baby. ❜ ➵ soonhoon.

6 months and 1 week

soonyoung was surprised to see jihoon in the kitchen, the fridge wide open and the left-over sandwich from the night before stuffed whole in his mouth.

what's more surprising to him is that the omega was awake, in the middle of the night, with food in between his lips.

his sleepiness from earlier had faded away as it was replaced with complete bafflement instead as he watched jihoon chomped on the egg sandwich and chewed quite obnoxiously that still somehow captivated the alpha's gaze.

"'sup." it was the first thing that jihoon said from an early wednesday morning with the awkward silence too much to bare for the married couple. soonyoung frowned.

"what are you doing up late?"

jihoon stopped chewing and stood up properly, with a hand supporting his large belly and avoided the older's gaze.

"i got hungry." soonyoung furrowed his eyebrows.

"why would you get hungry? we had pork as dinner last night. and you almost ate the whole thing." soonyoung pointed out, confused as he approached the pouting man who continued to eat the cold sandwich.

"well, i can't help it." jihoon retorted with a mouth full of food, gulping down before looking up at his husband who was now right in front of him.

"i'm eating for two, y'know?" soonyoung looked at him in surprise for a moment before he closed his eyes, a smile forming on his pretty face.

"of course... baby jiyoung also needs nutrients." his hand reached out to caress the protruding stomach, his eyes softening at the roundness of it. it proved to him yet again that there was a child inside of his husband's stomach. and it's just not any other child. it's his.

soonyoung leaned down to peck jihoon on the nose.

"i'm sorry to have put you in burden."

jihoon narrowed his eyes. "so you're saying that jiyoung is a burden?" he said accusingly, his words full of malice as he kept his glare locked on to soonyoung who panicked and shook his head furiously.

"no! jiyoung is never a burden! i just meant that if it wasn't for me, you wouldn't have to go to so much trouble as to nurturing our baby!" jihoon scoffed.

"so jiyoung is a burden."

"jihoon! you know i would never think of that!" soonyoung held jihoon's hand on his own, his eyes casted down as the usual smile that always makes way to his face dropped, worrying his partner.

"it's just that... you're going through so much pain and i wasn't even able to help." soonyoung moved his arm to cup jihoon's cheek, looked up to meet jihoon's gaze which seemed dazed, hypnotized by his stare.

"i've been hearing you groaning these nights, you know?" jihoon clicked his tongue and soonyoung's frown deepened.

"you move a lot for someone who stays put in his sleep. and you've been crying. is the pain really too much to bare?" soonyoung placed his other hand to jihoon's unoccupied cheek and tilted his head up, bumping their foreheads together.

"i feel terrible just watching you..." he whispered, his eyebrows furrowing in distress and jihoon did not like the look on the alpha's face. a frown really wasn't meant for him, after all.

jihoon clasped soonyoung's hands into his own and inhaled, his eyes fluttering close in the process.

"it really is painful. being pregnant, i mean." jihoon opened his eyes to look into soonyoung's eyes and gripped soonyoung's hands.

"but you know what?"

"what?"

"it may hurt. a lot." soonyoung winced at the word as jihoon emphasized. then jihoon smiled softly which caught soonyoung off guard.

"but it's worth it. it really just means that," jihoon pulled soonyoung's hand to rest on top of his baby bump, humming at the way soonyoung instinctively caressed the bump. "i'm actually taking care of jiyoung. that throughout the pain, i know that there will be something great that will come out of it."

jihoon surged in to kiss soonyoung's cheek, loving the way the faint blush colored his husband's cheeks beautifully.

"and i can't wait for it to happen."

soonyoung smiled, then stood up properly while taking both of jihoon's hands into his own.

"yeah," he started, his eyes never breaking the eye contact he had with his omega. the worries from earlier taken away and was released with hope and excitement.

"i can't wait myself. i love you. the two of you."

jihoon chuckled and gestured soonyoung to lean down, the older obliging and bending over. jihoon closed the gap between the two of them and laced his fingers with soonyoung's, the strong beating of his heart very loud and clear in his ears but he didn't mind.

he loved the way it did.

"and we love you, too. the two of us do." jihoon patted his big stomach and grinned, soonyoung smiling with him as he kissed jihoon's forehead and pulled him into his embrace.

✧

what did i do to deserve this?

this is too good to be true.

i'm falling in love all over again.

but i'm not complaining.

i love you.