SpartAce: Eternal Love

Baby Bump

Jong Kook walks inside the apartment and sees his wife slouching in the sofa, fast asleep.

He places his case down to the loveseat and stares at her.

She looks so innocent when she sleeps, and she is sleeping like there is no tomorrow.

He doesn't bother waking her up. He just gently slides his hands under her and yanks her into his arms.

He is still heading to the bedroom when he feels her stir in his arms.

She opens her eyes and looks at him through her sleepy eyes.

"Why didn't you sleep in the bed? Your back might get sore if you slept in the couch longer." Jong Kook says as they get inside the bedroom and he plants one knee on the side of the bed to keep his balance as he lay her down.

"I was waiting for you." She says as she rolls to her side, facing his direction.

"Oh. Did you eat dinner already?" He sits at the edge of the bed and reaches out to push some strands of her hair behind her ear.

She nods.

"That's a relief." He says, getting up to go change.

While he is changing in the walk in closet, what Liam said this morning comes to mind.

He knows Ji Hyo is usually unpredictable, but she has really been quite peculiar lately.

Her mood swings are either too clingy or too cold that it might drive him soon crazy.

But he really couldn't be fully convinced. It seems to be quite long since he did it with Ji Hyo.

She would have told him by now if she is really pregnant.

He walks out and goes back to the bed right after he prepared for bed.

He crawls into his side and hugs her from behind, planting kisses on her shoulder as he molds himself with her form.

His arms tighten around her waist, pressing her harder against him. He is cherishing the form of her body with his touch when he feels it.

The unusual bump of her stomach.

He is certain she had never had any belly fat before, no matter how big she eats. As he brushes his palm against her stomach again, he gets quite certain.

It isn't just belly fat.

The way she stiffens and slaps his hand off her belly as she attempts to get up makes him suspect it even more.

He pulls her back down, turns her flat on her back and hauls himself to sit on her lap, pinning her down.

And in a swift motion, he pulls her PJs up, revealing her baby bump.

His eyes are wide, his brain working hard, putting the pieces of the puzzle all together.

Then he starts panicking.

He stares at it for a second before he lifts his gaze to hers and then back to her stomach and then back to her eyes again, totally perplexed.

His brain seems to he malfunctioning right now. He couldn't think of anything but the times she has been alone.

He gets off her and off the bed, running his hand through his hair as he paces back and forth near the foot of the bed, his eyes staring blankly, deep in thoughts.

He doesn't know which emotion to dwell on first. He doesn't even know what he is feeling.

Shock? Anger? Happiness?

He does just that for a couple of minutes that he only realized she has sat up and has been watching him with worried eyes the whole time.

He stops and faces her direction, his temper rising when he realizes what could have happened to her.

"Since when did you find out?"

"2 months ago." She replies tonelessly, guiltily avoiding his gaze.

"And you didn't even bother to tell me about it? How could you do this to me? I could have gone right back if you told me!"

"That's exactly why I didn't tell you! Because I know you'd do that!"

"That is not for you to decide!" He exclaims, his forehead creased in an angry line.

"You would've had regretted it!"

"Why would I?"

Ji Hyo sighs as if arguing makes her tired.

"I do not want this to distract you from your goal."

"I don't care about anything else! What if something happened to you and I wasn't around? No one is around? Do you think I would be able to forgive myself?!"

"But nothing happened." She states.

"You shouldn't be too loose about these things!"

"I am not!"

He sighs deeply, sweeping his hair with his hand again and running his palm down his face.

He is really upset, his mind sweeping through a hundred things at once.

He realizes this is the reason why his friends had been so protective and attentive over her lately. It just makes him angrier that everyone except him already knows about it.

He exasperates a sigh and walks out of the room.