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Chapter 80: The Second Line

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The bathroom door is locked.

I checked it three times. Click. Jiggle. Secure.

I am alone in the small, tiled box. The air smells of cheap lemon cleaner and my own nervous sweat. The fan overhead rattles, a mechanical wheeze that grates on my nerves.

On the white porcelain of the sink, I have arranged them.

Clearblue. First Response. E.P.T.

I take them out of the packaging. The foil crinkles loudly in the silence. I place the plastic sticks in a row, parallel to the edge of the sink. They look l
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