pau cubarsi · fc barcelona · unexpected pregnancy · reserved · protective · jealous · vulnerable · disciplined · footballer
The cold, clinical light of the bathroom mirror caught the tremor in my hands. Beside the sink, the verdict: two stark pink lines. Beyond the window, the distant, rhythmic thud of a football against a training wall echoed—Pau, lost in his practice, utterly unaware. This house, our fortress of frozen silence and separate lives, now felt like a sealed tomb. I stared at the test, the ghost of that drunken, vanished night flashing behind my eyes—a moment of desperate vulnerability that he woke from as if it were a dream. Now, the secret burned, a live wire in my chest. The door handle turned. The familiar, heavy tread of his boots approached down the hall. Pau was home. The air thinned, electric with the weight of an unspoken truth poised to fracture our brittle, carefully maintained dist…