Chapter Thirteen: 

                     So Much For Happy Endings

Jangmi POV

We spent three lovely months in Japan. After the honey moon...when the “deed” was done...we had our few nights where we would…”explore” each other in different ways...ugh! why am I even talking about this again?! Oh, so embarassing!   Anyways, after those three months we decided to silently come back to Korea. We didn’t want Joonmyun and Yixing’s mother to find out that they never went to America and that instead they went to Japan and got hitched with the “poor girls” she didn’t like.   We decided it was safer to stay at the Ramen Shop after our boss told us we could rent the tiny apartment upstairs that he would use every now and then when he was just too tired to drive back to his house. It only had one room but what he did was to turn his office into another room.   We wanted to pay rent but he declined telling us instead to just continue working for him and for the boys to also help him with the shop. The boys of course, agreed and they really enjoyed working at the ramen shop. To be honest, I didn’t think they’d fit in with this kind of work but surprisingly enough...they were natural when it came to serving food.   Right now, the boys were with the boss doing some errands while me, Aeri and Eunjoo attended the shop. I was writing an order when I heard someone call my name excited...well, make that someoneS.   “Jangmi! We’re here!”    I looked up to see the twins with their boyfriends, waving at me vigorously as they sat in their usual table. I smiled at them and waved back as I continue writing my customer’s order. From the corner of my eyes, I saw Aeri walking towards them. “Would that be all, sir?” I asked my customer. “Yes. Thank you.” He smiled kindly as I did in return and went to give the chef the order.   I walked toward them as Aeri passed beside me to give their order to the chef. She winked at me and I grinned at her. “Hey guys!” I said brightly as soon as I got to the table. “Jangmi-ah!” The twins got up and hugged me tightly. “We’ve missed you so much!” It’s only been a week since we got back from Japan and sadly the twins weren’t able to visit us as quickly as we got back since they were on a romantic getaway...or so I heard from Hyejin unnie who came to visit us yesterday along with Jongdae.   Since the proposal, that guy hasn’t left her side not even once. And the more now since they are getting married tomorrow. We were so excited for them! I hope they can finally be happy and I hope Jongdae treats Hyejin unnie the way she is meant to. “I missed you too! How have you guys been?!” I hugged them back. “It’s nice to see you back, Jangmi-ah. You too, noona.” Sehun said as Aeri came back smiling at him. “It’s good to see you all too!” she replied. “Well, you would’ve seen us earlier if it wasn’t that a certain someone and another someone were in a romantic getaway…” I winked at them. “Ah…!” was all that Luhan could say before he blushed embarrassed. Luckily for him, he wasn’t the only one. “Jangmi-ah~ Please forgive us! We didn’t know you guys were coming back!” The twins pouted cutely. “Alright, alright! You’re forgiven!” I laughed.    “So...how’s marriage life?” Haeyeon asked with a very interested look.   “Well...it has its ups and downs but so far so good.” I grinned at her.   “That’s good.” Minyeon nodded. “How about you, unnie?”    “Well, same thing. Joonmyun is a sweetheart and honestly I can’t seem to live my life without him now that we are husband and wife. It feels so unreal yet it feels so right.” I saw my unnie smiled sweetly. She was so head over heels for Joonmyun oppa….but I can’t blame her since I was the same or more than a little bit crazy over Yixing.   “Awww, that is soooo romantic!” The twins awed in unison. Like always.   Just when unnie was about to say something, Eunjoo appeared with their order. “Here’s your order! Four spicy ramens!” She said happily as she passed right beside me...the smell of the ramen hitting my nostrils...and suddenly...I didn’t feel so good.    “Jangmi, are you okay? You don’t look so good.” Aeri asked worried.    “It’s true. The color from her face has completely drained.” Luhan stared at me.   Then, it came again...that feeling…   “Hey! Jangmi, where are you going?!” I heard Minyeon yelled at me as I ran with all the speed in the world to the bathroom.   Minutes later, I came back still not feeling so good. I saw Aeri, Eunjoo and the twins talking between them...as if they were keeping a secret between them, but just as they saw that I was returning, the concern on their faces was evident. “Mimi-ah...are you okay, sweetie?” Aeri came to me and held my hand as her other hand caressed my hair. “I feel...a bit better.” I lied.   “You really don’t look that good, dear.” Eunjoo stared, looking really worried.   “Honestly...neither do I feel good.” I sighed.   “Jangmi-ah…” Haeyeon stared at me suspiciously.   “What?”   “Have you…? Do you think…? Could there be any possibility...that you might be...pregnant?” she tried to look for the right words to ask me but still it gave me the same reaction it would if she asked me otherwise.    “W-WHAT?! Me?! Pregnant?!” I was shocked.   I never thought of that possibility...sure me and Yixing...well, we were a married couple...so, of course there’d be a possibility. “Omona! Jangmi, is that true?! Are you pregnant?!” Eunjoo asked excitedly.    “Hmm, now that you say that...I am staring at Aeri unnie and honestly speaking...she kinda looks a little bit...too bloated? I mean, at first I thought ‘Yeah, it might be she ate one too many sashimi but now that I think about it...could it be that she too, is pregnant?” Minyeon stared at my unnie with judging eyes.   “Omo! Omo! Omo!~ two babies!” Eunjoo looked like she was about to faint.    “Calm down, unnie. We don’t know if it’s true.” Aeri tried to calm Eunjoo.   “I am calm and don’t call me unnie, call me Eunjoo. I have told you many times!” This boss lady really wanted to be treated like a “chingu” when she is like twice our age! It was kinda funny.    “Well? Are you?” Haeyeon pressed on.   I turned to her with a blank stare. “I-I don’t know!”   “Well, I guess there’s only one way to find out…” Minyeon smirked.   “That’s correct. Girls, I give you the rest of the day free so you can go to the hospital and find out if the both of you are pregnant or not.” Eunjoo helped us take off our aprons and pushed us out of the ramen shop, without letting us even complain about it. Geez…   “Well, I guess we have no choice…” Aeri sighed as she started walking. “By the way, have you been feeling like this lately or is it the first time that you feel this way?” she turned to me curiously. “Hmmm…” I pondered on it. “Well...lately, I have been feeling kinda weird whenever I would smell something. Like some things smelled funny for me. But, this is the first time that I feel like throwing up.” I tell her. “How about you?” I was really curious. “No...nothing.” Aeri puffed her cheeks as she shook her head.   Without her noticing, I stared at her from head to toe and...the ‘bloatedness’ was evident. She also looked a bit wider on her hips. But I guess I didn’t gave it a thought since now we were married and I knew by being ually active, our bodies could change. “Unnie, I do think you might be pregnant. Even though you don’t have any symptoms. But your midsection looks...wider.” I saw her look down and she unconsciously passed her hand over her stomach. “Maybe I am, who knows?” she smiled at me and I smiled back.   Finally, we reached the hospital and went straight to the counter at the reception. We explained the reason we were here to the nurse and she kindly showed us the way where we should go. We walked hand in hand, already feeling a bit nervous. To be truthful, we both didn’t enjoy being in the hospital...it brought us too many bad memories that we didn’t like to remember or even mention.    “This way please…” the gynecologist, Dr. Baek; will be the one making the tests for us. We walked inside his office and took a seat. He sat in his desk and looked at us while smiling kindly. Maybe he could see how nervous were…   “So, you are here because you think you both might be pregnant, am I correct?”    We slowly nodded our heads. “Alright then, we will take some blood samples so that we can make the test and see if you are indeed pregnant.” Once again, we nodded. Aeri unnie volunteered to be first since she knew how scared I was of needles. But then, it was my turn...I had to look elsewhere while he took the blood sample...biting my lips as I felt the needle entered. But luckily, it ended soon. “I’ll be right back.” we saw the doctor leave the room.    We stayed the next twenty or so minutes inside the doctor’s office, fiddling with our fingers, looking around...and being just plain bored. Finally, after what felt like forever, the doctor came back smiling at us. “Well, it seems you two were correct and the both of you are happily expecting. Congratulations!” We both were shocked but excited at the same time. We hugged and laughed and cried and jumped in happiness. The doctor just let us be until we were calm enough to listen to him.    We took our seats once again as he went back to his desk and looked at us. “We need to take a sonogram to see how far the both of you are. You will both take this with you.” He gave us two bottles to each. “This are pre-natal pills. You need to start using them as soon as possible so that we make sure both babies grow healthy. Now, follow me please.” And so, we did.   ---   We came out of the hospital an hour and a half later after we decided to eat something. Apparently Aeri was fifteen weeks, that means three months, pregnant while I was nine weeks which that’s roughly around two months and a week pregnant. We wanted to know the but the doctor explained to us it was still too early for that and that at least my unnie was close to knowing since they waited until the seventeenth week to finally know the gender of the baby. I couldn’t wait to know what my unnie was having! Was I having a niece or a nephew? What was I having?   “Oh, gosh! I can’t wait ‘til we tell the boys!” Aeri said excitedly. I nodded vigorously. “They are so gonna be ecstatic!”    “I agree!”   We took a taxi and went back to the ramen shop since the doctor told us we shouldn’t be taking long walks since the first trimester was very crucial for the babies and one might have a miscarriage over the simplest of things.   Once we got there and told Eunjoo, Luhan, Sehun and the twins (Yes. They were still there waiting for us.), they were very happy and excited for us. Eunjoo even cried and hugged us. The twins wanted to know the gender so that we could go shopping with them and buy the tiny clothes. I couldn’t wait to do that! And...I couldn’t wait to tell Yixing...how am I going to tell him anyways? “So, how are you going to tell Joonmyun oppa and Yixing oppa?” Minyeon asked.   “I have...no idea...now that you mention it…” Aeri unnie looked worried.   “Ah, don’t worry. I got an idea! Leave it to me! I will help you girls!” Eunjoo waved her hand gesturing for us not to get nervous.   “Well, we’ll leave you so you guys can get ready with that! Bye! Congratulations again!” Haeyeon waved goodbye and she left holding Sehun’s hand. “Bye bye! Take care of yourselves and the little ones!” Minyeon took Luhan’s arm as they also left the shop. “Now, follow me girls. We got work to do!” Eunjoo made us follow her upstairs. “But, the shop!” I complained. “Don’t worry about it. I already called Hansol. He and the boys are on their way. I told him what’s going on and he told me he’d be here in ten minutes. I think the shop will be okay.”   ---   “Done! You girls did a great job! They’ll be delighted!” Eunjoo clapped her hands as she saw all the yummy dishes she helped us confection. “Now, it’s almost time for closing the shop. I will call the guys upstairs.” Eunjoo winked at us as she disappeared down the stairs. We waited patiently until we heard some steps and soon I saw the familiar brown hair of my beloved.   “We’re home!” he said brightly as his brother was following right behind him.    “Welcome home, guys!” I said as I ran to the arms of my Xingie. He hugged me tightly and gave me a sweet kiss. I saw Joonmyun oppa doing the same to my unnie. “Wah!~ Is this all for us?” Joonmyun oppa asked amazed. “Yup!” Aeri unnie grinned. “Oh wow! This looks so yummy!~” Yixing pulled away from the kiss and sat right in front of the food. “We know you’ve had a very tough and long day and our husbands need only the best since they are working so hard for us.” I explained.   “Thank you, Mimi-ah.” Yixing looked at me with loving eyes and bent down to kiss me again. “I love you.” My heart melted every time I heard those words. “I love you too.” I said breathlessly and he laughed a bit, knowing the effect it gave me whenever he said he loved me.    “Then, shall we dig in?” Joonmyun oppa asked as he took the chopsticks. “Of course! Go ahead!” Aeri gestured with her hands. “Thank you, darling.” He kissed her cheek and smiled at her before stuffing his face with yummy food.   About half an hour later, the guys looked very satisfied. “Oh my gosh! That was so good!~” Yixing moaned happily. “Tell me about it! Our wives are the best cooks in the world!” Joonmyun said as he rubbed his flat stomach. “Well, your wives had a little help so we can’t be taking all the credit.” I said. “Eunjoo helped us prepare it.” I explained as I saw the confused looks on their faces.   “Ah!~ We’ll thank her later. Right now, I’ll just thank my lovely wife.” Yixing came to me and wrapped me in his arms tightly as he kissed all over my face, making me giggle. “Hahaha, stop it you!”    “As a token of our gratitude, we’ll help you clean up the dishes.” Joonmyun said as he stood up. We looked at each other and decided that it be better if we waited until we wash the dishes to tell them the good news.    ---   After we finished placing the plates back to its place, Aeri looked at me and I knew it was time to