“Why don’t we just relax and cuddle all day, hmm?”
For @jvnggxk
M U S ESeulgi ( Blind Date )
“God that sounds so good. Yes please.”
She was still half asleep. Had to be at least half. Because her eyes wouldn’t open all the way. But then again, one, she was pregnant. Very pregnant. Well into her first trimester. The exhaustion was hitting her hard. Two, she was in his arms and very comfy.
To say that she could get used to him taking semesters off like this would be an understatement. Spending all this time with him. But of course like anything else in life, there were positives and negatives. And while spending more time together was most certainly a positive, things such as worrying about finances and parents had definitely been negatives.
Now granted, she had no problem supporting them financially. Hell, BoA pretty much put her tiny foot down and said she’d handle all the expenses. And one didn’t dare to argue with the tiny kpop queen. But there had been the issue with his parents. Not exactly one of her most finest or graceful moments. Needless to say she had went, quite literally, all angry mama bear on them.
Pregnancy hormones could be deadly. Let’s just leave it at that.
“Do Bunbun and I get tummy rubs too? I’ll give you lots of teddy bear kisses.”
She knew she wasn’t going to be able to call the baby that forever, but gah it was just so cute and it really stuck with her. It was fun to say too. Bunbun. Just saying the name in her head often made her randomly giggle.
“Babe pleeeeeeasssssse! It’ll be so much fun! I promise!”
“No. I’m not doing it. I look awful. Look how swollen my face is.”
“I don’t see swollen. I see gorgeous and beautiful.”
“Shut up, oppa. Before I start crying.”
The much taller male smirked a little in amusement as he stood next to his girlfriend of a little over a year. He never expected to actually celebrate a year anniversary with anyone before. One would think commitment would frighten a 20 year old. But not him. He was too much in love to be scared. Too addicted. And now here he stood next to her and admiring how beautiful she looked. Even if she didn’t feel that beautiful at the moment.
He had to admit, it was a pretty big shock for any, at the time, 19 year old to hear. Even still in this new day and age. He didn’t expect to hear it. But it still made him happy. He still swelled up with a new kind of pride and took on the challenge head on.
Jokes about gaining weight just to get slapped on the arm. Nights full of cuddles during random outbursts of tears. He had all thought it was just stress from her job. Since it could get pretty demanding. There was one morning where she had puked the whole morning long and he was so worried that he actually called off work. Said it was a family emergency. And in his opinion, it had been.
If only he had known just how literal that family emergency was.
“Why do I have to be so fertile??? Why? I was on the stupid pill! Just like last time!”
“Hey hey, relax. It’s okay. At least it’s only one this time, right? That’s a plus, right?”
He gently rubbed her arms while he stood behind her in the mirror. He had to hunch over a little if he wanted to rest his chin on her shoulder. Moving her hair to the opposite shoulder, he turned his head so that he could give her a kiss on her rosy cheek. Yes. He was trying to convince her to take part in a pregnancy photoshoot. He hadn’t thought about it till coming home one night and seeing her propped up on the couch in the living room with a bowl of cereal resting on her stomach. There was just something about that moment that made him want to take a photo right then and there.
She was about a month away from her current estimated due date. Her stomach was the perfect shape. He so desperately had been trying to convince her ever since to take part in a photoshoot. Today he had finally gotten far enough to convince her to pick some outfits for it. And of course being the photographer he was, he had picked out some ideas of his own as well.
“You want to wrap a sheer, semi-transparent curtain around me???”
“Just trust me. I know what I’m doing, princess. This is my job and I’m good at what I do.”
He kissed that pout on her lips before grinning like a kid and starting to drag her gently towards the door. There was this beautiful flower field he want to use. And the beach. She was going to look absolutely gorgeous on that beach with the sheer shimmering material sticking to her wet skin.
“I want you to know.....this is really important to me, Seulgi.”
“It----It is?”
They paused outside the door. His gear and everything he needed waiting for them outside near the flower field. A duffel bag containing her outfits and such they picked out was in his other hand while he still had a grip on her own hand. The male’s smile was warm and soft and full of sincerity as he nodded. The two of them were like such kids but fatherhood could definitely bring out a different, more mature adult side from him. Kind of like when he was focused on his work. He looked so mature when he worked. Or at least that’s what she thought whenever she’d tag along on his shoots.
“Yeah. I’ve never been a part of something so.....amazing. I’m young and still have a lot to learn about life. The real world. Just a kid with big dreams. But I had no idea I’d be part of something so beautiful. And I want to capture that. So I’ll have it forever. You know what I mean?”
He smiled more soothingly as she started bawling her eyes out while nodding rapidly. She was so emotional. But even more so now that the hormones were kicking her butt. He gently wrapped his arms around her as he had let the duffel bag fall to the wooden floor of the porch. Of course her stomach made hugging a big awkward at this point but he didn’t mind it in the least. He let go shortly after only to kneel down so that he was more eye level with her swollen stomach.
“Be good for your mama, okay? I promise there’ll be lots of tummy rubs if you do.”
His lips twitched and he lit up when he could feel something small trying to press up against his hand. It was still so surreal. He made that? He really helped make a tiny little person. He still, even to this day, got lightheaded with happiness at the reality of it all. Pulling himself together, he stood back up and kissed her tears away from her cheeks before resuming their trip to the flower field.
“Oppa, did you bring chocolate?”
“Of course I did. I’m prepared for everything today. But you can’t have it just yet. You have to earn it first with lots of good photos.”
“Give it to me now before I kick you in the balls.”
“Man. If I didn’t know any better, I’d say you’re pregnant.”
There was a sudden prompt pause.
“Ouch! That’s my precious skull you’re abusing!”
“It’ll be your balls next. Hand over the chocolate, loser.”
“Your boss admitted herself that she crushed melatonin in our after dinner tea. Waited till we passed out. And then proceeded to throw us onto her private plane just to fly us to a completely different land. That’s totally drugging and kidnapping.”
“Oh yes. Being surprised with a week vacation in Paris is such a tragedy. Third world problems right there. You even said so yourself that you slept great.”
“That was before I realized I had been drugged.”
The mama bear playfully rolled her eyes with a wide smile of amusement as her boyfriend of a month stubbornly folded his arms across his chest with his nose stuck up in the air. Of course it was just playful bickering but she hoped he wasn’t genuinely upset about the radical measures her boss had taken to get them to this point. After all, if it hadn’t been for BoA, they may have never met each other and wound up where they are now.
And that was when her phone went off to notify her of a text.
Pulling said phone out, she quickly read the text and started laughing. Laughing so strongly that she had to lean on the kitchen counter for support. Of course this made the male curious as hell so he naturally huffed and asked in a whiny tone,
“What? What’s so funny? Tell me!”
“BoA unnie said there’s lots of french vanilla bubble bath for us to use in case we want to take a bubble bath.”
“Seriously???? French. Vanilla. In Paris? I hate your boss.”
“Aigoo you love her.”
“We probably owe her a child by this point. Between the blind date, letting me move in, and now this. Yeah. Feels like a first born child kind of payment.”
He enjoyed the way she sort of lit up but tried to hide it. The way she tried to brush it off with a laugh even though he knew the thought of having a child with him probably made her light up like the sun. Or like the brightest Christmas tree. Either way, he thought she was beautiful when she glowed like that. It was a far cry from what she looked like when they first met.
“She also told us we have to have a picnic under the lights of the Eiffel Tower.”
“Oh my god you told her, didn’t you!? You tell her everything!”
“She forced it out of me! She wouldn’t give up!”
She squealed when he made a playful dive for her to try and ensnare her in a tight grasp but of course he ‘let her escape’ as she started to run through the lower level of the mansion. Yes. They were in a French Chateau that was the kpop queen’s vacation home after she officially moved back to Seoul.
And they kept the chase up for about 5 or 10 minutes before he grew whiny and successfully scooped her up and threw her over his shoulder like a sack of potatoes. She squealed and playfully hit his back. But the squealing soon turned into laughter.
“Yah! Put me down, you loser!”
“Nope. You’ve been a bad girl. And all bad girls need to be punished.”
