I'm back! Time to bust out an update.
A heads up, Matt is four months along now in his pregnancy! Only about a couple weeks time-skip from the last chapter.

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Matt stared down his reflection with a less than pleased expression. He currently stood shirtless in the bathroom, judging every dip and curve of his exposed body. Mello had gone out for a bit on their bi-weekly grocery run and Matt really hadn't felt like tagging along this time. His supposed "morning sickness", says Google, had started to taper off and he wanted to stay away from all the smells of the grocery store so he could keep his remaining nausea to a minimum.

...I think... I'm actually getting fat now. He thought as he turned to one side and focused on his stomach specifically. That was the whole reason he was in front of the mirror right now anyway. Between matches on one of his games, he'd noticed his stomach was a little more... bulgy than normal. Not overly so, though; not at all. It was only subtle. Though... subtle or not, the fact that it was legitimate was enough to make the red head feel self conscious. What if Mello noticed? How awkward...

A couple moments later, though, an even more terrifying fact was noticed.

No. No.. fucking- seriously? Fucking shitfucks. Matt thought in agitated panic as he leaned in closer to the mirror. His chest... looked fat. Was fat the correct term? He squinted slightly as if trying to focus his eyes and make the swollen area disappear as he poked each side of his chest softly. Forget his stomach, there was no way he was going to grow boobs.

With an uncomfortable cry, the red head turned and jogged back into the living room where his laptop lay on the coffee table. He'd been keeping it with him lately while he played his games and such, what with the "I barely know what pregnancy is" mindset that the gamer had. It was a good security blanket for him, since he could look up every new symptom that may arise. And now... right now was a very important symptom that needed to be checked out.

Matt knelt down in front of the coffee table and pulled up Google as fast as his fingers could move the cursor, his facial expression contorted to pure worry as he typed in the first thing that came into his mind: "male boobs".

He furrowed his brow as he scrolled through the links, his expression changing to displeasure. Man boobs, moobs, male breast reduction... this wasn't what he wanted at all! The red head let out an exasperated little grunt and moved back to the search bar, trying to think of what would be a better phrase to search. All I wanna know is how big they'll get... or what the hell is going on. He wiggled his fingers across the keys in thought, trying to decide what to type. Eventually he decided on the most blunt option and typed out "male pregnancy boobs". Though within a couple moments, he learned that it helped almost less than male boobs did. Matt sighed and scrolled through the page, frowning as he read a few of the titles. Can sex make your breasts grow or get- No! Goddamnit! He thought in frustration as he sat back off of his knees onto the floor, staring off a bit as he thought. What the hell am I going to do if I legitimately grow tits. I'm gonna have to ask Mello to buy bras for me and then I'll have to nurse the baby when I have the Goddamn thing and Jesus fucking Christ I don't want boobs. He made another soft noise as he firmly rubbed his face and took a slow, deep breath.

Thankfully for the distressed red head, though, Mello had arrived back at the apartment complex and was making his way up the steps, multiple grocery bags in each hand. When he made it to the door, though, he didn't make any attempts to call out for Matt's help. He'd been trained, almost, to expect the dork to be so involved with one of his games that he wouldn't notice any of the blonde's calls or knocking. So, without missing a beat, Mello bent his knees just enough so that his hand with the door key in it was level with the lock and he could easily unlock it. Once he'd done so, he turned the knob and pushed open the door, walking inside sideways so that none of the bags would hit the door frame and tear or bounce off and hit his legs. He'd become a master of grocery carrying, he'd say.

"Mello!" Matt cried out when he saw his counterpart enter the apartment. "I'm growing boobs!" He added loudly, smacking one of his hands to his very faintly swollen chest.

Mello snorted a laugh and grinned in the red head's direction, kicking the door closed behind him as he made his way to the kitchen. "What? Boobs?" He laughed a bit again, hardly believing what Matt was saying. Probably just over exaggerating and assuming his fat is related to pregnancy. If you did some pushups Matt you'd lose your manboobs.

"Seriously Mello! Stop fucking laughing. Look." Matt pushed himself up from the floor and quickly made a bee-line to the kitchen after the blonde. He waited for the other to set all of the bags down on the counter before he grabbed his thin wrist and brought it up to his own chest. "Feel it."

Mello laughed a bit harder at his friend's actions, trying to pull his hand away. "Matt stop making me feel your boobs. Work out."

"Mello just fucking feel my chest. I'm not fucking joking around, I don't know what to do."

The blonde rolled his eyes at Matt's display and dropped his frown. He transferred his gaze from the red head's face to his chest and actually felt around the area softly, pressing in places and trying to remember what it used to look like before the pregnancy.

"It's not the same as just like normal fat. Like..." Matt paused, watching Mello's hand on him. "It's like the whole area.. and I dunno, it's just weird." He frowned a bit more and let out a slow, gentle sigh. "Am I going to need like bras and shit you think?"

Mello shook his head a bit, keeping his attention focused on the red head's chest. "Probably not. But I mean... guys do technically have mammary glands in their chests just like girls. We just don't use them so they're not really as... I guess developed or whatever."

"What in the hell are 'mammary' glands?"

The blonde looked at his friend for a moment with an unimpressed expression before looking back to his chest. "Glands that make milk, Matt." He breathed a laugh at the others' ignorance and then returned his focus. "I don't think you're going to need bras or anything, but your chest will probably be kinda fleshy and weird."

Matt frowned. By the time this pregnancy thing is over, I'm gonna be so fucked up. He moved away from the blonde a bit and leaned back against the counter, looking over at the grocery bags as a bit of embarrassment washed over him. "Okay."

Mello paused, studying the red head's actions and emotions that he could detect. He should probably try and be a little nice to the guy... what with pregnancy supposedly bringing on mood swings and such... Mello really had no idea how the gamer would deal with those. He was usually so emotionally stable.. so the blonde was a bit unsure of whether Matt would even display these changes or not.

"Hey."

"Yeah?"

The blonde turned to the bags and started taking out the miscellaneous boxes, cans, and other foods as he spoke. "You know, there are these things called 'compression' shirts." He nodded a bit, opening up the refrigerator with full hands and beginning to put some things away. "They just kinda look like wife beaters or tank tops or whatever, but they add pressure." He moved back to the counter, leaving the door open as he fished out more things that needed to stay cold. "They're normally used for like... sex changes and stuff; female going to male." He shrugged and closed the refrigerator door, moving to put things in the pantry next. "People use them for costumes too but they can kinda help your chest not grow as much if you wore one pretty often." He smiled over at the red head as he put things away, trying to gauge his feelings on the subject.

Matt remained where he was against the counter, his arms crossed over his bare torso. "You think so?"

Mello nodded. "Yeah. We can order you a few if you want." He shrugged, putting the last of the groceries away and then moving to throw the bags away. "I'm sure they're not that hard to find online." He breathed a bit of a laugh and leaned against the counter as well to face his friend, smiling softly.

The red head seemed to think over the suggestion for a moment before smiling back. "Yeah… that sounds cool." He breathed a laugh, being visibly relieved upon getting this information about the mythical "compression shirt". He stayed quiet for a moment, just looking at his counterpart as he thought over a couple things. Though, as he remembered his growing stomach, he almost gasped. "Oh Mello, also, my stomach is getting big too."

The blonde raised a brow and immediately turned his attention to the gamer's stomach. "Is it?" In all honestly, Mello had secretly been sort of looking foreword to the stomach part of pregnancy. He always thought it was fascinating that a human body could do something like that and now that it was happening right in front of his face, he wanted to observe as much as he could.

Matt looked down at his stomach as well and pressed one his broad, lightly calloused hands against it. "Yeah... soon I'll be huge and fuckin' gross." He paused, just looking at his stomach. "I'm never gonna leave the house when I'm like that." The red head thought about it a bit as he looked, trying to imagine what it was going to be like in the future. As of right now, the whole baby thing wasn't really real yet… he could barely see a bulge and four months… it was still pretty far from now until nine, right? It was nine months of pregnancy… right? Matt dismissed the thought and brought himself back to the previous one. When he got big… it'd probably be pretty heavy, right? At least that wouldn't matter too much, since he wasn't going to leave the couch. Hell, this was at least a three-month-long excuse to sit and play games and do absolutely nothing. Mello couldn't even say anything either, because he could just say that his back hurt… Huh, maybe this could have a positive side. Until… until his back actually did hurt and he wasn't only saying that as an excuse…

Mello watched his friend, studying his visible emotions and thinking about the entire situation. He could tell that the weight of what was happening was really starting to set in on his friend. Not as much as it would in a few months, but… it was at least beginning to. The blonde, though terrified of raising a child and making sure that Matt's health stayed up to par, was excited to go through the ordeal. He couldn't wait to see how the red head's body and emotions changed and if their relationship would remain the same or if it would bring them closer. Or who knows… maybe it'd drive them apart in the end.

"You won't be gross, Matt" The blonde said simply, brushing some of his thick hair from his face and pushing it behind his ear. "You'll get huge, yeah, but that won't be probably until the last few months or so." He smiled as Matt looked up at him. "I won't make you leave the house then. I'll just bring you all the crazy shit you'll want to eat." He laughed a bit and smiled broader, standing up straight from the counter and adjusting his loose, thin sleeveless shirt. "So don't worry about it."

Matt couldn't help but smile back and sigh a little. If Mello wasn't worried about it then… he shouldn't be either. The blonde usually knew what was going on better than he did. "Okay." He paused and just looked at the other, then smiled more and started walking towards the living room. "Okay, okay. You're right. It's fine." He assured as he spun on his heel, turning back to the kitchen and walking over to the refrigerator. Matt opened the door and bent down a bit, looking through all of the new items that the blonde had put inside, as if searching for something. "Mello, did you get any olives?"

Mello raised a brow. "No. … Why would I have gotten olives, Matt? We never even use them for anything." He paused, furrowing his brows as a realization hit him. "You don't even like olives."

Matt shrugged once and tilted his head to the side a bit, as if gesturing a 'yeeeah… that's true' as he continued to look in the refrigerator. "I know… but…" he placed a hand on his stomach and bit on his lower lip. "My stomach wants it? Andddd…" he breathed a laugh and looked at the blonde. "Shit's fucked, man. I don't even know."

Mello laughed a bit loudly and thought for a moment, smiling. "I don't know, just eat a pickle. I'm not going to go buy olives for you."

The red head continued to smile, looking up at the ceiling a bit as he spoke, laughter in his words. "Pickles are not even the same thing, dude."

"They're basically exactly the same, Matt."

"Mello… but it's a pickle."

"Yeah, and it's just as sour and… whatever an olive is."

Matt laughed a bit more, it peaking cutely at a higher pitch in the end. "Yeah, okay, whatever." He turned back to the fridge and took out the jar of pickles, setting it on the counter afterwards and working off the lid. "Do you want one too?" He asked, raising a brow and grinning over at the blonde.

"I definitely do not." Mello laughed, softly. "You just… do your thing." He said with a wave of his hand, exiting the kitchen and making his way to the sofa where he plopped down and put his feet up on the coffee table. He sighed and grabbed the remote, changing the channel from Matt's game menu to a few random channels, trying to find something to watch. After a couple minutes, the gamer joined him, pickle in hand. He watched as Mello changed the channels, leaning foreword to press the button on the game controller to shut off the system before resting back with a sigh. This pickle really wasn't the same… he still wanted olives.

After a little while of semi-silence, the two of them watching TV, Matt spoke up about what he'd been thinking about.

"Mello, I hope we have a boy." He said simply, his eyes focused on the TV in front of them.

The blonde glanced over at him, a brow raised. "Me too." He looked back at the TV and stretched out his legs, bending one up a bit to set on the edge of the couch while the other stayed on the coffee table. "I really have no idea what to do if it ends up as a girl." He breathed a laugh and paused for a moment, listening to the TV.

Matt nodded a bit and breathed a laugh. "I'm basically banking on it being a boy, and then killing myself if it's a girl." He said with a grin, both of them laughing a bit. "Not that a girl wouldn't end up really pretty or something… since you're the dad." He said with a smirk, glancing over at the blonde. "You've got a lot of pretty features."

Mello looked over at the red head and breathed a laugh, shoving him over a bit. "Fag. At least I'm not all hairy and gross everywhere." He said with raised brows, to which Matt simply laughed and shrugged.

"I think the phrase you were looking for was 'I'm jealous that I'm not hairy and sexy.'" He laughed, blocking hands that tried to shove at him again. "Jealousy, I feel more jealousy."

Mello rolled his eyes and just smiled, slouching down more into the couch with a relaxed sigh. "But no… I'm sure we'll have a boy and things will be just fine." He nodded, smiling over at Matt reassuringly as he stretched his arms up and rest them back behind his head, hooked over the back of the couch. The red head simply nodded in response, smiling softly as he looked back to the TV. Maybe the pregnancy wouldn't be so bad. At least not until a few more months… in which then it will be absolutely awful. Until then, though, he figured he might as well deal with what was happening and try to find the good in it. Or well… the non terrible parts of it. Maybe he could start making a list of all the baby names he came across in the next few months that he liked. That could get him more excited, even. …maybe.

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NO MORE WOW FOR ME. God, I have missed FF.

Anywho, I FINALLY got to update this fic and I'll try and keep it updated as frequently as possible. (1-2 chapters per week at minimum). Since I have like three other fics I need to update and keep-up with as well. :L

I hope you enjoyed this chapter, though! It's a bit slow I suppose but… I'm trying to spread out the pregnancy as long as possible without zipping through it. :x

So shoot me a review! LOVELOVELOVE

Also! If you have any ideas or suggestions for baby names (male or female), make sure to let me know! I've been making a list of possible names, just like Matt is thinking of doing haha.