazy about you,” Jonghyun chuckles as it is obvious for him, making her smile, “and usually people tend to do it after three years. If they believe they want to spend their lives together.”

He notices how her fingers hesitate when he has said that, but Hannah continues to apply the mask as if she didn’t react on his words, not knowing he felt her hesitation. It’s a sensitive subject.

“It wouldn’t be so bad,” he mentions, and Hannah is so happy he has his eyes closed because her whole face frowns at that, and his thumbs caressing her by the hip under the water is not calming anymore. “You’re like the imperfect perfect wife: You just can’t be bad at anything.”

By the time he opens his eyes she has gotten control of her expression and finishes applying the facial-mask. Jonghyun still notices how she doesn’t look at his eyes when giving him the package, and they change position for him to apply it on her. He starts to take her hair behind her ear before Hannah takes her fingers through it to the back, holding it away for him.

“You never fail to amaze me, Hannah. It’s like every time I meet you, I get surprised by something you do, say, how you look… It’s always something,” Jonghyun keeps talking while applying the mask in her face, feeling her cheeks getting warm under his fingers. It’s not just what he tells her, it is the way he talks, how sincere his voice sounds. “And today you really did … wow, I can’t describe it.”

“I did well?” Hannah asks, smiling for herself. She is a little proud hearing him praise her for the event. He probably won’t experience her doing it again.

Jonghyun gives her a kiss on the cheek (where he hasn’t applied the mask yet) as if his kiss says she did very well. He finish applying the mask before washing his hands in the bubble bath and he does the same thing she did on him before by taking his hands through her hair, holding on to it for her to face him, Hannah meeting his gaze. “Do you love me?” he asks in a low voice, taking one hand through her hair again as a lock was about to fall in her honey-masked face.

“I love you,” Hannah answers without hesitation.

Jonghyun swallows, opening his mouth lightly before asking; “Do you think you want to spend your life with me?”

Hannah giggles through her nose, leaning away and apologizing for giggling at the question, and what makes him not offended by her reaction is because she takes a hold of his hand. She didn’t expect him to ask such a question with such a serious face-expression and insecure tone in the voice, even he having his face filled with honey. It does look a little bit funny. Before Hannah gets to say anything, Jonghyun continues to talk.

“I’m not asking you to marry me,” he says in a confident tone, though Hannah hadn’t thought he would ask her that. “I want to know… If you can see yourself spend your life with me. Live together, get married, have kids, share our lives together, grow old… Would you do that with me?”

“Jonghyun-”

“It’s not a proposal,” he reassures her once again, making her laugh. He is adorable. “I love you so much and I can’t stand that people think this is just some crush that will pass by. I need to know we are on the same page.”

Hannah just smiles at him, not sure if he will interrupt her if she tries to say something, so she makes sure he is done talking (and she really likes the sight of a nervous Jonghyun, holding on to her hand with honey in his face and big puppy eyes looking at her). She takes a deep breath to make sure he won’t say anything before she speaks; “If I didn’t think we would have a future together, I would have run away a long time ago.” She smiles at his face-expression taking in each word she says. “I love to love you. Do you really think I would prepare something like this if I didn’t mean it? It took three years for me to prepare an event; unless you’re worth it, I wouldn’t do it. You know I am like that, so don’t question it.”

“Forever?” Jonghyun asks her, sounding desperate.

She chuckles at that, not sure where their parts changed where he became the insecure one in this relationship. She holds his hand against her chest, looking him deeply in the eyes, hoping he can feel her heart there. “As long as my heart is beating, I want to be with you if you want to be with me.”

“I want to be with you forever,” Jonghyun answers. “You know I do.”

“So what’s the question you asked me?” Hannah teases in a low voice, holding down their hands again. Jonghyun smirks, and out of nowhere his confidence returns.

“Will you spend the rest of your life with me?” he asks.

“Yes,” Hannah giggles and laughs out when he embraces her for a kiss. He couldn’t care less about the facial-masks; he kisses her hard and affectionately, holding on to her body tightly. In his heart he never wants to let her go.

 

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Jonghyun is lying on the side in Hannah’s bed, lying on top of the messy quilt with his hand holding up his head to look at Hannah sitting tailor next to him, while talking she from time to time leans forward to kiss him. He is only in underwear while Hannah is wearing an ivory coloured logo print t-shirt and , she is covering her bare legs under the quilt. They have been talking and cuddling all night after the bath, skipping sleep because Hannah has to get up early either way, so they have spent the time together the best way possible.

It’s morning already. On the clock in the bookshelf behind Jonghyun, she can keep an eye on the time, and eventually she sighs. She wants morning to never arrive, but she doesn’t have the luxury to magically stop the time.

“I have to get ready,” she eventually mumbles, removing the quilt from her legs.

“And I hate this part,” Jonghyun mutters with his own sigh, as it means their cosy time together is over.

Hannah smiles at the tone in his voice, and when he thinks she is going to crawl over him to get out of bed, Hannah sit astride him, surprising him completely by grabbing his hair to make him lie on his back and also so he parts his lips with a gasp. She keeps smiling at him, biting her lip as she leans down, with her other hand touching his cheek, giggling as he closes his eyes as her finger goes down his neck, to his bare chest. Her finger goes back up, all the way to his hair so she can rest her arms on each side of his head, kissing him softly on the lips with her hands touching his hair. Jonghyun smiles at the surprise, his hands going under her t-shirt right away. “You hate this part?” Hannah teases, smiling when he chuckles.

“Not exactly this part,” he comments, kissing her again. “Too bad we don’t have the whole day off.”

“Why? So we could do this for hours?” Hannah giggles between the kisses. He mumbles for answer, throwing her off him in the bed to roll over her, his lips overtaking hers.

 

Downstairs, Maria is waiting to get picked up to go for her music video filming. It is the third music video for her comeback, though it won’t be revealed yet in a while, and according to Julia it is the most chic song in the whole album. Maria is the only member openly showing excitement for two things at once; her solo comeback and Hannah’s special event for Jonghyun last night. She hasn’t heard the couple a single time the whole night, which is good because if she had heard them it wouldn’t be a good sign.

The leader is in a good mood even if it is early in the morning. Her members are all happy; Hannah has her boyfriend putting her in a good mood, Julia has her mother visiting, Carolina is happy to have a lot of time to make music and that she also is making songs for Hannah’s drama, Emelia is … like she always is, and Maria is walking on clouds with her album coming out next week and in two days it is the premiere of the long-waited movie The Mortal Instruments, which Maria read the books like crazy some long time ago (she actually made Hannah read them last year too). Reminded of the movie premiere, Maria has to make sure Hannah isn’t working that night because she need someone to watch it with her who actually has read the books.

“Good morning,” a woman steps inside the kitchen with such a smile that Maria for a second just wonders if she is in the right house. It takes two seconds before she remembers it is Julia’s mother and greets her back in Swedish. Maria sneaks a peak at the older version of Julia (they really do look alike) and sees the mother starting to prepare coffee. “Is it only Julia who drinks coffee in the morning among you?”

“Um… I think so. I mean, I don’t drink it,” Maria answers, shrugging her shoulder.

She grabs her sandwich with cucumber and paprika and runs away to the living-room to eat her breakfast by the laptop she has on the table there, watching 5 Pieces’ very own Japanese mini-drama. It is episode 3 because the fourth episode airs today.

Maria is awkward with Julia’s mother, and not just because she is awkward with Julia but because she has maybe met the woman three-four times in her entire life and during those times they haven’t really spoken with each other. Having another members’ mother in their apartment thousand of miles away from Sweden is so weird. Maria misses her mother, her whole family; the loud family that never shuts up and always has to talk in mouth on each other. She misses them a lot, but now when 5 Pieces’ concert will reach Sweden she will meet them soon again, plus the group is going to Sweden very soon for a Samsung event. It will be short, but maybe she can catch a glimpse of her family? The weirdness about mothers with Julia’s mother being there, Maria missing hers and other two members probably doing the same is that Hannah is fighting with hers – the only one not actually missing her family; more likely avoiding them. Maria doesn’t blame her friend, she is on her side about this, but she can’t understand how a family can treat someone this way. The leader think Hannah don’t mind Julia’s mother staying, the way the other members keep being reminded and missing their even more; and another difference behind Hannah and Maria is that Hannah has met Julia’s mother many times and have a closer relation that the awkward leader has.

“What are you watching?” Julia’s mother wonders when sitting down in the sofa next to Maria’s.

“Um… our drama in Japan: our awkward acting is what I am watching, actually… But the fans like it apparently.”

“Oh, right, yes, I have heard about it. Julia didn’t want me to see it but Carolina promised to give me a good site that has subtitles.”

And it gets quiet after that, the same awkwardness Maria has with Julia. And it doesn’t get better when they hear someone come hurrying down the stairs (Maria secretly hoping it is a lady coming to save her and Julia’s mother secretly hoping it is Julia), but both Maria and Julia’s mother sees a shirtless Jonghyun go to the hall, wearing nothing but a pair of jeans and showing off his well-built upper body. A few seconds later he comes back with a white package in his hand and he greets them both with a hand in the air and polite words before hurrying upstairs.

“So…” Julia’s mother clears awkwardly, scratching her arm and look at the black TV-screen. “Is that common within these walls… guys, half-?”

Maria gives a wide smile, seeing the mother point towards the stairs and clears again. “Unfortunately, it is not common at all. And I do think it is the first or perhaps the second time, I have seen him do that… and there are no other guys sleeping over here beside from our gay stylist.”

“Right…”

“Julia said you will come by at my music video filming today; you will meet our stylists there,” Maria is fast to say.

Emelia comes stomping down the stairs, the puppy Michin running by her to run to Julia’s mother. “Did you guys see Jonghyun? He didn’t have the time to tell me what he thought of what Hannah prepared because he was too busy giving her what he prepared.”

“He prepared something?!” Maria shines up.

“A couple jacket or whatever,” Emelia rolls her eyes. Julia’s mother is playing brightly with the puppy. “Because he knows Hannah doesn’t like events, he probably didn’t prepare anything. But I think he worked out on his abs for her – she probably is satisfied with that.”

Maria and Emelia have apparently one thing in common; their subjects do not change whether one of their family members is sitting in the room or not. They have nothing against talking about muscles and half- men in the presence of anyone else’s mother as much as their own, and as simple as it is, Emelia asks what Julia and her mother have planned for the day.

 

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“Hannah! Hurry UP!” Maria is shouting on the phone. “I will not miss the movie just because you are making your own!”

It’s Thursday and Maria has been talking all week about the premiere of the movie The Mortal Instruments they are going to; Hannah too has read the books and has been excited since December for the movie ever since she and Maria saw the first trailer. Hannah has been filming the drama all day, doing action scenes and almost breaking her arm doing a scene, and she has just wrapped up the days filming when Maria has gone over from text messaging to calling, trying to rush the youngest so they won’t miss the movie.

“Hannah,” a staff hurries up to them, “could you come back after the premiere? The director wanted to-”

“Sure,” Hannah answers without letting her finish talking, “but I am in a rush now.”

Her manager makes sure he will get the location for that filming while Hannah is jogging out to the car, not wanting to be late. She had gotten to borrow clothes from the drama stylist; a pair of camouflages skinny pants, a gray cut-away sleeve oversize pullover tugged in a little bit at the front to her skinny jeans and the sleeves rolled-up where her wrists are covered in bracelets and rings on the left but on her right hand she only wears a single ring, and she is even wearing high heels. Her nails are in a peach colour from the filming, matching her lips. Getting in the car, Hannah finishes off the outfit with the black leather jacket Jonghyun gave her two days ago as a couple jacket (he has the same kind of jacket). She keeps the door open to tell her manager to hurry up, not satisfied until he has sat down and she closes the door, puts on the seatbelt and sits back, checking the time.

“These pants are tight,” she complains for herself, barely able to sit right.

Manager Lee smirks at the complaint, but he stays quiet as he is focusing on driving and being on the phone. He puts the phone to his chest. “Since you are going back to film after the premiere, there is no point afterwards to go home as you will have like two-three hours before you have to be on set again. Chun Ho Hyung wants to know if he should pack a bag to when we go to Japan tomorrow right after shooting or…”

“It’s no need to pack anything. I just need my passport to Japan; we’re just being there for the evening, right?”

The manager turns back the cell phone to his ear, talking to the main manager. “Are we staying in Japan and going straight to Vietnam afterwards or do we go home in between? … Ah … alright, yes, of course…”

5 Pieces is having their BLACK & WHITE concert in Vietnam this weekend, something that is very exciting but feel very distant with everything else going on. The group is going to Japan tomorrow for the Samsung event in the evening and after that going to perform their latest Japanese single at a Japan’s Music Station, which also includes doing interviews and Hannah is already aware of that she is going to do the talking as they will go on a midnight radio program in Japan as well. Jaejoong helped her go through it earlier today during dinner break.

Maria keeps texting to push Hannah to hurry up, Jonghyun texts her to ask over and over again how it’s going and that he misses her, Carolina is bored, her little brother Kyung Ho is texting to say he doesn’t want to sleep and she has like thousand of comments to read on both twitter and Instagram.

She sighs and looks at her manager when he is done on the phone. “Did I do a mistake by getting Instagram?” she asks him sadly.

“I thought you liked uploading pictures on that site.”

“Yeah… But half of the comments are bad…”

“Focus on the other half then. By the way, after Japan you are coming back here over the night, so no need to pack for Vietnam right away.”

She rolls her eyes at his response. For the past week she has had no problem at all uploading pictures on the site, receiving all kind of comments and figuring out that it is just another place to be judged – though Hannah really don’t mind, she is just annoyed to receive a sign on her display each time she receives a comment or someone likes her pictures (which, is often if there is thousand of people doing that).

Eventually they meet up with the van Maria has been waiting in, and together they go to the premiere; walk the carpet and posing for the media’s pictures, looking like two idols going to the premiere of a new movie. The best part with this is that the media sees them before the movie, but the media will not see how crazy the girls will talk nonstop about the movie afterwards. After the carpet and before the movie begins, Hannah and Maria take a picture together to upload on Instagram (Maria uploads it, Hannah doesn’t) with an excited expression for The Mortal Instruments.

 

After a great movie time with Maria, Hannah is back on set. The movie was great, it had one irritating fact about it that Maria and Hannah kept talking about but overall the movie is great and Hannah is energized afterwards to spend the night working. Half of the night she doesn’t have any scenes, so she either takes a nap or practices the lines for the next scene. She takes a picture too, in the middle of the night uploading a picture on Instagram of herself and Shin Minah prettily smiling to the camera.

{Instagram, bunny92hannah: On set with the prettiest of the prettiest. Don’t forget to watch the drama starting September 19 ^^,}

Several hours later, Minah wants to take another picture with Hannah for the blonde girl to upload on Instagram, and with another pretty picture of the two (this time Minah is posing next to Hannah with a piece of fried chicken going towards ) Hannah uploads it on twitter around lunch-time.

{Instagram, bunny92hannah: Thanks for lunch~ Puzzle sent lunch to everyone on set, we are all enjoying it deeply. Minah Unnie and I won’t stop eating, it’s so yummy! Thank you~~}

It has been annoying to have everyone around her telling her to eat more. She fought with her manager and boyfriend because of that, and her members are always looking at her to make sure she is eating, and for the past week she has followed the eating schedule as much as possible, but while filming it is a little tricky so she has managed to make up a promise with her manager that she will eat six meals a day, but if she is filming she must wait for a break to eat something because she was furious last time when he interrupted filming to make her eat. It was horrible. Besides, there is always food on the set; there is always something you can chew on there.

“This is delicious,” Minah says, chewing on the chicken.

Hannah smiles widely. 5 Pieces’ fan-club is the best.

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Headline 10th: Episode 4 For 5 Pieces’ ‘Run Out’ Drama Airs In Japan

Headline 10th: EXO Make A Special Appearance In 5 Pieces’ Japanese Drama

Headline 10th: Julia Uploads Picture On Instagram With Her Mother At Restaurant In Seoul

 

Headline 11th: Beijing Sings Along With 5 Pieces At Samsung Event

 

Headline 12th: 2nd MV Teaser For Maria’s [Princess] Comeback Revealed

Headline 12th: 5 Pieces’ Emelia Poses Charismatically In Japanese Magazine With Male Cast From 5 Pieces’ ‘Run Out’ Drama

Headline 12th: Members Of 5 Pieces Gathers At The Premiere Of THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS In Seoul

Headline 12th: 5 Pieces Have A Blast & Goes Crazy In Thailand On ‘Life of Pieces’ Episode 8

 

Headline 13th: 5 Pieces’ Hannah Shares Picture With Actress Shin Minah During Drama Filming

Headline 13th: Hannah Thanks Puzzle For The Lunch Given To ‘미스터와 미스’ Cast & Staff

Headline 13th: Tokyo Is Overcrowded During 5 Pieces’ Samsung Event

Headline 13th: 5 Pieces Joined K-Pop Artists In Istanbul For Tonight’s Music Bank K-Pop Festival Broadcast

Headline 13th: 5 Pieces Performs [Knockout] On Japan’s Music Station

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X. devonalias

Sorry for the late update, haven't been able to update in all too long, but I have been writing a lot so there are some chapters I can add now ^^, A little late Merry Christmas~