Stay With Us

I was so glad that everything was finally over. Matthew had everything answered and went back to the states to finish his other loose ends. My parents and I were alright again and they were back home. Making it about three months. Jimin and I were back to our normal selves and no longer fighting. It seemed like we weren’t going to be having anymore curve balls for a while.

I finished getting ready for work when I was checking my clothes over in the mirror. I had noticed I was gaining a little weight about a month ago but I hadn’t done anything about it. I probably should before it got out of hand.

Jimin came up behind me wrapping his arms around my waist.

“Thank you for not saying anything.” I told him turning my head to kiss him.

“Not saying anything about what?” He asks confused.

“Me gaining weight. I had noticed about a month ago but with everything ending I hadn’t dealt with it yet.” I say sighing. “We’re not doing anything tomorrow. Want to spend the day at the gym?”

“Yeah we can. But honestly I haven’t noticed.” He says kissing my forehead.

I roll my eyes at him then turn around to leave. “We better hurry. We’re almost running late.” I say grabbing my bag.

Work went by quickly. Mr. Kwon let us go about noon so the girls and I went to get lunch at the café down the street. I just got a dry salad and water. They all gave me very confused looks.

“Maranda, you know all you ordered was lettuce right?” Hyosonn says to me in disbelief.
I slightly laugh at her. “Well I noticed I have been gaining some weight the last month. So I need to start fixing it.”

“Guys leave her alone.” Ji interrupts. “We have all had to for work before.”

I give her a thankful smile as we move on to other topics. The food got to the table and I started to feel queasy. I wasn’t sure if it was the smell of the food or if I was just feeling strange because of hunger. I took one bite of my salad then had to run to the restroom. Ji followed behind me to make sure I was alright.

I threw up in the trashcan while she held back my hair for me. “Maranda are you ok?” She asked really shaken up by it.

“Yeah.” I say wiping my mouth with a paper towel. “I don’t know what happened. I just got a queasy feeling. I thought I was just hungry.”

I go over to the sink rinsing out my mouth before we go back to the table. I saw Hyosonn on my phone as we walked up. “Yeah she is coming back to the table now.” She then hands it to me. “Jimin called you. I thought I should answer it.” She says looking apologetically.

“Thanks.” I say to her before putting it to my ear. “Hello?”

“Are you alright?” He asked worried. “Hyosonn said you went to the bathroom to throw up.”

“Yeah I’m fine. It just kind of hit me out of nowhere.”

“Do you want me to come get you? I was calling anyway to tell you I was done for the day.”
I then get another whiff of food smell and started feeling queasy again. “Yeah could you? I’m still not feeling the best.”

“Yeah. I’m leaving the studio now.”

I hang up the phone putting it in my purse. “Jimin is going to come get me.” I tell them. I then get out some money handing it to Ji. “Here’s my part of the bill.” I turn looking at the door seeing Jimin’s car pull up. “I’ll see you guys Monday.”

“Bye. Feel better.” They all told me as I left.

I got into Jimin’s car and instantly he started feeling my forehead. “Jimin. I’m fine.” I laugh at him.

“Well you don’t look fine. You’re white as a ghost.” He then starts to drive. “Maybe we should go to the hospital.”

“You’re being ridiculous.” I say rolling my eyes. “Let’s go home. If I’m still like this in a couple days then I’ll go.”

We got back to the house and I was already feeling better. No more queasiness. I decided to take a bath to try to relax more which helped the slight pain I had from throwing up earlier. I hear a knock on the bathroom door after about an hour.

“Yeah?”

Jimin then walks in sitting on the floor. “How ya feeling?”

“Great actually.” I say sitting up. I then hear my stomach start to growl. “Kind of hungry now. I didn’t eat lunch.” I say laughing.

“What do you want for dinner then?” He asks laughing.

“Just salad.”

He then gives me a very strange look. “Salad?” He repeats. “You want a salad?”

I couldn’t help but burst out laughing at the look on his face. “I have to go on a diet remember? If I gain much more Mr. Kwon is going to notice for sure.”

“So start tomorrow. That’s when we are starting your workouts anyway. Now what do you want for dinner?”

I start thinking through my options. One more meal wasn’t going to make me gain twenty pounds over night. “Chinese.” I say smiling at him.

“Sounds good.” He says getting out his phone. He dials the number then putting it up to his ear. “Usual?” He asks glancing over at me.

“Yes please.” I say kissing his cheek.

He orders our food while I get out of the tub drying off before going to our room to put on clothes. I see Begae sprawled across the bed passed out. I couldn’t believe how big he ended up getting. He was full grown now and weighing a little over 100 pounds. All of it was muscle. From how much Jimin and I would take him on runs it was surprising he had any fat on him.

I got dressed then went over to the bed scratching his tummy to wake him up. He launched his head at me hitting me then moved to his legs wagging his tail before pouncing. We both fell back with him on top of me. I was laughing so hard but I could hardly breathe from how heavy he was.

He jumped off hearing the door to the bedroom open. Jimin walked in seeing me flat on the floor. “What are you doing?” He asked laughing at me.

“Your son attacked me.” I say laughing.

He laughs then comes over holding out his hands for me to get up. Instead I take his hands pulling him down with me making both of us laugh more. I flip him over onto his back then lean down kissing him. He runs his hands up my sides under my shirt.

We then hear the doorbell ending our make out session. I get off him for him to answer. Begae followed behind him to see who it was. I walk into the living room going through the movies to decide what to watch.

Jimin comes around the corner with the food in his hands. “How does Commitment sound?” I ask holding up the movie.

“Sounds good.” He then sets the food down going into the kitchen to get drinks for us.

I put in the movie going to the menu page then waiting for him to press play. I sat on the couch getting the food out of the bags. I opened one of the boxes to see whose it was when the smell hit my nose sending me flying to the bathroom.

Jimin must have seen me take off and was right behind me holding back my hair. “See you need to go to the hospital.” He says to me as I throw up.

“Jimin it is probably just some weird bug. I’m not going yet. They couldn’t give me anything anyway.” I tell him standing up. He gives me a disapproving look as I wash out my mouth.

“Fine. If I get sick tomorrow I will go.”

I decided not to try to eat and to just go to bed. Jimin came in after he was done so the smell didn’t bother me while he ate. I fell asleep pretty quickly once he was there.

I woke up the next morning feeling like I was about to starve. I hadn’t eaten anything other than a few crackers for breakfast yesterday morning. I heated up my Chinese. The smell didn’t bother me like it had the day before. I finished all of it which was a big surprise. I normally didn’t eat that much. Which was why I was surprised I was gaining weight.

He got up not long after I finished eating coming into the kitchen. “Morning.” I said to him getting up to throw away the boxes.

“Morning.” He then kisses the top of my head grabbing me as I walk past him. “Feeling better?”

“Yep!” I say happily. “I was able to eat and not feel like I was going to get sick.”

“When do you want to go to the gym?” He asked looking through the fridge.

“After you eat?” I ask. “I’m going to go get clothes together.”

“Sounds good.” He says pulling out his left overs.

I go into our bedroom gathering up a bag to take to the gym when I felt it hit. I ran to the bathroom throwing up everything I had just eaten. I brush my teeth after then go to leave the bathroom. When I open the door Jin is standing there and pushes me back in with him closing it.

“How long have you been getting sick?” He asks me looking worried.

“Just a couple days.” I say rolling my eyes. “I’m not going to the doctor yet so don’t tell Jimin.”

“I’m not. But Maranda. Have you taken everything into consideration?”

“What do you mean?” I ask confused.

“The last month you have been gaining weight. But you haven’t been eating more and you are still going to the gym. All of the weight you are showing is in your stomach.” He says pointing. “And now food is making you sick.”

I realize what he is trying to tell me. I look at him shocked not sure what to say when I started doing the math in my head.

“When was your last one?” He asks sternly.

“Three or four months ago.” I say feeling tears start to form in my eyes.

“Calm down.” He says grabbing me in a hug. “I’ll take you to the doctor. We don’t have to tell Jimin yet.”

“We’re going to the gym. What am I supposed to tell him?” I ask worried now.

“Just say one of the girls called you and needs to see you about something with work. I’ll call a doctor.”

He lets go of me and I walk back into the kitchen. “Hey Oppa. Hyosonn just called me. She needs me to meet up with her. Something about she can’t get the steps right for Not Today.”

“Oh ok. You want me to take you and we can go to the gym after?” He says taking a bite of food.

Jin then walks into the kitchen. “No it’s ok. Jin said he has to go to the studio anyway so he is going to take me.”

Jin caught on quickly. “Yeah. I need to work on a few dances.”

“Ok. Just let me know when to meet up with you.” He says throwing away his containers.

“Love you.” He says kissing my forehead.

“Love you too.” I say smiling at him.

Jin and I quickly left the house before Jimin could change his mind about going to the studio now. “It’s with Dr. Sung.” He said as we get to the hospital. “I got a woman. I wasn’t sure which you would want so I figured that was a safe bet.” He says with a nervous laugh.

“Thanks.” I say nervously. “Jin what am I going to do?”

“Let’s find out first then we’ll go from there.” He says letting out a long breath. “Ready?” He asked stopping the car.

“As I’ll ever be.”

Jin goes over getting me checked in while I go sit down. We didn’t say anything while we waited for the nurse to call me back. When she did I got changed into one of the paper gowns. Jin politely waited outside the door for me. I went over opening it for him to come in. I didn’t want to be in there by myself.

The nurse got all of my vitals then took a blood sample for the pregnancy test before Dr. Sung walked in.

“Hi Miss Kim. I’m Dr. Sung, I’ll be taking care of you today.” She says shaking my hand. “So the nurse tells me you think you might be pregnant?” She asks sitting down on the stool next to me.

“Yes ma’am. I haven’t had my period for a while and I have been getting sick.”

“Any weight gain?” She asks writing stuff down.

“All in my midsection.” I say showing her above the gown.

“Ok. Well let’s go ahead and check you while we wait for the test results.” She says standing up walking over to the table putting on gloves. She then comes back over pulling the stirrups out from under the bed I was on. She then remembers Jin is in the room with us. “This is sometimes hard for the boyfriends to witness. If you would like to go outside I can come get you after.”

“Oh. I’m not the.” He starts.

“He’s a friend of ours. My boyfriend doesn’t know I’m here.” I explain to her.

“Oh. Well either way. It is up to you if you stay.”

He then gives me a questioning look not sure what to do. I hold out my hand for him. “Just stay by my head.” I tell him.

He moves next to my head taking my hand. Another nurse comes back in with an ultrasound machine setting it up in case the test comes back positive.

Right as Dr. Sung was finishing my exam the first nurse comes back in with a folder. Dr. Sung opened it looking at the results then writing something down before handing it to me.
I sit up taking it from her. My hands were shaking so bad from nerves. I couldn’t bring myself to open it and handed it to Jin.

“I can’t do it.” I say shaking my head.

“Yes you can.” He says pushing it towards me. “I’m right here. You can do this.”

I look back down at the folder. Slowly I opened it pulling out the paper.

Jimin’s POV

I went to the living room to watch TV when I heard the front door. I got up answering it since I was the only one in there. I was very surprised to see who it was.

“Hey Jimin!” Hyosonn says walking in the house.

“Hey. What are you doing here?” I ask her confused.

“V asked if I wanted to come over since we were both off today.” She says smiling at me. V then comes into the room.

“Wait. I thought Maranda was with you?”

She then looks at me confused. “No. I haven’t talked to her since the café yesterday.”

“What’s going on?” V asked now getting confused too.

“Maranda said she was going to the studio because you called her to go over Not Today.” I said starting to get upset.

“I’m sorry Jimin. But I didn’t talk to her.” Hyosonn said getting worried.

I then pull out my phone calling her.

“Hello?” She answered on the first ring.

“Hey where are you?” I asked putting it on speaker.

“What do you mean? I’m at the studio with Hyosonn.”

I then look up at them holding up my phone in an I told you kind of way. “Ok. You just seemed like you were taking a while.” I say hiding the anger in my voice.

“We’re done. Jin is going to bring me back to the house.”

“Ok. I’ll see you when you get here.” I say hanging up the phone. I then look up at them.

“Where the fuck did her and Jin go?” I yell. “And why is she lying about it?” I then throw my phone across the room.

“Jimin calm down.” V says to me. “I’m sure she has a good reason.”

“Of course you would say that!” I yell at him. “She’s your cousin why wouldn’t you defend her?”

“Jimin you are acting crazy!” He yells back at me. I then notice everyone else has made their way into the living room.

Maranda’s POV

We pull up in front of the house and I can hear yelling going on in the living room. We both hurry over to the door to see what was going on. I open it walking in to see everyone including Hyosonn in there.

“What the fuck Maranda?” Jimin yells at me.

“Jimin I can explain.” I say trying to calm him down.

“Oh you can explain?” He continues to yell. “You can explain why you have lied to me twice today? And why you have been out with Jin?”

“Jimin, I’m-“

“You’re what Maranda?” He yells cutting me off.

“Jimin calm down.” Jin says to him.

“No! I’m not going to calm down! I want to know why you have lied to me today and why you were out with him. Are you-“

“I’m pregnant!”

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