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I clutched the hospital report in my hand, the paper crumpling slightly from the tightness of my grip. The air felt heavier somehow, though the sun was shining outside the clinic window, casting warm light across the sterile white floor. I looked at the nurse, who had just given me a kind smile and said, "Congratulations."
Congratulations.
That word rang in my ears like a bell I couldn't silence.
Pregnant. I was pregnant. With Cole's child.
I stepped outside, the sounds of the world dulling around me. The honking cars, chattering pedestrians, the chirp of a crossing light—they all faded into white noise as I walked, aimless and slow, still reeling.
How had I not noticed? How had I let months go by without paying attention to my body?
