sleepless nights

Youngest of Pieces: Five Becomes One (13)
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The internet is on fire. That’s what it feels like. No matter where Hannah looks, all she sees is reviews, pictures, videos, comments and clips about their Japan tour that just started. Who was there, what were they wearing, what songs did they perform, as expected of 5 Pieces, how they were performing, fans own reactions and tears. Hannah loves it. She spends too much time looking it up during the next two days. Emelia has uploaded a few pictures on 5 Pieces’ blog from backstage, friendly pictures with their crew, of the ladies and with some of the guests that showed up. One picture, Hannah uploads on Instagram. It is of her and Maria sitting in the sofa. Hair and makeup is done, they are laidback in their own clothes, comfortable in the fluffy sofa with a big-sized bag of Japanese chips between them. It is a good picture. Hannah looks slightly surprised with in an o-shape talking to someone and Maria is laughing with her head to the side. What happened was that they had visitors backstage. Julia was sitting by the table, chatting and eating with Shiwon and Yongji (Korean backup dancers). Super Junior’s Donghae had just walked in, saying nonsense that made Shiwon drool out food when holding back his laughter and the result was that picture. Emelia had focused on the wrong thing, regretting not getting a picture of Shiwon’s hilarious reaction. Okay, she uploads two more pictures. One with all of the ladies together with Dong Bang Shin Ki’s Yunho, Changmin, Super Junior’s Donghae and three of the Korean backup dancers, and another one taken abruptly backstage during rehearsals with some of the staff members. Hannah writes in Japanese, thanking their staff. On the blog, Emelia writes in both Japanese and English; translating the Japanese into English for international fans. A lot of people came to the concert, especially on the second day. Not just fans, but a lot of celebrities as well. Actors, singers, others. Both Korean and Japanese. It was more crowded than the day before, which was alright. Interviews and visitors backstage. On another hand, everyone was feeling good – no sore bodies or hoarse throats. That came on Monday. But a lot of pictures were taken, a lot of pictures shared online, and fans are showing a lot of support. Shiwon shared some pictures of having lunch with Yongji, Donghae and Yunho before showing some pictures from the concert, writing that he spends his day off showing support to his friends. Fans write ‘sm love is the best’ when seeing DBSK and Super Junior in pictures with the ladies, as well as pictures of Jonghyun being there and members of EXO. They also write ‘can’t help but to love the junior-senior relationship between 5P/DBSK <3’. That warms the heart, Hannah thinks as she sees a lot of comments about SMTOWN and that 5 Pieces look close to their staff in the pictures. While seeing all of the pictures spreading on Instagram, the positive response from fans about the concert, she comes across a picture she hasn’t seen before. She has to stare at it for many seconds before seeing what it is. Well, she reads the description in Japanese and connects it. During the dinner after the second day concert, they were on the third floor of a restaurant. A lot of people. The staff, dancers, stylists, managers, some directors, the ladies (of course), Jonghyun was there, Lee Sooman was there as well and a lot of others. They filled the whole floor. The mood was great, everyone was having a good time, some were drinking a bit too much but overall, it was a great ending of the opening weekend for their tour. Because it got so hot indoors and there were a lot of people and noise, Hannah must’ve spent an hour standing out on the balcony. Enjoying the Osaka night view, chatting with some of the staff that were out there smoking, chatting with Jonghyun and Maria about relationships and some other things. During that time, someone down on the street must’ve taken pictures of them. Of Jonghyun and Hannah hugging, of them talking to other staff members and such. Though it was night and dark outside, the camera must’ve been good because it is good quality despite it being night and taken from afar. It is easy to point out who it is. Several pictures, Hannah sees when she goes to the Japanese gossip site. Comments about 5 Pieces being around smokers indicate they are smokers (a picture of Maria on the balcony with some staff members, they were smoking but she was just leaning on the railing, no sign of her smoking) and a lovably couple moment with Hannah and Jonghyun were caught in a bunch of pictures. In the text, they write that Jonghyun was in Osaka during the weekend to support his wife and that he was spotted in the audience both concert days along with other celebrities as well as attending the after-party. It seems newsworthy to the gossip site, but fans aren’t falling for the smoking and they are saying that despite how adorable the JjongHan couple is, leave them alone. Hannah smiles as she presses the heart on the Instagram picture where a Japanese fan is telling the paparazzi to let them be. In the comment section, some says that the JjongHan couple share couple pictures on Instagram so if people start going overboard in private like paparazzi, they are worried the couple will stop sharing those pictures. In other words, fans want the couple to do it on their own, share things they want to share, instead of having others sneak pictures of them to say how lovable they are. Hannah loves it. The respect and understanding fans are starting to show them. “HANNAH!” She gives out a small jump when her name is roared out, almost dropping the phone and staring up at a smirking Emelia. “Chatting with your husband?” Emelia teases. Hannah turns her phone around to show she is on Instagram. “No,” she answers, happy that Emelia wasn’t right for once. Emelia just chuckles and says they are starting again. Hannah gets on her feet to go with her. 5 Pieces are on the set for their music video. They are going to make an insane comeback with their [Insane] comeback single. They film the video for two days, first day shooting a lot of solo scenes. The ladies are having a blast doing it, because they pretend to be insane people. Locked up, Maria gets to wear a restriction jacket and being pulled through a corridor while talking. It’s not a dark music video they are filming, it’s light and playful, they make funny face-expression and there is a humour in it all. Nothing is serious, they go a bit overboard with their movements and being in character. The music video director guides them through the solo scenes, first talking about what he visions and then the lady saying her part before they try it out. Filming is fun. During Carolina’s solo shoot, Hannah and Julia were standing on the side watching her with big smiles on their faces. Today, they are filming the group dance. They are filming a lot today as well as yesterday but for now, they are filming the group dance. Over and over again, from beginning to end as this part will also be the choreography version of a music video. The director calls ‘cut’ and Hannah leans her head back, breathing out tiredly. She hears Carolina give out a loud shout and looks next to her, seeing Emelia has embraces Carolina from behind to lift her up. Well, not really lift her up because Emelia isn’t that strong, put an inch at least. Carolina just got a shook from the embrace. Hannah smiles at it and when Mi Young comes up to her, Hannah closes her eyes and stands still while their hairstylist fixes her hair. Another stylist dabs away the swat on her forehead and neck. It only takes a few seconds before they move on to another lady, yet Hannah stalks behind them. “I’m still sweating,” Hannah says in a low voice behind stylist Jung Hae. The same-aged woman smiles, finishes helping Maria before she picks out a wipe from the bag hanging on her shoulder to turn around and help Hannah. “Dude, I’m sweating too,” Maria tells her and pats Jung Hae on the shoulder. Mi Young laughs at it, asking if it’s Jung Hae’s attention they want or if it’s something else. Hannah smiles happily while having the sweat on her face taken care of and cutely thanks their stylist for the help. Maria imitates her, reaching out for their stylist’s arm and overly-doing her voice to be cute when saying she is also sweating. “That’s creepy,” Mi Young jokes. “I’m cute though!” Maria says in a high-pitched voice. Heads turn from staff several meters away and Hannah laughs. Maria laughs too, way too loud out of embarrassment for trying to be cute and she screams at herself for doing something like that. It’s hilarious to see. A camera-woman filming for the making of, currently filming Julia changing her socks and talking to Carolina. Everyone is getting a few minutes to regain strength before they will film again. Some are looking through what they have filmed to see what they need to focus on, the director changes a few words with them, drinking water and chatting. The dancers are getting their rest as well. Carolina is still by the camera-woman, not standing with Emelia as Julia went to get her hair fixed. They are chatting away in front of the camera that captures Hannah walking by in the background. Hannah first walks to their right side to talk to the director before she walks by behind Carolina and Emelia to go get her bottle of water on the side. When she is about to pass by a third time, Emelia leans out behind Carolina to grab her arm. Doing it quietly, since Carolina is talking about the music video filming. Hannah looks a bit surprised to be pulled to stand with them, Emelia putting an arm around her to keep her stuck there and Hannah smiles awkwardly at the camera for a few seconds. She notices her own awkwardness and turns her head to hide behind Emelia’s shoulder, smiling over at a group of their dancers and staff while relaxing her face and listening in to what Carolina and Emelia are talking about. Emelia starts to talk about the concept of the song, how it connects to the music video. Hannah smiles up at her friend. Emelia is glowing talking about it, the meaning behind the song and the music video. Of 5 Pieces being mentally insane, hearing someone call for them, but in the end it’s just their reality – hearing Puzzle chant their name as they head up on the stage. Hannah nods while Emelia talks, Carolina butting in with words. The only thing Hannah says is when they are called back to continue filming the music video, and she points out for the camera that Emelia’s braids and hairstyle is really cool. Emelia keeps hugging on to Hannah, being all cuddly with all of the ladies these two days. Emelia is happy. 5 Pieces is making a Korean comeback, they are working together again, of course they are happy. Emelia keeps hugging Hannah when they walk back to their positions, mumbling behind her that the director said they will film the full choreography for at least four more times. The filming continues. The mood remains good. Even when being told to do it again, then again, continue after changing clothes and the hours go on, the mood remains good. The ladies can’t seem to be able to get in a bad mood today. Not even when they get tired do they complain or show less excitement. Everything is good.   After filming for two full days, they go out to eat afterwards with the whole crew. It’s after midnight, almost three in the morning when they are finally heading back home to sleep. Hannah gets in a van with Manager Kim to get home while the other ladies go in another van. Manager Kim is quietly driving, they only exchange a few words and mostly talks about how tired they are. Hannah is feeling the fatigue now. Not sleeping last night because they were filming, she slept badly the day before from being nervous to film the music video, and today she has been dancing for hours. She is making up a plan of what to do when she comes home, checking her phone at the same time. A few minutes before coming home, Jonghyun finally answers the text she sent him. She thought he was sleeping, but it seems he is producing in his workroom. Manager Kim follows Hannah upstairs, bringing two bags along and starting to discuss tomorrow’s schedule though they had a discussion about it before they parted ways with the other ladies. 5 Pieces is going to Fukuoka, Japan, to continue their tour. Hannah will be picked up in around seven hours. She has to wash up, sleep and pack before then. Manager Kim pats Hannah on the head for doing well, and wishing they have a good weekend in Fukuoka. She isn’t coming with them, which is why she tells Hannah to rest up on the flight so she can do well at the concert. While the two of them are whispering in the hall, both Tiger and Jonghyun comes over. They greet Manager Kim before she leaves and with the door closing after her, Jonghyun puts his arms around Hannah when telling her ‘welcome home’. “You should be sleeping,” Hannah mumbles to her husband and pouts up at him. He smiles at her face and pecks her on the cheek. “I forgot about the time once I sat down,” Jonghyun says as an excuse. “Did you have fun with your friends?” Hannah asks. He went out to eat with some friends and texted her around eleven when he came back. She follows him inside the dark apartment. As usual, he keeps the place dark. Light from the kitchen, hall and his workroom, otherwise it’s dark in there. Hannah doesn’t mind. They talk for a bit before Jonghyun says she can go to bed first, as he wants to finish off. Hannah heads straight to the shower, washing up and getting rid of two days of filming, getting more and more tired while feeling refreshed, relaxing though her thoughts are going everywhere. What to pack, when to set the alarm, what she has to do when she wakes up and so on. Too tired to start packing now, Hannah drinks some water before she goes straight to bed. She lies down on her stomach and thinks she will be stuck like this until her alarm wakes her up. Tiger lies down on Hannah’s back, wanting to sleep as close to her as she can, while Jonghyun is still in his room. Actually, he is doing a live on Instagram; Hannah saw a notification of it on her phone when she was setting the alarm. He has been doing it frequently for a few weeks now, chatting with fans and pretty much just keeping in touch. Hannah thought of watching it, but once she lied down in bed, she doesn’t move. She has almost fallen asleep when movements outside the bedroom are heard. Tiger runs away from the bed and Jonghyun is talking in the dark. Hannah concludes quickly that he is still doing Instagram live. The bedroom is dark though, with the curtains cover the windows and no lamp shining up the place. Jonghyun changes that by turning on the bedside lamp on his side of the bed before he falls onto the bed. Fans watching the Instagram live didn’t see anything in the dark when he went inside the bedroom and they mostly just see a shadow when he falls onto the bed. Jonghyun lies so his feet are hanging out on the bed and his head rests on Hannah’s back where Tiger was lying earlier. He checks his phone that he is holding up, changing the hand to get some light on him since his fans are asking where he is, commenting that they can’t see anything in the dark and laughingly ask if he tripped on something because it sounded like it. “I didn’t trip,” Jonghyun says in a low voice. Hannah isn’t moving, too tired for it, though she listens to his soothing voice. “I fell on my bed. It’s late, you guys should be getting ready to sleep too.” He glances to the side and stretches out his hand in front of Hannah’s face. She doesn’t move even when his fingertips touch her hair and Jonghyun softly smiles back at his phone to read comments. Fans are giving excuses as to why they are awake, not just Korean but in Japanese, Thai, English and another language he can’t point out. He reads out a few and smiles when someone asks if he is alone tonight as well. Some other time when he was doing Instagram live, he said he was alone and that Hannah was working abroad. When getting the question this time, Jonghyun says his wife came home not too long ago and he moves on the bed to lie next to her. His head next to her, smiling wider when capturing them both for his fans. Hannah barely with hair covering a bit of her face, resting on the pillow. Someone is quick to comment that Hannah is sleeping. “My wife is tired,” Jonghyun says in a low voice, tilting his head towards hers a bit. He is lying close to her. She gives a simple hum in response and his whole face is smiling at it. “She’s tired but she’s not sleeping. I was going to show her off a bit but she’s not wearing any makeup so… just showing her like this should be enough.” He moves his hand to cover more of her face with her hair, smiling mischievously at the phone to see the result and Hannah is smiling under her hair. “It’s considerate,” Jonghyun whispers in response to a comment. “She’s not wearing any makeup. Everyone should do that to the people they care for, right? If they look good, let them be on camera.” “Bull,” Hannah whispers. He bites his lip to not start laughing, not sure if the phone caught her low voice. Tiger jumps up on the bed to see what they are doing, walking up on Hannah’s legs to take place on her back again. “True, my wife always looks good,” Jonghyun changes his words and gives Hannah a peck on the forehead. “I’m just teasing her.” Thinking that the hair isn’t covering her enough now when she is blushing from having Jonghyun teasing her live on the internet, she moves her head closer to hide against his arm while mumbling for him to stop talking about her.
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Suuhaanaa #1
Chapter 62: Thank you for the update! I kept coming to this story whenever im bored. Really love your story!
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Chapter 61: Just so you know I am re reading everything again from the very beginning and I keep on having the same feelings. Thanks for the update!😊😊😊
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I know that all the restrictions are eased, so why not coming back making new chapters?
It's been 2 and a half years!
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Chapter 56: Ahhh, I wish that year 2017 comes to a end and then make 2018 a fresh start of the year!
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Chapter 56: It's almost May and I don't see any updates here since last month...
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Chapter 56: Please update soon, please? We've been waiting impatiently here.
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Hello once again, we're so bored, can you please give us your next update and new chapter soon enough.