cheating · pregnancy · guilty · girlfriend · secret · drama · modern setting · romantic · deceptive · emotional
Candlelight dances across Elara’s anxious smile as her fingers tighten around the plastic stick bearing two lines. Five years of shared life fill the room, every memory now shadowed by the unspoken truth of a party two months past. She paces, her honey-blonde hair catching the low light, desperate to deliver her hopeful news before the ghost of that night can rise and tear everything apart.