The Assistant

~Everday Routine~

  "Love came as if it blew over with the wind

You made me realize what happiness is,"

- Xiumin You Are The One

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Baekhyun grabbed his backpack and walked out into the livingroom-joint-kitchen space. He was deciding if to take a breakfast shake to-go but that was when he remembered that Xiumin was in the house. He quickly tip toed to the where the couch he was on last night but nobody was there. "Where did he go?" Baek mumbles and then hears the restroom door open, "Ava I think that man candy left?" he says and turns around but he feels all the blood drain from his body. "Man candy?" Xiumin questions as he stands shirtless in the doorway of the restroom, "Ummm...well I was referring to a show!" Baek says and smiles and then glances at his watch. "Well! I have to leave! There's food and you can watch Tv, Ava is probably still asleep. Um..yea!" Baek finishes and quickly makes a dash to the door and out. 

Xiumin stands at the doorway and rubs his head wondering what happened and how he ended up at Ava's. Then flashes of the soju reappear and the sudden appearance of Jisoo, "Oh my god!" he tells himself and walks to the left. He turns the door knob and pokes his head into the room, his eyes land on Ava who is still fast asleep. Xiumin quietly walks in and his nosiness is triggered. He looks at the pictures, the books, and all the cute knick-knacks. 

"What are you doing?" a voice calls out and Xiumin jumps and turns seeing Ava yawning and rubbing her bed hair. "Well...I wanted to check on you," he says and then heads for the door, "Wait!" she says and gets out of bed. "I'm going to wash up and you should too, you smell gross," Ava says and scrunches her nose. "I'm really sorry about anything I did last night!" Xiumin says and Ava smiles, "I'm sorry for undressing you! Baek told me you would throw up all over yourself." Xiumin remembers his bare chest and crosses his arms slowly. 

Once Ava finished in the restroom, Xiumin was sitting on the couch with a bottle of water. "So tell me, what did I do last night?" he asks and puts his head in his hands. "Where do we get started. You where sitting in the back with 3 bottles of soju, and you where slurring everything. I went to check on you and say a quick hi and thank god I did! Why where you drinking though?" Ava asks and Xiumin just takes a swig of water. "Jisoo visited and brought the soju and I'm sure I said something and then I was left there," he tells her and she just nods. "I should get going. I need to sleep this hangover off," said Xiumin and Ava nods as she leads him over to the door. "If your feeling better by the end of the day text or call! I was going to go window shopping for some baby things," Ava says with smile as she leans on the door. "Um ok," Xiumin says with a smile and walks away. As Ava was going to shut the door she quickly ran out, "Xiumin!" she yelled and he turned around as he was down the hall headed to the stairs. "I left a bag of snacks in the bookstore, there's an icecream in it. You can keep the chips and juice but I wanted to let you know encase you stopped by," she says and he nods and puts a thumbs up.

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Ava was asleep on the couch with her hand on her belly when she woke up to the loud pounding nose coming from the door. She rubbed her eyes and reached for her phone on the coffee table to see what time it was, 9:00pm. She wowed at the fact she slept for the entire day, as she headed for the door she felt her stomach growl, Bean was hungry. She looked into the peep hole and saw a man standing at her door but the lighting was bad so she could barely make out his face. When she opened the door she left the chain on for hers and Beans safety. "Yes?" she said and then she saw who it was, Chanwoo. At first she wanted to slam the door and ignore him but she remembered she had cheated he didn't do anything but love her. The way he treated her though the other day was unnecessary. 

"Why are you here?" she asked and he cleared his throat, "can we talk?" he asks lowly and Ava feels her stomach flip. She retracts the chain and opens the door letting him in, "I'm sorry about yesterday its just seeing you pregnant and knowing its not mine made me upset," he says and Ava sits down on the couch. "Getting pregnant wasn't intentional. Sleeping with Minseok was to just let me get my freedom back," she says and places a hand on her small stomach. "Why keep it? How could you love it?" he tells her bluntly and Ava looks at him with offense in her eyes, "That it is my child Chanwoo! This baby I feel is going to make me happier then I have ever been! I feel I could really give this baby a good life and if you ever think you can come into my home and talk down to my child you have another thing coming!" she says and takes a deep breath. 

Chanwoo just nods his head and sits down next to her but leaving space, "I'm sorry, I just felt like you keeping this baby was because you did have a thing for him," he says again. Ava just rubs her stomach and closes her eyes the frustration and annoyance bubbling in her. "What else did you want to say?" she asked him and he clasped his hands together, "We can never be a we again can we?" he asks and Ava turns to him. "No," she says flatly, "I've violated your trust and you have violated respect towards me," she says again and Chanwoo looks at her like she just grew another head. "What?" he questioned and she scoffed, "what you said to your girlfriend yesterday! Then you walk in here and question how I can love my baby!" she tells him and he shakes his head. "I'm just acting normally Ava! Your the one that cheated remember that!" he says as he heads for the door and as he throws it open Baekhyun stands there with a neutral face. "Don't come around here again," Baekhyun tells him  and Chanwoo rolls his eyes, "I'm not afraid to kick your ass if you hurt her or that baby!" Baekhyun says again and Chanwoo scoffs walking away. Baek pushes the door open and sees Ava wiping something out of her eyes and he quickly rushes to her side. 

Ava falls asleep in Baekhyuns arms later that night after they feast on chicken. Baekhyun places his hand on Avas small belly and smiles, "Don't worry about your mom little guy or gal. Momma will be alright, especially with Uncle Baek here," he tells her belly.