of all the advice that has served to confuse him rather than help, and the entire time the words he’s been needing to hear have just been in front of him. Chanyeol is allowed to make mistakes, and isn’t that better than having never tried at all? If he ends up hating composing, then fine, he can just quit and go back to working at Junmyeon’s store, and his love for music will heal itself. If Jongdae ends up rejecting Chanyeol and saying that he doesn’t feel the same way, then fine, they can just go back to being friends, and their relationship will heal itself eventually too.
It may hurt, in the long run, but Chanyeol wants to learn how to be a fighter, and even if he loses in the ring, over and over and over, he at least wants to say that he tried, rather than never having even stepped in it to begin with.
"On the road between us"
EXO ff.