Jeno           Jaemin
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"Do we need to know the gender Jaemin?" Jeno inquired "I..I wanted to know. Do you not?" Jaemin questioned. Jeno shrugged "It does not bother me to not know." Jaemin dropped his shoulders "It can be a surprise I suppose."

Damn you Jaemin.

"Or we can know. If it is important to you, then it is important to me. I'm sorry for not considering your feelings Jaemin."
"You really want to know?"
"Yes I really do want to know. Is it at the next appointment?"
"It is. This Thursday."
Jeno nodded: what he does for his husband.

"I have a confession." Jaemin announced. Jeno nodded for him to continue "I do not want to know the gender." "Why the sudden change?"
"What if I find out the baby is a girl, and I suddenly start to buy girly, rainbow princess things? I do not like any of those things! And if we are having a boy, I could become obsessed with the idea of our son being masculine. Jeno. I want our baby to find their own identity."
"I do not think putting our daughter in something rainbow will make her gay, or if we put our son in a pink onesie will he grow up to think that pink is only for girls. They do not know their colors yet! They will only know you, and me, and their milk. This issue is nothing to fret over. If you do not want to know, I will be supportive."
"Would you be upset if I changed my mind again?"
"No. I figured you still wanted to know."

"Jeno? Pst. Jeno, are you awake?"
Jeno turns on the light next to the bed "I am now. What is wrong Jaemin?"
"You turned on the light aggressively. Are you mad at me Jeno?"

Jeno sees his husband with wide eyes "No, I'm sorry, I thought something was wrong. Are you okay?"
"I have been thinking. Jeno, I want the gender to be a surprise."
"If that is what you want Jaemin. I am still being supportive of your choice."
"I also invited Renjun to come with us for tomorrow appointment."
"What for?"
"He will only the gender. He swore that he would not tell me. Under no circumstances."
"All it will take is for you to cry and he will crack. If you make it the remainder of your pregnancy without him telling you, I will be actually surprised."
Jaemin crossed his arms "He will keep the secret well from me."
"Does that mean I can know?" Jeno questioned.
Jaemin laughs "Ha, no. Goodnight. See you in three hours!" He rolled over to face the wall, away from Jeno.

"That room is private." Renjun whispers "I can wait outside."
"It is not that private Renjun." Jaemin reassured. "You want to see my reaction to determine what you think the gender is." Renjun accused. "That is absolutely correct." Jeno interfered. Jaemin pouted.

"Alright. Before we begin this examination, I will be able to tell the gender. Do you want to know?"
"However the protocol is, only he is to know."
Renjun waved "I was not part of making the baby. Here for my friends."

The doctor nodded "Well, a friend support is important too. Shall we begin?"

The room was quiet as the doctor used his instrument "There is the babies heartbeat. It is strong today. Everything is looking good. Good job Jaemin." Jeno squeezes Jaemins hand.
"Alright. Let's see if we can find the gender." The doctor lowered his instrument to Jaemins bump "Right there. I am for sure."
Jaemin turned away from the monitor "Tell only Renjun, please."

Jeno watched as the doctor wrote the results, trying to read what he wrote as he was writing the results.

Jaemin closed his eyes.

"For you only Renjun."
Renjun accepted the note "Thank you."
"I will see you in another four weeks. At the next appointment we will be seeing you every two weeks instead of four weeks. My receptionist will send out a reminder the day before your appointment. Here is a towel to wipe off the gel Jaemin. And congratulations."

"Have you looked yet?"
Renjun shook his head "Not yet. Want me to look right now?"
Jeno nodded. As did Jaemin.

Renjun opened the paper. Then folded the paper again "I can tell you-"
"I don't want to know remember!"
"That is is definitely a baby. Congratulations!"

Jeno exhaled as Jaemin laughed "I just peed myself." He announces. "Renjun, will you get Jaemin his extra pair of pants out of the car? Thank you."

"Jeno? Are you mad that I do not want to know the gender? Please be honest."
Jeno sets his phone down "I am not mad at you. Never have I been mad about that."
"I know you are mad at me about something though."
"Again, not mad at you Jaemin. I respect your wishes to not know the gender. I guess, I am struggling with you not allowing me to know. You have just decided that I cannot know."
"No, you are right Jeno." Jaemin confesses "I think..I thought that you would the same as I would. It is different for you though. You are experiencing this pregnancy as a second person. Jeno, if you want to know. Then you can know too with Renjun."
Jeno smiled "Thank you for considering my feelings. However. I worry that me knowing I will accidentally announce the gender. It is better for me not to know."
Jaemin examined Jeno. He just looked guilty;

"You already know, don't you?" 

"No. No! Renjun has kept his promise of remaining silent."
"So you are okay with not knowing? Promise?"
"I am really okay with not knowing the gender. We should come up with a nickname for the baby though. As we do not know the gender."
"We could keep calling it baby." Jaemin offered.
"Why change what is working. Hi, baby."
"We do not need to rush for a name yet."
"No we do not. We will know the perfect name for baby once they are born." Jeno offers.
Jaemin nodded "I agree. There are a few names I have stored, but will not sharing until I give birth."
"Same as I do. You are not sharing so neither am I."

"And they do not know?"
Renjun shook his head "No, they asked me not to tell them. And I am dying! I am not good with keeping secrets."
"You could have told them no. Or told them that one of us could keep the secret." Renjun looks over the Dreamies "One of you keep the secret? They would have known before they left the hospital! Why did they trust me?"
"It is okay. Just do not talk to them until after the baby is born. See? Problem fixed!"
"That fixes nothing Haechan." Renjun looked to him "I could tell that Jeno was trying to sneak a look as the doctor was writing the gender. He seems more keen to find out than Jeno."
"Jeno  could not keep that from Jaemin. They tell each other everything."
"Yeah, they are in a relationship. Keeping secrets is kind of a no."
"What if I hid the paper? Completely forgot about it. That could work."
"Will you actually forget the gender though?"
"Absolutely."

No.

It was a week later when Renjun saw the two again. He noted that Jaemin looked more miserable than last time. And Jeno just looked tired, he always looked like that though.

"Are you okay Jaemin?" Renjun worried. "Getting tired of being pregnant. Hoodlum now decided to start practice their tap dancing. They are doing toe touches in there, I swear! Nothing is helping."
"We have tried everything. So many searchers to help the baby to calm down."
"To no prevail. I want one night of peaceful sleep."
"Oh no, I'm sorry to hear that the baby is giving you grief. Have you spoken to your doctor Jaemin? He might be able to give you a new idea."
"We have an appointment for today. He said that we cannot look at the monitor. We will definitely be able to tell the gender. I am far enough along to see the parts."
"That sounds no fun. I would want to see my baby." Renjun sympathized. "It is okay. We are willing to not look to hide the baby's gender."

"You two lasted longer than I expected."
Jaemin yelped out as Jeno brought his hands behind his back "We were looking-"
"For this? I knew you would be looking soon." Renjun held up the piece of paper "I can just tell you. You two could have just asked."
"We were not looking." Jaemin huffed "We wanted to know if you still were in possession of the paper. That is all."
"Oh? Is that so?" Renjun raised an eyebrow "Okay then. Since it does not bother either of you, I will..oops." Renjun dropped the paper into the trash.
"Why would you do that Renjun!"
"To see if you did care." Renjun replied "That was a blank piece of paper. Honest. This is the real one. Do you went to look?" Renjun pulled out the envelope "It is right here. Look. I will even open the envelope. Ooh. I see the gender."

Jaemin removed the paper from Renjun "Took you 30 weeks to admit you wanted to know the gender, huh?" Teases Jeno.
Jaemin remained silent. He opened the folded letter "Are we ready to see this?"
"I have been ready."

Jaemin reads "Baby boy."
"Baby boy? This is my son!" Jeno rubbed Jaemin's bump "Of course you are a son. I wanted a son first. Jaemin, how are you feeling?" Jaemin folded the paper once more. "Jaemin? Talk to me."
"I am happy, really. It's just..I was so sure it was a girl. I was already picturing a girl. Her cheeks flushed as we chased after her in the park. How she would wear pink dresses, and Jeno, I am so happy."
"Then why are you crying?"
"That is all I do anymore!"
Jeno pulled Jaemin closer towards him "This news is good though right? You are not disappointed?"
"Not disappointed. I can now order those onesies off of Amazon."
"You had two different carts? One of each gender?" Questioned Jeno.
"It was easier. I did not know the gender. Now the baby shopping will be easier for us."
"My cart is already full. I have been waiting for us to find out. Most of the items are unisex."
"So we can use it for the next baby too!"
"Next baby?"
"Yeah!" Jaemin exclaimed "The baby that you will be carrying. We both only wanted two, and well I did the first baby."
"We will talk about another baby at a later time. For now, let us focus on this one. Our son."
"It feels right to say son." Jaemin said "It feels like we were meant to have this baby."
"The gods choose good parents for this boy." Jeno whispers. "He choose the ones who were trying their very best."
"And that is what we will be doing. Our best."

It was May 5th, at 9:07 am when Jeno witnessed his husband give birth to their son.

Jeno held the baby first "Baby boy, you are here. Na Kwan."
"He is here. Hello our baby boy, Kwan."

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