Chapter 92

Thorn sighed at the replies. These lunatics were so obvious.

Thorn Calderon: Keep lying.

Tyron Zapanta: So what if there's a surprise? Be happy that your wife wanted to surprise you.

Ymar Stroam: I heard it's about...

Knight Velasquez: Holy sh*t @YmarStroam, you're pregnant?! ??????

Ymar Stroam: ?????

Hence Vergara:

Lysander Callahan: I will definitely go home when Ymar gets pregnant.

Reigo Vasquez: I will drink a lot of ice water.

Ymar Stroam:

Lander Storm: @YmarStroam, sh*t man, that's a rare talent you've got.

Mandu?? BBQ yet?

Valerian Volkzki: Is that even fucking possible?

Titus Morgan: @YmarStroam, your wife got you pregnant? Will he also give birth to you? ??

Ymar Stroam: Why do I have so many friends? Am I going to cut back? ??

Thorn Calderon: Ahem! Don't risk the topic!

Train Wolkzbin: What's the topic?

Thorn Calderon: My wife's surprise!

calyx Vargaz: Sorry, Calderon. We are just quiet. We don't want to sleep outside again. Our husbands are too powerful.

Andrius Salazar: Speaking of 'wife', I think Volkzki's curse has been broken. Calderon did not crawl into the swamp.

Valerian Volkzki: FUCK YEAH! ????

Thorn Calderon:

Khairro Sanford: This is so unfair! @Andrius: After we suffer, will anyone be saved? Unacceptable!

Knight Velasquez: @KhairroSanford, are you saying that my sister is not worth it, you motherfucker?

Kharro Sanford left the Group chat.

Knight Velasquez: That motherfucker! I will bury you, @KhairroSanford! You hear me?!

Valerian Volkzki: No, he can't fucking hear you. He left.

Mandu ?? : ??????

Thorn sighed while reading the chats. This was going nowhere. Their topic keeps changing every minute or so. those who are not really normal within their group. It's really just me.

Thorn looked at his wife, and he couldn't help leaning down to kiss her forehead and look at her stomach. That's pretty big and obvious.

Thorn reached out his hand to caress his wife's stomach. His face softened while he felt his wife's tummy. In a few months, their firstborn will be born. Thorn could tell how much his wife cares for their baby. It really fulfilled its promise to take good care of the child in its womb.

They even make love according to the schedule, since Doc. Cza told them not to do it every day, to my disappointment, so his wife insisted on making a schedule. That's how weird she was.

Speaking of weirdness, a month ago, his wife actually asked him why his cock was longer and bigger now when it wasn't like that when he was a child.

Thorn didn't know how to answer his wife. Her question didn't make sense at all, so he didn't know how to answer her with sense as well, so... He didn't answer her. Because he didn't really know how to answer it.

Thorn laughed softly at the memory. Every now and then, his wife asks weird questions that he doesn't know how to answer. In a way, it was embarrassing. Only his wife could ask him with a straight face. Sometimes he envies her innocence in some things.

He was about to put the cellphone down on the side table to lie down next to his wife when it vibrated.

A message from Mr. Suspicious 'Ready the red carpet. I'm going back to the Philippines.'

Thorn's eyebrows immediately met at what was read. What did that oversized puppy eat?

Thorn replied. Don't bother me. Prepare it yourself. You're the one who's going to use it anyway.'

'Don't be rude to your brother-in-law! '

Thorn sighed as he replied again. Don't bother me. It's time to sleep.'

'How's my sister? '

'Asleep.'

'Tell her I said good night.'

Thorn stared at Cassiuz's message flatly before replying. I said she was asleep. How could I say 'good night' to someone who's asleep? And if I told her it's from you, she'll find it creepy since you're only my long-lost, super-long-lost friend in her eyes.'

'????????????'

Thorn just sighed and turned his phone off. He doesn't want to disturb his sleep.

Before lying down beside his wife, he kissed her stomach and murmured good night to their baby before lying beside her, who woke up because of him.

"Sorry." Thorn apologized for seeing his wife wake up because of him.

Cassia just yawned and rested on his arm before he lay down, his back facing her.

"Cuddle me, please, hon," said Cassia in a sleepy voice.

Thorn smiled, hugged his wife from behind, and closed his eyes to go to sleep.

"Good night, Cinnamon, Thorn mumbled.

With her sleepy voice, Cassia replied. "Good night, hon."

simple 'good night, hon, and Thorn knew he would sleep peacefully that night, and he was right. He did.

***

The day after tomorrow finally came. After breakfast, Cassia immediately left the house after instructing Thorn that in the afternoon he would be taken somewhere nice, she said. She said she needed to prepare, which is why she's leaving early.

Thorn would not have allowed her husband to pick her up, but Zehannah picked her up, and Zehannah promised that she would make sure that nothing bad would happen to Cassia.

So Thorn watched his wife leave while leaning on the side of the door with his arms crossed over his chest.

After Zehannah and Cassia left using Cassia's car, Thorn was about to close the gate when Reigo lifelessly entered his home without asking for consent. He just went straight inside his house, and when he closed the gate and followed Reigo, he found him in the kitchen.

The idiot took a beer from his fridge and is now drinking; it's still early in the morning. The blow did not even wait for me. No respect.

Thorn tsked and leaned on the island counter. "What's your problem?"

Reigo took a drink of beer before answering. "Your wife's best friend."

Thorn's eyebrows rose. "Are you two still seeing each other?"

Reigo scoffed. "Seeing each other," he repeated what Thorn said. "I don't even know if that's what we were doing."

"What happened?"

Reigo blew a loud breath before he looked at Thorn seriously and asked. "Do I look like a player to you?"

Thorn shrugged.

"Do I look like someone who would break someone's heart?" Reigo sounded like he was whining. "Do I look untrustworthy? Do I look like a jerk?"

"Yes." Thorn answered quickly. "The jerk part. You're the only one who knows if mood swings are scheduled, and your behavior is even worse with me."

Reigo tsked and scoffed. "Fuck you."

Thorn sighed and shook his head. "Doesn't Zehannah trust you?"

Reigo nodded.

Thorn shrugged. "Then go and earn her trust."

"That's not an easy thing to do, you know."

"So, what?" Thorn's voice challenged "If you're really interested in her, go and do some work. Don't go around bitching. Go to her, earn her trust, and don't fuck up. Want to make it work? Then don't fuck up."

Reigo sighed, put the bottle of beer he was holding on the table, and left without saying a word.

Thorn tsked. "And they said I'm the rude one."

But Zehannah... Isn't she seeing Cassiuz as well?

Thorn just shook his head. It looks like Reigo won't be able to escape Valerian's curse. I'm the only exception because I'm a nice motherfucker.

Thorn nodded at himself, clearly happy with his own thoughts. And then he started doing his morning routine. Since it was the weekend, Thorn cleaned the house, did some laundry, and changed the sheets.

He was planning to hire a maid after Cassia gave birth to help around the house because he couldn't be around all the time, and when Knight found out about his plan, he told him SM would provide a very trustworthy helper. Coming from Knight and SM, Thorn immediately agreed. He was sure that it would be an exceptional helper.

When he was still single, he didn't see the need to hire a maid to clean his house because it was just him. And when he got married, he still didn't need a maid because he could still do the basic things to keep his house clean. But now that his wife was pregnant and was about to give birth in the coming months, he really needed a good helper.

Time passed, and lunch came. Thorn ate alone. There was no text from his wife, but he was not worried. Master Zehan was updating him, telling him where they were and that they were safe and unharmed.

And just before dinner, when the sun was about to set, his wife returned home with a big smile on her face.

"Let's go, hon," said Cassia while holding Thorn's hand. "I'll take you somewhere nice."

Thorn became nervous all of a sudden. Who knew that he'd be traumatized by the words 'take you somewhere nice'? But she still gave in to her husband and let him drag her out of the house.

When they got out of the gate and didn't use a car, Thorn's nervousness doubled. And it's even more important to notice the road they're taking. He can't be wrong; that's the way to BV Hall.

The fuck! Déjà vu! Fuck! Fuck!

Doubt started creeping in, and Thorn had to stop himself from pulling his hand away from his wife's hold. It was normal to feel this way! The last time he entered the BV Hall for a surprise, he paid for it!

Fuck!

But he didn't have a choice. His wife held his hand tightly as he led him towards the BV Hall.

Thorn was actually hyperventilating when they approached the BV Hall. He wanted to turn back. To flee. To run away, but he didn't want to hurt his wife's feelings, so he endured and forced himself to enter the Hall.

It was dark. Just like last time.

And then... All the lights in the hall were turned on, filling the whole place.

Thorn was blinded by the light for a couple of seconds before he saw the backdrop on the stage.

'Happy Gender Reveal Party'

Thorn's lips parted, then he turned to Cassia, who was smiling broadly at her while caressing her stomach.

With his mouth still hanging open, he looked back at the backdrop on the stage, and then suddenly, music blasted from the stereo.

It's the Jumbo Hotdog song, and the lunatics who were all wearing tuxedos went to the stage one by one, and they actually danced the 'Jumbo Hotdog choreography seriously and with lots of hip thrusting and grinding.

Thorn couldn't stop laughing when he saw the dance of his silly and crazy friends. Thorn was in the middle of laughing at his friends dancing skills when suddenly, his friends forcefully undressed their tuxedo like professional strippers, ripping the buttons, sending it flying, and showing the pink t-shirt they were wearing underneath.

and the pink t-shirt had four embossed words written on it.

'Congratulations! It's a girl! '