With a light headache coming and going, stronger and softer, I am sitting on a bench at the Hong Kong airport with my head leaned back and eyes closed, nothing filling my mind as I listen to my surrounding. The airport is loud, idols are waiting for the flight back to Korea and fans are crowding the airport to spot their favourite artists that yesterday was attending Mnet Asian Music Awards. I smile just thinking about it and I turn my head to the side, where Carolina is sitting with her cell phone in hand. “It’s stupid, but my eyes are tearing up thinking about yesterday,” I confess with a smile at her. She smiles but doesn’t look up. “If you cried yesterday, you would be dry now,” she tells me and I laugh, wrinkling my nose as she is pointing out that I didn’t cry yesterday while she did. Carolina shows me her cell phone. “Read this.” I do as she asks, and my smile is only growing. A collection of comments about 5 Pieces’ at the MAMA Awards is what she has been reading through and as I read I find out that people take too much notice of details. Our expressions, how 5 Pieces always seems surprised when receiving an award, saying how our performance was the strongest performance on MAMA, the capital letters expressing how hot it was when Maria made G-Dragon stand up for her during [You Thought Wrong Of Me], talking about our performances and award speeches, how Carolina was singing along to some songs and Emelia was rapping along during the hip hop stages, how tight the five of us where from beginning to end, how EXO and BTS are 5 Pieces’ biggest fans because they were singing along for our songs and had the best reactions when 5 Pieces won, that Carolina ended up being the one crying while Maria was the one constantly choking up during the speeches, that Kai and I was smiling next to each other at the ending, how gorgeous we looked at the red carpet, how we “slayed” the whole show and that we owned this year’s MAMA, that Iggy Azalea was forgotten even if she was the guest during [Black Widow] – that one is slightly funny actually because so many comments says that Hannah (me) took the spotlight for that performance because I looked to have so much fun, Carolina seemed a bit off and Iggy was just between us. Someone said that Emelia would’ve done better as the rapper. “We just have to look at the fan-cams later,” Carolina tells me when taking the cell phone back. “What’s that?” Looking up, I smile at Tao and Kai walking up to us. Carolina hold out her hand first to do a friendly handshake, but Tao and Carolina are completely weird and Kai laughs at them both failing at even touching their hands for the try. Tao gives up and points at my t-shirt instead, repeating the question he had asked. What’s that? I grimace. “I lost,” I answer and show them the t-shirt that says I dedicate my soul to the sweetheart Julia. Kai chuckles adorably and I focus my eyes on him. “Not funny,” I mutter. “It is funny. Because the other day you were showing pictures of Carolina being at the airport-” Kai starts to say but is interrupted by Carolina bursting out in laughter and saying this is her revenge to me for having so much fun when we went to Hong Kong. The role has changed. But I’m not the only member in 5 Pieces wearing this t-shirt: Julia has one too. When entering the airport we had some fun by having Julia and me walking next to each other, showing off our matching t-shirts. Today I’m lazy in the t-shirt, drop-crotch print pants, sneakers and Jonghyun’s hoodie. I have the cap hanging from my bag in case I want to put it on, but for now I’m relaxed without it. Kai sits down next to me, tall and skinny, and soon Chanyeol comes over too as it seems like he and Kai are playing some online game together on their tablets. I end up leaving my seat for Chanyeol to stop leaning over Kai as it will ruin his back, so Chanyeol take my seat and I stand up – my headache gets better. A few minutes later we can board the plane. I take my seat and connect my earphones to my cell phone and ears to get some sleep; I’m very tired today. The plane has just taken off when it seems like most people have fallen asleep and I am tiredly sitting with my eyes closed. Our music video for the Christmas single has come out today; tomorrow we will have our first performance, meaning that when we come back to Seoul today we will head to the practice-room to prepare for the ballad performance. I should get some rest while I have the chance. The flight to Korea is quick, it is the ride from the airport to the agency that takes time and when arriving at the agency we eat and talk about the weekend’s schedule. It is a winter comeback for us this weekend, meaning we will do performances, interviews and radio appearances to promote the single. Seoul has changed since we were here a few days ago. It looks like winter in Seoul now, it feels like winter has arrived – during the three days we were away it has been snowing in the city. A few centimetres of thin snow is covering the city and during our meeting we decide to wrap up early to head home for our pets and see how excited they are for the snow. According to Julia’s mother, the dogs have been playing in the yard and during the walks while our cats haven’t stepped a foot outside. I am curious to know how Tiger will react to the snow, her first time, and after finishing the meeting and practice we all head home to wash up and relax before tomorrow’s activities will start off. “Let’s order chicken,” Maria says when we are walking inside the house, leaving the cold air outside to meet the warmth inside. “I want pizza,” I grimace. I have craved for something unhealthy all day, blaming the headache I had earlier. Maria turns around and hits me out of the blue, and I groan in response covering my body from being hit again and asking why she did that. “Let’s order pizza,” Maria answers. She hit me because she wants pizza too… “Oh!” I gasp when Tiger comes running from the living-room to us. I gasp in surprise because Tiger is supposed to be in my room when I’m not around, as we can’t leave her and Ace alone in the house just yet. I hurry to kick my shoes off to the side to pick Tiger up when she comes over to me and look over at my door that is wide open. “Maybe Julia’s mom opened it when we said we were coming home,” Emelia shrug her shoulder. All of us go to our own rooms as soon as we leave the hall. I keep asking Tiger how she came out of my room, if it was Julia’s mother letting her out and then asking how she has been. Talking to pets is pretty much something we always do, I have realised, especially since I can hear Emelia starting to talk to Ace in another room. The first thing I do is to lie down on top of my bed with Tiger, just falling down on top of it and breathing out. I will sleep well tonight. Hugging on to Jonghyun’s hoodie around me, I look around in my room as if checking it is the same as when I left. “Everything’s like it should,” I comment and turn around on my side when Tiger jumps down from the bed. She walks over to her things and I spot what’s not the same as when I left. Frowning, I glide down on the floor and crawl over to the wall where Tiger has her bed and toys, and she lies down on her back when I approach so I caress her stomach while reaching out for some wrapped cat candy that I have never seen before. “Where did you get this…?” I whisper to Tiger. If she had taken it from another room it wouldn’t have been standing nicely by the wall like that. With a groan I get up on my feet, bringing the candy with me and Tiger is quickly running by my feet as I leave the room. “Emelia?” I ask and peek inside her bedroom. “Yeah?!” she calls out from the kitchen. “Has anyone given Tiger candy?” I ask in a loud voice and lift my feet high when changing direction to not step on Tiger. “She won’t die by getting some candy,” Maria says as she comes running down the stairs. I smile seeing she has thrown off her clothes, coming downstairs in and holding her hands over her s when bouncing down the stairs. “Baby, run over to the other house and ask if they want pizza too.” Maria has the tendency to run around without clothes, to get something in another room or something, but I think even after all these years together I still find it silly – I always put on a shirt or something if I’m not fully dressed leaving my room. “Yo, EM,” Maria says when entering the kitchen, “Could you order the pizza? I’m super starving.” I enter the kitchen seeing Maria head to the bathroom and Emelia looking out from the cabinet in search for cookies probably. I hold up the cat candy in my hand to ask Emelia if she knows where this comes from when Maria gives out a scream and runs out from the bathroom. Without another word she just runs past me and hides on the other side of the table, staring at the bathroom’s door as a woman comes out of there. “I’m sorry for scaring you!” the stranger apologizes politely to Maria, lowering her head and I just stare at her. “Who the heck are you?!” Maria shouts, stomping her feet before squatting down. “Could someone give me my sweater in the bathroom? It’s cold.” Emelia doesn’t seem as shocked as Maria and me, she doesn’t mind stepping inside the bathroom to get Maria’s sweater. “No one told you?” the woman asks. “Told us what?!” Maria shouts. I understand she is not in a good mood walking around topless inside the bathroom to meet a stranger in there. “I’m the new housemaid…” the woman quietly says. Emelia comes back out from the bathroom and throws a colourful sweater to Maria, I just stare at the woman. “Apparently Appa forgot to tell us about it.” “What the heck happened to the other one then?” Maria asks in a cold tone. “Our complaints have reached them,” Emelia simply answers, going to leave the kitchen. “What pizza do you guys want?” Emelia seems to not care at all that a complete stranger is in the house, but I find myself standing in the kitchen corner and I have lifted up Tiger in my arms as if holding on to her I will protect us both. Maria steps out from around the table when she is wearing her sweater and she hold out her hand to the stranger. I just want to kick her back to the safety behind the table. How can we trust what this girl says? She might’ve sneaked in and is lying straight in our faces right now. “Nice to meet you, I’m Maria,” my friend says when shaking the stranger’s hand, “The captain and leader in this household.” “Oh, it’s very nice to meet you too,” the stranger stutters a bit and I lean my back against the wall. “My name is So Yun Hee. As your new housemaid I have been given all the rules and I will be strict to follow them. Please let me know if there is anything else I can do for you.” Maria laughs and pats the girl on the arm. “Don’t worry about it. And sorry for bursting in without clothes on,” Maria comments and nods to the bathroom. I leave the kitchen without a word, not wanting to introduce myself to the stranger and I don’t want to hear Maria and the stranger exchange polite apologizes or what it now is they are doing. Instead I head back to my bedroom, put Tiger down on the bed and pick up my phone to call Manager Lim – he will confirm if it is a crazy person talking to Maria or if we actually have gotten a new housemaid. Sitting down on my bed I keep my eyes on any movements outside my room and I keep patting Tiger who is rolling around in the bed next to my leg. But the call doesn’t go through. “Emelia!” I call out when the second try doesn’t go through either and I throw the phone on my bed and picks up Tiger to leave my room. Emelia is found in her bedroom, kicking her bag open on the floor and holding her cell phone in her hand, having the loudspeaker on so after calling her name again I realise she is actually on the phone with Manager Lim and I quietly stands next to her bed. “So that is what it’s going to be like from now on. She is a nice girl, 27 years old with four years working with cleaning so she knows what she is doing too. Be nice to her, Emelia, tell the others too,” Manager Lim’s voice is heard on the loudspeaker. “Appa,” Emelia says, “Tell Hannah that too because she is looking at me right now as if we are being friends with a burglar.” In Korean, I don’t know what the word ‘burglar’ means but based on Emelia’s and mine friendship I’m certain that whatever she says is the truth and I puts my mouth against Tiger’s fur as our manager explains to me that our complaints about the other housemaid for all these months have gone through, especially since she kept on messing up in the house and she was buying the wrong groceries. So Yun Hee will do a better job, according to our manager. “Don’t stay up for too long, ladies, I’m hanging up now,” Manager Lim finishes the call and Emelia puts her phone on the bed. “Go ask the others what they want for pizza,” she tells me and squats down to unpack her bag. I shake my head. “I’m going to play with Tiger. She hasn’t been out in the snow yet,” I answer. “Then go ask the others at the same time. I’ll be ordering pizza in a few minutes.” Pouting, I leave her room. At first I think about ignoring that, but if I stay in the house I might have to greet the stranger and I don’t feel like it so I go get my phone, puts down Tiger and tells her to come along (she is following me but I tell her anyway so she will know she can come) and with my shoes on I open the front door. She is adorable! As soon as the chill air is felt she backs away and lies down. I don’t usually let her walk out the front door, but I know Maria will start screaming if I open the glass doors to the porch. I squat down outside the door, holding it open with my body I hold out my hand and calls for her to come. She hesitates, but as a curious little kitten she comes jumping over to the door and curiously looks inside. I back a l