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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.

into my lungs, and I jump up and pull up my

barely work the zipper and button.

Surely y this i

one test now. I cannot be pregnant. But these tests

very accurate.

test. But how do I do that privately? Judy might be at every turn, with eyes and ears, watching and

into a medical center or doctor's surgery is going to make her want to know why. She knew with Abby, that old woman here knew,

God. I'm

uncontainable. A new

everything I've convinced myself of, the walls I've built up, I can't help but feel

then, as quickly as it came, the joy is pushed back by a wave of fear. I sink down onto the

for me to carry another pregnancy to term, I

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break my heart.

get your hopes up." I murmur to myself, my voice

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, fingers trembling. How am I going to tell

No matter what.

a thread of

carrying another man's baby? That

are.

as I imagine his reaction. He's told me over and over that he trusts me, that nothing from that week matters now. But if

even expect it to. That's asking too much. Even if he did say he still loved and wanted

is my reality, and

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