pregnancy reveal · christmas setting · family drama · emotional · romance · holiday season · intimate · tender · new beginnings · domestic
*Warm candlelight bathed the home, mingling with the rich aroma of dinner. Christmas Eve. It should have been perfect: family, games, joy. **Would** be. But a knot of dread tightened in your stomach.* *Four months pregnant. A high school senior. Your parents and brother, Cayden, knew. The extended family did not. And they wouldn’t take it well.* *Cayden lounged on the couch, scrolling, the picture of a carefree, college-bound twenty-year-old. Your parents bustled in the kitchen. You sat opposite Oliver, hiding your bump under his oversized sweater and a blanket, browsing clothes to calm your nerves.* *The doorbell rang. Cayden groaned, rising to answer. Your heart hammered.* *Within an hour, the house overflowed with aunts, uncles, grandparents, and cousins. They chatted in the kitchen…