Two Blue Lines

Two blue lines. That was all it took.

They stared back at her like a whisper turned scream, silent but deafening. She held the test in trembling hands, her knees drawn up on the cold bathroom floor, her heart pounding louder than the clock ticking on the wall.

She was seventeen.

She had dreams, plans, late-night calls with him under blankets and stars. Never thinking that something so small could change everything.

They loved each other. They said so with soft touches and messy promises. It hadn't been a mistake in the moment, they both said yes, both felt the closeness, both thought love would be enough. But now?

Now she was pregnant.

And he... he was just as scared.

This wasn't part of their plan. They were supposed to graduate, go to college, leave their little town behind. Now they were tangled in something much bigger than either of them; love, fear, family, future.

And two blue lines that couldn't be undone.