Chapter 42

Youngest of Pieces: [WHO- I AM] (8)

 

Hannah gives a pout when spotting Maria hurrying out of the dressing-room backstage for their first Osaka concert for ‘Bad Girls Arena Tour’; her cell phone in her hand as the device is the reason she ran out. Maria has left the room several of times today whenever she has received a call, and Hannah has absolutely no idea of why the leader is getting so many private calls today. Manager Lee left the room once today too when being on the phone, and though both of their behaviours are strange, Hannah has been busy treating her voice (that is definitely much better today than what it was a few days ago) and doing the rehearsals in preparations of the concert. Today too, she has her nails painted white.

“Who is calling Maria all the time?” Hannah quietly asks Julia, only now thinking about that strange behaviour.

Julia looks up, looking at the mirror reflection of the whole dressing-room as she is sitting next to Hannah and getting her hair made for the concert. It looks as if she is looking where Maria is though the leader has already walked out the room.

“I don’t know,” Julia answers shortly.

Hannah gives another pout when noticing Julia avoiding to look at her and the youngest looks down at her nails, waiting for them to get dry while wondering why Julia seems to know something about the phone calls. She doesn’t ask again though, too nervous and excited to get up on the stage.

The youngest member is the only one who is unaware of the headline that seems to be catching everyone else’s attention today. She has been too busy with the rehearsals – which the other members also have, but with their manager being informed about the article, he informed the other ladies who has kept it a secret for Hannah at the moment.

Maria gives a glare to Manager Lee when he comes out to the corridor to check on her. Maria is on the phone with Manager Lim, and the glare she gives is just because she is upset.

“What’s that supposed to mean? Did you at all read the article yourself or did you just hear others talk about it? I’m telling you that the article has gotten hundreds of more comments, and most of them are not good! …. Well duh, of course there are some fans understanding we are human and capable of love just as much as them, but then again I’m telling you to read the idiotic article and stop counting on the secretary who keeps telling you it is nothing to worry about and to just let it pass.”

Maria…” manager Lim sighs on the other line, interrupting her as she seems to just get worked up and talk even more. “The article came out today. Of course fans are commenting. It has calmed down in the morning, trust me.

Maria mutters something and she sighs when seeing Manager Lee looking at her. He is too curious to what the main manager is saying.

“In the morning,” she tells her manager, “and you better be right it won’t get bigger, because then you will have to be here and calm down the baby when she is freaking out.”

The article says that there is a rumour about Hannah and Jonghyun being more than friends, and though the rumour is just among the fans, it is enough to make Maria take on the leader role to contact their manager in Korea and try to make sure it isn’t anything serious. She knows Hannah is terrified to let their fans find out about her secret relationship, terrified of how the fans will react and how much it will complicate things for 5 Pieces. Always thinking about 5 Pieces, Maria doesn’t want Hannah to have to worry about the article; which is why she is contacting their manager for him to try to contact other people and see if they can keep it to just this article and let it die out. But there is nothing else but a rumour, and the article does say that Hannah as well as the other members in 5 Pieces has a good friendship with male idols, so the rumour is based on nothing.

Finishing the call, Maria talks to Manager Lee before heading back inside the dressing-room, loudly asking everyone if they are excited. A loud cheer answers her, and Maria is smiling as if she wasn’t upset at all a few seconds ago.

 

“5 Pieces has reached Osaka,” the camera-man mentions to Hannah when she stands up from checking the fitting jeans she is wearing for the opening. She gives out a wide smile when hearing what he says.

“Finally, we are in Osaka,” she comments, saying it in Japanese as it sounds similar to what he says – bad Japanese joke.

“Carolina said she got to eat what she wanted.”

“She did. It was the only thing she focused on yesterday,” Hannah giggles, remembering what they talked about on the radio.

“The concert is beginning soon, do you feel ready?” he changes the subject and Hannah gives a shy smile, suddenly looking nervous when she holds her hands together.

“Osaka Hall is … the biggest arena for the tour,” Hannah starts to answer slowly; thinking if it really is the biggest, but then nods for herself. “It might feel too big, but … I think we will have fun with our fans. I feel ready.”

Hannah does feel ready. She is so excited once again to get up on the stage, to meet their fans in Osaka for this arena tour, and she knows the other ladies are that too. Yesterday they had activities in Osaka too with radio and a fan meeting as well as so many interviews. They had a lot of fun with their fans yesterday, which could be why Hannah is looking forward to meet them at the concert today. Being reminded by the camera-man, Hannah spends the next minutes smiling like a fool, trying to calm herself by walking around backstage and talking to some of the dancers that are warming up in the corridor.

Everyone has definitely gotten closer to each other. The dancers and the band are really cool and they keep joking and playing around with 5 Pieces, both during rehearsals and during the break; so there is never a boring time working in Japan. Half of the arena tour has already passed, so it is sad knowing the final concert in Tokyo is in less than two weeks – though they have seven concerts including today’s and tomorrow’s Osaka concerts left to do. It is many concerts left, but it will pass fast, and Hannah thinks it goes too fast. But she is still happy. She is missing Jonghyun and to not have to move around every single day, but performing and meeting all these fans is a blessing and she is enjoying every minute of it even if she a few days ago almost lost her voice. Today, her voice is better, and she can’t wait to get up on the stage.

And without having to wait all too long, the girl-group gathers backstage to do their cheer – Maria’s Japanese has improved so she can even tell the dancers to not make as many mistakes as Carolina (Maria loves to tell people that before a performance) – and Carolina gives a laugh, too happy to be offended by those words. And then, the concert can begin.

Over 13,400 fans are in the audience, visible before 5 Pieces when they starts off performing [Bad Girls], their purple lights are in the air and making 5 Pieces able to see their fans furthest away in the dark. Having a concert is probably the most satisfying and beautiful moment in their careers. Whether it was last year’s ‘Moon Child’ tour or this year’s arena tour in Japan, 5 Pieces can’t get tired performing in front of an audience that is filled with just their own fans. There are no fans shouting bad things to them, turning off their light sticks or waving signs saying they should get off the stage – the audience before 5 Pieces at this concert is just Puzzle, their fans, loving and liking them for their music and what they do. It’s like you are eating something, hungry and starving, and you just can’t get enough of eating. Maria said it like that once, because she is always hungry to perform in front of their fans, and she is never satisfied.

Performing today feels like being in heaven. Hannah’s feet are light in the high heels, and she keeps smiling her flirty way out to the audience during her parts while focusing on the dancing when she isn’t the one singing. When performing [For a Lifetime] and the girls runs out on the rest of the stages, Hannah watches the fans closest to her to furthest away and she waves and smiles and feels like nothing can get better than this.

When performing a remix of [Black & White] after that song, Hannah’s laugh is almost heard in the headset microphone when Julia bumps in to her – Julia was supposed to change position to Hannah’s other side but since they were dancing at the same time it seems like she was a little too much at the front so according to Julia, Hannah was in the way – and Hannah is soundlessly giggling when Julia stumbles behind her with a hand on Hannah’s back to be able to focus on the song without having to look where she is going (not wanting to fall over Hannah). Julia is smiling too. With a glance to each other the next time, the two girls are smiling at each other and this time it is Hannah who touches Julia’s back. She does it for fun, as if she is making a little fun of Julia and they are both smiling at it.

Later during the concert, Hannah squats down in front of some fans that starts to quickly lean closer towards her with hands up in the air and Hannah is moving her head to the music, waiting for her turn and she gives a smile, pointing at the camera one of the fans are using to film. Pointing to the camera she almost forgets to sing, so quickly she puts the microphone to to sing her part and then she laughs when it is over, waving to the fans and getting up to move further away.

She also makes a hilarious face-expression when seeing a fan in the audience holding up a picture of Hannah acting cute (it must be a screen-cap from some show she has done, Hannah can’t remember) but she still imitates the face-expression for fun and the audience are screaming.

All in to the ending when Hannah during [I Love You] almost gives Emelia a peck on the cheek (just almost, it was for fun) to the encore and is sitting on her knees and leaning back so she is almost lying down for [Daze], the audience goes wild for everything. Hannah is having a blast, seriously having the best time on stage. She gives a lot of cute expression towards the end, and when they are performing the ballad [Let Me Be Yours] as the second last song, Hannah can’t stop smiling.

“Osaka,” she says in a low voice through the microphone, smiling softly, “I love you.”

The audience cheers for her and Hannah smiles even bigger, knowing she is honest when she tells their fans that she can’t stop smiling at the ending thinking through today’s concert. Her members say a lot of things too between the lyrics, short comments that receives loving cheers. All in to the end, the ladies hold hands when bowing to the audience and thanking them for tonight. Sweaty, their bodies tired but hearts and souls light and willing to continue to perform, they say goodnight and thanks their fans.

 

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Finishing the concert, Hannah went straight to bed at the hotel to be prepared for day two.

Though they have an apartment in Tokyo, the girls are staying a lot at hotels because they go around in Japan. It’s not like they have time to go back and forth from Tokyo to wherever they are the whole day, and Hannah who had wanted to start go to the gym has decided to do it after the arena tour has passed because no human can survive working all days long like this and then go to the gym. She is exhausted as it is with their current schedule. So once their arena tour ends, Hannah will take on the gym. Gaining weight is suddenly difficult for her, as she has been trying for a while now since she got sick but because of their schedule it isn’t all that easy. She just can’t seem to eat a lot; her stomach can’t fit it. But she isn’t loosing more weight, and that is good.

In the morning while waiting for her slow roommate Carolina to get ready to leave, she takes the chance to go online. There are fancams and comments about yesterday’s concert, and they are much better than what they were from their last concert where the girls got comments that they seemed tired. Several pictures and fan cams of different angles of Hannah and Julia’s moment from yesterday seems to be popular on tumblr, where fans are uploading things and re-blogging things about the tour. Hannah can’t stop smiling when seeing the short comments below the video, ‘JulAh never fails to make my fan mood tingle’ and ‘they just can’t stand away from each other! xD’. Fans are hilarious.

But …

Hannah gives a grimace.

A video clip among all the pictures and fancams from the arena tour seems to be misplaced, but though it is misplaced it would catch her eye with terror whether it was misplaced or not. The name of the video is -Jjong+Han Couple – Love at Radio-, and the picture on the video that Hannah sees is from when Hannah visited Kiss the Radio not long ago to sing a song with Jonghyun. Lowering the volume, she presses play and bites on her lip as the video starts.

It is from the BORA; the radio program was filmed to air live online for viewers to not just have to listen to the radio but also to watch it. Hannah knew about it, and she had thought she was good to be natural on the show, but apparently not as every single tiny thing is shown in this video. Clips of the radio are there; of Hannah first walking in during the commercials and greeting the others at the radio before taking a seat next to Jonghyun and the next part even has English translation written, maybe for foreign fans to know what they are talking about on the radio.

Hannah grimaces when seeing that they have cut away a few parts. In the clip, Ryeowook asks Hannah how it comes she is a guest on the radio when she is so busy in Japan, and Hannah answers “Jonghyun asked me to come so we could sign a song together”, but then it is cut off so the clip doesn’t have it when she says “and because I miss ‘Kiss the Radio’ I decided to agree on it”. Several parts of the radio with them talking about SHINee’s album and such are shown, but surprisingly not when Hannah and Jonghyun performs both [It’s OK] and [Get Your Kiss] – only after she notices those performances are in a separately video – but the whole video ends with when Hannah was leaving the radio show before everyone else; as she wasn’t there the whole show. In the clip Hannah shows her cell phone to Jonghyun (she had asked him by writing on her cell phone if he is still going to get her after she has been at the gym) and Jonghyun touches the cell phone she is holding out before nodding when meeting her eyes.

Honestly, it really isn’t anything strange with their behaviour, absolutely nothing and Hannah has no idea of why it has such a title until she sees what is written blow. ‘So what do you all think? Could they be dating?’ Hannah wants to write a ‘no’ for answer, not wanting fans to think these thoughts, but she keeps frowning while looking further down on the page at other updates. opens in surprise when seeing more familiar things arriving.

An article? She presses to see the article, her whole heart sinking in when reading the headline saying -Fans Gets Evidence For That SHINee’s Jonghyun & 5 Pieces’ Hannah Might Be Dating- and she scrolls down to see what the article is about.

 

¤¤¤ Headline 18th:  Fans Gets Evidence For That SHINee’s Jonghyun & 5 Pieces’ Hannah Might Be Dating ¤¤¤

 

Yesterday we wrote an article about the rumour of Jonghyun & Hannah maybe being more than friends, and though it is often seen that they are good friends just like the members in SHINee and 5 Pieces are, fans have been sending in “evidence” for that the two idols might be dating.

What kind of evidence is there?

All fans can clearly remember how happy SHINee got last year at the music programs when Hannah’s [I CRY] won one time after another, and especially remembering two of those times when Jonghyun got surprisingly so happy that he even back-hugged Hannah and twirled her around in his embrace. Everyone remembers that. Who would ever forget it?

Last January (2012), Jonghyun and Hannah were caught taking a walk outside the SM building in the middle of the night, which SM Entertainment explained by saying they are good friends and they took some time to talk and get advice from each other as 5 Pieces was preparing their first concert and SHINee was preparing their comeback. A late night walk, just the two of them – they weren’t seen holding hands, but they looked to enjoy each other’s company.

Going back to October 2011 when SM Town went to New York for a concert, Hannah uploaded a picture on twitter of her and Jonghyun at the gym, where she wrote that she got some company by Jonghyun while working out.

And not just that, at 5 Pieces’ Shanghai concert in 2012, Hannah shared a backstage clip where she not just calls Jonghyun for “sweetie” but they were fooling around with each other a little too. A cute clip; which you can watch here below if you haven’t seen it.

And who will forget their duets together? Two great voices got together last year for [Get Your Kiss] that gave Jonghyun and Hannah an image of being the iest duet in K-pop according to a vote, and this year they released the sweet love song [It’s OK]. Jonghyun wrote both songs, and among all great female singers, he sings both songs with Hannah.

A coincidence?

Going in a little deeper, fans have also commenting on that Jonghyun’s close friend is FT Island’s Honggi, who also is Hannah’s very close friend. These three are often seen together whenever there is a big event… Though Hannah and Honggi have been a hot topic for being rumoured to be dating, they have confessed they once dated briefly but it was a long time ago, and honestly speaking, don’t they both seems to just laugh the rumours off? Could it be because Honggi is the third person who is there to not make Hannah and Jonghyun look suspicious?

But while there are so many cute moments between the two idols, fans are unsure because these clips aren’t just from now but they go back years to 2010 if not further, so that is the question; extremely good friends or are SHINee’s Jonghyun & 5 Pieces’ Hannah actually dating?

 

Hannah’s body is shaking; even her eyelids are shaking after reading the article. What is this? Where did it come from?

She scrolls down to read the comments, not feeling her lip hurting from her teeth biting harder on it and her eyes looks troubled when reading comment after comment. This isn’t good.

 

- ‘The article forgets a lot of details; they comment on each other’s tweets, their behaviour when performing [Get Your Kiss] is much more interesting then the actual song, the absolutely adorable clip of Jonghyun filming Hannah when they were recording that y song, and there are thousand of fan-cams with their tiny moments together. my favourite is from that idol star athletics championship in 2011, putting on suncream on each other when they wave Hannah over and Jonghyun puts on clicks of suncream on her arms O_O (Taemin was also there but he isn’t as interesting in this topic)

- ‘Fancams of idols at the airport is where I get the best doze of JjongHan! They never seem to stand next to each other, but they are nearby and they glance at each other… I think they are dating!

- ‘Yuck no

- ‘I don’t like their voices together, it’s like two voices that are both too unique that it gets too much

Answer on the one above - ‘I think the opposite from you actually. They definitely have unique voices both of them, but they work just great together, it’s really nice to hear them sing together. But I’m not sure if I like them being a couple…’

- ‘Hannah is a , no one has as many scandals as she has

- ‘Noooo stay away from each other!

- ‘Do you really think SM would let two of their idols date? And if they dated, would SM let them perform and work together like these two have done? Get real

Answer on the one above - ‘A lot of SM artists have dated, though I think that is before debut. I personally have nothing against them dating, because if you think about it, they both are really passionate about singing and being idols that I don’t think they would really just go disappear from their lives in the spotlight, so if they are happy being together, let them be

- ‘When Jonghyun hugged Hannah they were both completely adorable, but being a couple? Would 5P let their youngest be in a relationship? I don’t think so… And Jonghyun has Key already ^^. I’m hoping they aren’t dating…

- ‘Sure, cute clips and all that, but dating? No.

- ‘I am ready to punch whoever comes up with these idiotic rumours. Hannah has thousand of times said she isn’t dating, so they are not dating!

 

With a pout, holding in her tears, Hannah grabs her things and calls for Carolina that she will go to the other room, and she rushes through the corridor to start knock on the door. The walls in the corridor has been white and she thought they were moving, so she leans towards the door a little to not have to see them. Maria opens the door, sighing when seeing Hannah.

“I’m not ready yet,” Maria whines and gets inside the room to get ready to leave.

“That’s not why I’m here. There is an article about me and Jonghyun!” Hannah cries out after getting inside and she falls down on the bed, filled with clothes that Maria has taken out after getting up.

Maria turns around with big eyes. “You saw it?” she breathes out and the youngest has her jaw falling.

“You knew about it?!”

“It came out yesterday, I’m sorry, but I thought you wouldn’t see it and it would be nothing more than that-”

“This article came out today.”

It gets quiet, Maria just looking blankly at Hannah. None of them knows for how long it goes before Maria shows that she is breathing, and Hannah looks like she is going to cry. “Another article has come out?”

Hannah bites her lip and nods. Maria rushes to the bed, telling Hannah to not think abut it when taking up her cell phone to see what article it is. It isn’t difficult to find it; just go to the k-pop news page and there it is. Maria scans through it and gives Hannah a glance before checking the comments.

“Oh…”

“What should I do?” Hannah looks to be panicking with those big eyes asking the leader for help.

“You know what,” Maria says and throws her cell phone down on the bed, looking at Hannah with focus, “you should focus on today’s concert. Don’t do anything else. This, this is crap, nothing to worry about. I will give Appa a call and you will focus on the concert. Okay?”

Hannah is pouting, not knowing what else to do. What if fans ask her about it? What if someone approaches her suddenly and blurts out the question, how would she react?

 

But she does try to do what Maria says. Without saying anything, the girls go to the rehearsals of their last day in Osaka. No, they have a photo shoot in Osaka tomorrow, but today is the last concert day. Heading to the rehearsal goes fast, and Hannah can’t get away from the thoughts – what more comments have the article gotten now? – Maria even took Hannah’s cell phone before leaving the hotel to make sure the youngest doesn’t try to read the article again.

Meeting up with the band and dancers today when arriving, Hannah tries to get in other thoughts. All questions popping up in her head needs to be pushed aside so she can focus on being polite and the rehearsals that probably will begin soon and … just focus to be 5 Pieces’ Hannah. She still wonders if Jonghyun has seen the article, and when thinking of that she remembers that they didn’t talk to each other yesterday.

“Who wanted to face me off in arm-wrestling?”

Hannah is one among many in the room bursting out in laughter at lead guitarist Kunitaro (Taro) entrance, and he shows off his arms in the t-shirt he is wearing. He said it louder than necessary just because he saw the camera filming backstage for the concert DVD.

“Emelia said she wanted,” female guitarist Miwako answers with a laugh, pointing at Emelia who proudly takes the cardigan down from her shoulders to get to reveal her skinny pale arms. The others laugh at Emelia and Hannah would smile if she was in the mood when thinking of how friendly everyone is backstage.

“She is weak,” Hannah tells Taro when he comes over to the table, asking Emelia where she wants to do it. Carolina comes inside the room, quiet because she never speaks as much in Japanese as she does in Korean.

Hannah tells Carolina what is going on while those in the room are leaning over the table to watch the arm-wrestling. Dancer Seinosuke (Suke) tells Taro to be nice, tells him to have some handicap.

“Why?” Emelia asks him in a dark voice, “You don’t think I can take him on?”

“The only person you can take on is Mei,” Suke answers and points over at the background singer who cutely smiles when hearing her voice. The other laughs again, so happy having fun backstage. Mei is the weakest among the Japanese crew, so they are making fun of Emelia’s strength too. But Emelia isn’t that weak; because she plays the electric guitar she is kind of strong – not strong compared to the others, but, yeah.

Carolina is standing behind Hannah’s chair, watching with the others as the game starts, and Hannah can hear them all cheer and laugh as Taro is making these huge reactions and pretending Emelia is winning over him and it is just really fun. As everyone already knew, Taro wins. He can’t stand loosing, not even to make the girl he challenged a little happy. Carolina challenges next, and Taro shows how surprised he is when they starts the arm-wrestling. The others are making fun of him for starting to sweat, because Carolina gives in her all to try win. They all start to applause when it’s done; and though Carolina lost, it was close. Emelia then wants to face Carolina and the arm-wrestling continues, one after one challenges each other. Hannah runs away before anyone can challenge her.

She misses Jonghyun, wondering why he hasn’t called or texted her today. But then again; Maria has her cell phone. Hannah gives a pout. She really misses him. She can’t believe they haven’t met in four weeks. It’s been that long? Last time was when he came to Japan over the night, when Maria was in Korea with her sisters to watch Super Show 5. It’s been a whole month, a month that has passed so fast with activities and schedules but so slow if she thinks about Jonghyun. She misses his smile and his kisses and how he looks at her and how his fingers touches her hand when he wants to hold her hand…

“Charlie,” Emelia embraces her from behind with a huge smile, “want to take the puppies outside?”

Hannah forces a smile, nodding.

She was so lost in thoughts about Jonghyun, and even when going to their dressing-room to happily call on their puppies Ryo and Michin, Hannah is still a little in other thoughts. She can clearly remember him from the picture of them from Valentines that she has hidden in her bag.

Emelia and Hannah goes outside with the two puppies, taking a little chewing ball with them to kick back and forth with the puppies running after it. The weather today is better than yesterday; the sun is brighter and warmer. Hannah got dressed in a drop-crotch print pants that she usually wears before going to bed or when waking up; like a pyjama, just because it is in black and ivory instead of plain in one colour. They look good, definitely looking really good, but Hannah is this one-colour person. To the pants she is wearing a black logo print sweatshirt, the sleeves pushed up to her elbows and hair hanging out lazily.

When being outside now, whenever Hannah stretches up or gives a jump, the sweatshirt will go up too as it isn’t so long, but she doesn’t care anymore. She reveals more on stage, so though she gets embarrassed and shy, it is just Emelia and their puppies outside with her now – and honestly, in the sun it feels really good when the sweatshirts goes up and a smooth wind cools off the skin on her stomach. And to finish her outfit she has put on a pair of sunglasses now when going outside.

“Michin!” Emelia calls out with a laugh when the brown puppy gives out a bark for not getting the ball.

They are playing around, the girls laughing and the puppies’ running back and forth between them. Emelia runs after the puppies when they get the ball. Michin and Ryo loves to be at the arena tour just as much as 5 Pieces – because most of the time they get to run around freely outside at the back during the breaks.

It is still early, the rehearsals of the day haven’t even started and Hannah is happy. She doesn’t want to think of the article, or think of how much she misses her boyfriend, and she is happy she has her members with her. She sits down on her heels when seeing Emelia running after the puppies, Hannah laughing happily. Emelia always has a lot of energy when playing with their pets.

Emelia continues to play with the puppies, having an endless energy, and it feels like a long time before she is calming down. Michin has walked over to lie in the shadows, not having as much energy as Emelia and Ryo – which is surprising because Michin often has a lot of energy. Hannah laughs at that too, saying Emelia is making everyone exhausted.

The rapper smiles, slowly walking over to where Hannah is squatting down, letting Ryo walk on her side as she is holding the ball in her hand.

“You are thinking about Jonghyun again, aren’t you?” Emelia asks in a low voice, and she smirks when Hannah gives a pout for answer.

“I don’t know what to do about the article,” Hannah pouts, looking down at the ground. Her hands are getting warm in the sun, a feeling that makes her think it is summer in Japan – in Osaka.

“Maria told you to not do anything. And I agree. The article says they got evidence, but it isn’t evidence – it’s just a fan’s imagination. And you said most fans didn’t believe in it, so what’s the big deal?” Emelia says while coming over to stand about two meters away from Hannah, lightly playing with Ryo.

Hannah sighs, not stopping her pouting. “The big deal is that it is the truth,” she mutters and glances up at Emelia, “we are a couple; that is the truth. Our fans don’t know about it; they don’t want it to be the truth. And that is what the deal is about.”

“Then come out with it,” Emelia shrugs her shoulders, “it’s not like you are doing anything wrong.” She rolls her eyes when seeing Hannah continuing to pout. “I’m the judge here, Hannah; if I say your relationship is green, no one can tell you it is red.”

“I won’t say anything about it,” Hannah mutters, “I’ll keep it a secret.”

“For how long?” Emelia asks without a second thought, but before Hannah can answer the door is opened and they both look to see a camera-team stepping outside, filming them. Hannah gives a soft smile, not getting up. Emelia gives a charismatic point to the camera approaching her, starting to talk in Japanese; “We have been caught.”

Hannah smiles a little bigger, but she still wonders for how long she will have to hide from her fans – for how long she will have to lie to them. Julia comes outside with the camera crew, making a lot of noise to get their puppies attention and soon she is running around with Ryo after her. Hannah is in other thoughts, thinking about one comment from the article ‘Hannah always says she isn’t dating’. Well, she isn’t dating because she already is in a relationship, she has thought like that to not feel as bad to keep it secret from her hands. But she isn’t dating, right? Dating is before becoming a couple, right?

She has no idea…

With a smile she rushes up too, running over to Julia to fight about the ball and Michin runs up too over Hannah’s sudden outburst and they all continues to play around in the sun for a little longer until a manager comes, searching for them, to say the rehearsals are starting. He is grimacing, because he has been looking for them everywhere backstage.

 

By the break, Hannah is caught pouting for Maria by the camera. Whenever Hannah tries to talk some private matters with someone, a camera is suddenly there and she can’t talk. Maria’s face-expression tells Hannah to not worry, but it is easy to see that Hannah is worried. She has no idea of what is going on – has Jonghyun texted her? What did Manager Lim in Korea say about the article? Why aren’t any of her members caring to share their information with her?

“Bread,” Hannah shortly comments in Japanese, not showing how annoyed she is to always have the cameras there and isntead shows the piece of bread in her hand for the camera-man, covering with the other hand when talking. “This is curry bread – Japan speciality. It’s really yummy, but my breath smells like curry.”

“Curry smells,” Maria agrees, eating her own piece of bread without caring to cover like Hannah; who doesn’t want the camera-man to get the smell from .

“Osaka fans delivered this,” Hannah tells and gives a smile to the camera, “thank you~ it’s delicious.”

Maria gives a smile, saying ‘cute’ to Hannah when looking another way to see where some of the dancers passing by behind the camera-man are heading. She then looks back at the camera. “Today, Osaka, we are ready for the last concert. We will not cry, but we will laugh.”

Hannah bites her lip when trying to hold in her laughter, looking at the camera-man to see how confused he looks. Hannah is pretty sure Maria knows exactly what she said; it is just, how Maria is so no one understands. Maria somehow looks proud though, turning to look at Hannah when putting in the last piece of bread in , her face-expression blank.

When Hannah starts to laugh at Maria’s face, Maria has to bend forward and cover , complaining in English that she can’t laugh – there is too much bread in – and it makes Hannah laugh even more and the camera-man takes a step back to be able to film them better.

No, no matter how she looks at her life, Hannah will always be the happiest with her members. Having a boyfriend or not, she thinks she wouldn’t be able to smile without her members. 5 Pieces; they are where she wants to be. If 5 Pieces is in Japan, Hannah will be there; if they are in Europe or the US, she will follow. Being in love or not, Hannah will never be the same without 5 Pieces. She knows that, standing here and getting the bread in laughing at Maria, and the laughter just goes louder.

It’s a blessing to be who she is today – not who she is, but what she does. Every day is a blessing. And she smiles knowing that, thinking of her solo performance of [I CRY]. That performance is her chance to show how thankful she is to live, and then when being on stage with 5 Pieces … it is like completing her life. The same way it feels for them to perform in front of their fans, different from how it would be if they didn’t have an audience.

Life is a playground.

Hannah laughs against the wall when one of the male dancers stops his steps to look at the girls laughing, and when the camera-man films him he looks even more confused.

“They are weird,” he simply comments and Maria laughs even more at that comment, and her laugh reaches the dancer who joins in when walking away.

Hannah stops laughing after a while, just smiling now at Maria who even coughs as she tries to swallow the food. “Remind me to never eat near you again when there is a camera around,” Hannah jokes at the leader who starts to giggle and Hannah follows her – they starts to laugh again.

 

Today’s rehearsals are hilarious. Hannah laughs even more than usual, to try being in other thoughts and just thankful for her life and maybe even forces it too much at times, and the concert is really great. Like always, 5 Pieces doesn’t forget to thanks their audience for coming, and hoping they will see each other soon and often. With big smiles, 5 Pieces finishes their Osaka concert.

 

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Headline 17th: ‘Bad Girls’ Arena Tour Reaches Osaka With Over 13,000 Fans On First Day

 

Headline 18th: Fans Get Evidence For That SHINee’s Jonghyun & 5 Pieces’ Hannah Might Be Dating

Headline 18th: 5 Pieces Takes On Day Two In Osaka With A Wild Crowd

Headline 18th: Emelia Shares A Picture With Japanese Dance Crew For Arena Tour

Headline 18th: Are SHINee’s Jonghyun & 5 Pieces’ Hannah Actually Dating?

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I am back! Have been abroad for a week and today I have been too busy having a life so not until now (after 23:00) I have gotten time to update... Hopefully it's good, and don't forget to comment!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ^^.

 

X. devonalias

 

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SuperShannon
#1
Could you upload these storys from winglin.net to here please!!
WarQueen
#2
Chapter 10: lol! This is so cute! I looove criminal minds <3
thehunniex
#3
Seems like a fic I would read.
Lemme grab my popcorn. :D
illlusionist #4
I almost believed the existence of this group.I love your style of writing. Looking out for more updates!!

With thanks and regards
illlusionist
arescom #5
seems nice.