Crash Landing On You - These Are The Days

To Be A Mother

Unexpectedly I got a new idea. So here we go. A little one-shot before little Ri Ha Young was born.

Se Ri was doing the laundry when she heard the doorbell rang. They didn't expect any guest and Jeong Hyeok was still at school, who could that be?

She carefully waddled toward the front door. Being pregnant in the middle of summer is surely not an easy thing to do.

"Se Ri-ya. Quick. My hands are full."

"Eomma?"

Surprised was an understatement. What was she doing in here? Her mom was supposed to come a month before the due date.

And her hands were indeed full. A huge smile spread across her face as Se Ri tore the door open.

"Oh, my God, I miss you!" her mother squealed and let herself in.

"Yeah, sure. I just got back a week ago" Se Ri mumbled nonchalantly.

Han Jeong Yeon's hands were busy with a load of bags on her arms, and an overly large rolling suitcase trailing behind her.

"Here let me help" As Se Ri reached her hand to take some bags to help her mother out, but only to get barked by her "Don't touch, Se Ri. You are pregnant."

"Eomma, I was just trying to help." She pouted and withdrew her hands, slamming the door shut once her mother was inside. "What on earth is that?" Se Ri asked as she followed her mother into the house.

"Where is Jeong Hyeok?"

"He is still at school. He'll be back soon. Eomma, seriously, what are those?"

"I just picked out a few things I thought were cute." Han Jeong Yeon's hands were busied rummaging something inside the bags.

"You bought the baby 4 bags of clothes?"

"I can't help it; I am excited Se Ri-ya." Then she showed her daughter a pink onesie for new-born size.

"Okay, that's cute. What else did you get?"

Han Jeong Yeon absentmindedly handed over the new clothes to her daughter as she continued to dig inside the bags. Filling the top of the living room table with blankets, onesies, sleepers, baby mittens, caps, socks, burpy cloths, and random necessities. She worked intently as her daughter's eyes grew larger with every item she added to the pile.

"Eomma.." Se Ri whined.

"What? Se Ri by the time you get around into it, the kid's going to come out with nothing to wear. And these are only for newborn size. I guess you haven't been able to go shopping yet?"

"We are planning to do that next weekend. Ri Jeong Hyeok is a bit busy nowadays."

"Of course, that's understandable. What about the nursery?"

Pulling her mother to her feet, Se Ri threw an arm around her shoulder and guided her towards the door of the nursery excitedly.

"Music Notes? Se Ri this room looks amazing." Han Jeong Yeon's eyes were scanning every corner of the room.

"I know right! It's so simple yet so elegant."

Han Jeong Yeon's eyes roamed over the room. The crib was dark wood, almost black, and the bedding was simple with a black dust ruffle, white sheet, and bumper pads, and a comforter with varying widths of black, white, and grey stripes adorned with a few small silver-grey bows.

"We were planning to add some pink accent too. Eomma, look at what Ri Jeong Hyeok got yesterday. A pink dinosaur. Can you believe that? He said he was psyched when he saw these. They don't even really exist. But it's perfect, right? I am excited."