The next morning when I woke up, my right leg felt numb. I glanced downwards and Jiyoon was still sleeping on my lap. How she sleep so for long?

I stretched my arm to reach for my phone. 1 new message. Class is cancelled today. Classes will resume tomorrow.

“I guess its my lucky day then,” I mumbled and smiled to myself. I thought I would have to bring Jiyoon out after class but since its cancelled, maybe we could even go for breakfast.

I her hair gently, calling her name to wake her up.

She moved around, struggling to open her eyes and shut her eyes back when the glaring light shine into her eyes. I chuckled and she smacked my leg.

“Ow! Don’t do that.. I have pins and needles,” I whined. I could tell she was smirking when she remained quiet.

“No Jiyoon. I mean it. Don’t- OWWW!!” I shouted in pain before I could even finsih my sentence when she started smacking my leg like a drum. She laughed hysterically, sitting up and looked at me.

I narrowed my eyes at her, shaking my head judgingly while panting from holding in the pain.

“But it works right?” she asked.

“What works??”

“Its gone now right?” she smiled. I kept quiet and tried to feel my leg again. The pins and needles is gone! I don’t even feel any numbness.

“Where did you learn that from?” I raised an eyebrow.

She shrugged. “Just something I read online.” She smiled.

“Are you going to school?” she asked.

“Nope! Class is cancelled for today and…. I got a day off work!” I beamed and her. her eyes widened and her lips strated to form a wide smile.

“Yay! Can we go out??” she asked, clapping like a child.

“Of course! And since I just got my pay yesterday, let’s go shopping!” she smiled even wider showing how happy she was.

“I want to hug you so badly right now but..” she glanced down at her baby bump that had grown much bigger. I chuckled and got up and moved behind her.

I wrapped my arms around her, hugging her comfortably.

“This is okay right?” I asked, resting my chin on top of her head. She simply smiled and held onto my arm and nodded.

I just came out of the shower when I got a piece of cloth thrown towards me. I looked at the pink t-shirt.

“You know this is not mine right?” I said, showing the shirt to her. She frowned and pouted.

“I can’t fit in anything anymore!” she sulked, crossing her arms across her chest. I just smiled and walked towards her. She had thrown her clothes all of the floor so I’m guessing she had tried on all of them. I made her sit on the bed while I went over to open one of my drawers.

I took out the baby blue dress I’ve bought weeks ago and unfolded it to show her. her eyes grew slightly at the sight of the dress.

“When did you buy that?” she asked, taking the dress from my hand.

“Weeks ago. Remember the time I told you that you should wear something that makes you look more pregnant?” I smiled.

“But.. this doesn’t look anything like those typical motherly dresses!” she said, looking at the dress in awe.

“Of course. Just look at the person who chose it,” I smirked. She rolled her eyes and looked at me.

“Thank you,” she said with a smile and hugged my lightly, careful of her stomach.

“Bestfriends don’t say thank you or please remember?” I chuckled.

“Go on. Try it on. I wanna see how it looks like on you,” I said as we broke the hug.

We walked around the shopping mall after a light breakfast. We part ways as we entered a shop and I went to the toys section while she went to the apparels section. I looked at the toy trains, soft toys and dolls as I passed and each time I picked up something, the first thing was to look for the price. Of course, toys are necessary but it doesn’t mean we have to spend half of my pay just for toys. We still have other necessities.

In the past, I wouldn’t even bother to check the price before buying something. My mum would just shove my all the money in the world to compensate for her lack of attention towards me. But now that I’m married, she wants me to be independent which means finding my own job, earning my own salary. Its like you don’t have a family anymore once you’re married. Is this how its supposed to be?

“Hey, are you buying that?” Jiyoon asked, snapping me from my thoughts. I looked at her and then at the soft toy on my hand.

I smiled slightly. “Should I?” I asked her.

She nodded. “I think we should get them the same soft toys. I mean they are just babies for now. They won’t know the difference between a boy and a girl’s toy.”

Even though we agreed on that, we decided to buy one Mickey and Minnie Mouse for each of them. After that we chose bottles, pacifiers and went to the clothes apparels section. Jiyoon practically dragged me around since she had been to the section and know what clothes and shoes she wanted to get.

“Isn’t this cute??” she squealed, holding up a pink dress with flowers and frails.

“I can doll her up with those pink ribbons and hairpins we see just now,” she said, smiling happily. I smiled looking at the whole new side of her. I’ve never seen her like this. Jiyoon isn’t the type to squeal over cute pink things and get excited for simple things like baby’s clothes.

“Jun.. Are you listening?” she whined as she tugged on my arm, frowning slightly. I didn’t realised I was just staring at her, admiring her cute adorable side while she was talking to me.

“Yeah,” I smiled. “So do you want to get this?” I asked.

She nodded, smiling again. “But she’ll need to grow first before she can fit in this. So why not we buy those normal baby clothes and also get one of these dresses? Oh! And also that mini hoodie and jeans so our baby boy can look like you!” she giggled.

Our baby boy. I like the sound of that.

I smiled and pinched her cheek. “I want our baby girl to look like you too! So you better wear more dresses,” I said. She pouted slightly and stuck her tongue out slightly.

We put the chosen clothes in the shopping trolley and she squealed again and rushed towards a stack of some folded baby rompers, pajamas and shirts. I pushed the trolley and just smiled looking at her choosing the clothes.

“Look at this!” she turned to me and showed me a baby romper with the words ‘I love Daddy’ on it.

“There’s one with ‘I love Mommy’ too!” she pointed to the one next to it.

We went around to look for somewhere to eat lunch after a whole lot of shopping. We didn’t buy the heavy things yet like diapers, baby food and milk powder because it would be too much to bring home. Seeing that Jiyoon only took two of each type of baby clothes, I know she kept in mind that we’re on a tight budget even though I didn’t say anything.

While were eating at some fast food restaurant, I thought of how long it has been.

“How many months has it been?” I asked.

“You mean the twins?” I nodded.

“About 5-6 months?” she said, chewing on her fries.

“Wow.. 3 more months. And about 2 more months to finals,” I said, couldn’t quite believe the fact that time passed very fast.

“What if I fail..” I mumbled more to myself but Jiyoon heard it.

“I believe in you. I’ve seen how hard you study, trying to catch up on school work when the teachers sometimes don’t want to help. You can do it,” she said, squeezing my hand lightly.

I smiled and nodded. Sure I’ve studied. I’ve taken extra classes. But I don’t think its ever enough. I don’t know if I can make it to college. I don’t know if I can really support my own family when the twins are born.

I hope you don't pay much attention to the time and months coz its really bad planning. Just take it as it is okay? ;)

And for the poll, I'm still going to leave it open coz I think some of you didn't vote. I really really need every single vote from all of you okay? :))