I'm Pregnant
Ye Chaoxiang and Li Fengjin had a silly and proud smile on their faces. "What's up with those creepy smile? You guys, I'm freaking out," Yang Chen said.
When he was done telling them his reason for learning how to cook, he looked up to them only to be met with their wide grins. They almost looked like the joker.
"I am so proud to be your friend Chen. Get up. I want to give you a hug right now," Li Fengjin stood up and walked towards Yang Chen with Ye Chaoxiang following suit.
The three best buddies engulfed one another in a warm group hug.
"I want hugs too. Don't leave me out in warm hugs," Lee Ai struggled to get involved in the hug.
"Okay Olaf, come here," Li Fengjin picked her up and they hugged again for sometime before they separated.
Meanwhile Yang Chenguang who was about to bring some snacks for them stopped when she heard their discussion. She couldn't hold her tears.
Her son was so considerate. She was so glad that he had not fallen into despair after his father's death and she was also grateful for what his friends did for him.
Quickly wiping her tears and taking deep breaths, she walked into the garden and placed the snacks with three glasses of orange juice and a glass of yoghurt, all chilled.
"I brought you guys refreshments. The yoghurt is for my little cookie," Mrs Yang informed them before she hurriedly left with the excuse of giving them privacy. She didn't want to disrupt the light mood with her tears.
They chatted while having the cookies Yang Chen's mother had freshly baked and then washing it down with the juice and yoghurt. Lee Ai was the delighted of them all.
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A month had passed since when Bai Renxiang and her mother arrived at City S. Bai Renxiang had been having regular morning sickness, nausea and irresistible urge to throw up. Jiang Meilin found it strange.
Her daughter was a fan of peppery foods and hated afternoon naps but nowadays, she prefers her food to be almost bland and slept so much in the afternoons.
But today, cleared her doubts. She wanted to take Bai Renxiang's clothes to the laundry room when she a pregnancy kit fell off from one of the clothes.
Her daughter was pregnant. She felt her brain being electrocuted.
"Oh my God! Since when? How? Why?" Jiang Meilin asked no one in particular. Her daughter hid such a huge thing from her.
"Why did she not tell me when she found out?" She looked over to the sleeping girl in the room. "You are pregnant?" It was more of a statement in form of a question.
Jiang Meilin quickly put the clothes back into the basket and rushed out of the room. She wanted to get the secret out of her daughter and then drop the idea of going to the hospital for a test.
But if she talks about it out of the blue, Bai Renxiang will avoid it intelligently. One could force a horse to the river but can't force it to drink from the river.
Bai Renxiang came down for breakfast when her mother came to wake her up as usual.
While they were eating, she noticed how Bai Renxiang avoided the pepper sauce on the table and ate only the sandwich and vegetables.
She smiled triumphantly. Jiang Meilin had purposely made the sauce spicy to test the waters and she was happy at the discovery.
After they three finished their meals, Bai Renxiang went to her room to check for 'job applications online'. Jiang Meilin secretly followed her.
She saw Bai Renxiang anxiously searching for something in the clothes basket when she peeped into the room.
She had poured all the clothes down but she found nothing. Placing her right hand on her head, she let out a frustrating groan as her chest heaved up and down from the anger and then dropped her hands swiftly.
"Aish!"
"Looking for this," Jiang Meilin called out, holding the kit in her hands while leaning lazily by the door.
She gave her a taunting look. "I believe I did not ask the clothes a question," she said again jolting Bai Renxiang out of her shock.
"Mother what are you doing here?" Bai Renxiang let out a nervous chuckle.
"Spill it Renxiang."
"Wh-what are you talking about? Spill what?" Bai Renxiang gulped in fear.
Jiang Meilin gave her the 'you better start talking or else' look and it was giving her the creeps. She felt a a wave of fear slide through her spine.
Bai Renxiang knew very well what her mother was implying but the question ringing in her head was how?
'How did mum find it in between my clothes? I thought I hid it perfectly well,' she spoke within herself.
"Renxiang!" she called out, pulling her daughter out of her thought. "Don't make me repeat myself. Speak," Jiang Meilin snapped.
"I am... Gosh!" she closed her eyes, not knowing where and how to start.
"Bai Renxiang!!"
"I am pregnant!" Bai Renxiang blurted out of shock with her eyes closed and head lowered.