Song Kang's favorite scene is the moment Pio falls into the leaves and realizes for the first time that he loves Jeongyo. Junyoung's favorite is the confession where he finally tells Pio how he feels. The first is where love begins, the second is where it is finally answered. Between them lies a decade of longing.
At 17, Pio had never known what love was. Then Jeongyo appeared and it hits him for the first time, leaving him in a daze before breaking into a smile, his heart full of warmth and joy. Then he went on to lose that person for ten years, never knowing Jeongyo felt the same. After learning Jeongyo can play the piano again and hearing his confession, Pio must have thought this time they could be happy making music together. His eyes sparkled when he suggested it, just as they did when he was 17. Before they parted, he even asked Jeongyo to meet again, as if he needed the promise spoken aloud.
That day, Pio smiled with his teeth showing, like a little boy, for the first time in who knows how long. He could finally sleep properly in a bed, after years on the floor, or the bench in the piano room, or collapsing onto the mattress too tired to take off his shoes, feet dangling off the edge, crying until exhaustion knocked him out. Then the next day, he realized his love was gone.
His life was mostly pain; happiness came in doses so short and stingy. He lost the love of his life again. But this time was different: he didn't fall apart searching. There were no hallucinations, and no drowning himself in alcohol to bear the pain of not being able to find Jeongyo. He kept making music, just as Jeongyo had wanted for him, the kind that comforts other people.
If he had never played at that hospital, never met that doctor, he would still be looking and longing, whether for ten years, twenty, or fifty. Pio truly is the one who never stops loving Jeongyo: the strongest soldier, and the most stubborn yearner of the century.
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