Celestial- Kim Mingyu

Light a Flame

This year was hard for our group. We had a total of 3 comebacks. Including a full album that we worked on since our debut. The haters were just so nasty and petty to us this year. Comparing us to other groups, slaying we didn't deserve the fame or awards we received. Saying that we weren't allowed to be around Seventeen and many more things. I was mad now and wanted to show people that it didn't affect us. I went to see the person in charge of our MAMA performance this year.

-Hi, how have you been.

-Good thank you, you can seat Nabi-a.

-Thank you.

-What did you want to discuss with me.

-The girls and I have been thinking and we were thinking of started the performance with a black screen that will have all the bad things people have said about us. Having a really impowering song and have one of the members catwalk the stage to go to the other girls.

-You sure you want to do that. Aren't you afraid of the backlash.

-That's the whole point. It's to show how people will always talk about you even when you are exposing them.

-I'll see if we can do it and tell you girls later.

-Thank you.

A few weeks later, he told us we were allowed to do it. The girls and I picked the funniest hate comments and sent them to our team. Here are a few examples:

-SVT will never like you, stop forcing yourselves to be funny around them.

-You have to many foreigners in your group. You don't deserve your fame.

-For a rookie girl group, you sure know to suck up to your seniors.

We had many more like those.

-Can you imagine the backlash we would get if Nabi's eonnie relationship went public.

-Don't worry Haewon-a. It won't happen anytime soon.

-You and Mingyu oppa don't deserve this kind of backlash.

-People will always have something to say. There's nothing we can do, well except expose them.

It was now the D-day. Our Mama performance was kept a secret. We were the closing act. During the award ceremony, we won 3 awards. We were all wearing a variation of the same outfit. All black with our hair colours being the main accessory. Mine was bright red, Yumi's was a dark purple, Minji's was dark blue, Jia's was a bright pink, Izumi's was a coppery orange and Haewon's was half pink half blue. Our outfits were either a dress or a skirt and some top. All sparkly. I was chosen as the member to walk down the stage with the award. We wanted to make an impact with our dance performance. We all had chunky heels, can't have someone breaking an ankle while dancing.

The girls went to get in position under the stage. You know where they have the moving thing to go on stage. I took my place on top of a set of stairs. I then heard the intro: Celeste. I saw the comments being showed on screen. At the same time the screens hiding me were being lifted. That's when Bad Girls started to play, and all our records were being shown on screen. I started to go down the stairs slowly. And started to walk down the stage as if I was a model waking in the most prestigious runway. Before I got to the end of it, the girls were being lifted from under the stage and we walked back to the main stage together as the powerful girl group we were. We were now ready to perform for the next 15 minutes. We were doing some of our songs and got to do a collab stage with Nmixx to Twice's Talk That Talk. We finished and had the whole stadium cheering for us. It was one hell of a night.

We woke up the next day trending everywhere. I also saw edits of us to Bad Girls and reposted a lot of them on my Instagram story. Saw many fans praising us for calling out the haters. I smiled while looking at the comments.