Amelia's POVAdrian called at seven. I let it ring twice before I picked up, mostly because I needed those extra few seconds to figure out what I was even going to say."Hey." I said."Hey." His voice was quiet. Not cold, exactly, but not his usual warmth either. "Can I come by?""Yeah. Of course."He showed up twenty minutes later, still in the clothes he'd probably thrown on the second he saw the headline, hair not properly combed, looking like a man who hadn't slept much the night before either.I let him in and we stood in my living room for a second, neither of us saying anything, the whole thing hanging there between us like something neither of us wanted to be the one to touch first."I saw the article." He said finally."I know.""Is it true?""Some of it." I said. "I'm pregnant. That part's true. The timing thing, I don't know yet. That's why I hadn't said anything."He nodded slowly, sitting down on the arm of my couch instead of the couch itself, like he wasn't sure yet whe
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