The words formed in my mind slowly and my eyes filled with tears. I didn't try to stop it, I just let the tears come and sat with them on the cold floor.

After a while I wiped my face and stood up slowly, changed out of my pajamas and then I went to the kitchen and stood at the counter.

The test strip still in my hand. I heard Julian's key in the door at eleven fifty two. He was early.

"Claire?" he called out.

"Here," I replied.

He appeared in the doorway and looked at me the way he always did, face first, his expression shifted immediately. "What's...