"Izuku. Izuku - IZUKU!"

Jeongguk eases down the acceleration paddle, casting a mischievous grin to a startled Ariana on the passenger side of the car - who looks anything but composed as she grips onto the seat for dear life.

Guess she's not use to the wild life huh?

Now breathing easier after Jeongguk stopped going 100mph, Ariana slowly turns to him with a deep scowl, "ARE YOU CRAZY! WHAT IF WE GET STOPPED BY THE POLICE OR GET INTO AN ACCIDENT!?"

"I'll just say that my girlfriend is pregnant and that she needs a bathroom asap, relax," Jeongguk snickers, eyes focusing back to the road while extending one hand out to her, "Come on, don't be upset. I use to always drive like this back in Japan and know when it's appropriate and when not to. I know how to handle the system."

Ariana glances from his hand and back to his face, rolling her eyes before interlacing their hands together.

Not before Jeongguk turns it around, making her clutch the gear instead with his hand over hers, and yanks it to sports mode.

Ariana's eyes widen.

The car goes fucking flying down the highway, making Jeongguk holler by the adrenaline that cruised through his body while Ariana shrieks as she goes back to clutching onto the seat like a horrified kitten.

But this time she's smiling to the feeling of the adrenaline pumping up in her body to speed of the car.

She felt..... Light.

As though everything was left behind, right where Jeongguk accelerated the car.

Her side of the window goes down, Jeongguk turns up the music and they're screeching out the lyrics as they go down the road with the sunset cascading in the background to the nearly empty highway.

They've had a good day today.

After munching on food and dropping Troye off home a few hours ago, Jeongguk and Ariana went to go see a movie and then took a drive around the city - just so Jeongguk can see more the area around here since he never been to America before.

Now they're on their way back home, and Jeongguk just decided to pull a Fast and Furious mode out of no where - showing off clearly his experienced driving skills.

And he's indeed a good driver.

"BABY YOU'RE LIKE LIGHTENING IN A BOTTLE! I CAN'T LET YOU GO NOW THAT I GOT IT!"

This explosive in sync energy suddenly spread between the two as they sang their lungs off, and for once in a very long time, since this entire situation started, it made Ariana feel so incredibly happy.

She's so happy.

And not just her, but Jeongguk also is feeling the same energy as she is.

Despite her complaining that she's a boring person, or extremely antisocial, Jeongguk prefers being around someone who's known to be fun since they just match each other's wave length.

A bit too much sometimes, and it just feels as though their spiritually connected.

Just in this moment in time, there's nothing more they could ask for than to keep this moment engraved in their heads to look back to just to feel a moment of joy or happiness in their darkest days.

And that they will.

"FEEL YOUR ENERGY RUSHING THROUGH ME - Oh shit, the cops up ahead."

Ariana face drops instantly and Jeongguk slows down his speed, just as they make it down where the police are checking the drivers up ahead passing through at a checkpoint.

For a good moment Ariana started to get a little anxious with her leg shaking - paranoid that they might've caught them speeding down the highway - but Jeongguk pats her thigh reassuringly as he slowly eases beside the cops once it came to his turn.

The cop flashes the flashlight by the window, so Jeongguk lowers Ariana's window down. The cop took a quick glance between the two, clearly looking to see any drunken gazes or weapons in sight.

"How are you kids doing tonight?"

"Good, sorry no good English," Jeongguk said honestly, making the officer nod understandingly and looks to Ariana, as though asking if she did know English, and she nods.

"Usually around this time we have a lot of people driving around intoxicated so we have to do regular checks every once in a while," He explains, his hazel eyes giving a one eye again to the car, "You two doing okay?"

Ariana barely manages to smile, nodding, "Yes, just on our way home."

"I see," The cop mutters, noticing Ariana's clear tense body, "You doing okay?"

This time he looks at Jeongguk a bit suspicious, but Ariana nods, "Yeah.... Just.... Pregnant, and my um- boyfriend, is driving us home."

"Really?" He questions quietly, not really convinced by how nervous Ariana is around him and well, how young she is too while being pregnant, "How far are you?"

"About to be two months soon," She's scratching her head now by the questioning.

Jeongguk sends her a clear worried look and was about to reach to hold her hand, but the second he raised his hand the officer stops him, "Keep your hands to yourself sir."

Immediately Jeongguk obeys, keeping his hands on himself. But Ariana immediately takes on of his hands and holds it tightly, interlacing their fingers to ease with her anxiety.

She looks at the officer a bit pleadingly, "Look I have really bad social anxiety, so I'm sorry if I'm coming off weird. Doesn't help that I'm also pregnant, so please do you mind?"

The officer still remained spectacle, since he didn't wanna let this go in case this was a domestic violence case. Ariana seems really nervous and that was making his guard rise up to protect her, especially if she looks so young.

However the was she was gripping onto Jeongguk's hand and how the ravenette kept looking at her clear shows there's no unease tension between them. The officer would know, he was watching the kid the whole time - no odd stares or glares, he even looked away to give Ariana the privacy to speak.

So with a brief nod, the officer pats the window, "Well, you're free to go. Drive safe."

That's where he knew he did the right thing, and it was when Ariana smiled.

Much relaxed than how she was before.

"Will do!"

That tone of voice said it all.

She's safe.

So with a smile the officer lets them go.

And so Jeongguk drives off normally while glancing to the rear view mirror. After making sure he could barely see the police stop anymore, he grins and stomps on the peddle.

"IZUKU!"

Jeongguk laughs as Ariana screeches, clutching onto the seat again with a giddy smile on her lips before she ended up looking at the ravenette with a grateful smile on her face.

As if he would ever do anything to hurt her.

Feeling the stare to the side of his head, Jeongguk glances to her and smiles when he catches Ariana's tender stare - as though she's engraving every single detail about him physically in her memory.

So he takes her hand that are interlaced and presses a kiss to her knuckles.

"I'll never let anything happen to you while I'm around, I swear."

Those words were like doses of tranquility to fill Ariana's body, immediately relaxing every cell and tense muscle as she felt this sense of safety laced within them.

Believing him.

She's trusts him.

She really does.

And she's really glad she found someone who is walking through this process with her too, not letting her deal with it alone - when it's far too easy to let that happen.

After all, he's not even the father of the baby, yet he acts as though the baby has his blood running through their tiny body.

Just the comfort that Ariana doesn't feel alone is enough to make her feel as though she has a backbone to lean onto, and that's a strong support she can ask for.

So that smile remained permanently on her face throughout the drive back home. Upon returning back, her parents weren't here but left a note saying they went out to buy a few groceries.

In the meantime, her and Jeongguk got washed up and decided to relax in her room while playing a fireplace on the screen of her tv. Jeongguk's so called guest room is across from hers, so he can just go across when he hears the front door signaling her parents are back.

As for now he lays between her legs, hugging her torso and rest his face to the side of her tummy while pressing soft pecks to where the baby should be while murmuring words as though he was having a conversation with the child. Ariana is softly brushing his hair with her fingertips while her other hand is texting back to Troye to inform him how they both just got home.

When she was done with that conversation, for a moment she was going to type in Woosung's number, and just text him.

Just for a moment.

She wanted to hear what he has to say now that he knows that she's pregnant.

For some validation, or something.

Anything.

But, the longer she thought about it the more anxious she grew and she just ended up putting her phone down.

She's not ready to talk to him.

More so not ready if he's going to confront her about not telling him sooner.

She's just barely digesting the fact that she's keeping the baby, so having someone demand answers from her that she can't even explain isn't going to be the greatest combination.

She just needs more time.

She can't face him now.

"I never knew, I never knew, you could have moonlight in your hands until the night I held you."

Ariana's attention flickers upon hearing Jeongguk's voice, moving her gaze down to see him lightly singing to her tummy with a small smile to his lips.

A little habit he has developed on doing.

So cute.

A soft smile twitches her lips, still caressing Jeongguk's soft hair as he nuzzled back to the touch.

It still crazy to her how much this boy has done for her the second he found out she was pregnant - without even knowing her well.

Every single day he texted her, reminding her to eat something and that he was here for here even if he was far away.

He would calm her down when she would get into her anxiety or panic episodes.

Flew across an ocean just for a single appointment just so she wouldn't have to go through it alone - risking his track and academic attendances just for her.

And since he got here, he wouldn't leave her side - besides when she went to classes - but he would always drive her around to buy anything she wants to eat. Last night he cooked traditional Japanese food for her family, and would sneak into her room in the middle of the night just to make sure she's okay.

He tries so hard for her.

And that's something that just fuels her heart with the comfort on how in a matter of weeks, someone can show so much care for her and her small baby - through the process.

Undoubtably she knows he's going to stay till the very end.

With a sentimental heart in her chest, staring at the boy with a warm smile, she sings under her breath.

"I want to love me, the way that you love me. Through all of my pretty and all of my ugly too, I want to see me from your point of view."

Jeongguk closes his eyes upon hearing Ariana's delicate voice, clear and soft against his ears and his smile widens, "New song?"

"Just made it up right now."

"Now that's talent," Jeongguk murmurs and shifts his gaze up to look at her, smiling, "Let's see what more you can come up with."

Ariana chuckles to this, "I can't just snap my fingers and boom, a song."

"You did just now."

"Just silly lyrics, no big deal."

"But it was prefect," Ariana felt her heart thud to this soft compliment, smiling a little flustered now, "Go on, see what your mind comes up with."

Ariana was left a little dazed to this, thinking now of all the possible things she could come up with after that single phrase. Yet the more she looks at the way Jeongguk snuggles his face to her tummy, it just all felt natural.

Who knows how long they've been like this since they arrived home, yet it felt so nice to shatter the moment.

"It's like you got superpowers. Turn my minutes into hours," She sings quietly, smiling when Jeongguk's twinkling eyes glances to her, "You got more than 20/20 babe. Made of glass the way you see through me."

Jeongguk smiles calmly to this, rubbing her stomach with his thumb, "You know me better than I do, can't seem to keep nothing from you. Oh, you touch my soul from the outside."

Ariana perks her ears to this, "Did you just came up with that right now?"

"..... Maybe."

"Oh really," Ariana sits back comfortably, arms crossed over her chest, "What else can you come up with then?"

Jeongguk cutely perks his chin on his hand on the side of her hip, humming under his breath in thought before looking at Ariana.

And it seemed as though the words flowed like second nature.

"I wanna trust me, the way that you trust me," He sings quietly, his cheeks blushing rosy red, "'cause nobody ever loved me like you do, I'd love to see me from your point of view."

That was a good one, can't lie there.

Ariana nods in approval as she sinks in the lyrics, smiling softly back to him, "I wanna love me, the way that you love me. Oh, for all of my pretty and all of my ugly too, I want to see me from you point of view. I wanna trust me, the way that you trust me, 'cause nobody ever loved me like you do. I'd love to see me from your point of view."

Jeongguk is smiling so sweetly at her as she sings, filling his eyes with hearts as those she was an angel, "That sounded really good."

"It did, didn't it?"

Adoringly Jeongguk reached a hand over and pinches her cheek, giving her tummy one last peck before moving himself up and outstretched his arms out to her.

A silent request asking if it's okay.

Without thinking twice, Ariana melts into his arms and snuggles to his warm embraces, closing her eyes to feel this safe comfort wrap around her like a blanket.

That's something Jeongguk just oozes out of him, comfort. One can see him and think he's all monotone and intimidating, but he's so safe to hold onto and feel reliable when the world feels heavy.

One feels as though nothing bad will ever happen to them while he's around, because he'll make sure you are safe.

"I don't know if you're ready for this conversation, but have you thought about any baby names yet?"

Ariana did tense up a little to the idea of having to decide on a name right now, just making her tense up unease since, you know....

Shit, she's actually pregnant-

"Hey it's okay," Jeongguk pecks her head, holding her tighter while being carefully with her tummy, "Whenever you're ready. As for now, hold onto me as much as you want until you fall asleep."

"You do know my parents will throw a fit if they see us like that?"

"Don't worry about them," Jeongguk gets comfortable, closing his eyes, "Just focus on a good rest, okay?"

Ariana calm down by those soothing words, closing her eyes with a small smile, "Okay. Goodnight Izuku, and thank you."

"Goodnight Ari."

And slowly Ariana fell into a deep sleep, not even hearing the front door open to signal her parents arrival or when Jeongguk peeled himself off her, but left his hoodie behind for her to clutch onto like teddy bear all night.

Smiling before going to his own room, feeling his heart softly skipping in his chest.

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A/N:
Noooooo they're not going to end up together!

Just in case anyone makes conclusions how this is becoming an Ariana x Jeongguk story. It's not, it's still a poly 6 story. I just included this scene to show a bit of their connection, and the baby journey.

Just setting things clear.

But ngl, they're so cute in this story :')

I PURPLE YOU! <3333