"Are you nervous?" Karina asks with a gentle look on her face, hand placed on Jeno's thigh that was bouncing a little out of nervousness.

The thigh abruptly freezes as Jeno slouches his shoulders and nods. "A bit..." He mumbles, fingers now fidgeting with the hem of his shirt.

Karina hums, "I understand," she caresses his thigh with her thumb. "And that's okay, you know that right? It's normal to feel nervous at times like this."

"I just hope it goes well..." Jeno once again mumbles before adding, "and I wished Jaemin could've been here with me..." Voice getting smaller at the end.

"Hey, that's okay. Jaemin couldn't make it for today's schedule because of an urgent business meeting, but maybe he'll be there for the next future appointments." Karina coaxes, trying to lighten up the mood.

"I hope so..." She sighs hearing the younger boy's sad tone.

"Jen, it's alright. Jaemin's always there for you and he did say he'll hope for the best as well, he's cheering you on right now." She now places her free hand on Jeno's back to caress it.

"Besides, he's upset at this business meeting too. He wanted to come with, but as you know, there's very demanding and strict people out there." She adds.

"Yeah..." Jeno nods unconsciously, "I wish those people were atleast a little kind enough to give him a break and let him join my first doctor's appointment."

"You can always surprise him later with Jisung if you're planning on telling them both at the same time." The older girl smiles at her own suggestion.

Her friend sighs but smiles faintly anyway, "maybe," he nods to himself again. "If what we're thinking about this is true."

Hearing his words, Karina rolls her eyes playfully at Jeno's doubtfulness. "Please, the last time I've seen you similar to acting like this was when you were pregnant with Jisung."

Jeno snorts and nudges her shoulder away, making her laugh and silently proud that she managed to cheer him up instead of stressing out.

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Jaemin opens the car door on the passenger side for his lover as Karina already enters in the backseat.

Once they started heading to Karina's house to drop her off– as the couple had insisted many times to do so– Jaemin glances at his lover.

"So, how was it?" He asks, earning Jeno's attention who blinks out of his stupor– slightly flinching due to him so out of it.

"Oh, uhm..." The younger boy pauses to glance at Karina behind his seat, the latter reassuring him with a few hand gestures accompanied by her sweet smile.

"It was okay." He replies instead, cringing from himself.

However, Jaemin didn't seem to mind and nods anyway, deciding not to ask more about it thinking it'll probably bother his lover in a way.

Seeing that, Jeno clears his throat. "How was your meeting?" He asks, silently blaming himself for making this situation awkward.

It's as if they're literally not married right now.

But maybe that's just Jeno's anxiety eating him up for nothing.

Jaemin smiles at him and shrugs, focusing on the road as they are now in Karina's neighborhood. "It went fine, the guy was very demanding and irritating though." He chuckles at the end.

"What did this one do now?" Karina sassed, inserting her phone in her purse after she had just finished sending a text message to her girlfriend.

Jaemin laughs at her and shakes his head, "nothing different to some people we've encountered with here and there." He replies to her.

"But Sungchan did almost storm off after one of them kept pestering us and stuff– even close to bribing I suppose– even after we already politely rejected." He adds soon enough.

Karina scoffs, "bastards, I tell you. They're desperate." She retorts as she grabs her purse once they've parked outside her house.

She steps out of the car and waves them goodbye, "thanks for taking me home, again." She smiles and then winks at Jeno who clicks his tongue.

"Don't forget!" She lastly said before disappearing into her house.

Jaemin furrows his eyebrows and turns to his lover, "what did she mean?" He couldn't help but ask this time.

Jeno softly sighs and bites his lip, "I'll tell you once we get home." He emphasizes.

His husband scans his figure for a moment before humming, taking the hint that now is not the right time to talk about this.

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"Sungie?" Jeno quietly calls out his son's name as he peeks through the door.

He smiles softly when he sees the little boy already passed out into deep slumber on his messy bed, snoring a bit.

He quietly enters and walks over to gently adjust Jisung's position to a more comfortable one– not wanting the little boy to whine in pain tomorrow for feeling his muscles ache.

He leaves a soft goodnight kiss on the little boy's forehead and heads out the room, now heading towards the living room where Jaemin awaits.

"Do you want me to get straight to the point or explain with details?" He asks, fumbling with his fingers again as he sat down beside his husband, facing each other.

The older boy grabs his hands and leads them to his lips, kissing his knuckles. "Whichever you prefer..." And snorts when Jeno gave him a look.

"Fine, the former please." He gave in.

Jeno sucks in a breath and exhales deeply, turning behind him to grab something and handing out to Jaemin afterwards.

Once his husband accepts the small box, he immediately covers his face with his hands and anxiously waits for Jaemin's reaction.

He hears the box drop to Jaemin's lap and soon, a croaky voice asks, "yo-you're positive?"

Jeno couldn't say anything as a response, he felt frozen in fear. His heartbeat was pounding fast and hard and he felt like he wanted to throw up.

"Jen, sweetheart... This isn't a j-joke?" Jeno had enough senses in him left to shake his head, "y-you're actually pr-regnant?" He now nods.

He soon feels Jaemin's hands grabbing his own to pull them away from his face, "b-but why are you crying, baby?"

Jeno didn't even realized he was silently crying this whole time and could only finally bawl his eyes out once Jaemin said that.