Seokjin was just enjoying another day at home with the girls, since they weren't at school today. He was looking down at his belly, making faces and poking it slightly. For this pregnancy, the baby sits more towards his back and he was hardly showing. Now, he has a slight belly at only sixteen weeks when he should have a more prominent curve. You can see it when he wears tight shirts, but baggy clothes like his sweatshirts and his baggy band t-shirts, you can't even tell.

When you touch it though, it's hard, not soft and squishy so he knows for a fact he's pregnant. Maybe here soon the belly will pop and he'll have that glow that everyone always talks about when they're pregnant. He never experienced one with the girls, but everyone said he glowed. He also shown more with them than with this one, but yet again he didn't carry the girls far back in his back, he carried them high into his ribs.

Someone knocks timidly on his front door, and he snaps out of making lunch to go see who it is. He was expecting maybe another neighbor or maybe even someone trying to sell him something, but no. This person standing at his door step, was the last person he wanted to see at the moment. He opens the door with a small smile, but it was gone as soon as he seen the blonde on the other side, "What are you doing here?"

The man on the other side swallows and wrings his hands together, "I need your help."

"I'm not giving you money to pay for tuition again, Seonghwa. I did it once and I told you specifically not to ask me again," Seokjin snaps, trying to shut the door, but the man stops him and pushes on it.

"Seokjin please-"

"I don't want to see you Seonghwa, get off my property, now," Seokjin snaps, opening the door back and standing in the door way to block the inside view of his home from the boy in front of him. Most people wouldn't turn away their brother, but to Seokjin, this man was no brother to him.

"Jinnie," the man pleads, his eyes start water.

"Don't call me that. You haven't called me that since you were three and I pushed you off the swing for doing it," Seokjin says lowly, "I don't want you here Seonghwa."

"I just need your help! For once can you get your head out of your ass and help me out?! I know you hated me ever since I was brought into the world but you're a grown ass man treating your brother like shit!" Seonghwa cries out, tears escaping his eyes as he looks back at Seokjin, "Please, I don't need money I just need advice!"

"Well I'll give you a piece of advice. When a family member tells you to never come near them again, you listen to them. Clearly you're not at the moment, so I'm going to tell you again," Seokjin gets really close in his twenty-one year old brother's face and puts away the guilty feeling as he sneers, "Go. Away."

He turns back to go into his house, but something different stops him. It wasn't a grip on his arm to make him stay, it wasn't Seonghwa sobbing now, it was his brother saying the following, "I'm pregnant!"

Seokjin stops abruptly, turning slowly back to face his brother who was full on ugly crying. Seokjin frowns, "Are... Are you sure?"

Seonghwa nods immediately, "I-I don't know how f-far along I am but I took a t-t-test and it came back posit-tive," He spoke through the sobs, hiding his face behind his hands as he continues to sob and cry.

"Just one?" Seokjin asks, arching his eyebrow.

Seonghwa nods, wiping his face of the tears and snot escaping, "I can't even afford another 87¢ pregnancy test. If I can't afford more than one pregnancy test I can't afford a kid! Jinnie, I don't know the first thing about being a parent, what am I going to do?! I'm still in university and I can't have a baby when I'm graduating from the nursing program-"

"Alright, alright, calm down," Seokjin sighs, getting out of the way and opening his door more, "Come in, let's talk inside and get out of the cold. You're going to get sick and the sucky thing is you can't take cold medicine now."

Seonghwa sniffles and enters the house, staying at the doorway while Seokjin sinks deeper into his house. He sees Seonghwa just standing there and snorts, "I literally offered for you to come in my home. Come in and sit."

Seonghwa nods, timidly taking his shoes off and heading to the living room where he sees his nieces coloring photos on the coffee table. Jiyoo looks up, seeing the blonde and frowning, "Who are you?"

Seonghwa smiles, "You don't remember me? I'm uncle Seonghwa. I guess you haven't seen me since Christmas last year."

"Oh! Hi uncle Seonghwa!" Jiwoo pipes in, going back to coloring while Jiyoo watches him sit before looking back down at her drawing and finishing it up. Seonghwa was slightly uncomfortable as he waited for Seokjin to come back in. When he does, he hands Seonghwa two pregnancy tests that he had in his bathroom drawer, "Go take those and then come back. If they're both positive, we'll talk."

Seonghwa nods, standing to go take them while Seokjin sighs, "Girls, please go put on a movie and let me and uncle Seonghwa talk in private as grown ups."

"Yes mama," Jiyoo says shyly, standing and taking Jiwoo's hand in her own and both run to their bedroom. A couple minutes later, Seonghwa comes out of the bathroom with both tests in his hand. He shows them to Seokjin, both positive.

Seokjin takes in a deep breath and nods, "Alright, so this is going to get serious. Let's talk about your options." Seonghwa sits beside him, looking a little uncomfortable as Seokjin turns to face him fully, "So, you're in school, you're broke, broke enough you can't buy a cheap pregnancy test, and you haven't mentioned a baby daddy."

"He is a friend of mine, I actually like him and I think he likes me too, but I'm scared to tell him," Seonghwa mumbles.

Seokjin sighs, pinching the bridge of his nose, "And you haven't even told the father of the baby, who you're crushing on like a child."

"I honesty didn't think this would happen Seokjin. I never thought I'd have sex with a guy! And bottom! I always thought I was going to be the one to get a GIRL pregnant not this way around," Seonghwa snaps, running his hand through his blonde locks, "This guy though.... he just.... he makes me happy and we were talking for about two months now. He's funny, and just so... so sweet. We literally fucked the first time we met which is how I think I got pregnant."

"Did he wear a condom?"

"Yes, but it broke."

"Are you on birth control?"

".... I just told you I didn't think I'd be the one bottoming. Mom would've put me on birth control if I knew at the time I was interested in the same sex, but I didn't show any interest in guys until I met this one! Then the fucker topped me and knocked me up," Seonghwa chokes, covering his face as his eyes burn with tears threatening to escape.

Seokjin takes in another deep breath as he nods, "Okay, so first thing's first, you need to get an appointment to see a doctor-"

"Jinnie I can't afford-"

"I will pay for it," Seokjin interrupts, holding his hand up to silence the younger, "You need to see how far along you are and if the baby is at least healthy. You have three options Seonghwa. You can either keep your baby, give it up for adoption, or get an abortion. If you keep it, you're going to have to work really hard to support your baby and the baby's father is either going to bail or stay. Whatever his decision is, he's still going to have to pay child support for the baby."

Seonghwa swallows roughly as Seokjin sighs, "Adoption, you can give the baby to a family who are having troubles with getting pregnant or both are fixed and want another baby. Honestly, it's up to you as long as you know your baby is going to a safe place where they're going to grow healthy and strong and be happy," Seonghwa smiles, but Seokjin isn't done, "Then there's abortion. You may be early on in the pregnancy to where you can get one if you don't like the idea of someone taking your baby or it being put in the system if you can't find a home for it. Plus, you get it done, you can go back to school. No one will know you were ever pregnant unless you tell them yourself. Where as adoption, you have to carry it to full term, and once you have the baby go on a small maternity leave to heal. Which is what you're going to have to do anyway if you decide to keep the baby."

Seonghwa nods, processing the information before he speaks, "I know you hate me, but at least tell me what my first step should be. From then on I'll figure it out."

Seokjin winces, turning to give his brother his full attention, "I don't hate you. I'm just not fond of you."

Seonghwa scoffs, rolling his eyes that had blue contacts on them and made his pretty eyes pop more, "Yeah, it's obvious. Look, I didn't choose to be the barrier that separated your parents. I was born the bastard child, I can't help it that mom slept with my dad and got knocked up."

Seokjin sighs, realizing the truth and nodding, "I know."

"Then why do you act like everything that has happened to mom and dad, was my fault?" Seonghwa asks, slightly hurt, "I looked up to you, you know? I always bragged about you to my friends when I was little. How tough you were, how cool you were. But after you practically disowned me before you graduated high school, I lost all of my pride for you. Don't get me wrong, I still love you because you're my big brother. I'm just hurt that you blame me for everything that happened between mom and dad. When I had absolutely no control over it."

"Yeah, I guess I'm a little petty," Seokjin giggles slightly, "I will say this, that even though I didn't really pay much attention to you growing up, seeing you now and seeing you work hard to graduate with a bachelors in nursing, I know you'll be a good mom if you decide to keep the baby."

Seonghwa smiles, holding his arms open, "Hug?"

Seokjin rolls his eyes, "What the hell," he wraps his arms around his brother and hugs him close, rubbing his back slightly, "If you need anything, any advice about pregnancy or even a place to stay, call me."

Seonghwa nods against his shoulder, jumping when the front door swings open and closes. Namjoon steps in, arching his eyebrow at the scene before pointing to his office, "I'm just gonna... leave you two... to uh..." he shakes his head fondly, leaving the two to finish hugging it out before Seokjin pulls away and smiles.

"I made lunch, want some?"

"Sure, I'll stay," Seonghwa giggles, "I eat practically all the time now."

~•~

So Seokjin has a brother who's in Uni to be a pediatric nurse. Who is the brother? None other than Ateez's Seonghwa:

This gorgeous man. Hope you all enjoyed this! Time for Markson now!