#supernova.

huidong was no stranger to the things that were happening with and*roma. she kept him regularly updated with everything and always updated him with how the girls were doing, how everyone was getting along. and he reciprocated the same courtesy with the per_se boys. it’s hard to “parent” separately now but they always take time to touch base.

“can we go out to eat? i’m really hungry,” she says with frown. “and i’m tired of eating in the cafeteria.” they were idols now. they could be ferried anywhere they wanted by their managers. she digs into her pocket. “besides i can’t give you your tickets to showcase in front of everyone. they’d be jealous!” sunmi smiles as she whips out the ticket for him. it’s nothing monumental. it was just a showcase. but it’d be nice to have him there.

“haknyeon is coming too so sadly you have to babysit,” sunmi teases, nudging his side. “but uh, it’ll be nice, right? you get to meet the new girls.”

[ + 670 - 590 ] eu achando que kronos seria o primeiro a debutar... [ + 984 - 023 ] parece um conceito poderoso espero que as meninas não mostrem a pele seria apelativo demais  [ + 1502 - 074 ] final de julho nunca esteve tão longe

it’s fairy obvious that sunmi has been in better spirits recently. most would assume it’s the upcoming debut as she’s spent nearly her entire young adult life as a trainee and she was finally able to be in a group and grace the stage. but there was a secret to her smile. so far, not many people knew.

there’s no physical evidence that sunmi brings with her (obviously) but the way she gazes at her phone sometimes after receiving a message is more than enough for people who pay close attention to see that there’s someone who makes her smile. a select few people knew (read: three people knew) and sunmi usually wasn’t forthcoming with the information but it’s nice to sometimes be able to speak about it with someone.

“have you been taking care of yourself?” sunmi asks softly, playing with haknyeon’s hair as she often does. she combs her fingers through it, smoothing it back. with debut comes an intense lack of self care. she didn’t want to see the youngest end up with gaunt eyes and dark circles. “listening to leader-nim yeah?” nothing would ever happen to the boys while they’re under huidong’s care. sunmi knows that all too well. that doesn’t mean she doesn’t worry.

her phone pings. it’s a message from her fiance. looking down at her lap, her phone unlocks and shows the message preview banner. sunmi couldn’t help but smile hard at the picture, momentarily distracted from her conversation with the maknae. she looks up at him, patting his shoulder. “i’m sorry sweetie can you repeat that?”

any time sunmi is outside of the dorms or somin’s place, she is sporting a cap. it doesn’t take much to obscure her hair. and she doesn’t really have to. it was never a secret for her to hide but honestly, as time goes on and as annoying the upkeep is, she would rather keep her hair hidden from anyone seeing. it’s been like this for nearly a month already. no one has really seen beyond and*roma, thanks to their secular training they have for debut. they haven’t been in the company much because of filming and such. (for that, she’s thankful)

this was amongst the last times she was going to be in nova for an entire month. she was looking forward to it. to be able to go to other schedules then go home would be a dream. because starting the 18th, she would be a debuted idol. she definitely wouldn’t be missing training every single day, day in and day out.

coming in from outside after lunch break, sunmi heaved out a sigh. she hasn’t seen other nova trainees in so long she’s not even sure how they’re doing. sometimes it was easy to forget about the others in the company because she was so consumed into and*roma activities. she wonders how they’ve been.

she goes towards the dance rooms to see who was around. after some walking and peeping through studios, she sees a familiar way-too-young girl whom she had mistaken as a sasaeng some months ago. the memory makes her smile. she lifts her hand to wave, effectively knocking off her baseball cap. it falls to the floor with a soft thunk and sunmi’s pink hair frames her face. she picks it up with a sigh, plopping it back on her head. there wasn’t much point in tucking it all back in. she’s sure hyojeong saw it.

“hey, how’ve you been? not practising too hard, right?”

DATED: August 16

sunmi’s bliss after getting engaged still hadn’t passed. the fact that she was engaged still wasn’t sinking in. she got on one knee. she proposed. she actually did it. and the best part of it all was that somin said yes. sunmi had a fiancee now. the idea seemed wild. at some point in her life, sunmi resigned to the fact that maybe she wouldn’t really find her person until she was well into her thirties, tired of the idol game (if she ever debuted), only because this seemed to consume her life for years. it seemed like life was finally falling into place.

this also meant that sunmi couldn’t make it obvious that she was engaged. any ring that she got to accompany somin’s, she’d have to either hide or lie about its origins. it’s not like she could say it was her mother’s ring. she usually wore it around her neck on a chain. so she would have to get crafty if she ever got asked about wearing it.

in the dorm was the hardest to contain her feelings. she wasn’t sure she could go around telling anyone about what happened. not that she doesn’t trust them but the more people who knew the riskier it was for a slip up. she didn’t want to keep anything a secret from her members. besides, only two of them even know she was dating someone in the first place. though needing to tell someone or else she would burst from the energy, she knew that wendy has been supportive from the jump. she would never tell a soul (and hasn’t since she first found out about the relationship between her unnies). wendy may be young but she had a good head on her shoulders and was reliable.

“hey wen,” she whispered to only catch the attention of the younger. they couldn’t speak in the living area about it. other members could overhear. her own dorm was probably safest since meiqi was the only other person to know about her relationship and meiqi wasn’t currently in the room anyways. “close the door when you come in. i gotta show you something.”

she’s been meaning to catch up with bambam more since the end of super nova project. it’s gotten a little harder to keep in contact with those outside of the groups because things have been geared toward and*roma since the conclusion of the show. moving out of the dorms set up by nova then moving into their official dorms for the rest of their career: recording songs, learning choreography and now dyeing her hair and getting ready for photoshoots. everything was finally coming together.

sunmi at the very least made the effort to tell the younger that they could catch up over dinner. her treat of course. eating out would give them some time away from nova. they would have privacy and would be able to get to enjoy themselves in one of the few moments they had before sunmi was whisked away for debut.

when they’re seated at the table, she smiles at him. “so, what have you been up to? i imagine you have way more life updates than i do.” since her life has been focused on one thing in particular. sunmi would even take being told about the cool ass evaluations they’ve been getting. “a lot must have happened for you in the last few months, right?”