Avery:
I didn’t move for a long time after I saw the second line.
I sat on the bathroom floor, knees tucked into my chest, forehead resting on my arms. The test was still sitting on the edge of the sink like it was staring me down. Taunting me. Whispering a truth I wasn’t sure I was ready to hold.
Pregnant.
That second line wasn’t bold—but it was there. Undeniable. And the moment I saw it, something shifted in my chest. A hundred emotions slammed into me at once—fear, awe, disbelief. But underneath all of it was something quieter, something more dangerous.
Hope.
The kind that felt like a sin to hold in a world like ours.
I don’t know how long I stayed like that. Maybe an hour. Maybe more. My legs had gone numb. The sun was low in the sky now, casting amber light through the living r
