Everything was fine as INFINITE was supposed to debut as 7 boys. Yet, 2 months before their debut, a 8th member is added: a female member. Shin Ri A. She becomes the new maknae, INFINITE becomes a co-ed group, and RiA isn't used to 7 VERY cute boys...
After the successful debut just 2 months ago, we prepared for our comeback stage with She's Back. The music video shooting was today, and the song itself was supposed to give off a summer feel. I had kept my hair long for this comeback, and I also dyed my hair for the first time. Luckily, nothing bad happened and my hair turned out like this:
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[P.S: This is only the hairstyle.]
We were at the beach for my solo scene. The other members were on standby and they were waving at me as a way of saying, "RiA, you'll do great!" I waved back at them and smiled. This was a REAL summer feel I'm having. But, I forgot to change into the clothes I was supposed to wear.
I went into the dressing room to change into the current beach trend. When I came out, the boys' jaws dropped. Literally. They were surprised to see me like this, as we've never had a summer concept, even though we debuted in the summer. Some were drooling, and some of them were slapping themselves when they saw this:
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I waved back at them. My scene was beginning. I was supposed to be waiting for the other members and I had to show some of my aegyo while waiting. Then, the director yelled, "Go in!" to the guys and they ran up to me, surprising me. Woohyun took the ball from me, and I chased him, while the others followed us.
"Cut!" The director said. "That was great! Get changed. We're going to do the pool scene next." We nodded at him and cheered. The pool scene was the one thing we all looked forward to because we got to play in there for an hour after we shoot the scene. Lucky us!
-at the pool area-
Woo Hyun's POV
All of us were ready and waiting for Ria to show up. Man, girls take so long to get ready for something. Men only take like 10 minutes! Women take up an hour!
"Aish...when will Ria show up...we've been waiting for 15 minutes now." Dongwoo hyung was starting to become agitated as he said that. Finally, Ria showed up, and she was exposing a lot of skin. I think I saw her belly button piercing for the first time, too. Huh. Ria has LOTS to tell us...
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"Sorry I'm late. It took me a while to get into the shirt and get my hair in a ponytail." She bowed at us first, and then at the director. Our plot for this scene was to splash Ria since she was sitting by the pool. When she got wet, she'd jump into the pool and get her revenge.
"Okay...ACTION!" I heard. We were already in the pool. I splashed Ria and she gave me a glance. She was only playing around, but her acting was realistic. She smirked and jumped in. When she resurfaced, her ponytail broke, and her hair was in the water. She came close to me and jumped on my back as revenge. Aish...this girl was heavy as hell! I fell over in the water, with her still on top of me. She squealed and jumped off of me.
"CUT! That was adorable, Ria and Woo Hyun! Nice job! That was the last scene of the MV, so that's a wrap!" We all cheered because we could have our free time now...and we deserved it.
-2 weeks later, the week of the comeback stage-
RiA's POV
Our van had just reached the Music Bank parking. I had gotten out, not wearing my mask. The manager told me that I looked great without makeup, so I became the new visual, along with L. L took a picture of me while we were in our van once, and I had a calm face on, because I thought he was just looking at something on his phone, he was just looking at it in MY direction. And the picture came out good, it just came out like this:
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Sure, it looks like I have makeup on, but I don't. I kind of look like a doll. My friends have told me that often when they saw me with a bare face. They even said that I looked like Park Bom of 2NE1.
"Ria-sshi?" Sungjong asked me a question, as he seemed to be worried about something. "When did you get a belly button piercing?" I blushed. I did have a piercing, but I never discussed it...
"I got it when I was 17."
"How old are you now?"
"18."
"So it's only been a year now? Aish..." I nodded at him. I didn't feel comfortable speaking about it. Sungjong looked like he was about to ask another question, but we already reached the door. We had to change, so I was lucky. Phew!
After all of us changed, we made our way on stage for the first pre-recording. All the fans were cheering for us as we waved back to them. Woohyun was doing aegyo, not a surprise...as we waited, I practiced my lines for She's Back. I had to hit the high note nearing the end of the song...so I had 3 parts in total. I also became the new lead vocalist, since I was able to hit high notes very well. There was even a video of me singing SNSD's Into the New World at my school talent show...which was 2 years ago. I could've tried rapping too, but...I already have so much on my plate as a member...
Once after things were settled, we began the live recording. Everything was surrounded in a summer theme. Just like the MV when we filmed it 2 weeks back. After the live performance, the crowd was cheering like CRAZY. I liked performing because it set me free. And I wanted to keep on doing this for as long as I could.
