on my ❤️ like a tattoo

the news

seulgi's spending the day with wendy, shopping for some baby necessities. the kids are with jaebeom, and it's good because she has some news. "so... i think i'm pregnant?" she states, and wendy's mouth drops.

"really? you think so? why?"

"the symptoms are there... missed period, tender boobs, nausea."

"have you told jaebeom? have you taken a test?"

"no, and no. he wants a third baby, i don't want to disappoint him if it turns out untrue... or what if i don't carry it to full term?"

"aw, seulgi."

"that possibility is always there, even if no one wants to think about it. i do."

"you've had two successful and healthy pregnancies though... and will you be... sad? if it turns out that you are expecting?"

"i don't want to think that i will, but i know that i was attempting to do my part in preventing it."

"i thought you were on birth control? had it in your arm and everything?"

"i got it removed to try a different one because it was messing up my periods."

"and you couldn't leave jaebeom alone in the meantime?" wendy teases.

"i know, but it's not something i'm thinking about when i'm with him." seulgi admits with tinted cheeks, "because of my carelessness, i guess i won't be too upset? or really upset isn't even a good word for it. it's not that i don't want to extend my family, it's that i'm afraid of being in that same postpartum dark place again."

"but now is different, you can help yourself, jaebeom can help you." wendy smiles, "i'm excited, and i hope you are pregnant. i love being an aunt to your babies."

"i can say the same for felix and your little girl!" seulgi gushes, rubbing wendy's swollen belly. she's hitting 30 weeks soon, meaning she's seven months in. wendy and mark decided not to do a gender reveal, and want to be surprised until delivery day. seulgi and jisoo have strong intuition that it's a girl. irene thinks it's a boy. "enough about me, are you excited for your baby shower?"

"yes, i'm more excited to see what kind of gender neutral gifts you all buy since we don't know what we're having yet."

"gender neutral? you're having a girl, so we purchased things for girls."

"seulgi!"

"i'm kidding!" she laughs. "you'll love the gifts, they're necessities."

while seulgi is out with wendy, jaebeom is tasked with taking yeji to her ballet class. it's not that hard, but it's just awkward being the only dad. he sits with a very active hyunjin, who wants to walk around and explore when there's really not much room to walk and explore. how does seulgi do it alone all the time? he tries to preoccupy hyunjin by giving him toys from his baby bag, but that only works for so long. "toddlers huh?" one of the mothers laughs, and jaebeom just nods.

"yeah..."

"which one is yours?"

"uh, the one in the pink bow." jaebeom states, pointing out yeji while grabbing hyunjin before he runs away. "yeji."

"ah! so you're seulgi's husband? i'm chungha, i have the twins chaeyeon and chaeryeong."

"twins, wow, how do you do it?"

"lots of support and determination." chungha jokes. "it was really hard as babies, but it gets easier, but that's parenthood in general."

"yeah, that's true."  jaebeom agrees, tossing hyunjin up in the air as he tries to escape. "boys are something else though." he states as hyunjin yells in his ear, causing chungha to laugh at him.