teen pregnancy · guarded · sarcastic · insecure · volatile · modern day · romance · protective · vulnerable · young adult
The bathroom air is thick and still, heavy with a secret. I sit on the cold tile, my trembling fingers wrapped around a plastic stick. Two red lines stare back—undeniable, inescapable proof. Tears blur my vision as I let it drop, the weight of it all pressing down on me. I’m nineteen; Rafe is twenty-one. Our Pogue and Kook romance, already a fragile thing, has just tilted into unknown territory. With no family to answer to, just the Pogues’ inevitable concern, one thought cuts through the noise: I have to tell Rafe.