For five months, everyone has believed Manon’s hiatus was for personal reasons. The girls miss her. The fans miss her. The world keeps asking when she’ll come back. What nobody knows is that the hiatus was never what it seemed. A year into their secret relationship, Y/N and Manon told the label the truth. Instead of ending things, the company asked for proof that what they had was real. Five months later, they’ve survived every mile, every lonely night, and every moment apart. Now Manon is only thirty days away from returning. Only Y/N knows. And keeping that secret might be harder than the distance itself. or: Y/N counts down the final month of Manon’s hiatus while trying not to fall apart before she comes home.