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XVVI · Site Admin Joined: 03 Mar 2015 Posts: 16064

Oliver flinched at the thought. "Oh boy." He sighed with a little chuckle. "Good thing I have money for the medical bills."

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FinerThanFitz · Joined: 04 Mar 2015 Posts: 16074

"For when my brothers get their hands on you or for the baby?" Elise joked, tilting her head to look up at Oliver.

XVVI · Site Admin Joined: 03 Mar 2015 Posts: 16064

"...Yes." Oliver laughed a little, looking down at her.

FinerThanFitz · Joined: 04 Mar 2015 Posts: 16074

Elise smiled then, one of her full faced smiles with a crinkled nose, and she reached up to cup Oliver's cheek.

"It's okay, I won't let them do anything to you. We have things to figure out together after all." She said.

XVVI · Site Admin Joined: 03 Mar 2015 Posts: 16064

Oliver smiled and turned his head to kiss her palm. "Yeah. We got this."

FinerThanFitz · Joined: 04 Mar 2015 Posts: 16074

"Mm, we do...now...what did you bring us to eat?" Elise asked, stretching to return the kiss with one soft and sweet on Oliver's cheek.

FinerThanFitz · Joined: 04 Mar 2015 Posts: 16074

It had been a few weeks since Oliver and Elise were made aware of their pregnancy and in that time they had been quite busy sorting out all the things that needed to be sorted out.

First, they went to the follow-up appointment Soo Mi had set up for them. While the first appointment that Elise went to served to confirm the pregnancy, the second one was more "in depth" to say the least. It made her glad that Oliver had come with her to support her, even if he looked a little paler than herself throughout the ordeal. The doctor once again confirmed that the pregnancy was healthy and ended the appointment by giving them their first look at the baby, which was much less baby-shaped than anticipated, at least to Elise, but still made the whole situation much more real.

After they went home, they sat down and talked for hours about what would come next. They both agreed that the pregnancy was a development neither had expected and that it certainly threw a spanner into the works, but they also both agreed that it was something they wanted to do together. Elise hadn't thought much about being a mom, let alone so soon, but she thought it would be alright as long as she got a little Oliver out of it. They'd ended that night in their messy nest of blankets on the couch talking about what they thought the baby would be like as they grew up and with the both of them resting fawning hands on Elise's belly.

And now came the next big step: telling Elise's brothers the news.

Elise would have preferred to tell her whole family all at once, however, Harlow and Victoria had their own lives in the US still and it made coordinating things a bit difficult. She figured she'd just tell her brothers and their wives the news first since they were all together in Korea and then she'd make time to fly home soon to tell her parents in person. She hoped that Oliver could make time in his schedule to go with her, but she certainly would not hold it against him if she went back by herself.

Elise had asked Soo Mi for help getting dinner plans sorted. Tanner and his family lived outside of Seoul to be closer to Mi Na's family as well as the Fitz's more distant aunties, but they still often came to the city to visit, if only to let their children play with Soo Mi and Coda's son. Elise hoped that soon her and Oliver's baby would get to play with all of them too. Tanner and Mi Na agreed to come visit Seoul for the weekend as Tanner had a few days off, so the family planned to put together a big dinner at Coda and Soo Mi's house since it was bigger than the apartment Tanner and Mi Na kept in the neighborhood for these visits. Soo Mi had kept true to her word and kept her lips sealed when it came to the baby news and the Oliver news, so no one was the wiser that there would be an additional (technically two) visitor to their dinner party.

The day of the dinner party, Elise had helped Soo Mi get all the meal preparations together and tidied up around the house before leaving to go get ready at Oliver's apartment so that they could arrive together. She'd asked Soo Mi to text her when Tanner and Mi Na arrived so they could make their way over then.

Despite only being a handful of weeks pregnant, Elise couldn't help but fuss at the outfit she'd chosen to wear, observing herself this way and that in the mirror to see if she looked as bloated as she felt. The dinner party was, of course, casual considering it was only amongst family, but Elise had still gone out of her way to get a new outfit, but the confidence she'd had at the store while trying it on was gone now as she contemplated throwing on the casual wear she kept at Oliver's for after her studio classes. Before she could change, however, Soo Mi had sent her the message to come on over.

She fussed at her dress the entire drive over from Oliver's to Coda and Soo Mi's neighborhood and even did so as she and Oliver walked up the street hand in hand.

"Does this even look okay?" She asked, pulling the fabric from her midsection for the upteenth time.

XVVI · Site Admin Joined: 03 Mar 2015 Posts: 16064

"Eli... you look great." Oliver reassured gently. He had been unbelievably nervous about this dinner all week but he was doing his absolute best to stay confident and steady for Elise, for her and their babies sake.

He was terrified, high key terrified, of her brothers and for good reason. Especially Tanner but he was determined to do EVERYTHING he could to make this work.

FinerThanFitz · Joined: 04 Mar 2015 Posts: 16074

Elise pursed her lips in an almost playful pout and looked up at Oliver.

"I just don't want to look pregnant before we tell them I'm pregnant." She said.

XVVI · Site Admin Joined: 03 Mar 2015 Posts: 16064

"Don't pooout." Oliver whined playfully. "You look absolutely beautiful."

FinerThanFitz · Joined: 04 Mar 2015 Posts: 16074

"Hm, well if you think so, it must be true." Elise joked, but still reached down to smooth the front of her outfit one more time before leaning into Oliver's side. "I'm sure it'll be just fine." She said, about her outfit, about dinner, and about their impending parenthood even.

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