Together As One

Black Out

[Solar's POV]

When I heard about Hyejin's low blood condition last week, it worried me so much. With how hectic our comeback schedule was and being the year-end, the opportunities to rest would only decrease more and more.

While the other members were having their make up done, I went to find Manager unnie to discuss about Hyejin's situation.

"Unnie... so what did CEO Kim say about the situation? Is there any way to lighten her schedule?" I ask her.

She shakes her head.

"Sorry Yong Sun, we tried very hard to find a way, the only way is to cut down on festivals that you girls attend, but her main programmes like as an emcee for the MBC Entertainment Awards, I Live Alone appearances, etc can't really to cut down as it involves too much last minutes changes. What CEO Kim has proposed is for Hyejin to book an appointment with the private hospital for next week on one of the days you all have no schedule and cancel your practice instead. That way she can get a more thorough checkup earlier. What do you think?" She asks me.

Hmm... it was a bummer that we couldn't cut down on the schedules due to the prior commitments made already but at least she could have her check up earlier.

"I think that should be fine. Just got to check with her later unnie... you know... she is a little...embarrassed by the whole situation and attention." I thank Manager unnie and go back to find the girls.

[Moonbyul's POV]

I stare into the mirror while waiting for our stylist-nim to return with a different piece of clothing. I notice Hyejin sitting down on the sofa zoning out. Ever since her depression was confirmed by a professional and she started seeing a therapist, we started to take note of her mannerism more often than before.

I realised Hyejinnie spaced out very often and although most MooMoos believed otherwise, her introverted character really showed. I remember at the start of debut she was the very vibrant girl often being the mood maker, helping to hype of the mood and being very talkative. However, over the years, our maknae changed. Her joy seemed to be dampened and she no longer was as talkative as before. She got quiet more frequently and sometimes it got scary when she suddenly grew silent for prolonged periods of time. At first, we had all thought it was the stress or just a development of her shy personality. Well... turns out it was the stupid haters who inhumanely led to this. Hyejin really didn't deserve to be verbally abused and tossed aside like that. It really angered me everytime I saw some stupid hate comment about her online. I knew she always kept a chill image in public but when it was just amongst us members and when she thought we weren't noticing, we could see the pain from her eyes.

Our stylist came back and quickly finished my outfit. I thanked her and got up to join Hyejinnie on the sofa.

"Oh unnie......" She dragged her words and leaned against my shoulder.

I smiled and pat her head. Our maknae was sleepy. This was the last schedule for today and we would be able to return to the agency to practise before calling it a day.

"You eaten your meds jinnie ah?"

"Mmm" She mumbles sleepily.

"Good lion cub hehe" I pat her head gently again and take a short nap until Manager unnie called us again.

[Hwasa's POV]

Finally every single schedule for today had ended. We were now in the agency after our dance practice had rounded up. To be honest, I haven't been able to rest much the past week. I barely got 2 hours of sleep a day. RBW took care of us but it was my insomnia that had caused me to lose out on sleep. Fortunately, for the next 2 days we would be free to rest as we had no schedule planned. Manager unnie had informed me earlier that CEO Kim had proposed to just book an appointment for tomorrow at the hospital since we all had no schedule. I agree of course knowing that if I delayed any longer, it might worry the rest more and I didn't want that to happen. It had happened too much this year already.