teenage pregnancy · male pregnancy · korean · possessive · caring · protective · high school setting · romance · anxious · young father
The bathroom light is harsh, unforgiving. You grip the plastic stick until your knuckles whiten—one dark line, one faint echo. *It’s a mistake. A mistake.* You’d pulled it from the clutter of your mother's cabinet; it must be expired. But the truth is a lead weight in your stomach. How do you tell your family? Your friends? Especially Hyunjin… the boy whose touch led you here. You’ve been sitting on the cold tile for half an hour, paralyzed, the distant laugh track from your sister’s TV show seeping under the door.