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378 Result! (Winona)

I stare at the test, my whole world narrowed down to that tiny, plastic window

what it

I've always been sure this would be negative. There's no need to feel disappointed or upset. It i is. The chances of me actually being pregnant, after already having one impossible pregnancy, is a drop in the ocean.

Negative is what I knew would happen. Negative is exactly what I need. So much less complicated. I stare inside that plastic window and there's no mistaking the result.

Two lines.

Bold. Clear.

Positive.

The room falls away. All the air leaves my lungs. I clutch my chest and try to suck oxygen in, but I can't

breathe.

I'm pregnant.

I press my other hand to my stomach, half-expecting to feel something-a heartbeat, a flutter, any sign that this is real. But, of course, it's just me and the stillness of my own pulse, thudding beneath my palm.

My racing pulse fills my ears. My heart is thumping. This is really impossible. My chest is about to cave in, I swear.

jump up and pull up my underwear

barely work the zipper and button. I wash

Surely y this i

bought more than one test

very accurate.

do that privately? Judy might be

to know why. She knew with Abby, that old woman here knew, how do

My. God.

moment, joy surges through me, bright and uncontainable. A new life, a miracle I never

of, the walls I've built up, I can't help but feel the warmth of hope, the thrill of

a wave of fear. I sink down onto the

another pregnancy to term, I know I'll

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break my heart.

I murmur to

swell of love for this little life, the fierce, protective instinct that kicks in before I even fully understand it. And with It comes the terror of losing something! automatically care about so deeply. I clutch the test,

No matter what.

me, give me a thread of

know hall pass week details will test him. But me carrying another man's baby? That cannot ever be something I'd expect him to tolerate. Let alone who those other

are.

me over and over that he trusts me, that nothing from that week matters now. But if I've fallen

still loved and wanted me,

now. This is my reality, and whatever questions he has, whatever fears might come up, I'll face

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