On the Feb. 18 episode of “Maalala Mo Kaya: Endless Love,” cast leads Julia Barretto and Joshua Garcia play the roles of young couple, Aika and John. But theirs is no ordinary love story. When Aika (20) first meets John, who is younger than her by 3 years, she is still reeling from a break-up. John pursues her, and she finds herself enjoying his company. But she is having second thoughts in starting a new relationship. (Click here to read reviews of the episode.)
Her fear of getting heartbroken led her to keep her distance from John. She later realizes that she has feelings for him. Finally, she agrees to see John and they are a happy couple.
MMK Feb. 18 Endless Love: Happiness Interrupted
Their happy time together gets interrupted when Aika finds out she has leukemia. Once again, John makes good with his promise never to leave her side. He sees her through all her chemotherapy sessions. Aika, on the other hand, gets her strength to fight her illness from John.
As the episode is aptly titled, it shows us that love can continue on despite the odds. Aika’s fear of being left by the one she loves suddenly comes true. Despite her being the one stricken with cancer, it is John who tragically dies.
Happiness Ends, Love Does Not
As Aika tries to deal with her sadness and loss, she finds out from John’s sibling that John was putting up a facade of strength, that he was, in fact, getting depressed about Aika’s condition. John also said that all he wanted was for her disease to go away and he would do anything, even give his own life, to take the cancer away.
Aika later experiences remission, which gets her to thinking that maybe this was a “fulfillment” of John’s wish, and proof of his “endless love.”
Watch Julia Barretto and Joshua Garcia in this one of a kind love story. “Maalala Mo Kaya: Endless Love” airs on Feb. 18, Saturday at 8:15 p.m. on ABS-CBN.