Stranger Who Found Spring

Looking at Ha-hyun’s reaction, Cho-seung murmured softly as he pondered what prenatal education would be the easiest to do.

“The easiest thing is, of course, music.”

“I might fall asleep listening to classical music.”

“It doesn’t have to be a classic.”

If so, it was worth trying. And what you need to listen to music is, as expected…

“Let’s buy the speaker.”

At the words that came out without hesitation, Cho-seung was at a loss for words.

“Honey… I don’t want to say too much, but don’t we have a TV?”

“That and the speaker are different. Speakers are machines made for sound.”

Ha-hyun, who erased the search related to prenatal education and changed it to a search related to speakers, began to search for products that looked good. Since he didn’t seem unwilling to listen, so instead of stopping him, Cho-seung looked for more activities related to prenatal education.

“Woofer?” (우퍼)

“Are you going to buy a speaker with a woofer?”

“Do you like this?”

“I don’t know either… From what I’ve heard, they said it was a speaker that produces sound mainly with low frequencies?”

Ha-hyun, who had heard somewhere that a low-pitched tone was better for a fetus than a high-pitched tone, quickly made a decision. Since it was a Bluetooth-enabled product, A/S was good if it was a large company product and the price was irrelevant.

“This is pretty. Let’s install one upstairs for us.”

“I thought you were giving the kids a room when they grow up.”

“Ah… then leave it empty. Shall we install it in the bedroom?”

There was only a bed in the bedroom after all. He set up a family bed with the desire to have a wide bed and deliberately didn’t put in other furniture. But it wasn’t like there was no space, so he had to buy a drawer to install the speakers in.

“Furniture too—”

“No. There’s a decorative cabinet above it, let’s use that.”

Cho-seung, who could guess Ha-hyun’s thoughts well, intercepted his words. Ha-hyun, who had been seen through, clicked his tongue and ended up paying only for the speaker.

“Look at this. It’s a set for making baby clothes. Don’t you think it would be fun?”

“No. There’s such a thing as buying. It’s not meant to be made.”

How did he make it.

Again, Ha-hyun, who had the worst dexterity, couldn’t even do simple sewing. In the first place, he thought he had said it before that he didn’t know how to boil miyeokguk, which was said to be easy. (미역국, miyeokguk meant a Korean-style seaweed soup, here)

“Then I will make it.”

“Yeah? Buy one.”

No. They were twins, so he couldn’t just buy one. Ha-hyun, who habitually said to buy one, immediately took his words.

“No, I should buy two.”

“Shall we try something different? How about this turtle?”

“Why turtle?”

Contrary to Ha-hyun’s question, Cho-seung tilted his head with a puzzled expression. Why turtle, of course, because they came out as turtles in taemong—

“I haven’t told you.”

“What?”

Cho-seung summarized the taemong he hadn’t told to Ha-hyun. And when he explained that it was a dream he had, Ha-hyun looked up at him with eyes full of betrayal.

“Why am I the only one who doesn’t have that dream?”

“Doesn’t it seem like it only came to people who didn’t know they existed?”

“Umm. That’s right, I guess.”

In any case, the two decided not to buy a different design after deciding on turtles. According to taemong, they seemed to get along well. So, it would be better to wear the same clothes.

“If taemong is true, then he must be a small child, right?”

“I guess so. Still, they laughed and played well. They will be born healthy.”

Cho-seung, who wiped his worried eyes and spoke softly, kissed his soft lips briefly.

At that moment, Ha-hyun placed his hand on his lower belly, which was still not visible, while feeling the pheromone covering his body. He felt a little uneasy, but he had no choice but to press it down.

* * *

When they leaned on each other and shared warmth, Cho-seung reacted to the sound of the interphone ringing. Cho-seung opened the common front door as the tteokbokki that Ha-hyun ordered had arrived and headed to the kitchen, taking out the kimbap and dongchimi that he had put in.

“Shall we stop worrying and have dinner? You were hungry while waiting, right?”

He ate at the same time every time, but today he was a little late waiting for tteokbokki.

Ha-hyun smiled at Cho-seung’s words and headed to the table. Cho-seung, who also set the tteokbokki that came soon after, took care of Ha-hyun, who was a bit weak.

He focused on taking care of Ha-hyun rather than eating himself, making sure that the plate in front of him was never empty. Ha-hyun, who couldn’t see him like that, put kimbap and tteokbokki on the clean front plate of Cho-seung before taking a bite.

“Let’s go for a walk after we’re done eating.”

“In front?”

“No. I want to go to the Han River after a long time.”

He preferred to walk on summer nights, but it was still not bad. Ha-hyun sipped the cool dongchimi gukmul and shivered slightly. His teeth got a little cold after eating the warm tteokbokki and the cold one. (동치미 국물, dongchimi gukmul meant dongchimi soup)

“Yeah. It’s good to go there after a long time.”

Ha-hyun smiled at the calm affirmation and picked up the sausage in the tteokbokki.

It had been a long time since he ate spicy food, so even the moderate taste that he ate well felt spicy. It was difficult to eat kimbap with soup. Ssuup, swallowing saliva became less frequent and as the hand gradually slow down, it returned to Cho-seung’s job to empty the tteokbokki.

“Do you want some barley tea? Is it very spicy?”

“Uung. I’ll just eat dongchimi.”

Contrary to the words not to worry too much because there was also eomuk, small tears formed in Ha-hyun’s eyes.

He couldn’t stand physiological tears, so he pressed his eyes with tissue paper and ate them all. Cho-seung, who watched the scene, picked up an almost empty bowl of dongchimi. I should bring more.

“I brought more dongchimi.”

As soon as Cho-seung set it down on the table, Ha-hyun took it and drank it from the bowl.

“It must have been delicious.”

“Ung. Kimbap was also delicious.”

“I’m glad it suits your taste.”

As Cho-seung wiped away his tears with a tissue paper soaked in the lingering aftertaste of the spicy taste, Cho-seung began to clean the table. Ha-hyun, who was taken aback by the appearance, helped Cho-seung clean up the traces of eating.

“You should brush your teeth?”

“Ung. Ah, right. Maybe I’ll buy comfortable clothes in advance.”

“If it’s comfortable clothes, training clothes?”

“No. Wouldn’t it be more necessary to wear maternity clothes.”

The clothes he had now had a strong feeling of tightening his stomach. He thought it would be better to buy new clothes since he had children and because he was worried and would feel uncomfortable.

Cho-seung, who had searched for maternity clothes in advance without Ha-hyun’s knowledge, nodded his head. It was a good thing to prepare in advance.

“I have a place to look for. Let’s buy clothes later and go for a walk first.”

At Cho-seung’s words, Ha-hyun quickly moved to the bathroom. Cho-seung, who followed Ha-hyun, was handed a toothbrush with toothpaste and brushed his teeth side by side. He brushed his teeth with an eager motion of his hand and rinsed his mouth.

“Wait.”

Ha-hyun, who was about to wipe his mouth with a towel, quietly raised his head when Cho-seung grabbed his chin. He wiped off the foam on his chin with his thumb, then wet it with water and wiped it off once more, then let it go before Ha-hyun patted his mouth with a towel.

“What should we do at the Han River. Do we just have to take a walk?”

“Ung. We will go there by car.”

“Because it’s a bit far. It’s hard to walk there.”

Since the temperature at the riverside was low, Cho-seung grabbed Ha-hyun, who was about to go out dressed thinly, and put on a thick coat. Ha-hyun pursed his lips at the familiar care.

“I feel like a child.”

“Ung? Suddenly?”

“The way you treat me is like that.”

He also felt like he was dealing with glassware that was easily broken easily. It wasn’t that he didn’t like it because it was obvious that he treated him with respect, but it seemed like he was lazier thanks to Cho-seung’s willingness to do everything from start to finish.

“I’ll refrain if you don’t like it.”

“No. It’s not that I don’t like it. Still, I would like you to refrain from doing that.”

Cho-seung replied that he understood and continued the yet-to-be-finished grooming him.

Ha-hyun shrugged his shoulders at the opposite of his answer but remained still. Behaviour couldn’t be easily changed.

Ha-hyun, who was relatively easy to accept everything, decided to tolerate Cho-seung’s attitude.

After getting into the car and arriving at the Han River, the two held hands and walked side by side. Every time someone passed by, Cho-seung wrapped his arms around Ha-hyun and pulled him into his arms as if protecting him and Ha-hyun was gently dragged away each time.

Ha-hyun thought that it would be better to walk with Cho-seung’s arms wrapped around his shoulders rather than holding his hand, so he grabbed his arm as it descended from his shoulder.

“Today, while looking at prenatal goods, I also saw baby goods and they were so cute.”

Maybe because it was cute, he felt like his heart was full the moment he saw it. Ha-hyun raised his head and looked at him with a small smile on his lips, fluttering his eyelids.

“Should we buy it in advance?”

“That’s not bad either.”

Cho-seung, who moved his hand on his shoulder and stroked Ha-hyun’s hair, remained silent for a moment, then added his words.

“But let’s wait and see for now.”

Ha-hyun unknowingly bit the inside of his cheek because he felt like he was facing something he didn’t want to be in those words. Worried about Ha-hyun not answering, Cho-seung hurriedly found an excuse.

“We don’t even know their genders yet. Depending on whether they are girls or boys, what we need may vary slightly and I want to buy something that suits the children well.”

Ha-hyun nodded with a nonchalant expression as he felt a small anxiety from the hand sweeping down his forearm as if soothing him.

“It’s better to buy something suitable for the children.”

“Right? And there’s still a long way to go. Buying now will only take more time to clean the house…”

Cho-seung, who swallowed the words he was talking about, pressed his index finger to the corners of his eyes. His mouth talked too much, really.

“Sorry.”

“You didn’t do anything wrong, what do apologize for.”

Cho-seung, who was worried about answering in a non-trivial tone, stopped walking and hugged Ha-hyun tightly. With his arms wrapped around his back, Ha-hyun, who leaned his cheek against his hard chest, lifted his arms and wrapped it around Cho-seung’s waist.

“Sorry.”

“…ung.”

Ha-hyun replied softly to the words that continued again and closed his eyes.