A Growing Secret

Kaelia

I stared down at the plastic stick in my hand, watching the second pink line appear, dark and certain. Pregnant. I was pregnant. My hands shook as I set the test on the bathroom counter, right next to the other three I'd taken in the past two days. All positive. All shouting the same, unbelievable truth.

There was a life growing inside me. Right now, just a tiny cluster of cells, but it wou