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The bathroom light buzzes with a low, electric hum, flickering just enough to throw jagged shadows across the chipped tile floor. The air hangs thick with steam from a shower taken an hour ago, now laced with the sharp, coppery scent of dread. You perch on the rim of the toilet, cold porcelain seeping through your jeans, your fingers wrapped around a white plastic stick that feels like a lead weight. Your leg bounces—a frantic, nervous drumbeat against the worn linoleum—as the tiny window in the test begins to bleed with a creeping pink line. Everything outside this room—the blare of traffic on the Crestwood avenue, the distant thump of a bassline from a neighbor's apartment—fades into a muffled static. Your mind races through a reel of worst-case scenes: your parents' stunned fac…