Chapter 14 A Game Of Expectations

• I stare at the small plastic stick on the bathroom counter, waiting. The instructions said to wait three minutes, but I’ve been here for over five, anxiously hoping for two lines that still haven’t appeared. I let out a loud breath, my shoulders sagging in disappointment.
• There’s nothing. Not even a faint shadow of a second line.
• “Of course, there’s nothing,” I whisper to myself, a harsh laugh escaping my lips. “Why did I even bother?”