Photographer ✰Hwang Hyunjin✰

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For some reason, the next morning, I didn't hear my alarm.

I was still sleeping peacefully when my ringtone began playing. At first, I tried to ignore that annoying noise, but it had already woken me up.

I looked at the screen, it was Jaehyun.

I picked up the phone

"Where are you?" He screamed through the phone "It's 10 am and you're nowhere to be seen"

I furrowed my eyebrows. How could it be 10 am? My alarm hasn't gone off yet.

Thinking it was just one of Jaehyun's pranks, I checked the time on the clock right beside my bed.
It indeed was 10 am. Which meant I was 2 hours late for the shoot with Stray kids.

I quickly ended the call before starting to get ready.
I rushed out of the house and hopped in the car.

The streets were jammed, I've rarely seen so much traffic. I'll be even more late.

I decided to order coffee and pastries for all the staff and the members as an apology for being late.

After more than half an hour of waiting, the cars in front of me finally started moving, so I was soon able to reach the studio.

I got off the car and walked as quickly as I could to the entrance. The food and the drinks were still on their way, the delivery was probably also stuck in the traffic.

I entered the building and, after putting my bag down in my office, I went to the set.

The boys were all waiting for me, sitting on the sofas that we were supposed to use as props.

As soon as I walked in, their heads instantly turned and their eyes were on me.

"I'm extremely sorry for making you wait" I apologised as I bowed deeply "I ordered coffee and pastries for everyone, I hope you can forgive me for being so unprofessional"

"Don't worry, it's not that big of a problem" Chan said calmly "It can happen to everyone, so you have nothing to apologise for"

"Thanks for the food tho" Jeongin added

I chuckled "You're welcome, it should be delivered here soon"

"Let's start with the shoot and then take a break when the food comes" Changbin said

We all agreed. I had barely begun to start taking pictures when I got a notification from the delivery app: my order was here.

"It's here" I announced

"I guess we won't start then" Changbin said, shrugging his shoulders

We laughed and I left to get the food.

I was at the entrance of the studio and a boy in a green uniform approached me.

"Delivery for Yang Hanseo?" He asked me

"It's me" I replied

"Great" he said "Here is your order, have a good day"

"Thanks, you too" I took the bags in my hands and headed back inside

Near the set, we had two big tables. They were usually just a place to neatly display the props, but since I needed somewhere to put the food and the drinks, I had to move the props to another place.

I took everything out of the bags "Here, take whatever you want"

They were a bit hesitant at first, but after Felix took an americano and a chocolate flavoured pastry, the others followed his example and enjoyed the snack.

Just 20 minutes later, there was no trace of the food and the drinks left.

We resumed the shooting. They agreed on skipping the lunch so that we could finish earlier.

The last photo was took and the photoshoot came to an end.

"Oookay" I said, putting the camera down "We're done"

They relaxed and sat comfortably on the sofas we were using as props.

"We'll be seeing each other again though, right?" Hyunjin asked

"Yes" I nodded "We have some MVs to film. Since today is Friday, I was thinking that we could rest for a couple of days and begin filming the MVs on Monday"

"We'll have to ask our manager, but I think he will agree" Chan said "Since we skipped lunch, we should eat something now, are you with us Hanseo?"

I shook my head "I'm sorry, but I'll have to refuse. I still have some work to do"

"Aww come on" Jeongin whined "Can't you just eat with us and then go back to work?"

"No, I must send everything by tomorrow, I really need to finish this up, sorry"

"Oh, okay. Make sure to eat though" my brother said

"Yeah, don't worry" I smiled

"We'll get going then, our manager is here already. See you soon!" Changbin said, waving at me along with the others

"See you on Monday" I waved back

When they left, I cleaned up the set and put away the props before heading to my office.

I sat at the desk and connected the camera to my pc via cable to download the photos.

I had to edit them before sending them to the boys' agency.
It's not like they needed any photoshop, but I had to crop them and select the ones to keep and the ones to discard.

I took a bag of chips from one of the drawers. This was definitely going to be a long day of work.