Chapter 4: The Pregnant Lady
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"Yi Jeong-sunbae, come here I can feel that he's moving." I heard Ga Eul called me from the living room. She was watching the drama while I'm reviewing the work proposal at the study desk. She always like that, every time when she felt him moving inside her she will call me to feel it together and I will automatically stop at anything I'm doing to go to her.
I can feel him kicking while I'm putting my hands on Ga Eul's belly. I thought that she would feel the pain but she was smiling widely every time he kicked. Ga Eul quit her job when she was four month pregnant because she said that she wanted to fully focus on her pregnancy. I didn't mind at all and not ask her too much questions about it because I've already gave her a black Amex card for daily expenses so technically, she didn't need a job at all.
She put her hands on top of my hands and said;
"Yul Goon-ah, omma and appa love you so much. We can't wait to see you soon."
"Yah, you are watching too much drama. I said I don't like that name. I bet you want to name your second son Shin Goon." Ga Eul's obsession over the drama 'Goong' especially towards the two main actors worried me too much. I hope this boy won't look like them because someone said to me that the baby's face will look like the face that the mother saw the most.
"What's wrong with that name, it's a good name you know."
"But I want to call him Tae Jin."
"Why?"
"Because it's a good name too."
How fast time had flied and now she was eight month pregnant. We only knew 'his' gender last month after so much argument. At first we didn't want to know the gender and wanted it to be a surprise but it turned out that the decision make us argued more about the name. That time I have my own choice of name, one for a girl and one for a boy and same with her. With the advised from Dr Yoon Ji Hoo we finally knew the gender and the argument now down to only between two names, not four like before.
I already give in too much to her. How many times that she kicked me out from her room because she said I'm too smelly and she felt disgusted to look at my face. How come I'm smelly when I already took a shower for five times already? How dare she insulted me and said my handsome face that adored by men and women disgusting? I never felt so mad but I never showed it to her and just followed her bizarre behaviour. Like her father had said;
"I hope you can be more patient during her pregnancy period because I'm sure your life will be like hell, trust me because I've been there before. Blamed it on her mother's gene."
Her father, the same man that hit me before, actually looking at me with sympathetic eyes when he gave me that advised and I understood every meaning of his words.
There was a time when she asked me to buy her a beef bulgogi and instructed me to buy it at the exact stall that she mention to me. The problem was that the stall situated outside Seoul, specifically at Incheon and I kind a busy that week to seal a certain deal so I just bought her the bulgogi that sold nearby my office. As soon as she had her first bite, she started to wail like a small kid. Her face was red and smudged with fluids, some coming from her eyes, some coming from her nose and surprisingly some coming from her mouth.
I tried many ways to soothe her and told her that I'm very sorry to deceive her about the bulgogi but she never want to stop wailing. So I have no choice than to drive her to Incheon in the middle of the night and only to find out that the stall was closed because the owner had gone to her hometown in Busan. She looks very disappointed and my heart constricted when I saw her sad face.
So I called my secretary and asked him to prepare my helicopter at Incheon airport and at the same time I called her parents and asked them to find that bulgogi ahjumma's house in Busan. At first she didn't want to board the helicopter and said that I'm such a drama queen.
What the hell, nobody ever called me a drama queen. Beside I'm definitely not a queen and for whom I am this overly dramatic because of the bulgogi huh? I don't care her protest and just drag her to the helicopter and we reached Busan in just one hour.
She smiled widely after took the first bite of the bulgogi. I felt bad for that ahjumma because we had to wake her in the middle of the night and forced her to cook her famous (for Ga Eul) bulgogi. Actually not forced but bribed her with a lot of money until she agreed to cook it. So much for a bowl of bulgogi.
Her hormone continued to blind her logical senses. There was one night when she suddenly woke me up because she felt that she wanted to eat ja jang myun. Okay given to my status and capability, that was not hard to get but I can smell something fishy when she started to form her puppy eyes and pouted her lips and I know that her request will be much harder. She said that she only wanted to eat ja ja myung that cooked by chef So Yi Jeong.
I'm breathless when I heard that, where all the oxygen go? I never touch a gas stove before so how can I ignite the fire to cook? She sensed my hesitation and before I could ever talk, she put her head on my lap and begging me to cook ja ja myung with a sad voice. Oh no, she knew my weaknesses and she was playing with it and as much as I knew that she was only acting to be sad, I didn't have the heart to reject her request.
So I called my secretary to send the ingredients to my house and also the recipe for a beginner on how to cook ja ja myung in simplest way. I laid all the ingredients on the kitchen table and tried my best to understand the recipe and luckily I'm a smart guy and the instruction seemed easy for me. She was sitting there with her elbows on the kitchen table and her hands supporting her face. I knew her bright eyes were on me but I never lifted up my face to look at her.
I took almost three hours to finally put a bowl of ja ja myung in front of her. Her eyes were red and I knew she forced herself to stay awake to keep me company and because she knew I'm sleepy too and for her it was not fair if I'm the only one stayed awake although I didn't mind at all.
She ate it like it was the most delicious meal on earth. I tried to take a bite from her bowl and as soon as the noodle touched my tongue, I spat them out. It was tasteless but she said it was so delicious because it was made by the person she loves the most. I felt my heart wanted to burst after heard her 100th ++ times confession, so I just continued watching her eat my first hand made meal and I'm surprised that she can finished that tasteless ja ja myung.
I didn't know about other women but Ga Eul's pregnancy really makes my head ache. She became more stubborn, manipulative and also had a lot of weird demands. I believe that my secretary prayed every day for the time to fly quicker so that the torturous time will end as soon as she gives birth.
"I still want Yul Goon."
"No! Tae Jin is better."
"Can you guys shut your mouths up, it hard for me to scan the baby if she kept talking and moving on the bed!" The room suddenly turn to eerie quiet after the scolding from Ji Hoo.
Yes the argument still go on and I told myself not to surrender this time.
"Your son is growing healthily and I believe that this will be your last check up right Ga Eul-yang?"
"Yes Ji Hoo-sunbae."
"So all we have to do now is waiting for the right time and you must be prepared all the time. We already set a date for your delivery but that date is just an assumption and I hope you won't rely on the date too much."
"Don't worry Ji Hoo-sunbae, I'll make sure to be prepared all the time to welcome Yul Goon to this world."
"Stop calling him that name!" I didn't want to hear that name at all.
"Don't order me around! I'm not your wife!" There her hormone spoke again.
"But I'm the father of your child! Part of him is mine and he will carry my family name!"
"But he's in me! And I know he likes that name!"
"You don't know that! You just manipulate the fact!"
"ENOUGH!" Ji Hoo roared his voiced again.
"Ga Eul-yang, you want to name him Yul Goon and Yi Jeong-ah, you want to name him Tae Jin, am I right?"
We both nodded enthusiastically.
"Then name him Yul Jin or Tae Goon. You both have your share on those names."
We stared at each other at first and I kind a like that name.
"Yul Jin!" Ga Eul and I said it simultaneously and then we smile at each other.
"See it's not that hard. I can't believe that you guys still fighting over his name when the due date is just around the corner."
Finally we reached our agreement and finally we can call him with a name that we both like. I can't wait to see you So Yul Jin.