Mistake

5: labor

Mingyu was only at the beginning of nine months when he went into labor.

It was a Saturday and there was no school but Mingyu wasn't doing well.

He woke up around midnight, contractions already starting for him.

"Minghao! Seokmin!" Mingyu yelled.

Footsteps came thudding and his bedroom door was swung open to the wall, causing a loud sound.

"gyu! this sudden?" Seokmin asked, panicking.

"I don't know! but I know that I need to go to the hospital now!" Mingyu yelled, groaning a little at the contraction.

Minghao ransacked the whole bedroom for the already prepared hospital bag.

"here it is! we're going now!" Minghao said.

Seokmin carried the younger out of bed and out of the bedroom to the front door.

A cab was already waiting for them down the apartment.

"Seoul hospital please! quick!" Seokmin ushered as the old man in the driver seat nodded and started driving the cab.

"gyugyu! are you okay?" Seokmin asked.

"h-hmmm yeah......can you perhaps call cheollie hyung?" Mingyu asked, taking in breaths.

"cheollie hyung.....?" Minghao voiced out.

"he knows......" Mingyu said.

Both nodded in understanding.

At the hospital, Mingyu was admitted into a ward since the opening wasn't totally wide yet.

Minghao stepped away for a phonecall to Seungcheol whereas Seokmin remained in the ward with Mingyu, accompanying the latter since Mingyu might be afraid alone.

A good-looking doctor a little older than them walked into the ward with a smile.

"hey Mr.Kim! how're you doing....?" he asked.

Mingyu nodded.

"anything to induce it.....? pleaseee!" Mingyu breathed out.

"yes but let's not" he said.

Mingyu suddenly felt like hating the doctor. Seokmin glared at the doctor.

"it's fine gyugyu......let nature take it's course....." Seokmin soothed the younger whose sweating buckets now.

Mingyu nodded, laying on his side.

"I'll come back later....." the doctor said and left.

"little munchkin's coming fast, seokkie...... I'm not ready yet" Mingyu cried.

"we'll be here.......okay? we'll take care of munchkin with you" Seokmin said, slowly brushing his fingers across Mingyu's hair.

Morning at around 10.40am, Mingyu's ready to give birth.

Seungcheol, Seokmin and Minghao are with him.

"Mingyu-ya, you can do it. hyung is here......" Seungcheol smiled, patting Mingyu's sweaty forehead.

Just after Mingyu entered a few minutes, the nurse came out.

"can Choi Seungcheol come with me?" she asked.

The three looked at each other.

"something wrong.....?" Seokmin asked, trembling a little.

"oh it's nothing.....just that Mr.Kim Mingyu wants his hyung there with him....." Seungcheol's facial expression softened.

Seungcheol stepped forward and followed after the nurse into the operation room.

Seokmin and Minghao hugged together.

"he'll be fine.....?" Seokmin asked, head laying on Minghao's shoulder.

"he'll be, seokkie......" Minghao smiled.

In the delivery room

"Mingyu......? hyung's here....." Seungcheol softly said, Mingyu moved his head to the side and smiled a little seeing Seungcheol by his side.

"hyung......" Mingyu softly said.

"don't be scared.....hold my hand, gyu" Seungcheol held his hand out.

Mingyu held onto it tightly.

"ready Mr.Kim....?" the doctor asked.

Mingyu nodded.

"when you feel the contraction, push!" the doctor said.

"now push!" Mingyu did and Seungcheol's face contorted in pain but he endured it for Mingyu.

"you can do it, gyu......for little munchkin!" Seungcheol encouraged.

"ahhhh!!! I can't, too painful and hard!" Mingyu yelled as he felt another contraction.

"Mingyu!" Seungcheol said.

An hour or two later, Mingyu succeeded in bringing little munchkin into the world.

"h-hyung!!!" Mingyu cried, hugging Seungcheol who hugged back.

"you did well, gyu!!! I'm proud of you!" Seungcheol was crying too.

"here's your little baby boy......" the nurse placed the baby in Seungcheol's arms, telling him how to hold the little baby.

"but the baby's premature so he'll be in the incubator until everything's fine....." Mingyu nodded.

"can I have the name?" she asked.

"Kim Yigyeom" Mingyu said.

"okay thank you" the nurse went away with baby Yigyeom in her arms.

Seungcheol thought the baby looked like someone when that someone was younger.

"gyu-" Seungcheol stopped.

Mingyu had fallen asleep.

"we'll transfer him to the normal ward now.....please kindly go outside and wait" Seungcheol walked out.

"hyung! how's Mingyu?" Minghao and Seokmin asked.

"he's fine but baby Yigyeom has the looks of someone......" Seungcheol trailed off.

"baby Yigyeom....?" Minghao asked.

"yep! Kim Yigyeom." Seungcheol said.

"cute name for our little munchkin" Seokmin said, being hyper, jumping up and down.

"seokkie...." Minghao calmed the older down.

"hyung, what about Jeonghan hyung and Jisoo hyung at home.....?" Minghao asked after.

"I didn't tell them.....I left a note saying I had something to finish" Seungcheol said.

"would you like to see the baby...?" a nurse asked.

They nodded and were led to the newborn room.

An incubator was carefully rolled forward to the glass window  for the three of them to see.

On the wrist of the baby inside the incubator was a semi-paper around it. On the semi-paper was the name of the said baby and the name of the mother.

Kim Mingyu and Kim Yigyeom.

They smiled.

But seeing baby Yigyeom with so many wires attached to his small fragile body, their hearts ached.

"please take good care of him. Thank you" the three bowed at the nurses and left.