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Youngest of Pieces: Five Becomes One (13)
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It’s raining. Hannah has been spacing out the window at the airplane while most others are packing their things during the landing. It’s late December and it’s raining in Sweden. She was prepared for tons and tons of snow and outside the window, all she sees is rain. Though she is disappointed, there are those who are overjoyed. Probably not because of the rain but more over the fact that they have landed after around 15 hours travelling. They middle-landed in Finland but Maria and Carolina act as if they have not touched the ground once for these past 15 hours. The second they step outside, they run out to the rain (which is in fact a mix of snow and rain) and they run around like crazy people. It makes a lot of people laugh and the mood is great. Hannah too, even though she had hoped it would be a lot of snow. Winter and snow go together if you’ve grown up in northern Sweden – they are now down south. {Instagram, 5P_EM: Just landed in Sweden and the crazy idiots are running around in the rain…} Julia is walking around with her camera, capturing the crazy pair running around and how others are laughing at them. She then follows behind a few people and turns the camera around to film herself, explaining that 5 Pieces always get a bit weirder than usual when they come to Sweden. She gets quiet at one point, smiling with Emelia next to her and lightly rises the camera a bit to film the couple a bit behind. Hannah and Jonghyun are holding hands, looking out the windows of the corridor they are now walking through. Though they left Seoul on Tuesday, it is currently Tuesday in Sweden as well. Only a lot later. The sky is completely dark and there is a white and wet shower coming from above. It’s chilly outdoors and though the buildings are filled with Christmas lights as well as the streets, Jonghyun comments that its dark outside. Being used to Seoul, where everything is bright with lights, Sweden (even the big city Stockholm) seems dark in comparison. Dark and cosy with Christmas lights. And not as crowded as they had feared. The airport was alright, there were fans gathered and media as well, but the group could slink past with help from airport security instead of getting attacked and surrounded. And arriving at the hotel is a joy. No one is waiting outside, since apparently it has been quiet of where 5 Pieces will be staying and fans doesn’t know where they are. It feels good. Getting to check in and go check out the rooms without being bothered. The first thing they do is check the rooms to see who will sleep where and after deciding who will be where, Manager Kim tells them to wash up and sleep to be prepared for tomorrow. Hannah does what she always does when entering the hotel room. She checks every part of it to see what it has to offer before putting her bags in a good place, opening it up. For her husband, Jonghyun moves his bags in and then falls like timber on his stomach onto the bed with a loud, exhausted sigh. Seconds later, Hannah puts a knee on the bed and lies on top of him. “Is it good so far?” she mumbles with her chin resting on his shoulder. He gives a grunt in response. Hannah tilts her head to the side, thinking this is maybe what he needed. A break. “Do you want to take a shower first?” Hannah wonders. She pecks him on his sweater before getting out of bed. Jonghyun moves his head to try see her, taking his time to answer. “You can go first.” Jonghyun stays on the bed, pretty much in the same position, while Hannah sort out her bags and unpacks a little as well as turning on the TV. She moves around a lot, having twice the energy from her husband who barely moves his head to follow her as she goes left to right and back. It takes time before she is ready to take a shower and she leans down on the bed to give Jonghyun another peck before going inside the bathroom. During her shower, she can hear the door to the hotel-room open and Maria’s familiar voice. She had been tired in the van before, but her mood goes up and down. After a shower she has regained her energy and Hannah can hear despite the water from the shower how Maria is talking nonstop. Hannah dries up and puts on her pajama pants and t-shirt, still drying her hair with the towel when stepping out of the bathroom. Sitting on the end of the bed is Maria, also in her pajama. Her hair is in a messy bun and her face is shining with a facial mask. She is sitting with the remote control to see if there is anything good on TV. Jonghyun has gotten out of bed, just seconds before Hannah stepped outside and he is gathering things to go shower as well. With Jonghyun getting in the shower, Hannah brushes her hair and ties it up while preparing facial masks for her and Jonghyun. As if Sweden knew 5 Pieces was going to watch TV tonight, a Harry Potter movie is playing on TV as a Christmas special. They are showing all seven movies in a row, one each night, and though this is the fourth movie and it’s halfway through, Maria says it is a sign. 5 Pieces loves Harry Potter. “He looks tired,” Maria comments after shoving herself back on the bed to sit more comfortably. Hannah blinks at her friend. “Who? Jonghyun?” “Mm. He barely reacted when I came in.” “It’s been a long flight, we’re all tired,” Hannah mumbles. Maria nods, her eyes stuck on the TV. It takes a bit before Hannah sits down at the other end of the bed to rest her back against the wall, watching the movie while taking out her calendar to write down about her day. “What about you?” Hannah eventually asks. “How are you doing?” Her friend lies down on the side to keep watching the movie. “Alright. I try not to think of it much. It’s a good thing we will be busy while we’re here.” “Have you talked to her anything more?” Hannah wonders. “She’s a . She blocked me on Instagram but her friend is still following me so I know she’s obviously checking up on me.” Maria is pouting, which is unusual. Her voice is lower than usual as well. “No, we haven’t talked. She has ditched me completely.” Maria still has feelings for her ex-girlfriend. It’s only been a week, you can’t expect more from someone who tried to work things out in a toxic relationship. Hannah is still wary of what to say about Maria’s ex, since Hannah didn’t like her, mostly because she kept fighting and getting mad at Maria over useless stuff just because she has issues with herself and Maria had to deal with it. Taking out your anger on someone who has nothing to do with it. It’s quiet when Jonghyun comes out from the shower, only the TV is making sounds. Hannah is writing and Maria is watching TV. “We’re doing facials?” Jonghyun asks when seeing the masks laid out on the bed. “Yeah, if you want to,” Hannah answers but the smile on her face says she really, truly wants him to do one too. Maria turns a bit to lie on her back, reaching for a facial to see what kind it is and without a word putting it back and turning to the TV. Jonghyun walks around the bed and soon he lies down on the bed too. He moves to rest his head on Hannah’s lap, reaching the facial masks to her for Hannah to put it on. Maria talks about the movie, not making sure anyone is listening behind her and she can hear them talk amongst themselves while Hannah uses her fingertips to clear out the mask over Jonghyun’s face. “Jonghyun, are you coming with us tomorrow or are you staying here?” Maria wonders out of the blue after it has been quiet for some time. “Right now, the plan is that I come with you,” Jonghyun answers. He presses a finger on his chin when feeling the mask move by him talking. Hannah is caressing his hair, her head tilted back a bit while watching the movie. Their relaxing time is interrupted by someone knocking on the door. None of them moves and before they can try convince one of each other to get out of bed, the door is opened. “You up?” Emelia asks and easily comes inside. She smirks at the sight. “Damn, you three look lazy.” “What do you want?” Maria mutters. Emelia kicks her foot up towards Maria’s face. “You act as if this is your room, Squidward,” Emelia scowls at her before smiling at Hannah and Jonghyun. “Adrianna said we have breakfast between 7:30 and 8:15, we have to leave before 8:30. Hotel breakfast downstairs and we will have our own VIP room.” Maria mutters something rude to Emelia that gets ignored. “Just so you know,” Emelia finishes. “Why are you going around informing that?” Hannah wonders. “Adrianna was walking around saying it, but when coming to my room she said she doesn’t want to bother you, because… you might be doing indecent stuff,” Emelia answers with a growing smirk on her face, showing with her expression what she means. Jonghyun leans his head back to smile over at her. “But I’m brave so I came here. And Maria’s room was empty, so I guessed she was third-wheeling somewhere.” “You make it sound like I’m doing a bad thing,” Maria giggles and glances at Jonghyun as they both giggles. Hannah only smiles. Emelia says her goodnight after telling Maria to leave Mr and Mrs Hannah alone. With her gone, Jonghyun asks if 20 minutes have passed. “Not yet,” Hannah answers and automatically starts pressing down the mask on his face for it to stay on. “Ugh, I want to turn around,” Jonghyun mumbles, moving his legs. *Turn around, give me your hand, DARLING,* Hannah and Maria starts singing at the same time and cracks up at the last word because they both thought of the same song. Maria continues to sing; *Do you feel my heart beeaating!? Dududududu. Do you feeeel the saaame? Baradaradaaaaa dreeaaming. DA DA DA DA!* She sings more and more with feelings despite not knowing the lyrics and the other two are laughing loudly at her lying there on her back with a hand to her chest and the other in the air, singing with feeling to [Eternal Flame] by the Bangles. Jonghyun even starts humming with hands over his ears to not hear her and it makes Maria laugh and roll around to hit him on the arm. “You’re not liking my love-song?” Maria teases and laughs. She suddenly sounds serious; “I’m singing it perfectly.” “You have the right melody at least,” Hannah agrees. She giggles cutely at the stare Maria gives her. Maria rolls around one more to get next to Jonghyun, putting her head on Hannah’s leg and commenting that Hannah has always been a good pillow. While mumbling to each other about what song they just sang and thinking what the lyrics actually are, Maria picks up her phone to search it up. She starts singing when having the lyrics before her and the trio sings what they know together, just to confirm they know the lyrics. Since she is already having her phone in hand, Maria takes out the camera to check her skin after using the facial mask. Hannah and Jonghyun still wear theirs. She takes a few selfies, then tilts the camera to get Jonghyun in on it but she doesn’t like how Hannah’s pajama pants are the only thing showing her so she changes the angle. “My head is too big,” she mutters for herself, comparing herself with Hannah and Jonghyun. Hannah reaches her tongue out and Jonghyun closes his eyes when she tells them to be in the picture with her. Though she thinks her head is big, it doesn’t stop her from taking pictures. Done taking pictures, she sits up, talking a bit before showing the result to the other two. “I’m uploading this because my skin is glowing,” she lets them know and presses a button. {Instagram, 5P­_PRINCESS: Movie, singing, bffs, facials and glowing skin} She adds a kiss to the picture and only a few minutes later, among all the fans commenting #goals on the picture, Emelia’s name pops up with the comment #thirdwheeling. Maria starts muttering again and responds to her comment with the words jealousy doesn’t suit you, lady and she adds another kiss to tease Emelia. A lot of hashtags in the comments, a lot of hashtags that has the words bff goals and couple goals on them. Fans seem to like writing “goals” in the comments.   First day in Sweden is a commercial/photoshoot collaboration with a Scandinavian beauty brand. It is heaven for anyone with the tiniest interest in makeup and skin care because the place has tables completely filled with makeup, skin care products, there is nail polish, facial masks of different kinds, perfume and hair products. The executive of the beauty brand shows the ladies around at first and discusses how their day will look. 5 Pieces will get to talk about their favourite beauty products, what they focus on for this season, they will get to test anything they want and there are makeup artists ready to help show how things are used and most of all, prepare 5 Pieces for pictures. A behind-the-making video will be uploaded on the homepage so two cameras are going to follow them around and naturally ask questions. For Jonghyun, he follows while they are being shown around but as the ladies starts looking at the products, he goes to the resting-room with most of their managers to wait for these hours to be over. Hannah comes and goes. She is mesmerized by the beauty products but then she disappears for a few minutes to go check on Jonghyun, she comes back and talks to a makeup artist about the products and then she disappears for a few minutes and so it goes on. It feels a lot like entering a huge store and you’re the only customer there getting all the VIP service and help. The first couple of hours is basically the members of 5 Pieces (as well as their stylists) getting to look at everything and start try out whatever they want, ask questions and pick things they want to try. All sort of products; everything on the tables is for them to test. Maria is in heaven, she says it countless of times in Swedish and in Korean and also in English, unable to hold back to the growing hearts in her eyes. Hannah is standing by a table, trying on different eyeliners on her hand when the camerawoman slowly walks up to her. Hannah puts the product closer to read the small text on it, focused and interested in absolutely everything they have. “Hannah, when you prepare for your day, what do you focus the most on?” the camerawoman asks. “Eh…” Hannah thinks about it for a bit, putting down the pen and looking for another one. “What I focus the most on
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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!
min2key
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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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Chapter 58: Wow! Thsnk you soooo much for the update. Missed reading this! ♥️
SuperShannon
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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: Still no updates from you at all, please update now, it's already May.
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Chapter 56: It's almost May and I don't see any updates here since last month...
Would you please update?
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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.