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The lights flash one after the other. Like headlights, only more blinding. The clicking of cameras and shouting of photographers trying to get our attention still rings in my ears long after walking off the red carpet.

I blink my eyes a few times to adjust to the dark room we were escorted to next. This room was huge. Like basically giant. It had a full stage and professional tv equipment set up. There was probably about 100 tables filled with other idols and their groups. Not to mention. The entire live crowd that surrounded us, they drowned out most of the sound, all that could be heard was screaming.

Especially when they spotted us, they somehow got three times louder. I could hear my name being called from all directions. Even though it was overwhelming I knew it's time to do my job.

I look up and wave to all the fans with a bright smile. Of course this makes the people in that section freak out.

The guys do the same covering different parts of the stadium. I love how we can read each others minds without having to talk.

When we get to our table we are given water bottles for each of us. And of course during the middle of the award ceremony Changbin and Felix thought it would be a great idea to stack the water bottles. He got them to tower up four high but when he went to put the fifth one on it fell. The rest of us were laughing quietly but Chan covered his face. He probably wanted to scold them but now was definitely not the time.

"The winner of Album of the year and best choice award goes to Stray Kids!" The host exclaims gaining our attention again. The tv cameras flip to us and we are all a bit embarrassed considering that all of us were still laughing at Changbin. He quickly places all the water bottles back on the table and we get up to receive the awards.

We were given two trophies so I got to hold one and Jeongin got to hold the other while Chan gave his speech. Winning two awards didn't actually sink in until we got backstage to get mics for the performance.

"Baby!" I yell from my dressing room. Seconds later seungmin pops his head in the doorway.

"Yes?"

"Can you help me with this?" I say attempting to get the microphone wire down the back of my shirt. He laughs coming over to me.

"Of course let me see." He gestured for me to hand him the mic. After giving it to him he untangles it and attached it to the back of my skirt before pulling it under my jacket.

"Thank you." I turn around and give him a sweet kiss. To no one's surprise he didn't let me pull away and kept his lips on mine backing me up until my back hit the wall. We stayed like that until Chan came and knocked on the open door.

"We gotta be backstage right now you guys can make out later." He pulls seungmin off me by the arm and I follow them backstage laughing.

"It's about time!" Hyunjin yells over all the noise. We were underneath the arena right now so the place we're in was small and cramped. All the guys were already in a circle waiting for us.

"Okay let's have a good performance don't get hurt and show what we can do. Straykids on three." Chan puts his hand in and ours pile up on top.

"One, two, three, straykids!"

After we broke the circle DANCERACHA was put in the stage lift thingys and we're lifted up on the stage first for the dance break. The rest of us went up stars and stood on stage in a line, it was dark though so nobody could see us.

Eventually after a few minutes of DANCERACHAS solos, which they absolutely killed, the lights that were around our platform began to light up revealing out silhouettes in black and white to the crowd. Once the music for charmer started the lights around us turned on for real, revealing us fully.

We performed two songs, the first one being charmer and the second one being case 143. Charmer is one of my favorite songs to perform because the song itself is fire and the dance is even better. I get a lot of energy from that song in general so I was super excited when I heard we were performing it on stage.

Eventually the lights on the stage dimmed as we wrapped up case 143. All of us were breathing heavy luckily our mics were turned off once the song ended so nobody could really hear us. We were lowered back downstage and got our makeup and hair redone. We were immediately sent back out after that to watch the rest of the performances. Our escort didn't ocompany us to our table so we kinda guessed which table was ours on our way back. Someone had cleaned up the water bottles and there were two empty tables.

None of us could remember which table was originally ours so we took our best guess.

"There are a lot of stays here tonight." Chan says sitting down.

The rest of us smile, it feels really good to have people that support you present while you perform, it gives you a lot of confidence.

"Yea we definitely have to thank them after this, they got us two awards." Hyunjin takes a drink out of the new water bottles we were given.

"Also.. Alyssa you did great how did you perform that whole thing without any rehearsals?" Minho asks me in a bit of shock, all of the guys were pretty surprised about that.

"I had our stage director give me a debrief of what was gonna happen then I just followed Hyunjin's lead if I got lost. Lucky I remembered both songs really well." I shrug. I wasn't really nervous for this performance, this whole day nothing feels real. The fact we won two awards, the arena of full of stay, and we performed, still hasn't really set in for me yet.

"Professional idol!" Jisung claps his hands laughing. We joked a lot whenever any one of us did something seriously. We sometimes forget about each others serious side because we see the comfortable home versions of each other a lot more. So it's almost surprising when we see one of us do something professionally.

"We air in 45 seconds."

All of us turn our heads to a lady with a mic stand and a wireless ear piece in her ear. She placed the mic stand on our table and we looked at each other surprised. The lady looks at us laughing and she shakes her head. She walks away leaving us confused.

We didn't put the parts together until KARDS Jiwoo got up on our table and the cameras began to film her singing.

I look directly at Chan who was sitting diagonally to me. Both of us are trying hard to hold in our laughs. All of our eyes shoot out different directions to make sure to avoid any potential tweets and the whole situation was really awkward.

My eyes wandered around the stadium looking at various lights and things but eventually they locked with Seungmin's. He was staring at me the entire time so we decided to have a staring contest. After about an eternity her performance was over and she got off the table. As soon as the cameras were off us we laughed our asses off.

"Holy shit." Felix rubs his neck, it was sore for staring at the floor for three minutes straight.

"Guys, this is a reminder that our memories can't be trusted." Chan jokes embarrassed.

"Nope, definitely not."