The barely hidden — and positive — pregnancy tests in the trash bin on the bathroom of their house is one of the first things he sees in the morning. It takes him nearly five minutes to understand what is happening.

A positive pregnancy test in the trash bin of their bathroom.

It’s not like he hasn’t thought about having kids with her before — he does have those thoughts more often than not — he thinks about how he will painting a nursery or when he’ll build a crib, but it’s not only his decision that matters, it’s also hers.

He asks her when they sit down to have breakfast that morning if she has anything interesting to tell him and she cutely denies it while complaining about her long schedules for the day.

So he waits for her to tell him. He sees her more tired as the days go by how she pats her back while making a face and how she it seems that her neck hurts more when she goes to bed at night, he notices that she eats less but pretend that she doesn’t skip meals, he stays awake with her for three nights in a row because she has “food poisoning” and strongly denies going to an hospital complaining that it’s a waste of money. It takes a tool on him not to talk about it with her, but he still manages to not say anything.

And he still waits because he is patient and because knows that cornering her is not the best thing to do. He knows she’ll come around and tell him eventually so he’ll do the next best thing, he’ll drive her home after work — if she’s too tired, he’ll even carry her from the parking lot to he comfort of their bed while she snore softly in his shoulder —, he’ll cook her delicious food and if it’s something she can’t barely smell or look at, he’ll patiently cook something else that he knows she can’t say no to and he’ll be massaging her feet and back whenever she complains that they’re hurting.

“So… you know, don’t you?”

Her younger sister ask him suddenly one day when she came over to spend the day with Jihyo.

“what do I know?” He shoots right back at her.

“oh come on, I know you know what I’m talking about.” She looks him up and down. “jihyo eonnie and I have our periods synced for years now. And she always needs extra tampons and I am always the person she goes running to when she needs more, and she hasn’t asked me for one in nearly 3 months. Unless she’s running to you for extra tampons — which I highly doubt it will ever happen — or she’s pregnant.”

“I do know that" he simply answered and both started walking side by side.

“Did she tell you?”

“no” he smiled at her. “she’s just too obvious about it. She left the test on the trash and I saw it.”

He didn’t remembered much of the conversation after that, he does remember however that when he arrived home that night, he