Chapter 286
After the fan meeting, we returned to the waiting room exhausted.
We performed the last stage,
We were out of breath, and our whole bodies were soaked with sweat, but we all shouted loudly with sparkling eyes.
"Everyone worked hard!"
"You worked hard!"
"Guys, you really worked so hard!"
We all laughed when we saw each other's faces while doing Ganggangsullae in the waiting room with our arms around each other's shoulders.
Everyone's faces were red or covered in sweat, and their hair hung like seaweed.
"Hahaha! Siyoon hyung's hair is really funny right now!"
"Hey, Heo Yubin, you're no slouch either. Your bangs look like a poodle, a poodle."
While we were making fun of each other's facial expressions, we suddenly heard the sound of the waiting room door opening.
Everyone turned their heads toward the door.
"Hey guys, congratulations on your 1st anniversary!"
"Wow-!"
"The cake is huge!"
The manager came in with a bright smile and a huge sky blue cake.
On top was written [Happy 1st Anniversary 4/30] in a fancy font.
Our logo was printed in large letters in the middle.
When we went straight to the manager to look at the cake, the manager said something in a slightly trembling voice.
"Uh, guys, I'm sorry, but this is a bit heavy. Can I put it on the table? I'm nervous."
"You're not going to drop it, are you?"
"If you do, it'll be a big deal!"
"Of course I know! So please move over a little bit!"
Fortunately, the cake landed on the table without any major incidents.
I thought to myself as I looked at the beautiful cake.
It seems like it wouldn't be okay for us to light candles and celebrate like this.
At that moment, Yoo Min-ha raised his hand, as if he had the same thoughts as me.
"Hyung! Can we turn on our live broadcast? I think we should celebrate this with our fans!"
"Oh, I thought that too."
"Yeah, it's a shame to end it like this."
"I had the same thoughts as Min-ha."
"......Okay."
All the members agreed with Yoo Min-ha.
Then, Manager Hyung nodded with a big smile, as if he had expected our suggestion.
"I knew that would happen, so I got permission in advance. How about it, This hyung is quick to get things done."
"As expected, hyung is the best!"
"As expected, this world's best manager, best worker, Sigma's eternal top manager, our best driver, Yeo Changmin hyung!"
"I told them in advance because I thought you'd 100% say you wanted to do a live. But first, let's cool off a bit and then turn on the broadcast. If we do a live like this, we'll be in big trouble."
The members obediently followed their manager hyung's words. They sat down in their seats and relaxed their bodies to cool down a bit.
The coordinators used this to quickly fix our makeup that was ruined by sweat with lightning-quick movements, and the staff, who finished reorganizing in 20 minutes, began to set up the Star Us live in earnest.
"...... I don't know if I can say this."
"Huh?"
While the staff members were busy moving around in front, Ji Yoon-chul looked at the cake and said in a small voice.
"I'm so hungry, I want to eat the cake quickly......''
Ji Yoon-chul, who usually enjoyed sweets, seemed to really want to taste the flavor of cake now.
It was understandable that he was hungry. Since we didn't eat food before going on stage, our last meal was actually 6 hours ago.
Kang Si-yoon also followed Ji Yoon-chul's hazy gaze and looked at the cake.
"I didn't think much of it until I heard Yoon-chul, but now I'm so hungry too."
"It's been so long since I've eaten."
Then Song Hyung-bin tapped Kang Si-yoon on the shoulder and said in an expectant tone.
"Will Si-yoon make something delicious again tomorrow?"
"Oh, no. I'm going to take a break. It's so hard. Let's order delivery tomorrow."
"That's too bad."
The call came that we could start the broadcast, and Manager Hyung kindly pressed the broadcast start button for us.
I could see a lot of Seleves rushing in like a tidal wave after receiving the notification that StarUs Live had started.
It was always amazing to see the huge amount of messages piled up in an instant.
"Seleve, hello!"
"Hello!"
"I came running back here because I missed you, Seleve!"
After seeing us turn on the broadcast in the same outfit as the last stage of the fan meeting, Seleves sent us a series of touching messages and were happy.
Many people said nice things like "Thank you for coming despite the physical difficulties" and "The fan meeting was so much fun" and so on, which was touching.
"Seleve, today is our formation day! That's why we received such a wonderful cake, but we thought it would be nice to blow out candles with Seleve, so we turned on the live."
"Let's light candles, candles."
"Where are the matches?"
Chae Eun-gyu used the matches in front of him to light the large candle in front of our logo.
Looking at the beautifully burning candles, it felt like the emotion I felt when I shed tears on stage earlier was rising again.
As I tried to control my expression, Kang Si-yoon, who caught it amazingly, whispered to me.
"You're not crying again, are you?"
"Ahem, I'm not crying."
"Why, on a day like this, you can cry as much as you want."
"If I cry again now, you'll tease me."
"You really know me too well."
We sat in a circle in front of the cake and sang along loudly to the leader Song Hyung-bin's chant.
"Happy 1st anniversary! Happy 1st anniversary! Congratulations on our 1st anniversary!"
"Seleves, make a wish with us!"
Everyone put their hands together and closed their eyes tightly.
I closed my eyes tightly and thought to myself.
'I hope we all have good results in our future activities and that we can move forward happily without anyone getting sick.'
Song Hyung-bin opened his eyes and looked around at the members.
"Did you all make a wish? Now let's blow out the candles."
"Did Seleves make a wish?"
"If we count together, we'll blow, hoo!"
"One, two, three!"
The wishes of the seven members and Seleves cheering us on from all over the world gathered in one place.
I followed their warm hearts and blew my wind toward the candles with all my might.
"Clap, clap, clap!"
"Come on, let's eat!"
"I was really hungry!"
"Should I bring a knife and a plate?"
"I'll bring it."
"Thank you, Karis!"
I went out of the waiting room and received plates, knives, forks, etc. from the staff one by one and came back.
As soon as Ji Yoon-chul and Kang Si-yoon received the cutlery, they started to eat the cake pieces that Song Hyung-bin had handed out without thinking.
The cake was sucked into their mouths in an instant, as if they were eating noodles.
-Guys, breathe, please breathe
-You worked hard ㅠㅠㅠ
- Si-yoon, eat slowly if not, you'll vomit!!ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Ji Yoon-chul, the world's best puffy cat
- I wanna see it in person T^T
Kang Si-yoon, who was unconsciously putting the cake in his mouth, answered something after seeing Seleves' chat.
However, his mouth was full of bread, so we couldn't understand what he was saying at all.
"Uuuuum! Uuum, um."
Kang Si-yoon hurriedly swallowed the cake and smiled awkwardly.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry! I was really hungry. I don't eat at all because I was afraid I'd get sick before we went on stage. So the last thing I ate was fruit and salad, but since I ate that before rehearsal... It's been almost 6 hours."
"Um, um."
Ji Yoon-chul, who was eating the cake without even breathing with Kang Si-yoon, nodded with his cheeks still puffed out.
Seleves who saw the youngest's cute appearance sent another round of cute chats and suffered from heartache.
I smiled as I watched Kang Si-yoon continue to devour the cake next to me.
"I haven't eaten in a long time either, but I can hold out, but you're the only one who's hungry, so I guess you lack stamina, Siyoon. You need to train more."
"Have you ever thought that there's something strange about you?"
"Hmm, hmm. I'm perfectly normal, Siyoon."
"That's how it's going to turn out. This is it."
Kang Siyoon, who immediately responded to my joke, smiled back at me.
Then he motioned for me to come closer.
"Come here; I have something to say."
"I think we're already close enough."
"Oh, come a little closer. I really have something to say."
Why was he telling me to come closer than I was now?
I moved my body a little toward him at Kang Siyoon's request.
"Hahaha! I got it. I got it!"
The moment my face got close, Kang Si-yoon quickly smeared whipped cream on my nose.
It was an unexpected blow.
While I was silent for a moment, Kang Si-yoon hid behind Yoo Min-ha to avoid the aftershock.
Yoo Min-ha, who was used as Kang Si-yoon's friend shield, smiled brightly.
"Karis Hyung-nim, you look like Rudolph! Should I give you some tissues?"
"...Thank you."
Since tens of thousands of Seleves were watching, it was impossible to catch Kang Si-yoon out in front of them.
I vowed to return to our dorm later and take bloody revenge, and I quietly wiped the whipped cream off my nose.
We chatted about a few stories about the preparation of the fan meeting.
The story behind the birth of the girl group cover medley, the background of the mini game idea, the behind-the-scenes of the set list composition, etc.
While talking about the stage, the conversation focused on Heo Yu-bin's self-composed song
"We were discussing what would be the best song for the last song, and we thought
"T-That's not it."
"The atmosphere is completely dreamy and full of emotion, and it's also symbolic that you wrote both the lyrics and the music! I told you there was nothing better than that, right? Right, Seleve?"
Yoo Min-ha put his face close to the broadcast cell phone camera with sparkling eyes.
At the passionate promotion of his friend of the same age, Heo Yu-bin, who made
Naturally, Seleves agreed with Yoo Min-ha and sent him numerous hearts.
- Heo Yu-bin the Genius Maestro
- Is there an anecdote about when you made that song??!
- Let's have Yubin sing the next title song!!!
-Yubin, make a Sacul ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ I want to listen to unreleased songs
"Yubin, you don't have a SoundClay account, right?"
"Yes, yes, I need permission from the company to make one...."
After reading Seleves' message, Chae Eun-gyu asked Heo Yu-bin if he had a SoundClay account.
In the case of public music accounts like this, the company's permission was essential, so Chae Eun-gyu said this on purpose.
Just cheerful Yoo Min-ha clapped his hands and said to Heo Yu-bin.
"You wrote a lot of things down! I really like
"W-why are you saying that here!"
-What's Cut Off??
-I thought Celeste was nice, but they're the only ones listening to good things..
-Put it in the next albumㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ We want to listen to it too ㅐㅜ
-Already looking forward to it
Because Yoo Min-ha carelessly revealed one of Heo Yu-bin's unreleased songs, Heo Yu-bin's eyes started to spin around.
Yoo Min-ha just made an innocent look as if he didn't know anything.
"Isn't it okay to say this? Everyone, I'm sorry! Please pretend you didn't hear what I just said!"
"It's already over......"
Heo Yu-bin looked like he wanted to hide in a mousehole.
"First, I have to get permission from the company to release my work....... If they say it's okay, I'll slowly upload it. But I think I'll only be able to upload songs that won't be released."
"Um, then can we listen to it about 20~30 seconds? There are a lot of good songs."
"Then....... I'll ask if we can do a Starus studio live."
As Heo Yu-bin said that, Chae Eun-gyu quickly turned off the lights and sighed.
"Everyone, our Yu-bin has grown up so well and has taken the initiative!"
"Hey! You, you're the same age as me!"
Yoo Min-ha was still speaking in a cheerful tone.
While we were chatting happily like that, we saw our manager hyung mouthing 'We should wrap things up soon!' from the waiting room door.
It felt like we had only just started the live, but we were already deeply regretful that we had to wrap up the Starus live, but we had no choice because we had to keep to our schedule.
We conveyed our heartfelt thanks to Seleve until the end.
"Thank you so much for having fun with us today, Seleves! We will always work hard to show you only the best!"
"There must be many of you who came from far away, so please drive home safely! Those of you who drove, please drive safely!"
"It gets really cold at night, so dress warmly, okay?"
"...Thank you, Seleves."
Our hearts towards our fans grew even bigger.
The love for Seleves, who always send us warm support, continued even on the way home from work.
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