"I absolutely did not slack off in club activities; I was always helping my seniors watch over the equipment."
"How about you take me with you and keep an eye on me, senior?"
"Why won't you let me be in your group? Is your senior angry with me?" 🥺
"Does the senior want some candy?"
Choice: A. Refuse B. Accept
System default A
"Will my senior come to watch my basketball game?"
"Senior! Look at me." 🏀😆 "Hehe."
🙆🏻♂️
Choice: A. Reject B. Agree
System default B
"I won."
Choice: A. Leave B. Take a picture of him
System default A
"Senior, why did you leave without waiting for me?"
"Senior..."
"Does my senior dislike me?"
"Otherwise, why does he always ignore Baekhyun? He's always watching other people during the competition." ☹️😥
"You don't dislike her? Really? Then you like Baekhyun. Baekhyun also likes you the most!"
"Senior, are you free this weekend?"
"Um, can Baekhyun ask you out?" 👉🏻👈🏻
"Yes, it's a date."
Choice: A. Reject B. Agree
System default: A
"Why can't the senior go on a date with Baekhyun?"
"Doesn't the senior like Baekhyun?"
"Are you kidding me?"
"I understand, my senior won't like me like this."
"I will leave the photography club so I won't bother you anymore."
"I joined the photography club because of my senior, but I hardly ever see her and always end up causing trouble."
But I still want to say, senior, I'm not a child anymore. I know what liking someone means. I really like you, senior. It's looking forward to the sunrise every night because I think about seeing you the next day. It's being unable to control my gaze wherever you are. It's wanting you to look at me more often. It's…”(Interrupted, a department member calls you to a meeting. You are pulled away.)
Choice: A. Leave immediately B. Look back once
Openness to one's own imagination
Now we proceed to the ending.
Because of the busy senior year studies, and the recent stress of handing over club work, you haven't had time to sit down and talk to Byun Baekhyun for several days in a row.
Today, while tidying up your office, you saw Byun Baekhyun's resignation application. But you're no longer the president of the photography club.
Option: A. Hand over to the new president B. Go see Byun Baekhyun personally
Now proceeding to the branching endings → A. Be route B. He route
Because you simply couldn't find the time, you decided to hand it over to the new president. With time running out, you threw yourself into studying. Wave after wave of exams diluted your memory of the incident. You thought that Byun Baekhyun would eventually let it go and be drawn to other new and exciting things.
One month, two months, three months, four months later, you finally made it through the college entrance exam. After relaxing, you thought of Byun Baekhyun and felt a little guilty, so you asked the other members of the photography club about Byun Baekhyun's recent situation.
Unexpectedly, after leaving the photography club, Byun Baekhyun stopped contacting them and was never seen at school.
Feeling uneasy, you went to Byun Baekhyun's class. However, Byun Baekhyun's classmates said that he had been acting strangely for the past few months, his mind not on school, and he had even been caught skipping class several times. He had been disciplined by the school, and to keep his student status, the teacher applied for a temporary leave of absence for him.
You never expected things to turn out this way. After making inquiries from various sources, you found a bar. Pushing open the door, you were surrounded by loud music and the smell of alcohol.
You carefully navigate through the crowd, searching for his trail.
Suddenly the venue fell silent, and the stage lights dimmed.
"Next, I'll be performing a piece of music that I wrote."
You turn your head when you hear a familiar voice.
He sat on a high stool, holding the microphone and murmuring. It was a soothing ballad, a gentle melody of youthful regrets flowing like a murmuring stream. After listening to it, tears welled up in your eyes without you even realizing it.
He opened his eyes and met your gaze.
In the alley behind the bar.
"Why? There's no why. I like to sing."
"Our band is doing commercial gigs everywhere. I'm doing what I love and realizing my dreams. I know exactly what I'm doing right now."
"Don't be so self-righteous. This is my choice, and it has nothing to do with you."
Turning to leave
You: "Wait, let me ask you one last question. That song... was it written for me?"
He stood there, the streetlights from outside the alley shining behind him. You couldn't see the expression on his face.
a long time.
"no."
You fled in a panic, distraught. You didn't even have time to look at him again. Or perhaps you dared not look.
The DJ at the bar was warming up the crowd, the din carrying to the back alley. Byun Baekhyun took a deep drag of his cigarette and then a gulp of vodka. He choked and coughed violently, but once he recovered, he stuck the cigarette into his glass.
"It's too late."
Years later, after you graduate and start working, your colleagues talk to you about currently popular TV shows.
"Baekhyun is the best looking among the top few."
You froze, gripping the document in your hand tightly. "Who?"
"Hey, Byun Baekhyun, didn't you know? He became famous after participating in a singing variety show, and his popularity is soaring. I heard he used to be the lead singer of a band."
Memories that had long been blurred in my mind were awakened.
"Senior, I'm here!"
From then on, you started to keep an eye on Byun Baekhyun's activities from time to time.
You came across an interview.
MC: "Baekhyun, regarding this new album, there's a song with a very unique title. It's called 'Spring Sacrifice.' Why is it called that?"
"Ah, it's actually very simple. It just means to commemorate youth."
MC: "Oh, this song is easy to evoke memories. It seems to have a story behind it. Could you tell us about the creation process of this song?"
"Well, um... the first version of this song was written when I first started my music career a long time ago."
"It's a song commemorating first love during my student days."
You suddenly know the real answer to that question from that night.
This song was written for himself. It's a tribute to his lost youth and his first love that never even began.
Some people and some things, once missed, are gone forever. Even if you meet them again, everything will have changed.
I only intended to write a short piece… but I ended up rambling on and on… which made me too tired to continue. It's too late to stay up any longer. Let's just leave it to fate 😬