On that day, the golden sun fell from the treetops and shone on the two men standing on the boulevard.

"Listen up...... I'm going to make a song!"

For a moment, he felt as if he had misheard something, and the smile under the mask couldn't help but stiffen a little, but he still held on, trembling softly, and asked, "You, what did you say?"

"I said, I'm going to make a song!"

Kim Taeyeon said out loud to him seriously, word by word.

She could no longer suppress the joy in her heart, her eyes and eyebrows were full of joy and laughter, and she even subconsciously stretched out her hand and gently pulled his sleeve with two fingers, and her voice was full of coquettishness like offering treasures:

"My teacher and I, the one I mentioned to you last time, the two of us sang a song together, and it was added to my teacher's new album this time, which will be released next week!

“……”

He looked at the girl who was pulling his cuffs and shaking them slightly as he spoke, and for a moment, he seemed to be stunned.

"What's wrong?"

Seeing that he had not spoken, Kim Taeyeon, who was still excited, blinked strangely and asked puzzledly, "Aren't you happy for me?"

Glad...... Is it?

Under the mask, he suddenly pursed his thin lips, not knowing how to answer the girl's words.

"Ahh......h

Suddenly, Kim Taeyeon seemed to understand, and looked at him, the corners of his lips on his little face with a faint flush of joy and joy rose upward, and a slightly narrow smile that seemed to be mixed with a lot of tenderness was revealed, just like a wicker blown by the wind in the sunset.

"You...... You're scared, isn't it?"

As soon as he said this, Kim Taeyeon saw that he still did not respond to him, so he firmly believed in this idea in his heart, and immediately laughed out loud, and there was a little smug in that laughter.

"I knew before I came that you would be taken aback! I was even shocked when I learned the news!"

After laughing, seeing that he was still so quiet that he didn't respond to his words, Kim Taeyeon couldn't help but puff out his mouth, put his head on his arm, and looked at him suspiciously: "What's wrong? I laughed at you, so I'm angry?"

"Taeyeon ......"

"What are you going to say, I'll listen!"

As soon as she heard him finally speak, Kim Taeyeon immediately became energetic, one hand still unconsciously pinched his cuffs, swaying slowly, her soft lips pursed lightly, and she looked like she was looking forward to something.

However, the next moment, the expression on her face changed slightly.

Because, her gaze touched the eyes in which he looked at her.

It was a gaze she had never seen in his eyes before, like a person standing in front of the abyss and hesitating, not knowing whether to take a step forward or take a step back.

In those dark eyes, there was hesitation, entanglement, and even ...... There is also a little bit of sadness that is not clear.

"Peter......

Kim Taeyeon is starting to get scared.

She tugged at his sleeve nervously and asked with concern, "What's wrong......?" Are you uncomfortable somewhere?"

"Taeyeon ......"

"I'm listening!" Kim Tae-yeon nodded heavily, using practical actions to inform the other party that she was by his side.

"I ...... There's something I want to ask you for, but you're probably not going to say yes. ”

"What's the matter?"

Kim Taeyeon looked at him slightly stunned, her eyes full of doubt.

With the current relationship between the two of them, what is there that he can't promise him?

"I know my request is unreasonable, but seriously, can you ...... Taeyeon?"

When he said this, he couldn't stop taking a long breath, his eyes stared at Kim Taeyeon, who was looking at him with a worried face in front of him, and then said softly:

"Taeyeon, can you give up this dream of being an artist?"

In an instant, Kim Taeyeon's gaze seemed to be in a trance.

"What...... What?"

He stared at her, his eyes seemed to contain endless sadness, and there was a kind of firmness that outsiders could not understand at all.

……

"I'm a little tired today, so let's stop here......"

"Taeyeon. ”

"Enough!!"

The petite figure standing in front of him seemed to explode, and the high-pitched voice full of anger echoed over the entire boulevard.

"You don't understand my dreams at all!"

As soon as she said this, she stared at him without saying a word with red eyes, then pursed her lips, lowered her head and turned around, and walked away quickly.

And he stood there in a daze, looking at the petite figure, gradually moving away from him.

"One by one, it seems that I have pushed you out of me by myself every time......"

A whisper that no one could hear, containing a bitterness that no one could also understand.

"But...... Why are you all like this?!"

Suddenly, he was hysterical again, and muttered to himself in a rapid and low voice, and the whole person bent down, supported his knees with his hands, gasped for breath in his mouth, and finally simply raised his hand and pulled off the mask on his face casually.

Under the drooping bangs, there are a pair of eyes whose sockets are also slightly red.

He hung his head and gasped silently, then slowly crouched down, holding his head in his hands, like a wounded beast seeking so-called security in himself.

"Buzz!"

The phone in his pocket vibrated twice.

He raised his face tiredly and exhaled lightly, only then did he forcibly suppress the superfluous emotions in his heart, his face was expressionless, and he took out his mobile phone and glanced at it.

It's a text message from Seoul:

[Yikes.] What the hell is going on with you? It's August and you haven't come back yet, are you planning to settle in Gwangju?]

Through the screen, he seemed to see another beautiful little face with frowning eyebrows.

With a low wry smile in his mouth, he fell back to the ground, raised his head, and looked at the sky in distraction.

The afternoon sun was still shining, bright to the point of dazzling.

……

At night.

After losing her temper inexplicably at the dinner table at home, Kim Taeyeon locked herself in her room alone, ignoring her father and mother's inquiries, and just hid in bed alone.

To be honest, she hated the feeling of being very stuffy in her chest now, and she wanted to cry out loud and vent all her irritability and sadness.

And yet she couldn't.

Because she didn't know what the real reason was for making her uncomfortable.

That's what made her even more depressed.

She realized that she didn't even understand why that person was arguing with her in such a brainless fight!

She wanted to know what kind of reason that person wanted to prevent her from debuting as an artist.

But no matter how she asked before, the man just wouldn't tell herself, just blindly said that he believed him......

Of course I believe in him!

But......

But to be honest, how can you give up on so many dreams just because of such a reason?

If you do this, how will you face the efforts you have made in the future, and how will you face the parents who have worked so hard to support you since childhood?

Therefore, Kim Taeyeon can't promise him, let alone understand him.

Thinking about it, the girl bathed in the darkness became more and more bored, and she hugged the pillow and snorted, and rolled around on her bed.

Finally, she sat up.

"No! I've got to get this straight!"

After getting out of bed and hurriedly putting on her slippers, the red-eyed girl didn't care about her messy hair, and with full of stubbornness, she sat down in front of the computer, operated the keyboard and mouse, and skillfully logged into the account that she had logged in countless times in the past few days.

However, when she logged in, she found that the only person on the list was not online.

"Is there no time? Or is it ...... Deliberately hiding?"

The moonlight was like water, the girl hugged her legs and shrunk on the chair, and the faint light emitted by the computer screen reflected her face in a fog, and also illuminated her slightly pursed lips unconsciously, full of grievance and incomprehension.

If...... If he had come to apologize to himself at this time, he would have ...... No, you have to say sorry at least three times before you forgive him!

Don't forgive him if you don't say enough!

Kim Peter, if you don't take the initiative to apologize to me tomorrow, you just wait to see if I will ignore you in the future!

……

"The last train to Seoul, is there anyone else?"

As he was lining up to get on the bus, he suddenly seemed to sense something, and couldn't help but turn his head and look at the deep night sky in the distance.

In that direction, there was a petite figure still sitting at home, constantly complaining about himself in his heart.

"Students, get on the bus, don't waste time, it's almost late at night when you get back to the city. ”

The driver's kind reminder brought him back to his senses, and under the dim headlights, his slightly pale face barely showed a polite smile, and he walked into the car with his luggage.

"Alright, let's start checking in, everyone is seated!"

Sitting by the window and handing his ticket to the ticket inspector, he pulled out a brand new box from his backpack and gently stroked the case with his hand.

This is what he saw a few days ago, and it is said to be the latest Walkman on the market, and he originally ...... I want to buy it as a gift.

It's a pity, I don't think there is much chance to give it away.

He took his backpack in his arms along with the unopened Walkman and turned his head to look out the window at the dark landscape.

The eyes shone faintly.

He had wanted to at least wait for the girl's anger to subside before leaving the city, but the text message from Seoul suddenly made him realize something, something he had been deliberately forgetting for some time.

He won't be able to go back to that home after all.

For that home, their own existence should be more like a disaster.

Well, let's leave it at that.

Not saying goodbye is bastard, and bastards shouldn't be remembered.

So he hoped, the girl would not remember him either.

"Let's pause for a moment......"

He closed his eyes, leaned back into the saddle, and muttered to himself in a voice that only he could hear:

"If one day I can stand in front of you again, then I will explain everything to you......"

……

At night.

A passenger bus pulls onto the road, drowning in the darkness of the distance, as if on a journey to an unknown future.

On the other side, in a room where only the computer screen glows, the girl with her face resting on her lap is still staring at the screen, expecting a new message to pop up at some moment.

The two lines that briefly intersected have returned to parallelism, and I don't know if there will be a chance to intersect again in the future.