Chapter 162
After viewing a few moments in time that have been captured by camera from the past I have learned that my Jiminie isn't really the best at keeping secrets. On the good side, somehow he has done a stellar job the past few days while he has still been in the hospital. A few times he chose to threaten me that if I didn't start spending some time at home he was going to let loose the secret to my next soulmate that entered his room. His room might as well have a revolving door since he woke back up with all of us coming and going as we please, because of this fact I instantaneously knew the weight and validity of his threat. So, I did readjust my schedule so I only spent a couple hours the past few days while he was still in the hospital rather than practically the entire day by his side, like I had been doing before he woke up.
On the good side, that all ends today. Because today we finally will get to bring him home with us. I'm literally helping him gather stuff together when my phone goes off. He picks it up and glances at the screen. "Since when do you know Xu Minghao?"
"Actually, I met him here. He visited the room once a few days ago, the same day I got the news, come to think of it." I pause for a moment to let the sequence of events that day rush over me before I continue on. "He came by to let me know how sorry he felt about what happened to you, and also let me know that while he took the special stage you were set to do that he would still dedicate it in your honor." I frown at myself. "Sorry that I didn't tell you that before."
He shakes his head. "It's fine. He's a great dancer." He says before handing me the phone.
I smile when I realize that Minghao must have translated what he wanted to say before sending it. He typed up a simple message basically saying he was glad to hear that Jimin was getting released today. I don't know who exactly told him for certain, but I am sure it was probably through someone in the company that he learned this information.
I avert my smile back to Jimin as the nurse helps him into the wheelchair they insist upon. "He had plenty of nice things to say about your dancing too. In fact he said there were a few steps you were set on that he just couldn't accomplish himself so he had to change up the choreography a bit."
My sweet Jiminie blushes pink at the praise, and I am tickled at that response, even if the praise given wasn't my own.
About a half an hour later, Jimin is finally home. Joshua comes over yelling excitedly. "Chim Chim!!" Jimin's smile in response is simply breathtaking.
"Remember, Joshie, he won't pick you up yet since he is still recovering." Namjoon gently reminds the toddler.
Candace trails behind them huffing and puffing. "I swear the boy is just too fast." She looks over her shoulder at Jk. "Did you train him for some marathon coming up also?"
My bunny simply laughs. He looks over my direction and smiles softly.
I can't help but sigh. After Jimin woke up we all sat down and talked as a family. They were all quite upset at how absent I have been, not just physically but emotionally as well. On a positive note, they also assured me that they understood my reasoning. They understood why I felt I needed to be by his side as much as possible, even if I didn't necessarily fully understand it myself.
I don't know what would have happened had he not woke up when he did. I honestly think something in my relationship with the others might have broken, and it would probably have taken counseling to properly fix it.
"What no big party? No cake?" He smirks at me. "I know that there is some ice cream hidden here somewhere. We can at least pull that out right?" He actually knew that we decided against a big party for his return today. At first I don't know why he is teasing them until the next words come out of his mouth. "I know. We should have a mini pool party."
I try my best to cover up the sigh that expels from my lungs. "It sounds like an excellent plan, but first I think we need to hold a family meeting." I turn to look at Candace and nod in Joshua's direction. "Can you take him upstairs and get him ready? I have something I need to discuss with them."
Jimin played his ace to get me to say something now, rather than when I planned on saying something later tonight. Preferably after Joshua was already in bed that way I wouldn't have to have sent him out the room like I just did. Candace gave me a wink of reassurance since she already knew what was going on. I told her the same day I found out.
The problem is with everyone sitting down in the living room now that I have no clue where to start. "Baby? You were saying you had something to tell us." Oh but the blush that stains my cheeks right now.
"So..." I look over at Jimin, and he nods his head at me. "The day that Jimin woke up I got some news. I didn't want to tell you all until we were under the same roof again. Jimin knows because the secret I shared with him is what I whispered to him in hopes it would wake him up." I think of those words and replay the way I said them to him in my mind once again. "Jimin, you're going to be a father. Jimin, I'm pregnant."
Somehow saying it out loud to all of them is a lot harder. I can't help but start fidgeting with my hands.
"Sweetheart, you are starting to make me nervous." Jk admits.
"Princess, you can tell us anything." Damn, now I am worried they think it is going to be something bad.
Yoongi simply nods my direction.
"Ugh, Petal, just tell us already."
It's my observant and intelligent Taeger who jumps to his feet. "Are you...? Are you really?"
I glance at Jimin for a second wondering if he told him, but he shakes his head no. Plus, it wouldn't make sense since he is seated on the opposite couch. I mean I guess he could have mouthed it, but I don't believe that is the case since Jimin is looking at me with sincerity now. In his own way promising he didn't tell him without saying the words.
The others watch my visual interaction with Jimin as if it were a tennis match. Back and forth repeatedly over and over again, before they realize Tae is still standing and coax him to sit back down so I can continue to explain.
"I thought it was all because of the stress of everything going on. First with the kidnapping, then Rebecca's death, and of course the wreck that caused Jimin's extended time in the hospital. I didn't think anything about the fact that I was late."
"Late for what?" My sweet bunny asks, and while not all of them connected the dots at first his question seems to make a lightbulb go off above their heads.
"Princess, you're pregnant?"
That's when I start getting emotional, and Hobi literally makes me sit down. "Yeah, a little over two months. I'm even showing a little bit, even though it's somewhat early for that." I try not to arch my eyebrow in confusion regarding that part. I have yet to see an OBGYN to discuss the oddity. My gynecologist is setting me up with an OBGYN who happens to be a friend of hers, although I have a feeling once Big Hit learns the news I might have to go with someone they can be assured will be discreet. "Jimin suggested the pool party so you could all see my baby bump for yourselves."
"Um." Yoongi mutters so I look up at him. "First of all let me state for the record, Honey, that I am absolutely thrilled at this news. I think we need a good dose of happiness in this household right now." I understand why he takes a moment to do that. People that don't know Yoongi very well might think he is a bit cold, when in reality he is just exceptionally introspective and somewhat of a loner. He definitely takes a moment to think before he speaks, much like I try to do often. "I'm just a bit confused. How did this happen?"
The maknae line all snicker at his question. "You need us to draw you a diagram, hyung?" Jk adds, somewhat making up for his mental lapse just a few moments ago.
While Yoongi tolerates Jk's behavior often; he gives him the stink eye now. "I know how. What I meant by that was you were on birth control. Shouldn't that have prevented you from becoming pregnant? I thought the pills were nearly foolproof."
"You're right. They are about 99% effective when taken correctly. But, you are forgetting that I wasn't able to take them for a few days since I was first kidnapped, and then after that I was in the hospital. My doctor also wonders if perhaps I was given some kind of antifungal after I was admitted to the hospital in Monte Carlo. I pierced my skin on the rusty cage, and they think that they treated me for both potential tetanus as well as a potential fungal infection. I need to check the paperwork the nurse sent with me after that hospital visit, but I am not sure I know where it is right now for certain."
Tae immediately jumps again. "We're having a girl!"
The entire room looks over at him like he is completely crazy. "Um, first of all I haven't had an ultrasound at all yet. Secondly, I am pretty sure the gender wouldn't be able to be determined until I am probably at least three months along. Sorry to burst your bubble, Taeger."
He shakes his head. "No, I mean I dreamt about it. A little girl with red curls just like yours."
I smile softly at him as I remember how he talked about having a dream about a baby and hoping that dream would come true. He hadn't given me any details then, but apparently the baby in his dream was pretty specific. "This dream baby sounds adorable, and I guess we'll just have to wait it out to see if you are suddenly prophetic."
They all start whispering to each other excitedly, but that all stops as Candace comes back downstairs with Joshua in tow. I hadn't let myself realize it before now, but essentially he was going to end up being a big brother. I wasn't really ready to tell him yet, but once I really started showing I would. Once someone could look at my belly and know for certain what was going on there.
I excuse myself upstairs to go change into a swimsuit. I frown at the one piece suits and decide to bypass them altogether. I might as well fully embrace the bump. I tell myself as I pick a bikini at random and put it on. I end up smirking at myself when I realize it is the red one that Hobi purchased for me. I get lost in my memories for a moment while studying myself in the mirror.
"Oh, sorry Petal. I was just coming by your room to give you this."
He holds a gift bag out to me. I was so skeptical regarding that present, but I was also much more excited at the surprise than anything else. I pushed past the tissue paper, and I was not overly surprised to be holding the new bikini that was so much like the first one I had purchased the day before or so.
"What? I thought you deserved to have more choices color and pattern wise."
It was the black and gold one that was in that gift bag. I remember after seeing it saying, "I'm almost surprised you didn't get me a red one."
"Perhaps, I bought you more than one." He had wore that sexy sly grin on his face that will always make me grow weak in the knees.
I am broken out of my memories by the same soulmate in question knocking on my door and opening it before I ever get the chance to respond. For a moment he slyly grins at me, just like he did that day in our past. Then a look of wonder crosses over his face as he catches the view of me from the side. He comes over to me and sits down on his haunches. His tapered fingers glide over my stomach. "Hi baby." He says before kissing the bump. Then he stands back up and pulls me into the cradle of his arms. "Let's go introduce the others to the baby, Petal."
Candace has already taken Joshua outside so this moment is solely mine and my soulmates. They lovingly smile up at me as I descend down the stairs and walk into the living room area.
Essentially all of them more or less repeat a similar action to Hobi's. While Jimin had been the first of my soulmates to know, he hadn't yet seen my baby bump for himself. So he too was even in awe.
Namjoon was the next one to sit on his haunches in front of me before directly talking to my stomach. "Maybe you can wear those baby moccasins I purchased one day."
Jin comes over next. "I'm going to be so torn if you are a girl like, Taehyungie claims. Your mommy is my princess, but I am sure you will end up having me wrapped around your little finger." His eyes turn to me even though he still is talking to my baby bump right now. "Perhaps, I should start calling mommy queen instead."
Yoongi doesn't say anything. He simply caresses his calloused hands against my belly. He smiles up at me with happy tears building in his eyes before backing away to allow Jimin to come in next.
He sits on his haunches and pecks a sweet kiss against my belly. "I want to say because I knew about you first that I will love you more than all the others, but that hardly seems fair. You are going to be so loved in this house that other children your age won't be able to help but be jealous when you get older."
Tae excitedly bumps his best friend out of the way so he can get on his haunches in front of me next. "Hi baby!" He randomly spurts off silly nonsense that I don't completely follow. "I dreamed about you. I already bought you so many gifts; I can't wait to give you."
When he gets up I grab his hand to stop him. "You already bought the baby gifts?"
He smiles widely at me. "Yeah, the toy soldiers and dolls from the market in Malta. I bought them for our babies when we started building our family together. I'll probably even give the toy soldiers to Joshie when he gets a bit bigger. I think they are too much of a choking hazard right now." Well that definitely explained his strange purchases that day to me.
Jk finally gets his turn. "I'm going to buy all the books about babies. That way I know exactly what to do when you arrive. I'll learn to be the best daddy ever."
I shake my head at him as he rises back up. I turn my eyes over all of them. "You will all be the best daddies." Then I pierce my bunny with a stern look. "This isn't a competition."
He gives me a shocked expression before grinning at me like a loon.
A/N: First of all, I will say that when I first started this story I always planned on her getting pregnant towards the end of the story. However, I had planned on her being on antibiotics because it used to be that antibiotics messed up birth control. Now that isn't the case. Now it is only certain antifungals that can mess up birth control, so I kind of fudged through that fact a bit.
Secondly, I apologize. I didn't announce some correct reader's guesses in previous chapters.
Regarding Korain and Candace being soulmates both Jetteken and Merlina2710 guessed that possibility.
Regarding this chapter:
merlina2710 was sort of right realizing that she wouldn't have been able to take birth control while she had been kidnapped. (That is only half of it since the other half is about potentially about the medicines she was on.)
alldajams4jimin guessed a plot twist would be that she found out she was pregnant after they adopt Joshua. (They may not have adopted him yet but he is in their lives.) catherine_k95 replied saying she thought the same thing.
Shyyyygirl got the seven whispered words correct from last chapter.
Although I did like merlina2710's guess also. "Jimin, we're going to have a baby!"
So far the suggestions I have noted down for potential additional bonus chapters have been made by merlina2710, Jetteken, Shyyyygirl, and Hopes_pink (think I have the username wrong on this one) had a similar idea to Shyyyygirl's so I will probably combine those two together. If you commented with a potential idea and are not mentioned here then please let me know. I probably simply forgot to make note of it, and I apologize profusely if that is the case.
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