One True Love

~Kai's P.O.V~
I closed the door behind Soo Young, frowning. We walked into the living room, followed by an awkward silence.
"So.. you're babysitting?" I asked, breaking the ice, pointing to the buggy.
"Yeah, you could say that." Soo Young said and started looking at the pictures on the wall, fiddling with them. I didn't really see what was so fascinating about them.
"What's it's name?"
"Her name is Jessica." She paused. " Do you want to hold her?" She asked.
"No. I mean, er.... no, thankyou." My words were in a panicked rush. Was she mad or what? No way did I want to hold a baby. And she still hadn't said why she was doing here. I hadn't seen her or heard from her since the camping trip. She dropped out of school two weeks before graduation. and now she was in my dorm. As if reading my mind, Soo Young said, "I went away to live with my aunt. I'm back for the day visiting a friend and, as I was passing by, I thought I'd pop in and say hi. I hope you don't mind." I shook my head, feeling unexpectedly awkward.
"I'm going away today actually." Soo Young continued.
"Back to your aunt's" I assumed.
"No, up north. I'll be staying at a friend's for a while."
"that's nice."
A long silence followed.
"Can I get you something? A drink?" I said at last
"Er... some water? Some water would be good."
I headed for the kitchen and filled a glass with water from the tap. " There you are." I handed it to her once I was back in the living room. She thanked me and drained her glass down. Wow. She must have been pretty thirsty. She then took out a box from her jacket pocket and took out a cigarette, pushing it between her lips. "Do you mind if I smoke?" she asked, the flame from her lighter already approaching the cigarette end.
"Er.... I don't but the rest will. Especially Suho. He's an anti-cigarette and they'll all be back soon."
"How soon?" Soo Young asked sharply.
I shrugged. "Thirty minutes or so." Why was there an urgent tone to her voice? For a second there she almost looked ... panicky.
"Oh, Okay. Well the smell will be gone by then. " she said, lighting up anyway. Damn it. To tell you the truth, I wasn't keen on cigarettes either.
"I didn't know you smoked." I said.
" I started almost a year ago. It's one of the few pleasures I have left." she said. There was another awkward silence. I could really smell the cigarette now. I sighed inwardly.
"So..... how are you? What have you been up to?" It wasn't much but it was all I could find to ask.
"I've been looking after Jessica." She replied.
"I mean apart from that?" I asked, a little desperately.
She gave me a slight smile. She shrugged but didn't reply. She turned her head to carry on looking around the room.
Silence.
The baby started gurgling. Well that was some noise to break the silence. Thank goodness for that.
" What about you?" She asked removing the baby from the buggy and holding it on the left side of her body as she moved the cigarette to the right side of her lips. "what have you been upto?" Her eyes weren't on me though, She was looking into the face of the thing in her arms. The thing gurgled louder, trying to wriggle closer into her.
For the first time sonce she arrived, she looked directly at me and didn't immediately turn her gaze away.
"I'm waiting for my exam results. Well to be honest, I'm waiting for everyone's results because they all left to practice." I said. "They're supposed to arrive today."
"How do you think you did?"
"Hopefully good. I worked hard for this." She smiled a little. "Whose baby is she? Is she a relative?"
Just at that moment, the baby started to grizzle.
"Her nappy needs changing." She said. " Hold her for a second, I need to get rid of my cigarette." She thrust the baby at me and I had no choice but to take it. She headed out of the room and made her way to the kitchen. I held the baby at an arm's length, pulling my head back like a turtle to put maximum distance between myself and the thing. There was a sound of running water from the tap, then the bang of the bin lid snapping shut. My hearing was switched up to maximum as I waited for the second I could pass back this thing in my hands. Soo Young re-entered the room. With a practiced hand, she opened the outsized navy-blue bag hanging on the back of the buggy and removed a pale yellow plastic baby mat decorated with multicoloured flowers. She lais it down on the floor, smoothing it out. Next came a disposable nappy, and a small orange plastic bag and some baby skin wipes. With a rueful smile, Soo Young took the baby from my unresisting hands. I sighed in relief. I watched her undo the nappy. She wasn't seriously going to change a baby's nappy on our carpet, was she? It looked like she was. Gross! I wanted to stop her but what could I say? I watched in horrow as soo Yound unfastened the nappy. Urgh!
It was overflowing with poo. Sticky, nasty, ultra-smelly baby poo. I was amazed how I managed to hold my breakfast down.
"You should watch this." Soo Young said. " You might learn something."
Yeah right!
"It's quite straightforward." She continued. " You lift up her legs by the ankles till her bum is off the nappy, then wipe her off till she's nice and clean." She dropped the wiped on the nappy. "Then you whip out the old nappy and place a clean one under her. After that you fasten it making sure it's not too tight and not too loose. See. It's so simple even you could do it."
"Yes but why would I want to?" I asked. I mean, duh!
After putting the nappy in the orange plastic bag and tying a knot on top of it. Soo Young handed me the nappy bag. I recoiled in horror. " Could you put this in the bin please?" She smiled.
"Er... the kitchen is in the same place. Help yourself."
"Would you mind holding Jessica then?"
Oh god. Poo or baby? A baby or poo?
I took the nappy bag out of Soo Young's hand, holding it at an arm's length between my thumb and index fingertip. I thought speed would be better so I sprinted to the kitchen, dropped the bag in the bin and washed my hands as if I'd just performed a surgery. I went back into the sitting room. "Soo Young, Why..."
"Shush, she's fallen asleep" she whispered. she placed the baby back in it's buggy and she was so gentle, the baby didn't even stir once. Soo Young straightened up, biting at her bottom lip repeatedly. I remained seated. Then she dug into her oversized baby bag and withdrew a folded sheet of paper.
"Read this." she said, putting the paper out towards me.
I hesitated. "What is it?"
"Read it."
Frowning, I took it from her and opened it. It was a birth certificate.
Child's full name: Jessica Jung
Father's full name: Occupation:
Mother's full name: Soo Young Jung Occupation: Student
I stared at her. "You... you're the baby's mother?" Soo Young nodded slowly. "Jongin... I don't know how to tell you this without.... well, without just saying it."
She didn't have to say anything.
"Kai..."
She wasn't even nineteen yet and she was a motheer? Is she insane?
"Kai are you listening?"
"Huh? What was that?" I asked.
She took a deep breath followed after another one. " Kai.... you're the dad. And Jessica is our daughter."

Notes

sorry sorry sorry sorry for the very very very very late reply *starts singing sorry sorry by SUJU*
Anyway omg omg summer holiday's started!!!!!!!! I will try to write A LOT ^^
Please anticipate it ^^
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