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Chapter Four

It had been three weeks since Hanni had received the indication of 'not pregnant' on her at-home pregnancy test, and in those three weeks, she'd only managed to become sicker. She could barely keep any food down, and she'd begun avoiding people as often as she could to circumvent the constant line of questions regarding her health.

She didn't know what the hell was wrong with her, so what was she supposed to tell anyone else?

But now, however, she was sitting in the waiting room at Dr. Lee's office, awaiting the results of a blood test, since she'd no longer been able to make excuses to Hyein as to why she didn't need to seek medical attention. If it wasn't pregnancy, then Hyein was worried that it might be something serious and she'd urged her friend to see a doctor about it.

Hanni had a sinking feeling, however, that somehow it was pregnancy, and her fears were only confirmed when Dr. Lee walked into the room with a big smile.

"Congratulations," he said, grinning at the paperwork in his hands.

"Congratulations on the stomach flu?" Hanni asked, hopefully, though her stomach was already in knots, and not from nausea this time.

"No," Lee replied, his smiling fading as he realized that he was about to deliver Hanni news that she clearly didn't want to hear. "Congratulations, you're going to be a mother. Again."

Hanni sighed and closed her eyes. She should have known the at-home test would be a false negative. Chances are, all those test kits had been sitting on that pharmacy shelf since 1983.

And, like she'd told Hyein, she knew what pregnancy felt like, and this was it… time a thousand.

"So, I'm what? Like, three months along?" Hanni asked, trying to work out how many weeks it had been since she'd last slept with Sunghoon. She was bigger with Rex by this point, but she also hadn't been nearly as sick, and she supposed that must be a factor.

"More like three weeks," Lee corrected, looking down at the test results again. "If I were to pinpoint a date of conception, I'd guess you had a very happy Thanksgiving."

Hanni blanched. "What? No, that's not possible."

"You didn't have sex on or around Thanksgiving?" Lee asked, to clarify.

"Well, I guess, technically yes, but-"

"But nothing. That technical yes left you knocked up, sheriff," Lee concluded, with a dismissive shrug.

Hanni continued to shake her head in disbelief, even as Lee led her out of the examination room, talking about ultrasound dates and other pre-natal information that was just going in one ear and out the other.

Hanni couldn't process anything Lee was saying at the moment. All she could think about was that flash of magic that night with Minji and how suddenly it all made sense, and she couldn't shake the feeling that Minji had known exactly what that magic was, and had opted to end everything abruptly anyway, and since avoided Hanni completely for three whole weeks.

But Minji wouldn't abandon her own child, would she?

Hanni guessed that perhaps she might, if she didn't want that child to be the product of a union she so clearly regretted. Perhaps she didn't want any child unless it was Hyun-Ji's, as she seemed to be making quite the happy little family unit with Hyun-Ji, Jae and the baby, while Rex opted to spend more and more time with his grandparents or at Hanni's house.

Minji's thoughts on the subject didn't matter right now, Hanni reasoned. It wasn't like she was about to run over and share the happy news with her. She was supposed to be meeting Hyein at her room at the Inn, so she decided to let herself get distracted in the search for Hyein's father, and worry about her own problems down the line.