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💬 mengqi98 use the washroom if you have to!!!! don’t just dance!!!! ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ just kiddinggg this is from when we were recording our mini album~ you know, our leader might seem serious sometimes but shes pretty funny (looking) 😌 thank you for taking care of our group!!!! 💜💜 happy birthday sunmom 💜💜🎉🍰  

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[rkmiya]

☆ﾟ.*･｡ﾟ 200501 BIRTHDAY VLIVE ˎˊ˗

AND*ROMA is LIVE! [ gif credit ]

the phone connects and sunmi is beaming to the camera. a stream of comments flow in: and*roma fans excitedly wishing her happy birthday and asking what she’s going to do for her first vlive broadcast. there’s already over a hundred thousand hearts. they’ve been working hard before the broadcast. she’s excited.

“hello everyone!” she greets cheerfully. she see a new wave of comments. many freaking out at her saying anything. it makes her grin. she sees a few comments asking about the other members of and*roma, what they were doing. sunmi blinks. “ah! they’re somewhere else right now. some are probably in their rooms sleeping, i think.” she keeps a wide smile. “it’s okay! we’ll do this video silently so we won’t disturb them, hm?”

she let’s some time pass where she’s just watching the comments. thousands of people asking different things at once. the comments scroll quickly. she hums. “are you guys coming to my birthday fan meeting? it’s tomorrow! check it out on nova’s website. you’ll come see me right?” there’s many english speaking fans. she figured she should talk to them as well. “i was telling them i have a birthday fan meeting. i know many of you aren’t in korea.....so i feel like a vlive can give everyone a chance to celebrate. and it’s late here so it’s earlier in other parts of the world.” this triggers an onslaught of comments of fans who are in shock with her speaking english. “i’m from new york! of course i know how so speak english.”

sunmi props the camera up on the opposite end of the kitchen island. she smiles. with a step back she makes sure she’s in frame even as she begins to bake. “i’m going to make tiramisu! i really enjoy it and i think the girls would like it as well.”

she starts with light whipping the cream. she makes sure to show everyone how it goes, angling the bowl and lifting the whisk so they all could see. she smiles. it’s a little lonely to make a tiramisu on her own but it’s slightly less lonely with everyone engaging on the comments. while she works she figures it’s good to fill the empty space by talking.

“this time last year i was going through a difficult time.” she figures anyone here would remember or know about the supernova project but there’s always a chance that there are new fans who never watched the show when it aired or still haven’t gone back to watch it in the first place. “it was the start of the final month of the supernova project. i was feeling really discouraged.” she doesn’t think people understand how pivotal that point in her career was. she was going to leave nova after. it was already too much time spent. she was nearing her thirties. she didn’t want to wait any longer. “and it was my birthday. i couldn’t spend it with my family. i only had everyone in nova. i’m glad they chose to celebrate it with me. but i know we were all tired and wanted to go home, see our families. i really wanted to see my siblings. it’s hard being away from them so much. everyone in and*roma and per_se made sure i wasn’t lonely.”

the tiramisu was going well. she continued. “i have four siblings.” she peeks to check the comments. many were pointing out ashe. she nods. “yeah, ashe is my little sister. i’m the eldest. i also have my brother sungdong. a lot of you know him as an old royal trainee.” their parents had gotten married some time ago. it wasn’t even a large transition for them. “and we have two younger siblings. the twins.” she pauses, watching the comments pass. “i will see them later in the week for a family birthday celebration!”

just as sunmi gets ready to say they’re almost done preparing the tiramisu, the lights go out. the soft glow of the phone is the only light source. it’s not much, since the screen is reflecting the darkness in the room. sunmi straightens, turning to the doorway of the kitchen. “what’s going on--” she says out loud. she’s ready to call for the girls to see if they noticed the power outage but instead they come in, turning on the light as they enter with the cake in hand.

juhee is holding a cake with the others following closely. they all sing happy birthday as they walk. though judging by the walking speed, juhee is particularly nervous being tasked with holding the birthday cake. she’s so tense as she walks and tries hard not to take large steps. juhee stumbles, quickly recovering with s shuffle of her feet. the jerky motion causes the cake to tilt forward....gravity takes care of the rest.

there’s a chorus of simultaneous screams: all of them poised to grab at the cake even though they don’t make a swipe for it. meiqi seems to fall dramatically like a soap opera star as the cake does. she let’s out a loud wail. had she yelled out “no” it would have been a clip straight out of one of the cheesy dramas where the lead girl gets injured in a car accident. wendy is the loudest with her scream. it’s probably what startled sunmi to yell as well. the candles on the cake rolled towards the couch. the candles managed to ignite the couch corner which sparked another chorus of panicked screams and yells. kaeun is quick to grab a cup of water and douse the tiny flames.

they all stay silent for a moment, looking at the destroyed cake on the kitchen floor and the scorched couch that can just barely be seen in the frame of the video. then seulgi chimes in with, “.....well we can steal eat the part of the cake that didn’t touch the floor.” sunmi looks at her, appalled. “don’t do th--”

meiqi is quick to interject: “eat the cake that touched the floor too! we are clean women there is no need to waste good expensive cake!” sunmi repeated herself, louder this time. “don’t eat cake off the floor!” seulgi shrugs. wendy seems to agree with the sentiment. “we did pay a lot of money for it.” kaeun grabs the serving plate the cake was on and a spatula. she immediately starts to scoop it back where it was.

sunmi looks into the vlive camera in disbelief. she’s not sure how the general consensus became to eat the floor cake.

meiqi uses the distraction to dip her fingers into the floor cake (or floork as seulgi hilariously refers it as) and draw whiskers on sunmi’s face with the icing. it’s goopy and sunmi swears it feels icky. “whiskers!” she declares cutely. she makes whispers on sunmi’s other cheek as well. she picks up the vlive camera and turns it to point at the leader. “say meow sunmi.....sunmeow!”

sunmi waves meiqi off for such a corny play on words before she turns her attention to the others. “yah! don’t eat that floork! i’m making tiramisu. we’ll just finish it together...right?” they didn’t look too convinced but if they were going to eat the floork then at least off camera. “help me finish it guys come~” she reaches behind her, pulling juhee right next to her so they can get it done together.

they finish up the vlive that way: making a new birthday tiramisu together. they cheer when it hits 12 am: marking the actual beginning of sunmi’s birthday. the cake is completed and topped off just as the vlive is set to be done. though the last words of the actual vlive are seulgi saying, “i think eating the floork won’t be that bad.”

[rkmiya]

moondarae:

another year older ; happy birthday to me! 🎂 #taurusszn

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[rkmiya]

200502 ;

@jsominrk

She feels like she isn’t meant to show up around any of the company’s idols no matter how she looks at it. It’s probably the concept that she might cause a ruckus or something, even though she only means well to try to give her fiancée a gift for her birthday. Instead, she asks Dahae if she can deliver the gift for her, hesitant to show her face anywhere near the fanmeeting site. 

She had worked on it practically every day, wanting to give her something that she could at least cherish, even if the teddy bear’s smaller than a sheet of paper in height.

Somin’s also attached left a letter inside, written so carefully so as to not arouse suspicion of their relationship if anyone discovered the note. Any attempts to try to make an acrostic poem riddle were quickly dashed when she realized how terrible she was at it, so it never made it to the final version.

Dear Sunmi,

Happy birthday!

I’m sorry I wasn’t there to be able to give you your gift, but I wanted this to get to you today without getting in trouble. I had thought about what to give you, and I know I tend to overdo it on the gift giving department, so I wanted to give you something that would make you smile.

It’s not my greatest work, but it’s not bad for the first try, right?

Being another year older isn’t something to grieve about. It’s about remembering the memories you made in the past year, for being able to survive another wonderful year and I’m thankful to have met you. We all have our ups and downs, whether it’s through work or with relationships with one another.

Please stay healthy, and take care.

Sincerely, Somin ♡

P.S. I wanted to tell you I went for a modelling audition the other day. I’m still waiting for the results.

Dahae looks around for the AND*ROMA leader, the gift bag neatly shut to encase the delicate gift wrapped in purple tissue paper. “Excuse me, Sunmi-ssi– I mean, Darae-ssi! I want to pass this gift to you from a friend of mine!” She can only hope that Sunmi would notice her among the crowd of people waiting outside to see her, and take the gift before she takes off. 

sunmi was actually kind of glad they decided to have a birthday fan meeting. it was a small intimate affair. she was a little nervous about it. it was a first for sunmi and she was all alone. it wasn’t a bad thing but it felt a little awkward not to have the girls besides her. there was no one else to talk to, no one else to joke around with. just her and her fans.

one could argue that this gives fans maximum engagement. that because there was no one else for her to joke around with that she could talk with fans more. they would be right but there was a sort of emptiness being seated at the long table by herself.

so many fans and so many gifts. and she tried to make a point to not let staff take away the letters. she has a nice pile right next to her that she vows to read when she gets back to the dorms. there will be no doubt that the staff will try to sort out all the gifts but she swears she wants to keep as much as possible.

when it’s wrapped up there’s still some fans who await outside who weren’t able to attend the meeting. she pauses as often as she can, smiling and taking letters and birthday gift bags. she spots a familiar face in the crowd. dahae. she doesn’t know her personally. that’s somin’s friend. but she recognises her from photos and posts on social media.

“hey!” she greets with a smile. she takes the bag with a nod, initially not thinking much of the gift. when she gets into the van she peeks into it. immediately she notices her fiancee’s handwriting. she blinks in surprise, smiling to herself and knowing that out of all the gifts she got today this one would be her favourite.

[rkmeiqi]

@rkmiya​​ — 7,844 likes mengqi98: use the washroom if you have to!!!! don’t just dance...

moondarae: yah!! you can't show them that i actually can't dance ㅋㅋㅋ thank you so much (baby) meiqi~~💞

mengqi98: @moondarae they have to see the side of you that i have to see everyday, or else its just not fair 😙😙

[rkmiya]

﹡* ❪  SMS ☎︎ ┊  MY LETTY 💓 ❫  ⨯   、 2019년 4월 14일

… 💌 ᵎ  ok ………………….. … 💌 ᵎ  i’m not mad ……….. … 💌 ᵎ  /// … 💌 ᵎ  just a little concerned  … 💌 ᵎ  about how you joined a reality show but was like nah at joining royal’s … 💌 ᵎ  not mad ….. just VERY CONCERNED … 💌 ᵎ  definitely not mad bc at least nova is FINALLY doing something for you … 💌 ᵎ  was really about to be CONCERNED at the fact that nova is Lacking af … 💌 ᵎ  but you were so cute in the first episode so i don’t know if i can be really mad … 💌 ᵎ  i hope you’re okay because … reality shows can be really shit … 💌 ˟  ik …. i was in three  –  ❪ DELETED ❫ ᵎ … 💌 ᵎ  but i really hope you’re doing okay

﹡* ❪  SMS ☎︎ ┊  MY LETTY 💓 ❫  ⨯   、 2019년 4월 23일

… 💌 ᵎ  this show is getting so annoying … 💌 ᵎ  i’m literally so mad you have like zilch screen time … 💌 ᵎ  how could they DO THIS TO YOU !!!

﹡* ❪  SMS ☎︎ ┊  MY LETTY 💓 ❫  ⨯   、 2019년 4월 29일

… 💌 ᵎ  im sorry im so ANNOYED … 💌 ᵎ  they stick you in a dungeon, berate you, and THIS is how they treat you on national television … 💌 ᵎ  it’s actually gross wtf

                      ﹡* ❪  CALL 📞 ┊  MY LETTY 💓 ❫  ⨯   、 2019년 5월 2일                                                                          VOICEMAIL ᵎ [ 00:00:59 ]

… “hi letty, LET ME TELL YOU – oh, sorry.” there’s some shuffling and the sound of a door closing in the background. “okay – sorry, i had to go to my room because the manager was giving me a really Bad eye, but oh my god. letty it’s your birthday and i can’t believe i can’t spend it smashing cake into your face. this is the saddest thing ever. but – anyways, happy birthday letty ~ it’s been 234912312 hours since i’ve last talked to you and i know you only get your phones on the weekend but i couldn’t resist leaving you a message. one that you can actually reply to. i miss you so much and honestly seeing you through the television doesn’t do you justice because nova is deciding to be a little shit with it’s editing AND I MUST SAY IT IS SHIT because what the actual fuck –” she huffs, pauses before taking a breath. “okay, that isn’t why i called. i called because i hope you have a nice birthday, and you’re able to be a little bit happier on this day being surrounded by people who love and care about you even though none of those people are me or jinkyung. but i swear, i love you most!” it’s all a tumble of words that she says way too fast that at the end of it she’s taking a nice, long breath and an exaggerated sigh before she continues: “and what birthday is a birthday without the birthday song?” honestly, you could literally, most likely, probably feel the smile coming through the receiver, “and a-one, a-two, a-three, two four! happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday my letty ~ happy birthday to y –” END VOICEMAIL. 

she wants to text mijoo back. she wants to explain why she didn’t join royal survival. she wanted to tell her how she wasn’t in a good headspace and royal survival ended up treating mijoo like shit anyways, so imagine how much worse it would have been for sunmi herself. it wasn’t her time to do it.

she regrets not doing enough. she doesn’t need reminders.

sunmi wants to let her know that she’s doing fine. nothing crazy happened yet. there’s some minor annoyances and she knows they’re not going to do to well but she can’t share that with anyone and it kills her a little. she has to live with this inside of her. she can’t even confess during interview times because it would only be used for drama.

when mijoo texts her again (and she sees it), she’s not surprised to know that she’s not given any screen time. she figures it would be mostly focused on the one nova trainee they’ve only ever given any kind of focus on in the last five years. she isn’t even annoyed to find out that that may just be the case. she wasn’t expecting any screen time or following during this show. she knows that nova will do whatever they want with her because they did nothing but lock her away when she was at the height of popularity by trainee standards.

sunmi wants to text back and tell her she feels like this was a glorified way of just promoting the boys solely because that’s all nova has ever cared about. she hates having the inability to share anything beyond courtesies when they’re on the phone. she hates keeping things from her best friend. they don’t do that.

they don’t do that.

things haven’t been going well. she can’t even face mijoo for the phone call this weekend. she really can’t think of anything to say to the other. if the show has been cut, edited and posted online before it’s even over, there’s no telling what mijoo has already seen. nothing for her to be disappointed in sunmi, apparently, because she still seeems to be on her side. it’s a reminder that mijoo has always been there through thick and thin and that’s not likely to change any time soon. it’s relieving.

she knows mijoo is trying her absolute best to make sunmi happy even when she’s under lock and key away from the general public. the voicemail makes her smile. it’s not that her best friend remembered -- it’s the fact that she took the time out of her undoubtedly full schedule to talk to her. to try and communicate with her. it’s been hard and sunmi has all but forgotten about her birthday but she’s glad that at least some people think of her on the outside even when her company doesn’t.

it’s a little booster for the day but sunmi genuinely and truly cannot wait until she was done with this god forsaken project and back home.

[rkmiya]

(Voicemail from unknown number) hey, it’s been a while. It’s Hyosung in case you couldn’t tell. I know why you can’t come to the phone. Good job! I called to say happy birthday-yep, I remember. (/ sings happy birthday) hope it didn’t suck too much. Bye

【 YOU HAVE ONE NEW MESSAGE .... 】

sunmi chuckled at the voicemail. “wow, what a blast from the past, eh?” she says to herself. she’s smiling while hyosung’s voice plays through the audio output of her phone. good job. sunmi shakes her head. if hyosung knew why she couldn’t pick up the phone then something about the project must have aired.

oh just she waits until she sees that she got put in the danger zone the last month. sunmi was going to be a true disappointment by the end of this project.

[rkmiya]

[ ✉ sunmi. ] 🎉🎉🎉 Happy birthday to the best and most amazing woman I've met! I know it's probably rough (lbr it's Nova) but I know you can pull through this. You can do it! Hwaiting~♡ I'll call you again on Saturday morning to sing you a better birthday song.

[ delivered on May 2, 2019 ]

[ read on May 4, 2019 ]