After finishing and cleaning up their dinner, Hae Sun and Jung Hyun poured themselves a glass of wine. They sat cuddled on his sofa and leisurely listened to some music from Hae Sun's phone. It was pure domestic bliss – exchanging stories of what happened to them during the day and relaxing together at home during the night.
나를 알게 되어서 기뻤는지
Were you happy to have known me?
나를 사랑해서 좋았었는지
Were you content to have loved me?
"Omo! Look at that doll they gave you!" Hae Sun said as she hit him in the chest. "It even has a Winnie the Pooh design! Wait, let me see it closely."
She tried to stand but Jung Hyun held her tight to himself. "Ahh~ you can look at it later. Stay here with me, o?" He kissed her on the cheek and nuzzled her hair.
"Aigoo, you baby" she replied before snuggling closer. "You won't let go of me now but it took you such a long time to like me? Aigooya."
Jung Hyun pulled back a bit and looked at his girlfriend in good humored disbelief. "Mworago? Nega?"
She laughed and gave him a quick kiss. "Yes, you."
"Aniji, it didn't take me long to like you." he replied. "It just took me a while to confess my feelings for you."
Hae Sun looked at Jung Hyun curiously. There was a time before they started dating that she thought Jung Hyun only saw her as a friend – a close friend – and that her feelings was only one sided. It was her first time to hear this revelation.
"Waeyo?" she asked. "Even Chung Hwa unnie said I was being too obvious that I had a crush on you."
Jung Hyun's chuckle earned him a hit on his chest.
"Oh, you were obvious for sure!" She tried to hit him again but Jung Hyun caught her hand and held it on his chest. "But I wanted to be sure... I wanted to be sure that my feelings for you was not just because of our characters. Because I thought, that if I enter into a relationship with anyone this time, I wanted it to be for good."
내 맘에 아무 의문이 없어 난
I don't have any doubts with my feelings
이 다음으로 가요
Let's go to next
I wanted it to be for good.
A warm feeling of comfort and understanding filled Hae Sun's heart. When she was younger, she thought she would already be married and have kids at her age. "Three kids", she even said in one interview. But to be successful in her chosen profession, she had to make sacrifices in her personal life. Meeting and dating people wasn't so easy. It takes effort and commitment to brave mismatched schedules, secret meetings, and even the possibility of scandals.
But with Jung Hyun, it was different. When he confessed, she couldn't brush off the feeling that she deserved a little happiness in her life too. Yes, her career made her happy, the love and support of her fans made her happy, but this time, she wanted to share it with someone whom she can depend on by her side.
At the end of the day, she will be the one to decide her own happiness.
"Then what made you change your mind?" she asked.
Jung Hyun smiled wistfully.
"Remember that week we had to stop our shoot last November?"
She nodded.
"I missed you. I missed seeing you and talking to you. I never felt that longing for someone before and that's when I knew... I knew that I'll have to go all in on you."
Hae Sun chuckled as she turned on her seat to face Jung Hyun fully. She brushed strands of his hair away from his face and lovingly looked him in the eyes.
All in.
A word that changed Cheoljong and Soyong's relationship.
A word that changed theirs in real life too.
"Nado, I want to go all in on you too."
Jung Hyun smiled as he pulled their foreheads together. Their lips have briefly touched when a new, familiar, song played in the background. His eyes widened in recognition while Hae Sun laughed out loud when she realized what it was – her other surprise.
"Mwoya igae? Why do you have this?!"
Hae Sun untangled herself from his embrace and stood in the middle of his living room. She started swaying and bopping her head to the tune of the song.
"I asked a friend to edit a longer version for me because I wanted to see it live."
"Aaaaah shirooooo! Hae Sun-aaaaah~"
But Hae Sun ignored his whining and started dancing the steps in his advertisement.
"A palli! The song will be almost over!"
Overwhelmed and overjoyed with her dancing, Jung Hyun left his seat and joined Hae Sun dance to the steps of Lamdash. Another familiar and upbeat song played afterwards and they danced merrily with occasional fits of laughter at the memories they associated with the song. Soon after, a more mellow one played and they slowly swayed to its tune in each other's embrace.
After everything I've learned
Now it's finally my turn
This is the last time
I'll fall in love
*The End*
Songs they listened to:
Epilogue (IU) | Lamdash (KJH Panasonic Ad)
DDU-DU DDU-DU (Blackpink) | The Last Time (Eric Benét)
