The Cam

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Solar got out of the van as she walked towards the building. The busy days were finally over, our promotion of Hip was over and the last promotion of Spit it Out was finished just the other day. I just forgot my camera inside the building, it was exactly the camera I was using for Solarsido, I left it somewhere in my last performance after rushing out of the building since I was running late for the post-recording of Inkigayo.

Unfortunately, I don't remember where I left it, it may have been left in one of the practice rooms and the building has 5 practice rooms two recording studios, and the band's room.

The last thing I remembered was coming out of the building after my manager came out saying I was late.

I sighed as I ruffled my now black hair, I had recently dyed it black for my channel.

I greeted the staff I saw as I walked inside, it was supposed to be a day that I had nothing to do but after noticing that I don't have my camera, I, unfortunately, had to go out in the middle of the night.

I checked the two recording studios but there was no sign of my camera, I even asked around the staff there if they have seen a camera but I had no luck.

After checking four of the practice rooms, all of them were empty, except the trainees and our juniors practicing their dance and choreography.

The last room was our practice room, it was ambiguous to say it was 'our' practice room but it was the room where we had used the most and it contained most of our memories as trainees until now.

The hallways were empty until a sound came in, it was someone singing. As I got closer, the sound was becoming clearer and it was not one of our juniors, all their female juniors had a soprano voice but the voice in the corridor was deep and sultry.

I smiled as I listened beside the door, it was Hwasa, her voice was really easy to distinguish amongst singers.

I stood by the side, careful not to be seen as I took a peek. She was alone and I could see my camera sitting comfortably in one of the chairs in the room.

Hwasa stood in the middle of the room as she sang, it was Maria but she sang it slower, almost like she was singing it in a sad ballad version.

I have listened to the song countless times even before it was released. Hyejin sent the song to me one night when she was drunk, I could still remember the multiple typos in the message she sent saying she wanted me to be the first to hear her song, the message was really hard to decipher until she sent a much proper text.

After that night I set it as my call ringing tone. I took it even further, I made Hyejin's "GHOST!" my notification alarm.

Seeing our maknae grow up so fast made me look back to our trainee days. Hyejin was the quietest in the group but on the stage, she was the loudest, with her inexplicable charisma on stage, you just can't help but look at her and with her stage presence, it was easy to get hooked.

She quickly grew up, faster than I anticipated, at first I was worried after the more than a few controversialities she had faced but she got through it all and became so much more.

As the leader of the group, I had to admit that Hwasa has the greatest contribution in boosting up our popularity but I would have been happier if Hyejin's path wasn't that hard and rocky. Seeing her always crying in Wheein's arms hurts so much. It was a sight that made me feel so helpless and useless to my member.

Watching our youngest fight against society alone, the three of us couldn't do anything else but support and cheer our maknae from the sidelines.

One time after accidentally hearing some of the lyrics of LMM, there was a certain part that was almost saying she wanted to quit, I quickly panicked at that.

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