The noise in the dressing-room seems to get louder and louder during the day. We are going through the choreography after rehearsals, getting hair and makeup done as well as changing clothes, we are singing and talking, Kyungho is here and that makes us extra loud and it seems like there is no end to the noise we make. Everyone is talking it seems like. It’s nice though, that we are comfortable with the cameras around. Jonghyun wasn’t, he is so awkward when he is being filmed and not sure what to do or how to act; it was really fun to have him here even if it was just briefly. What’s more fun is when he comes back. By then all rehearsals are done, preparations are almost complete for my team and the concert has began; I am sitting by the table (the same seat as before as I have found it to be the best seat in the room) and Jonghyun is sitting across the table, joining the conversation that Kyungho is super excited about. SHINee’s Minho is here too, being the cause of Kyungho’s excitement. “Is it alright to teach him something like this?” Jonghyun asks, smiling like an idiot because of Kyungho. “Eeeeeeeh,” Kyungho bounces next to the table, imitating the ‘eh’ I tend to do. “It’s for fun, Hyung.” I laugh at him, though I too want to ask the same question Jonghyun just asked I instead look at Emelia who is getting her eye makeup done. “You’ll make a good thief one day,” Minho says. “Not that good,” Jonghyun teases and I smile. “To become a good thief he need good teachers first,” I add and I laugh when both Minho and Emelia scoff, our stylists laugh and Jonghyun holds up his hand for a high five. Kyungho gives me a high five too when seeing me give Jonghyun one, and Minho laughs asking what he does that for since they are after all his teachers. Emelia and Minho have made a pact to teach Kyungho how to steal. Our dancer Shiwon tried it once and failed, so Emelia and Minho have stepped in for an upgrade; to make Kyungho succeed. I don’t know where it comes in but 4 Minute’s Hyuna has been mentioned now when they have been talking about it, I guess they are going to meet her for either advice or to try to steal from her (when it is about stealing, it is usually a snack or candy, something small and if they are going to Hyuna it is probably something Emelia have given our friend). It is all planned without Kyungho’s knowledge to see if he will get caught or not. I’m staying out of it though, both to not be in the camera spotlight the whole time and also because stealing is not really my thing. While they keep talking I glance at the time. Tonight’s concert is long. “I’m ready, yo!” Emelia says when getting out of her chair. “Little one, are you ready?” Kyungho runs out of the room in a flash, definitely ready and excited, and Minho go with Emelia as well as the camera crew, leaving just a few cameras in the room. The awkwardness with Jonghyun arrives when the others leave, though there are still people in the room I am aware that the loudest ones have left and I can’t help but to look at Jonghyun. As in command, the TV on the wall that is airing the concert live plays a familiar song that grabs my attention and by grabbing my attention Jonghyun also looks at the TV. Ana.N is starting her performance, performing her latest song [Love, Love, Love]. “Who is that?” Yong Hyun wonders. “Ana,” Jonghyun is fast to answer. I give him a glance to see his eyes stuck on the TV screen. “That’s Ana?” Chae Hwan looks surprised, also sitting by the table. “She looks different.” “She cut her hair,” I point out. Not much of it, just a bit but that’s the only different I can see. Jonghyun chuckles and I smile at him. He has dyed his hair too, just the roots. I am dying my hair again in two days, or three days, I can’t remember when but it is in a few days. “Hello everyone!” I turn around with a finger to my lips for Taemin to be quiet when he loudly makes an entrance; aware of the cameras. “Ah! It’s her turn already?” Taemin asks and stands by the table. “I-” “Shush,” I remind him with a wave of my hand and Taemin stands there, quietly. We are all watching the performance and I smile as Ana is doing really well. Her voice is amazing and the fan-chant is loud. “The fan-chant is heard,” Jonghyun comment. We are seniors watching this performance, listening to Ana’s vocals and eyeing her performance from beginning to end, being focused and barely saying anything. She does well, she is a born performer after all and you can see she is having fun. When Ana’s performance ends I clap my hands in approval, just to be told to change clothes for my own performance.   Carolina and I go to the stage together just like we did for rehearsals and we meet up with our dancers there. I am wearing a little black dress with sleek mesh panels on one shoulder and around my waist with the dress being a fitted silhouette that is showing off my body line. I like this dress though I wish it was a bit longer. It’s my turn first. With microphone in hand I get in position on the lift and wait for the staff member next to me to count me down. [New Me] performance can begin, and with the music I become the artist and performer; I get y and when doing the beginning I am smiling as I hear the crowd loudly. I hear them better than I see them, and it is a great feeling when starting a performance. Me and my dancers are doing well, but when the chorus comes the music is suddenly stopped. I stop dancing but I sing the last words of the line before I laugh and cover my hand, asking what happened. Something happened with the sound but a voice in my ear-piece says we will re-do the performance from the beginning in a few seconds. “I’m sorry, something happened…” I tell the audience and I laugh again, bowing to apologize. “He-he…” The audience is still cheering though, as if saying it’s nothing to worry about. I keep covering my mouth out of embarrassment, smiling widely towards my dancers and out at the large audience, not really sure what to do. Will it take seconds or minutes before the music will play again? “Are you having fun at Dream Concert?” I ask the audience cheerfully and I hold out the microphone to hear their loud answer. “Yay!” I laugh at how their cheer echoes. The voice in my ear says we are starting again, and my dancers run to the side for their positions and I take a few steps back while saying; “We’re starting from the beginning; can you be as loud as you just were?” The roar is answer enough and I smile out at the audience when starting my performance anew. This time when we reach the same part I am worried the music will stop, but it continues and we cheerfully are singing and dancing with all our might along with the singing and chanting of the audience. What happens backstage after that is out of my control. We go a bit crazy and we act a bit crazy and it is all a bit crazy because Kyungho is high on candy running around as he “succeeded” in stealing candy, not from Hyuna but from EXO, which is hilarious to hear and then everything else backstage is pretty much just laughing and laughing. That’s what I do anyway. Whenever someone speaks, I laugh. I even upload a video on Instagram of myself laughing; Taemin and I were laughing so funnily that we tried to film it, but just as we were filming our laugh we had Ana sneaking in with her laugh and her face, looking funny with us and from a distance both Maria and Jonghyun started to laugh loudly because of how crazy we laughed. {Instagram, 5P_HANNAH: We are going a bit nuts backstage xD} The night is fun and when the end of the concert finally is there 5 Pieces wait next to the stage for EXO and SHINee to both end their performances. The time backstage has been fun, especially since I have been able to talk to Jonghyun. At times we have been awkward, but that’s it. We have laughed and talked and it has been wonderful just to be near him. 5 Pieces have a lot of songs to perform. We start our stage with [Pieces’ Invasion], our first time performing it in Asia and when we start off the whole arena roars out in cheers, and I feel emotional hearing them chant to a song we have never performed for them before. We performs [Girls Power], which is always appreciated, followed by a greeting and we perform [You Thought Wrong Of Me] before surprising everyone with a fourth song that surprise the audience but is probably given the loudest screams and fan-chant of the night; [POWER UP]. I guess it is because it is the kind of song you can just scream along to however you want. Sweaty from all that singing and tired from all that dancing, we still got the ending to do. We get off the stage to drink water and wipe off our sweat for the ending to take place where MC Leeteuk introduces all of the performers of the night. There are many fans on the stage when we walk up, and somehow Ana.N find us as soon as we walk up – or she just looked for us standing at the back of the stage to see who comes up, waiting for someone she knows – and I put my arm around hers to follow Emelia and Maria out on the second stage. It’s crowded but we are bouncing and waving to the audience. At the second stage everyone wants to stand on the sides to face the audience; I got no idea where my members go as they quickly disappear in the crowd of idols, but I have Ana sticking on to my arm and we walk behind everyone, continuing our giggling and laughing from earlier. “There,” Ana says and points over at the audience. I got no idea at all what she points at and she has to tap my arm for me to look where she points a second time. “The hat, can you see it?” she screams in my ear. Somewhere someone has a hat in the audience. I scan the people before I point out at a man with a high hat reading “ANA.N”, he is bouncing and holding up her picture too so automatically I grab Ana’s arm to make her wave at him. She laughs both happily and embarrassed for waving at her male fan, and also because the fans around him starts waving towards us. We find SHINee standing at the front corner of the stage so we slink in to stand next to them, Taemin standing next to Ana and I next to her. I can’t stop smiling out at the audience screaming at the sight of us stepping out and Taemin takes a step back to give us more space. He puts his hands on Ana’s shoulders to let her take his place and he touches my arm to make me take a step towards her, and then he stands behind us with his head between ours. “You won’t be seen back there,” I tell him. “I’m much taller than you,” Taemin answers and puts his hand up above my head, showing there is a height difference between us. Ignoring that comment, I turn to the side, grabs his arm and pushes him half a step forward to be visible for his fans. Taemin smiles widely and waves out at the fans before taking a step back, moving his hands for me to take that place. Ana laughs at us and moves to take out the whole space, waving a bit crazily for fun and out from the side comes Jonghyun leaning in on that space to happily wave too – a camera just passes by, probably capturing Ana’s crazy wave and Jonghyun. Taemin and I burst out laughing the same way at the same time at it. He pushes my arm for laughing like him and I cover my mouth to not have anyone in the audience capture my laugh. Ana grabs my arm for me to come to the front and we do some final waving before we will be heading off the stage again – which takes time since we are so many idols on the stage but we don’t mind as we can take that long line off the stage to wave more. Ana and I part ways somewhere at that time, I still see her, when I’m not busy bouncing next to Infinite’s L and posing with him for some fan’s cameras. In front of us I see Kai and Taemin too, standing friendly close with one arm around the other as if they are talking secret. I stand behind them and try to catch their conversation. I think they are talking about their shoes. I grimace at some fans at the side, smiling as they are actually looking at me and I point at Kai and Taemin not noticing me behind them. The fans’ reactions are glorious and I can’t help but to poke Taemin on the side, making him look that way but I am behind him so he won’t see me, and since they are standing so close Kai doesn’t see me either. I laugh soundlessly towards the fans before poking Kai on the side. He puts his hand there and I guess I must’ve given out a sound because Taemin sees me and they both turn around, laughing and asking why I am poking them. “Are you going to the after party?” I ask them both. “That’s the … fourth time, maybe, you have asked me that,” Taemin tells me. Have I asked him already? “Not four times…” I grimace. “Maybe the second time-” “It’s the fourth, definitely,” Kai agrees and I punch his arm. Taemin laughs at my sudden punch, it wasn’t hard but it was sudden. “How would you know?” I ask Kai who is also laughing. “We’re going,” Taemin tells me, “To the after party. And Emelia said she will take the bartender job to get us a luxury drink.” “Emelia can’t make luxury drinks,” I tell him with a laugh and Kai seems to love that because I too have heard Taemin tell his friends in EXO that Emelia will make something special for him at the after party – I remember now that I have asked him if he will come to the after party. And I also have asked Jonghyun, but he said he won’t go. Ana can’t go because she is underage, but 5 Pieces is going. “Taemin said we’ll create a dance battle,” Kai tells me. “I’ll make you loose in arm-wrestling before that,” I tell him and I point at Taemin too, “Both of you.” “Oh!!” I laugh as Chanyeol makes his way into our circle. “Arm-wrestling?” he asks and points around at us, tall with a big mouth. “I’m in. I heard these two lost last year and it would be fun to see the repeat of it-” “You’re going down!” Taemin laughs at him. I wonder why people are so competitive. I’m just laughing at how silly they are and I keep waving the last meters of the stage before getting backstage. Now that is all here; now, we will go on the after party. Sure, it takes time. We send Kyungho home and have to wrap up backstage, but after all that, it is time for drinking and partying and hanging out with friends. There are two locations for the after party; a restaurant where we start at to eat and drink, and after that we will move on to a private club area. Members of Infinite and 4 Minute are there, SHINee and EXO, SISTAR and other idols, so it will be fun. At the restaurant I expected it to be boring, of everyone just sitting down and talking, but it is not like that at all. We play drinking games, everyone is moving from table to table to talk to different people and most of all the more we drink the more out of hand it all gets; like when I am the one bravely steps up to Taemin to ask if he dares to do a arm-wrestling re-match with me. Yes, I am the one bringing it up in the end, but remember by then I have had a few shots and some drinks swallowed. We create quite the stage for the arm-wrestling, and I am happy when I am not the one in the centre for being the one winning over boys last year. I don’t think anyone knows who is in the focus as everyone gathered around are mentioning whoever they want to face. I do get to face both Taemin and Kai, but not until the two of them face each other. Taemin has been working out since last time we did arm-wrestling, but apparently not the right way. It’s fun, and the loser has to drink. I play against Carolina and Emelia too, and when I win over Emelia we do a cheer and gulp down a shot each; which I am not supposed to do as I won but at that time I had won a few times in a row so I wanted another one. Carolina wins over me though, and that makes her the target for Taemin. Drunk and loud, we go to the next location, not everyone but a few of us at a time. Maria said she wants to go but she