“TOKYO, ARE YOU IN A DAZE?!” Emelia roars before 5 Pieces jumps up on the lifts, spread out on five spots at the stages and smoke popping out at that time. The band starts to play right away and the audience is once again screaming their lungs out as [Daze] starts to play.

In the same clothes are before, 5 Pieces are moving where they are standing. Hannah is out on the right side stage, at the very end of it where the platform is bigger. The band is playing the chorus of the song, and 5 Pieces are calling out for their fans to dance with them. The crazy footwork is made. Hannah throws her hair along to it, shouting out *daze* at the end of the lines and the audience is actually dancing too. Maybe not able to throw their hair and move around as crazily as 5 Pieces is doing on the stage, but they are just as excited for the latest hit song to be performed.

The crazy choreography calms down after a while and the ladies are moving softly along to the song that now starts over from the beginning.

*Dazzle… stun… daze…*

Emelia says it slowly, throwing up her long black hair when getting up from squatting down, and Carolina shouts out *5 Pieces*. Still the ladies are on their positions spread out, dancing to each part of the audience while starting the song in English. Maria sings first, the song is y, powerful and charismatic to the live band. Hannah hears how Maria does her part, focusing on dancing over in her corner, and the one singing the next part is Carolina. Carolina’s last line goes like *I don’t judge, I just walk on my own* she actually gives a walk on the stage just a few steps. Hannah’s part is next, and she is just as crazy as her members and the audience, and just that they throw their hairs like insane people in this song, she knows there is no limit. She falls down on her knees, starting to sing through the microphone when leaning back before she leans forward to look at the audience freaking out in front of her. She smiles, continuing to sing while ruffling her hair a little, singing out loudly to the loud music and she ends her part by singing *to show that I am not like you* and when her part is done, she leans back so she almost is lying down with her legs bent and she keeps moving her head to have her hair thrown around and arms almost lying above her head. The audience is screaming so loudly around her that she keeps smiling when sitting up again, throwing her hair some more before singing with her members.

“Tokyo!” Hannah shouts out with the music when getting up on her feet. “Are you ready?!”

Hannah, her ladies, and the dancers taking on the main stage as well as the audience, starts to dance when the chorus begins. 5 Pieces sings while dancing, so insane now with hair throwing and feet uncontrollably moving. Carolina’s part after the chorus is a big favourite for the fans as she makes some dance on her knees, and Carolina does it now too and the group starts to move away from their positions when Julia continues to sing.

*But I know, to show that you

Aren’t like everyone else, you are different*

[Maria] *Endless judgement from strangers,

From people around me and you*

The youngest has a small part next, and normally for that one she goes down to sit on her heels and hit her hips to the side, but now she takes her hand through her hair and lets her hips move around in different circles to show off her body. She doesn’t care that she is sweaty and that the t-shirt glides up a little; she showed more skin during the opening. And the audience is just screaming at every single thing happening on the stage. They shout out at Maria throwing off her shoes too; she has always complained dancing this song in high heels, and as the tallest member in 5 Pieces she can dance without heels without looking short.

5 Pieces have met up on the main stage for the chorus to begin again, joining in with all their dancers.

A little later in to the song after Emelia’s rap, Hannah has a small rap – her first and only rap ever. She dances along to that one too.

[RAP, Hannah] *Broken glass can’t be fixed, the cracks will always be seen, never disappear

I don’t want to be here anymore*

 [CHORUS, Maria] *You’re in a daze (da – da – da – da – da – da – da – daze)

You are beautiful, you are different; you are no one else but you (da – da – da – da – da – da – da – daze)

This amazing person, like no one else, there is no one like you (da – da – da – da – da – da – da – daze)

You’re in a daze*

They continue the song, their voices going louder towards the end and their feet crazily moving and they do adlibs and all crazy things with the audience if not singing along shouting and jumping or dancing. The music starting to play is [Let Me Be Yours], a ballad from their single at the beginning of the year.

“Thank you so much for coming tonight,” Emelia says in a low voice to the audience.

At once being calmed down, Maria starts to sing sweetly. The audience is waving their purple glow sticks in the air now, and the dancers gets off the stage. Maria’s voice is so beautiful. Hannah picks up a towel to wipe away some sweat and she lip-synchs the lyrics a bit when smiling at some fans. The ladies are walking away from the main stage, walking slowly around while singing. The chorus is sweet, five voices sweetly put together. They got just one more song after this one, and then it is over. This night will be over. Remembering that now, Hannah gets teary again. She looks over at Julia, seeing how she waves out at the audience on the other side of the stage. Hannah knows her part is next, so she doesn’t sing the last part of the chorus to clear .

She sings her part, singing that she doesn’t want another day to go without telling what she feels. It is a love song: A song that 5 Pieces decided during the rehearsals to put to the end because so far, this is the Japanese ballad that expresses their feelings to their fans the most. She leans towards the side to reach out her hand for some fans when finishing her part, continuing to touch as many hands as possible before she continues to walk.

It’s hard to believe that it’s been four years since she first came to Japan, a clueless 17-year-old blonde girl is now almost a 21-year-old blonde girl, who no longer is clueless. They have gotten awards now, they have had a tour around Asia, they have even been performing with SM Town at concerts, and after three Korean albums they have released their first Japanese one. Thinking of everything she has been able to do after coming to Japan, she can’t help herself but to cry. All of the things they have been able to do – all the performances, concerts and countries they have visited – are all thanks to their fans. Hannah wouldn’t have been speaking Japanese so well without the fans, neither would she have survived living in Japan those eight months a few years ago if it wasn’t for their fans.

In a low voice, Hannah sings her next part, tears heard in but her voice not cracking or getting weird though you can hear that she is crying. Maria gives a smile her way. Hannah looks up at the other floors where fans are, hiding behind her hand when she is done singing. She turns away, but on the other side there are also fans and Hannah smiles while crying, looking at the fans crying too. The audience cheers when the big screen shows that Maria is crying, and Hannah smiles out at the audience again, the tears not stopping.

Sometime during the song, the ladies stop to sing, going to gather in the middle and the band is repeating the same part over and over again on a few instruments, a little lower so the ladies can talk. Julia opens her arms for Hannah to walk in the hug when gathering in the middle, giving a towel for Hannah to wipe the tears.

“Tonight has been an unforgettable moment for us,” Emelia is saying in Japanese, following the mood of the music and glancing at her members. Maria and Hannah can’t stop crying. “To have a Japan Arena Tour is a big step for 5 Pieces and we hope you all will continue to love and support us as you have been doing tonight, and we will work our hardest and become even better Pieces of Puzzle so we can get more and more unforgettable memories together. Thank you for spending this time with us and giving your absolute best response from beginning to end of this concert. We are still lacking, but as long as you are there for us, we will do our best to be there for you.”

Hannah is supposed to talk too, but she just hides behind her hand, not stopping to cry and the audience starts to call out for her to not cry.

“Please give an applause to all the people who have helped us with the concert today. An applause to Nice Kiss, our band!” Emelia continues and the spotlights shine up the band playing. “And an applause to our dancers, please come up to the stage; Tokyo Drifters!”

Hannah sits down on her heels, holding the microphone as far away from as possible to not let them hear that she is crying. She seriously have hold in the tears so much, and though she cried in the middle of the concert during their ballads she held it in again and now when she realises the concert is really coming to an end she can’t help but to cry. Julia laughs awkwardly, patting Hannah on her back. But she needs to talk; Hannah knows that, so she does her best to not cry the worst. The audience keeps asking her to not cry and Hannah looks up at her members, seeing that Maria is still crying a little too. The dancers are on the main stage, getting an applause for their hard work, and Emelia thanks some more people too when the dancers get off the stage.

Hannah stands up, taking a deep breath to gather her self. She knows the ladies will make her say something, as their “representative” in Japan.

“Hannah, are you ready?” Emelia asks her, putting an arm around Maria to calm their leader. The audience screams both for that skinship and also because they know Hannah will speak now, with her face filled with tears. Hannah feels the tears growing in her eyes when just getting that question.

“Thank you so much for coming here tonight!” Hannah calls out to the audience. “5 Pieces would want to thank all our seniors at SM Town too, because they have given us a lot of advice to prepare for our Japan activities – DBSK, BoA, Super Junior, SHINee and SNSD, Lee Sooman Teacher – and also to our juniors f(x) and EXO; SM Town, thank you! We hope you (our fans) have had just as much fun as we have had, thank you so much and we love you!”

“I love you!” Carolina shouts out too.

“We are pieces of a puzzle, and 5 Pieces thanks you for placing the last piece in to the puzzle tonight,” Emelia says in her rehearsed Japanese, “We are complete. Completed, I thank you for making us.”

“Everyone, thank you!” Hannah calls out before the music changes and they continue to sing [Let Me Love You]. Maria sings, so flawless even when crying.

*I’m wiiith yoou!

(Baby I’m with you)

And you are wiiith mee*

The group starts to sing together, and the same three lines are repeated two times and for the second time Hannah does higher than the other members. Maria gives out an adlib that shouldn’t be there, but her voice fits everywhere and the audience loves it. What makes it impossible to stop crying is that the audience is crying too.

“You are the best!” Carolina calls out to the audience when the song has ended and they are preparing for the absolutely last song to begin.

“Our last song tonight,” Emelia informs and gives a pout to some fans. She then gives in from her toes; “Let’s give our all at this song! TOKYO! WE LOVE YOU!”

[Victory] starts to play, an OST song from 2010 that is from Hannah’s drama. It came out along with the ballad [Secret of my tears] they sung before, but this song isn’t a ballad. It is more like a song you go around and sing on the stage, and that is what 5 Pieces do. The audience is crying out loudly. This song is a song that 5 Pieces many times have sung in Japan just because it was part of the popular drama. The ladies walk around on the stage, picking up these round balls to throw out to the audience. The balls are signed by the members, and they throw out as long as they can or as short as the fan nearest in the audience. Hannah keeps crying though. She doesn’t have many parts in the song because she wasn’t the best vocalist at that time, though she did have the main role in the drama so she never cared much, but she knows the song to her heart just as their fans.

“Thank you!” Maria shouts out after her part.

Hannah throws out a ball, smiling at the fan who catches it because it is a girl crying wildly and she jumps wildly too with the ball up in her hand. It is happy tears Hannah has, everyone knows that. Hannah claps her hands soundlessly above her head before giving a bow to the audience, standing up and waving at them before throwing out three more balls and continuing to walk a bit more. She squats down to pick up something that has been thrown up on the stage, showing the camera filming for the big screen that it is a hand fan with Hannah’s side profile on it, and she gladly waves it to her face before bowing to the audience anew and continuing to walk after putting it down in her back pocket – the hand fan pointing up.

Emelia comes out on the stage, being in front of Hannah and when the two girls notice each other they just walk up to the other and embrace each other for a hug. Emelia is crying too. Hannah didn’t know she was crying, so she cries a little more too. Emelia then puts her microphone by Hannah’s mouth when Emelia’s next part comes, and Hannah raps a little of that English part, giving a laugh when the audience cheers. Hannah then embraces Emelia another time for a harder hug before rushing off to throw out more balls.

The ladies gather again when the song comes to an end, and hand in hand the group thanks everyone for coming and bows deeply. They bows to all sides while standing on the second stage, the audience starting to call out for one more song, one more song, one more song. 5 Pieces starts to wave around, getting ready to get off the stage while thanking the audience so much and hoping they will meet each other soon and that they have had fun today when…

Hannah looks over at the main stage when [Run Out] starts to play. Dumbfounded, 5 Pieces can’t understand why the song is played, but the audience starts to scream out loudly and Maria grabs Hannah’s arm to pull her to take her position.

“ONE MORE SONG THEN?!” Emelia shouts out instead of her usual part, and the audience continues to scream.

Hannah continues to look dumbfounded so she looks over her shoulder to ask the ladies quietly if they are performing the song, and Emelia behind her nods, turning Hannah to face the front. Hannah can’t find herself singing yet, so instead she steps forward, walking normally instead of how she usually does for the song.

“Can I hear you sing?” Hannah asks the audience and reaches out the microphone, and the audience starts to sing her part. Hannah smiles widely, the members doing it too. Hannah then sings along too, but not the last words as she take that time to tell the audience that they are beautiful – the sight is beautiful, the sound is beautiful and the feeling is beautiful.

5 Pieces pulls off a last song that was not prepared and they keep then bowing and waving when getting off the stage, wishing their fans a safe way home.

Hannah starts thanking the staff for their hard work when getting off the stage, the microphone given to the first staff waiting for them and she does high fives to the band and dancers waiting on the sides and some other staff, hurrying to the room backstage with her teary eyes. Maria runs inside Hannah from behind, hiding her face in Hannah’s hair when hugging her and struggling to get forward like that. Hannah laughs when hearing Maria cry behind her.

Maria has felt bad to not promote their Japanese songs so much in Japan as the ladies at first had wanted, so she was really worried if the audience would know their music.

“Nice work!” Hannah calls out when reaching the final people before entering the room, their managers and stylists waiting.

Stylist Yong Hyun is the first one to embrace them, telling them they were so good and that they really are 5 Pieces and their hair and almost crying when seeing the two girls being totally heartbroken to leave the stage. Hannah takes her chance to turn around to embrace Maria for a hug, not caring at all about the cameras filming backstage. Carolina brightly comes inside, thanking everyone for their hard work and breathing out that they have done the first concert, so extremely happy and not tired at all. Yong Hyun embraces her too before giving Emelia and Julia a hug too.

“You are crying more than me this time,” Hannah giggles at Maria.

She remembers a year ago in January when they had their first Moon Child concert in Seoul, Maria had hugged Hannah and wiped her tears, not crying as much as the youngest, but this time Maria cried more backstage.

“I don’t care,” Maria mutters and tries to wipe the tears herself. She turns away when noticing a camera nearby and Hannah hugs her shoulder.

“We did it,” Hannah whispers, smiling widely and feeling the tears returning.

“We did it,” Maria laughs, sounding so relieved. “I can do the next one right away.”

The ladies get to calm down a little, stop sweating and change clothes before Maria’s sisters and Manager Lim come to congratulate them. Hannah is taken to the side to say some words to the camera – all members gets to do it one after one. Her eyes are still a little red from crying when doing the brief interview, not looking straight in the camera for many seconds at time out off embarrassment. She is so happy; this concert couldn’t have turned out better. Maria’s sisters are so proud over them, hugging the ladies several of times and repeating that they are proud too.

It doesn’t take too long before everyone is going up on the stage to take a picture. Even the managers sit down on the stairs at the main stage with the band, dancers, 5 Pieces and the staff and stylists and everyone gathers while a few are standing up to photograph them. It’s for SM Entertainment’s Facebook page, it’s for twitter and it is for a photo book and it is personal and it is many meanings. They take a few different pictures, and after being done taking with exactly everyone, the ladies are calling out in Japanese and then Korean to thank everyone for their hard work, to wish they will continue to work this well for the whole tour and also for them all to sleep well tonight so they can come back strong tomorrow too for day two. The ladies stay on the stage and calls up Maria’s sisters to take a picture too, but this time with the empty arena as the background

Hannah looks out at the arena. It feels empty now. Though they spent two and a half day practicing here in the emptiness, 2-3 hours concert with the place being filled with fans makes it now get this feeling that is shows what is after all the fun has passed by. She feels like she did a good job at the concert. Maybe cried too much, but that isn’t a bad thing on the first day. No, it feels great, like she has done something amazing; and Hannah knows she has done something amazing, because they have now started off their Japan Arena Tour. She smiles, knowing they have eleven more concerts like this to do.

When going backstage again they are celebrating the beginning of the arena tour and a successful first concert by cutting cake and eating a piece of it. Hannah takes two pieces of the cake; starving after the concert and it is really yummy. She drinks loads of water too. It was a good thing they got so much cake from fans and others to congratulate them for the concert, because all the staff gets to share on it.

“Fans are waiting outside,” Manager Lee informs when people are getting ready to go home for the night, to gather tomorrow morning again. “Do you want to go another way out or do you want to face the fans?”

“Face the fans!” Carolina bursts out loudly and the other ladies agree.

Hannah is fast to grab a pen from the table. “Should we take posters with us too?” She saw the thing to face fans would be to give their autographs, but their manager looks like that was not what he had in mind.

Maria grabs some of the smaller posters, starting to sign the bunch one after one quickly on the table. Hannah sits down in the sofa to join in; signing the same ones Maria has done to.

“Ladies…” Manager Lee sighs when the other members’ joins in. “You would need to sign a lot more than that to satisfy the amount waiting for you.”

Though none of the ladies stops signing, they do answer. Maria answers, saying that some fans would feel special then. Other fans might have their own things they want to get signed, so after signing nonstop for ten minutes, Hannah’s hand is hurting. They take a bunch each after taking on jackets and taking bags and a few gifts with them, and they take the pens with them too. 5 Pieces keeps telling the polite phrases to people they meet on the way out, and when coming through the doors to feel the night breeze in Tokyo, light voices starts calling out their names.

“Oh my gosh …” Maria whispers when seeing the amount of fans waiting, thinking that they would need to sign a hundred more posters to satisfy this crowd. They all didn’t expect so many to be left at this time, but the ladies walks up to the crowd, having guards and managers helping to remind the fans to not be too crazy.

Voices starts talking to them right away, several fans talking at once and a few trying to hand over things while others ask for the album or poster to be signed. Hannah had left her things in the van that closest to the door is waiting for them before she took on the crowd with the posters and pen in her hand, starting to converse with the fans as well as she can. Her voice is low after a while, excited after the concert but low after singing and shouting so much, and she knows she has a concert tomorrow too. Fans wants to ask her how she is feeling after the concert, give their positive comments from seeing the concert and also from seeing her cry (which makes her laugh shyly) and she gets to sign albums, hand out the posters, sign someone’s shirt and some plain papers and more things while telling the fans to get home safely and thank those that comments about the concert for coming. She gets to correct something Maria says too standing a meter away from her and she even receives a few gifts. One fan says he saw her picking up a hand fan at the concert, asking if she has it now.

“I got it in my bag,” Hannah answers, glancing at the young man, slightly amazed over all the things the fans remembers since Hannah’s mind is a mess now; she can’t sort out what happened when.

Before getting in the van, 5 Pieces stands next to each other and gives a final ‘thank you’ to the fans there before they have to go home and get some sleep.

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In the picture, Hannah is taking a picture of her own mirror reflection in the dressing-room, standing there in her white concert opening outfit and a cardigan and the cell phone almost hiding her face, the make-up table covering her legs. In the background you can actually see their poster on the wall and people going around, and also a hand up in the air at the back, apparently aware of Hannah taking the picture because it is a peace-sign.

Last night when coming home to the apartment after the concert the ladies had been drained on the energy they had when leaving in first place, and went to bed as soon as they could after washing up. No one had the energy to even force Carolina to take a shower – who had to take a shower this morning instead – and when waking up in the morning, Hannah felt like she could start the day all over again. Today’s rehearsal hasn’t been as much focus on the rehearsal as it has been the previous days because they know how the concert will go like now and instead focused on improving yesterday’s concert. They have been looking through fan-cams uploaded online to read the comments on it, looked through reviews and been reading the Japanese newspapers spread out on tables backstage and given each other advice to improve when getting up on the stage.

The response about the concert, whether it is in magazines, by fans or by reporters; it is all great. It is positive comments commenting from the good live to variety of the songs, how some were dramatic and others were simple dance pop but that the concert kept you on your feet the whole time. There were a lot of comments about 5 Pieces’ clothes (fans would unstoppably comment that 5 Pieces has never worn this little clothes on stage before and it was still more clothes than what most girl-groups wear) and reporters commented on the professionalism on stage with great live singing while dancing for over two hours straight. In other words; 5 Pieces impressed. And it wasn’t just Japan. The ladies have been fascinated to see them being mentioned on the Japanese news and to be written about in every daily magazine in the country, and according to some dancers; 5 Pieces’ Arena Tour start-off is the talk of town. Even Emelia’s parents had recorded the Swedish news from last night where a reporter had been placed outside the arena earlier that day to talk about the thousand of fans lining up for three days to watch the five Swedish ladies have their concert. Clips from the concert have appeared in Sweden, France, Germany and some more European countries as well as Korea, Japan, and even in the Philippines for some reason. Some online sites in America have written about the start-off too, writing that people in Japan must be running around like crazy to try buy from other fans to the twelve sold-out concerts.

It’s amazing. There is nothing else to say.

Last night when the concert had ended, Hannah only texted with Jonghyun a few times to express how great she felt after the concert and this morning Jonghyun texted her to say that internet is being infected with a 5 Pieces’ virus (which means that 5 Pieces is everywhere). Hannah liked one of the texts he wrote to her this morning, telling her that she looked y and beautiful at the concert. He wasn’t here to see it, but apparently there are videos and pictures online to see.

Seconds after that Hannah has updated twitter, she has received several answers from fans. She smiles when reading the comments. Fans always comments on that their idols look beautiful and pretty at all pictures taken of them, so that is no new, beside from that the fans now seems to go crazy over her “tease”. Just a little of her stomach is visible in the picture, and less is shown thanks to the cardigan she wears, and fans asks her when she is going to reveal more of it… Hannah has no intention of responding on those questions, and neither does she answer the one asking if it is mischievous Emelia whose hand is seen in the back.

It’s the first time in weeks Hannah feels this good. Yesterday she was so nervous for the concert, she was freaking out and felt like crying because it would be their first Japan concert, and it went so well. Tonight, she will be able to relax more on stage; and hopefully not be a crying mess.

A shadow sits down on the chair next to Hannah’s, blocking the light. Though she notices the body next to her, she is busy reading the arriving comments on her tweet.

“Is it Jonghyun who makes you smile like that?” a low voice asks her.

Hannah looks up and breaks out in a wider smile at their stylist Yong Hyun who is leaning a little forward to see her face better. He loves that she is in love, because Hannah is so predictable in her behaviour.

“Actually, it’s not Jonghyun,” she whispers to him proudly, for once not letting the mind-reader being right. He even looks impressed at that. “I’m happy, Oppa, for the concert.”

He smiles at her, looking happy too. “You should be,” he tells her proudly, “you all did great yesterday after all that stressing practicing, and the reviews are the best ones you could get.”

Yong Hyun gives a laugh when seeing that she can’t stop smiling and he gives her a hug from the side, but then leans back after a few seconds and raises his eyebrows at her.

“I thought I told you to not wear that on top,” he points out with a diva-finger at the cardigan Hannah is hiding under. Her smile disappears for to form a childish pout.

“It’s cold,” she defends herself.

“Bull,” he says and helps her take it off; “You might ruin the quality of my masterpiece, and this outfit looks fabulous on you so don’t try hiding it.”

Something that Yong Hyun and Maria have in common is that they like to use the same words, they like to have these diva expressions and they love to tell Hannah how great her body is just because Hannah doesn’t think so. If Hannah says she wants to wear sneakers for an event, those two will tell her to wear high heels. Hannah still loves them both because they are much more than divas with the same thoughts.

Maria is actually getting extra much attention today, because actor Hyunsuk is here to film ‘We Got Married’ with her. It is a special concert visit, to show that he supports his “wife” and they have been filming backstage for a while without actually being awkward. It has been fun to see Maria introducing him to exactly everyone and being her usual self by letting him eat some (Maria’s excuse to get to eat too) and Hyunsuk got to show off some Japanese in front of the ‘We Got Married’ cameras when talking to the band. Hannah had done her best to avoid that crew; she was heading inside the room earlier but stopped and kept walking down the corridor when seeing they were filming in there and instead she sat down in another room to see some of the dancers play cards.

Being social is no issue for Hannah now when she is in such a good mood, but she had avoided the Korean crew just because it is Maria’s show and Hannah isn’t really good with that where … it is just weird with ‘We Got Married’. It feels like she is being questioned. But there are guests coming backstage too, those that come to support 5 Pieces and celebrities who are there to see the concert and automatically because of their name get passage backstage to snap a picture with 5 Pieces. Someone who is there today, and who can come in anywhere at anytime, is Lee Sooman – SM Entertainment’s founder – who has been coming and going around backstage, talking to 5 Pieces and asking how it went yesterday, giving impressed comments on the magazines spread out on the table to show the arena tour reviews and saying they look good in this new outfit that the group hasn’t had for the five years he has known them. Even he stays away from the cameras; but instead of just staying away from ‘We Got Married’ like Hannah, he stays away from all cameras. He doesn’t mind being in the same room while these cameras are filming backstage for different DVDs and documentary and programs, but he stays in the background for that.

“I told EXO to come watch the concert too,” Lee Sooman tell the ladies when he stands with them in the corridor with the poster as the background for a picture. “They can learn a lot from watch this concert.”

He stops to talk as the picture is taken, needing just a second to give a gentle smile in the picture with 5 Pieces smiling on his sides.

“You are all friends so I hope they can learn a lot from you, but you ladies need to learn from the concert too,” he continues to tell the girls. Hannah smiles, hiding a little behind Julia and nodding to just show she is listening. He always talks about being friends, which makes the ladies smile. Lee Sooman has this chairman image, making the artists at SM nervous around him (including 5 Pieces) but he also has this friendly image because he always talks so fun about being friends and says these nice words. He also is always telling 5 Pieces after a performance that they did really well, but always that they have a long way to go. For five years he has said that; well, in the beginning he said they should improve this and that for the next stage, but lately he has always said they are a group like no other and then fill in that they aren’t done yet. He hugs each member before he has to go, promising that he will show up before the actual concert shows up.

A few minutes later, the cute juniors of 5 Pieces make their appearance to take a picture with 5 Pieces too. EXO’s Suho, Chanyeol, Kai, Sehun, D.O, Lay and Luhan are all there, members from both K and M. The seven boys all bows down politely when 5 Pieces sees them; Suho has his hand on Sehun’s back to make sure he bows deep enough.

“No need to be so polite, we are all friends here,” Maria jokes with a voice imitation of Lee Sooman while stretching out her hands to wave them over to them. Chanyeol chuckles in a unique way when stepping up to stand next to Emelia, and he glances at the ladies outfits.

“y, don’t you think?” Emelia jokes with him, hitting him with her elbow lightly.

“It’s the first time seeing you dressed like this,” Kai comments when looking up and down at Hannah, who has been standing with her arms over her stomach. She gives him a grimace; not good at giving responses like her members who are taking it all positive and good, the ladies mixing up with EXO members for the picture.

Hannah squats down at the front together with a cute Luhan and Sehun on her right. Standing behind her is Kai, with Julia standing on his right side and on his other side stands Lay. Hannah gives a peace-sign and a smile towards the camera, Luhan doing it too. Julia puts her peace-sign above Luhan’s head, and Kai follows the same above Hannah’s head. They take a few different pictures before they are done, and the ladies stay in the corridor to talk a little with them. 2NE1’s Park Bom drops by at that time too, not taking a picture with them but backstage to show some silent support.

The youngest of the ladies give Kai a small, tiny punch on the arm when he keeps smirking at her.

“What?” she asks him, offended by the smirk and that look in his eyes. Kai laughs at her, hugging his own chest to protect himself from being hit again.

“I’m stunned,” he honestly answers in a low voice, smiling widely with a laugh stuck in his throat, “You look really good in that.”

“You expected me to look bad?”

“You look like a bad girl with that face,” Kai says a joke and he laughs again when Hannah looks like she is going to hit him again, but she doesn’t hit him. He made a joke on the concept; he said she looks good and she asked if the clothes should look bad on her but he changes her words to make it sound like the concert’s concept of being Bad Girls.

Tonight’s concert goes well. Hannah again can’t hide her tears during her solo performance, so when coming off the stage before the ballads, their make-up stylist Mi Young tells her to stop crying in the middle of the concert because even if she looks pretty crying, the make-up looks better when she hasn’t cried. At the end of the concert, the ladies cries again though, mostly because today is just as great as yesterday and because they are thankful for the response they got yesterday. They can’t stop thanking the audience.

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Headline 28th: Maria & Hyunsuk Poses As The Model Couple In Korean Magazine

Headline 28th: Media From Around The World Rumoured To Be Lining Up For 5 Pieces’ Arena Tour

Headline 28th: 5 Pieces Kicks Off Their Japan Arena Tour

Headline 28th: 5 Pieces Rocks The Stage At The 1st Arena Tour In Tokyo

Headline 28th: Hannah Makes Fans Break Down With Her Words At Japan Arena Tour

Headline 28th: SM Entertainment & 5 Pieces Shares Pictures From Arena Tour Day 1

Headline 28th: BoA Sends Her Congratulations To 5 Pieces’ Arena Tour Start-Off

Headline 29th: 5 Pieces Appears in Japanese News + Magazines For Arena Tour

Headline 29th: Japan News Airs 5 Pieces Greetings Fans At Midnight After Concert

Headline 29th: 5 Pieces’ Arena Tour Start-Off Goes On World-News

Headline 29th: 5 Pieces Charismatic Image Makes Over 14,000 Fans Gather At Concert

Headline 29th: 5 Pieces’ Have No Stopping In Japan

Headline 29th: EXO, Lee Sooman & More Visits 5 Pieces Backstage In Tokyo

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