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Author: C'meewrites
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"A pregnancy test takes ten minutes," Tessa said.

She sat at the Bennetts' kitchen table in rumpled scrubs, three hours past the end of her shift, eating cold puff pastry with the focus of someone who had earned it. "An ultrasound takes twenty. At eight weeks, they'd see a heartbeat. If she's really pregnant, she'd let anyone look."

"She won't," Amara said.

"Then there's your answer."

"Everyone will say she's too fragile. Too stressed. Her father will say it's an insult."

"Her father can say wh
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