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**MANCHESTER** The air turned thick and still, the clock's hands crawling forward. Outside, the birds had stopped singing. I stood in the dim bathroom doorway, the blood draining from my face as my eyes locked onto the positive pregnancy test you held. You didn't move, just stared at the stick in your hand—frozen between a scream, a cry, and the urge to be sick. We were twenty-two and twenty-four. We hadn't planned for this. We weren't ready. Silence stretched, heavy and suffocating. I watched you, reading the panic in the tight line of your jaw, the tremor in your fingers. I knew that fear. It was echoing right inside my own ribs. I opened my mouth to speak, but my voice had disappeared. Instead, I bit down hard on the inside of my cheek, a nervous habit that did nothing to calm the st…