Back in Korea, the girls are preparing their repacked album comeback. There are three new songs in the repacked version, though they will just perform one. On Wednesday, a camera team for European MTV program which is named ‘Exclusive Star, 5 Pieces’ appears in the girls’ practice room. They will film a little now and then of their promotions of [One and Only] to show more of themselves for the European fans.

Carolina says to the camera that it is the final practice before their first Korean performance the next day. She is stretching her arms, unable to stand still for a second.

Hannah is nervous around the cameras.

Just because she knows it is for Europe, she doesn’t really know how to be. Her usual self would be to undress until she is just in shorts and tank top because it gets so sweaty when practicing, but now she can’t do that. That’s why she is uncomfortably stretching on the side of the room, letting her members take all the focus.

The practice goes on. The girls are seriously focusing on the choreography for [One and Only], especially practicing to be in synch and some small details. For every song they will promote they have to work a lot on being in synch, since when they learn to be in synch in one song, they still need to start from the beginning when they learn a new dance.

“I’m lost again,” Hannah pouts when they stop to let the choreographer correct the mistakes.

“It’s because you follow Maria instead of your self,” Carolina mentions and is quickly received a glare from Maria.

“Ya! Are you saying that I’M doing it WRONG?” Maria bursts out.

“Ah, no, of course not,” Carolina is panicking because of Maria’s temperament, “I’m just saying that you don’t have the same steps, so Hannah keeps making mistakes as she follows you… I didn’t say you made a mistake.”

Maria keeps her thin up. “Good. Because I don’t make visibly mistakes”

Hannah smiles at Maria’s self loving before the choreographer helps her to correct her mistakes and they begin to practice again shortly after.

Even when the clock is one in the morning and they are still practicing, the girls are fooling around. During the short break when they are stretching – which they often do during the breaks to be able to keep practicing – Carolina touches Emelia’s leg with her toes when they are sitting down, and Emelia throws her feet around the floor to kick Carolina back. Carolina accidentally leans away on Hannah and the girls are hitting each other – not too hard – just because of that.

During another break, Hannah and Julia are running around after each other too.

It is not a serious atmosphere during the practice. The girls keep having fun and the staff that is there has fun too. But they don’t loose their focus, since they know it is the last practice.

After gathering their things, the girls leave the practice room. Hannah waves to the camera that now too is filming them leave. She quickly passes the camera to yawn, not noticing another camera in front of them as she follows Julia inside the van waiting for them.

“See you in a few hours!” Carolina waves happily to the camera. “We will go home and get some sleep. Goodnight!”

Hannah and Julia both peeks out from the back of the van, struggling to fit and waving to the cameras too. They quickly lean back though as Emelia and Maria comes and pushes Carolina inside the van; they all want to go to bed.

After returning home, the girls go straight to bed. Carolina doesn’t even wash up; she just lies down in her bed and falls asleep. They are all still tired after coming back from America, so the bed calls loudly for them.

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“Hurry up, you’re late,” Manager Lim waves his hand in a hurry for the girls to run inside the van.

“We’re not late, Appa,” Maria simply says when passing him. “If your driving isn’t so slow, we will be there just in time. So Appa, hurry up.”

She is light in the voice when saying it, smiling playfully to their manager who just waves at her to get inside the van. They got up early to get ready for the pre-recordings for their comeback performances this weekend, but since the hair and make-up took longer time than expected they are again leaving the saloon later than planned.

In the car they are loudly warming up their voices to the music playing, also taking pictures for fun.

It’s early even when 5 Pieces arrives at Music Bank to do their pre-recording, though they are a few minutes late. The girls have to jog inside to get the time to do their rehearsal. But lucky them the staff is also late by preparing the stage, so in the end they aren’t late. The cameras for the European program are filming them today for the pre-recordings, so the girls are keeping them updated and also show their dorky side.

Manager Lim is panicking though. 5 Pieces still have another pre-recording later, and if they don’t hurry up they will be late for that.

The moment their recording on Music Bank is over, 5 Pieces gets back in the van to head to their Inkigayo pre-recording. They have to do it this early of the week because the music programs won’t have the time to prepare the stages otherwise. Manager Lim is panicking in the van too. He is on the phone and he decides with the stylists to bring the change of clothes to Inkigayo, as the girls have no time to change somewhere else.

5 Pieces gets dressed before they heads up on the stage, greeting the cheerful audience. Hannah runs around a little happily with Carolina while waiting to take their positions. Hannah bows in an apology for the audience for fooling around too much.

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The next day, 5 Pieces aren’t at Music Bank at all. From morning, they are filming a commercial with two versions. In the morning they are introduced to the staff and the producer tells them about the commercial shooting they will do. It is a face cream they are filming for, and it will be in both Korean and Swedish. Some of the shootings are for both versions while the girls have to do two different languages for their lines.

The commercial is also a way to advertise their new song, in both Korea and Sweden.

It’s a lot of fun. And the girls spend several hours there for the many varies of shootings and clothing. They also get up on a round platform to perform [One and Only] for the commercial. It is a bright commercial, so the girls look very pretty.

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