Ava didn’t move for a long time.She just stood there in the bathroom, staring at the test in her hand like it had suddenly stopped making sense.Two lines.Not one.Not unclear.Two.Her fingers went cold around the plastic stick.The silence in the room felt too loud, like even the walls were waiting for her reaction.She blinked once.Then again.As if the answer might change if she looked at it differently.But it didn’t.It stayed the same.Two pink lines.Ava sat down slowly on the edge of the bathtub.Her knees felt weak, not from sickness, not from exhaustion, but from something far deeper.Reality landing too fast.Too real.Her breath came out uneven.She pressed her hand to her mouth, trying to hold something in.But it didn’t work.The first tear fell without warning.Then another.Then everything broke open at once.She wasn’t crying because she was unhappy.That was the strange part.She was crying because
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