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Chapter NINETEEN:

REACHING FOR THE FUTURE

6 Months later…

Hae Soo stared at the pink stripe in the little window, feeling how the axis of her world started to shift once again. This, at least, was a exam she always seemed to ace. The two times she had taken it in her life, the little pink stripe had shown up – almost alarmingly fast, like she was not only pregnant but REALLY pregnant.

It was all Wang So's fault!

Wang So! She had to tell him now! And Soo wasn't sure how he was going to react, he had been so busy lately and-

And she was lying to herself...the idiot would be over the moon at the idea of another baby. He adored Seol and had been hinting heavily at expanding their family. Well… he was about to get what he wanted, as usual.

"Soo-yah? Are you alright?" Woo Hee's worried voice came from the other side of the bathroom stall.

"Yeah, I'm positively fine," Soo said, unlocking the door and waving with the stupid pregnancy test wand in her hand.

"You're pregnant! I knew it!" Woo Hee said exuberantly, throwing her arms around Soo. It had been Woo Hee's insistence that had taken them her to this bathroom stall after Soo had been 'sick' with a 'stomach bug' the last couple of weeks, feeling tired, sore and craving weird food combinations.

Today while they had been out for lunch together – to discuss the budget for the Traditional Dance Company's upcoming season – Woo Hee had gently asked if Soo was sure she wasn't pregnant after Soo had asked the waiter to bring her some mustard for her dumplings. Soo hated mustard.

Woo Hee had dragged her to the pharmacy on their way back and then locked her in this stall until she took the test.

"This is great!" Woo Hee said excitedly.

"Yeah, great." Soo said, thinking of the upcoming months of sore boobs, weird horny periods and nausea. At least this time Wang So would suffer them with her, she would make damn sure of it!

They were then interrupted by a loud series of beeps coming from Woo Hee's phone. "Sorry, I got bored and there was another test in the box."

"You got bored?"

"You took forever!" Woo Hee said, reaching back toward the sinks where another pregnancy test was waiting, flipping it over and showing it to Soo. "See? When you have responsible sex you don't have to worry about-" She cut herself off, noticing how Soo's eyes had widened, and kept staring fixedly at the test.

"You might want to check that, dear."

Woo Hee turned the test around, coming across a vividly pink stripe in the middle of the window.

"This can't be."

"Responsible sex, uh?"

"Shut up!" Woo Hee said. "This is wrong, so clearly wrong! We need to buy another one. I'm sure this is just a false positive or something. Those things happen, right?"

"They do" Soo singsonged, "but it's easier to get hit by lighting than to get a false positive."

"Don't look so pleased with yourself, Hae Soo."

"What can I say? Misery loves company."

"I'm going to kill Wang Baek Ah!" Woo Hee said, storming off in the direction of her boyfriend's office.

By the end of the day, it was legend among the staff of the National Dance Company how the Traditional Dance Company's principal dancer had stormed into the artistic director's office and threw a pregnancy test at him, hitting him square on the face and told him he was dead man.

Wang So arrived home in a good mood. It was usually the case lately, since he had convinced his brothers to go against their father and took control of the company and the board. They had given the brothers a two year period to try out their idea; afterward they would vote on changing the company's constitution to eliminate the figure of "President" so that they could continue running the company together.

Their father had been livid, and currently wasn't speaking to any of his sons – even Jung, since he had sided with his brothers, but at least that had finally pushed him to move out of their parents' home, and into Eun's spare bedroom. And what Wang Geon hated even more was how little his sons seemed to care about his approval.

"Soo-yah, I'm home!" He called out, entering the house they now shared full time. Once Soo's lease had come for renewal, she had simply let it lapse. She had decided that she and Seol spent much of their time at So's place anyway and it made more sense to just move in.

"I'm in the living room!" Soo called back.

"Hello sweetheart," So said, leaning down to kiss Soo who was sitting on the floor in front of the coffee table, which was currently covered with books. "How was your day?"

"It was okay."

"Did you hear about Woo Hee and Baek Ah?" So asked, dropping onto the couch.

"Yeah," Soo smiled a little. "It caused quite the stir in the company."

"Baek Ah is terrified, but he'll come around," So declared.

"At least Woo Hee isn't having many symptoms," Soo said, rubbing her own stomach which was lately upset at all hours of the day.

"Poor Soo-yah." So said, lifting her and settling her on his lap to cuddle her close. "Is your stomach still bothering you?."

"Yeah, about that… I made an appointment with the doctor for next week, do you think you could come?"

"Of course, but isn't a little far ahead?"

"Well, as it turns out, I'm not exactly sick, but I do need to see a doctor soonish."

"What do you mean?"

In answer to that, Soo stretched out to reach for her purse which was sitting on the side table and extracted an object, showing it to So. "Woo Hee wasn't the only one taking a test today."

"Is that...? It's positive...?" So asked in amazement.

"Yeah." Soo answered, watching him as he froze and a myriad of emotions crossed his face. She was just starting to get worried when he suddenly hugged her tight and began raining kisses all over her face.

"This is the best news I've ever gotten," He said in between kisses, nuzzling her neck.

Soo couldn't help giggling. "I'm glad you're happy."

"How do you feel? Do you need anything? Have you told Seol?"

"I thought we could wait a little before telling her, and I'm perfectly fine – other than the nausea and soreness." She sighed.

"We should go out to celebrate. The three of us, even if we don't tell Seol yet."

"Sure," Soo answered, easing off his lap and watching as he went to tell Seol – who was playing outside- to wash up because they were going out for dinner.

"You shouldn't be sitting on the floor," He said when he came back.

"Oh, it's fine. I just need to put these away." Soo motioned to the books.

"But you said you wanted to re-read them before you started classes next month."

Soo shrugged. "I'll call the university in the morning to tell them I'll be pulling out after all. I'll ask if we can get the tuition money back too."

"Why? You were so excited about going back to finish your degree."

"I figure it would be okay since Seol is starting elementary school soon, and I would have time to go, but with a new baby? I just don't-"

"No," So said firmly, sitting next to her. "You are not deferring school because of the baby. You already put everything on hold once because of Seol-ie, I don't want you to do it again."

"It's all right, I'll just finish a little later." Soo said, trying to appear cheerful but So didn't buy it.

"No," So repeated. "Look, we'll hire a nanny, a housekeeper, maids, anything and everything you need so you have enough time to do this."

"I don't want Seol or the baby to be raised by nannies and housekeepers!"

"And they won't be. You'll be here; I'll be here. Just that this way you won't have to worry about cooking, or cleaning the house-"

"You already have a cleaning service."

"- and there will be someone to pick up Seol, drive her places, and just watch over her while you study. It will be fine."

"So-yah-"

"We'll move closer to the university, and to Seol's school. You'll let me buy you that car we have talked about and-"

"All that will be very expensive."

"We have the money for it. Look, my family's money has made life difficult for us before; let it make it easy now."

One Week Later

Wang Yo laid in bed, listening and watching as Mun Seong got ready for work. She was rushing frantically about, mumbling about how she was late, and it was all his fault. Yo couldn't feel contrite though; not when the reason she was late was because of really good morning sex.

Yo got distracted, thinking back to the way they had woken up, only to be brought out of his pleasant reverie by the sound of a camera taking a photograph.

"Hey!" He said.

"I don't even want to know what you were thinking," Mun Seong said playfully, showing him the picture.

"I could show you."

"No thank you, I'm late already!" She added, sitting on the bed. "Will you pick me up for lunch?"

"Of course."

Just then, Yo's phone vibrated on the night table and he reached for it.

"What is it?"

"So is having another baby," Yo said, showing her the picture of the ultrasound So had sent to every one of their relatives.

"Oh, that's lovely." Mun Seong cooed at the picture.

"Speaking of which, when are we going to have babies, Mun Seong?"

"What?" Kang Mun Seong yelped, startled. They had only recently started sleeping together again. Up until two months ago, Yo still stayed at a hotel whenever he visited.

"I mean, I'm not getting any younger and-"

"Yeah, I can see you've let yourself go completely," She teased, running her hand down his chest. He had told her that he spent a lot of time in the gym these days – to deal with missing her, he said - and she definitely appreciated the results.

"I'm serious."

"I know," Mun Seong sighed. "But I'm very late right now. Can we talk about this later, please?"

"Fine, but you can't put me off forever."

She leaned down to kiss him. "My class ends at 11:30."

"I'll be there."

Kang Mun Seong barely made it in time for her class. Her students were already piled inside the class room and her assistant Jen had already loaded their various pictures into the laptop in order to project them onto the screen.

Since classes were ending early today because of the big faculty party later that night, Mun Seong decided to take the day easy. She critiquing the latest batch of photographs and assigned a new subject for next week.

They were in the middle of the lesson as Mun Seong was talking about composition and how to play with the size of the objects that were being photographed, and then she asked Jen for the next image.

"Now what can you tell me about the perspective in this image?"

There was an excited chatter among the students before one of them raised her hand.

"Yes, Miss Han?"

"Who's the hunk, Miss?"

"Hunk? What?" Mun Seong turned, to find a huge picture of Yo on the screen. "Oh! Never mind that!" she said, blushing. Even if they couldn't see it, he had been kinda naked when she had taken that and just remembering it made her flustered. She wildly signaled for Jen to move on to the next picture, making her students laugh.

The next picture came up and Mun Seong sighed with relief. She never quite got them back after that, but at least she managed to keep a semblance of dignity for the rest of the class.

Until class let out and as her students filed out—they ran into Yo waiting outside the room. They pointed at him and giggled.

"Do I have something on my face?" He asked when Mun Seong came out, grabbing his hand and walking quickly.

"No," she said, turning the corner and looking both ways, happy to see her students weren't lingering. "Everything is fine! And I'm starving."

They walked hand in hand to the outdoor-food market near the school.

"You know, Mun Seong, I've been thinking, about what we were talking about this morning."

"Yes?"

"I know you like living here and working for the university... if you want to stay, if they offer you a more permanent job...I can make it work. I could set up an office here."

"Would you do that for me?"

"Of course. I mean, most of my work is done behind a desk; I can put that desk anywhere, and I choose to put it wherever you are."

Mun Seong smiled. "I'm not sure what I want, actually. I do miss home, but I am happy here."

"Just keep it in mind. Whatever choice you make, it's fine with me."

She leaned in to kiss him. "I love you, Yo," She said, hugging him in the middle of the street. "Thank you for saying that."

Sure, their relationship wasn't perfect. They were still working on it, but they both wanted to make it work, and they made an effort not to leave things unsaid between them, recognizing that had been the source of many of their problems: neither of them was very comfortable expressing how they felt, but they knew they had to.

"I love you too," Yo said, hugging her back.

Author's Note: Hello, thank you for making it this far!

Officially, this is the end, but there will be a short epilogue coming soon!