5P_HANNAH: D-17! I can feel it closing up, can you? A picture from secret practice~

Hannah uploaded a picture of herself, Carolina and Julia without any make-up and after all practicing they all looked a little tired. A few seconds passes before she gets comments on the tweet. Fans are looking forward to 5 Pieces’ concert, and they also commenting on that they look so cute with their clean faces and expressions.

“Did you hear on the radio?” Maria laughs when she returns to the practice-room, arm in arm with f(x)’s Amber. “Our voices are heard ALL THE TIME!”

“Why?” Hannah is the first to ask.

“They keep playing our songs, including… that Christmas song we sang…” Maria says and looks clueless when she tries to remember the name. “And they have our Christmas greeting on all the time too! It’s so fun!”

Maria and Amber laughs when taking a seat in the room, both of them imitating the Christmas greeting that they think is so funny. Carolina and Hannah starts instead to sing on the English song [All I Want For Christmas] that was their song that Maria talked about. Last week, 5 Pieces had gone to the station and recorded a Christmas greeting for all radio listeners, and even in the morning on the way to practice the girls had heard the greeting being played.

“By the way, what are you doing here?” Julia asks Amber without sounding rude.

“You don’t want me here?” Amber asks and throws her feet towards Julia in a playful manner.

“I didn’t mean it like that,” Julia says and waves her hand. Everyone knows that. Maria then glances around and she asks in a dark tone where Emelia went. Carolina is fast to answer that she went out and Maria rolls her eyes saying that she wants to know WHERE, since everyone can notice that Emelia left.

Hannah just smiles and lies down on her stomach to reach to the laptop on the floor. Low music is coming from the laptop that they started to play during the break and she goes online to look around a little. More members of f(x) walks through the door together with Emelia and sits down with them, sharing bags with snacks that they had gone to get. Maria doesn’t complain about that Emelia had left since she returns with something to eat. Hannah focuses on the laptop, going in on the latest website – which is Puzzle international homepage.

The latest topic is the thread “5 Pieces European Visit, December 2011” that is filled with videos and photos shared by fans from when 5 Pieces went to Europe. There are photos and videos from the airport, fan-signings, fan-meetings and even photos that the members had shared on twitter and the blog. Hannah looks through the photos of the members, not listening at the others chatting and eating. She smiles a little when seeing the many comments that fans have written, both those that have uploaded photos/videos and those who weren’t there but are watching it on the website.

‘I can’t believe I got to see them. Me and my sister were screaming like crazy when we saw them in Germany! They were so kind at the fan-signing that we were melting in the cold weather,’ a user wrote and below it is one video with the explanation ‘fan-signing, EM spoke in German!’ and then some photos that also were taken at a fan-signing. Hannah sees herself on the pictures too.

Another user wrote below that one; ‘I went to the fan-signing in Berlin. They were all so cute and caring and they were so y in their clothes!! o__o’ And there were also a lot of comments on that Emelia and Julia has spoken great German, and all of the girls had impressed with their English as well. Someone even mentioned that they are international artists, especially since they can speak so many languages. ‘I got a lot of couple moments between Julia and Hannah, they are the cutest couple in the group I think, don’t you agree?’ another used wrote and added up several pictures below of just Hannah and Julia from a fan-meeting. Pictures of Hannah touching Julia’s shoulder; whispering for each other; Julia touching Hannah’s leg; just smiling and then laughing together and just pictures like that.

‘I’m a girl, and I got to say that Hannah’s body really blew me away! People are always talking about her body in Korea and I always thought Maria got the gorgeous body in the group, until I saw them in real life (don’t take me wrong, Maria is still my nr1!). Hannah really got the body of a goddess! And I’m serious, everyone must agree, she got the whole package! XD’ another uses wrote and linked to some photos from fan-meetings of Hannah both sitting and standing up. Hannah grimaces when seeing it, that those photos of her makes people just look at her body.

“What’s the grimacing about?” a voice suddenly asks in English on her side when Amber lies down next to her. Amber with her boyish look smiles at Hannah before looking at the laptop screen.

“Nothing,” Hannah answers and scrolls down a little.

Amber keeps smiling when seeing that she wanted to hide something. The moment she is about to ask something, Julia lies down on top of them both from the side, asking happily what they are acting so secret about. Amber laughs and tries to turn around so she can play with Julia, but Julia is keeping them both down on their stomach and before they can do anything else, a flash makes them all look up.

“Emelia!” the girls scream in chorus and the smirking rapper who is standing with her precious digital camera. Krystal starts to laugh over their reaction since she had been sitting with the others and aware of the camera been posing. Only the three girls lying on the floor had been unaware of it.

“You are really the worse,” Amber laughs and throws a pen over at Emelia. Emelia keeps smirking and sits down to take a photo of Amber, who is still lying down. Julia pops up her head behind Amber’s and Hannah gives a huge fake smile too. Amber does the same as Hannah when seeing it, both of them showing as many teeth as possible. After taking the photo, they can see that Julia behind them is looking really comfortable and soft in her face. Everyone laughs when seeing it but they are interrupted by their choreographer enter the room.

“And here I was walking calmly, hoping you would be practicing for the music video tomorrow!” the choreographer says in surprise when seeing 5 Pieces lazing around, eating and hanging out with f(x). Sulli is giggling over the choreographer’s words while Hannah starts to turn off the laptop. Julia sits up too.

“We were just charging so we can show you how perfectly we know the dance already,” Maria says in her charming voice. “Beside from Hannah, she still needs to practice some more.”

“What?” Hannah asks, surprised to hear her name. Amber puts a hand on Hannah to not let her attack the leader.

“Then Ms Maria, I expect to see your perfect performance,” their choreographer says and f(x) giggles. They all know that Maria is very good with words, though at these times everyone knows she is lying when saying she knows the choreography perfectly.

F(x) stays around for a little longer while 5 Pieces prepares to start practice.

Their new song [Switch] that they have been preparing will be released in January, and the girls have practiced the choreography the whole day to film the music video in the morning. The day before, Maria, Emelia and Hannah had all three filmed a video for their concert until late and the feeling of the concert coming up feels closer than the release of their new single – which also is true, though the teaser of [Switch] will be released on the day of their Seoul concert at the beginning of January.

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The girls returns to their apartment around eleven-twelve that evening. Carolina had her radio, of course, but the other girls went to pick her up before heading home. To have strength for the music video filming, the girls are quickly to bed. Hannah sees Ace lying on Julia’s bed and she cuddles with him a little before Julia comes back from the bathroom and Hannah heads to her own bedroom.

Wearing a big size t-shirt, Hannah goes to bed with a smile. Though practicing is hard, they had a really fun day. They kept pushing each other during practice when making a mistake that their choreographer got upset over and over again.

She falls asleep quickly and deep after turning off the bedside lamp.

But her sleep doesn’t last for long. Her cell phone starts to ring two hours later. If it had been a text, Hannah hadn’t woken up, but since it is a call, she does wake up. She doesn’t even manage to open her eyes before answering, just to get rid of that sound.

“Popularity really comes and goes, doesn’t it?” a tired sounding voice says in her ear through the phone. “When we debuted I thought it was really amazing how popular we were, but now we just performs and leaves… Though our fans are really the best, no one else seems to take notice of us.”

“Honggi…” Hannah mumbles when recognizing his voice and she turns around in her bed tiredly.

“I am deeply moved by the fans we have, they are always there and supports us. But whenever I see someone win award, I get so jealous,” Honggi keeps talking on the phone. He then gives out a sigh.

“Honggi, are you drunk?” Hannah asks when getting time to say something.

“I had time for it,” he mutters sadly.

“Where are you?” Hannah asks and sits up, rubbing her forehead and eyes to wake up as she knows he needs to talk.

“Outside…” Honggi tells. “It’s pretty cold at night.”

“Are you outside, alone?”

“If you come out I won’t be,” Honggi chuckles strangely. Hannah asks surprised if he is near her apartment, and he says he is just outside. “Would you want to join me?” he asks her in a drunken flirty way. Hannah tells him to not go anywhere and that she is coming. They hung up and she puts on a pair of shorts that Carolina had bought during the summer – she bought comfortable shorts for all the members in matching colours to wear to bed (her wicked mind).

Quietly she puts on a pair of shoes and hurries down. She sees Honggi stand outside the door and sighs before opening it.

“Hannah,” he smiles at her and she grimaces when smelling the alcohol from his breath. He throws his arms around her in a hug. “My best female friend in the world.”

“You’re really drunk,” Hannah stumbles a step back over his weight and Honggi gives out a chuckle.

“I’m drunk because life goes up and down,” he tells her and leans out of the hug but his face is really close to Hannah’s that his breath is filling her nose. He smiles at her. “When I see you, life goes up again, doesn’t it?”

Hannah looks troubled and they walk inside the building to get away from the cold. They stay inside the ground level and Hannah lets Honggi talk. He doesn’t seem to have a problem with where they are talking, he just keeps talking and at times Hannah says a comment. Just like that, twenty-five minutes passes. Honggi is at that time sitting on the floor by the wall and Hannah sits down next to him. He seems to come back to his senses slowly, but he keeps talking weirdly once in a while.

“By the way … how did you come here?” Hannah wonders, sounding really worried which her face says too. “You didn’t walk all the way here, right?”

“I drove,” Honggi answers with a smile. Hannah’s eyes widen and opens when she asks ‘what’. “I drove here. My car is outside.”

“You DROVE?” Hannah is about to freak out. “You can’t drive when you’ve been drinking!”

“Are you worried about me?” Honggi asks her cutely.

“Something could’ve happened!” Hannah doesn’t care about his try to be cute. She even hits him on the arm when he doesn’t look to get what she’s saying. “I’m serious, Honggi! You can’t drive like this!”

“Okay, okay, I won’t drive,” he tells her seriously but then smiles cutely again.

“Where’s your phone?” Hannah asks him. Honggi gives a pout and shows with his hands that he doesn’t know. She asks him again, almost whining, and he says he maybe forgot it in the car. Hannah decides to get him up to the apartment so she can call someone on her cell phone to come pick him up. In the elevator she repeats for him to be quiet because the other members are sleeping. She is holding on to him, not knowing how drunk he actually is now. Honggi leans his head on hers when they reach the door to the apartment.

“You are really the best, Hannah,” he whispers. She reminds him to be quiet and he nods, putting his finger to his lips.

Hannah opens the door, helping him inside and they take off their shoes before carefully walking straight to Hannah’s room. Ace comes running to them, being a curious cat. He jumps up on the bed when Honggi sits down and Hannah tells Honggi to not move until she comes back. She gets a glass of water for him before picking up her phone. Ace is greeting Honggi by his hand, but soon goes to lie down on the bed.

“It’s my first time in this room,” Honggi says. He is sitting on the edge of the bed and he looks around from there. Hannah is standing in front of him, looking through her contact list.

“Mm, really?” Hannah says.

“It’s pretty,” Honggi says and gets up. He walks over to the wall where Hannah has put up photos taken with her friends. He looks at the photos, seeing one of 5 Pieces and SHINee from about two years ago. They looked young and were smiling brightly, but all Honggi could see was that Hannah and Jonghyun were standing next to each other even at that time. Though most fans would take notice of that Taemin and Hannah was standing next to each other. He looks at another picture, which is from last New Year. On the photo are Hannah and Julia with Seunghyun and Honggi. On that picture, it is Honggi and Hannah who leans their heads towards each other.

Honggi looks sadly over his shoulder at Hannah who now is on the phone. She can hear how she greets Jonghun from his band, carefully telling him that Honggi is there. Honggi keeps looking at Hannah. He knows she is comfortable around him, since her legs are clearly visibly in the big t-shirt she is wearing – the t-shirt is so big that her shorts are barely seen under it. She normally covers up most parts of her body when she is around people – at least backstage and just with friends – since that is just how Hannah is. Her hair looks soft after being brushed before going to bed, yet it is a little messy after sleeping. Not until then he thinks of that he actually woke her up in the middle of the night.

“Jonghun will come pick you up,” Hannah tells him after finishing the call. She gives him a soft smile. “We have to be quiet so the others won’t wake up; we are leaving early in the morning.”

“Yet you are talking with me when you should be sleeping,” Honggi smiles.

Hannah grimaces at him. “You called me, didn’t you? Even if you are drunk, you are still my friend.”

“I’m not that drunk,” Honggi says with a soft smile that makes Hannah smile back at him and say ‘yeah, sure’. Honggi looks back at the photos on the wall he is standing by. “For you to get out of bed to meet me when you know you will loose the little sleep you get, to take care of me and forgive me even when I am acting like a jerk…” He looks back at Hannah with those sad eyes. “I’m not just your friend, Hannah.”

At first Hannah just looks at him. She then forces out a smile. “It’s the alcohol talking.”

“Sure it is,” Honggi is fast to say in a tone that makes Hannah’s smile disappear. “Without the alcohol I would never dare to tell you things that I know would upset you. I have learnt that, at least.”

“Can’t you just stop?” Hannah asks in a weak voice. She looks sad too but Honggi bites together.

“No,” he tells her.

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