Ten minutes later, she walks out of the bathroom with a frown on her face, but she isn’t crying so I am completely confused. “Is it positive or not?” I hesitate to ask her, but in the end, I just spit it out quickly.

Frowning at me, she replies softly, “It is negative, but while I was sitting in the bathroom, I began to get excited at the idea of having a baby growing in me. Something to love and to take care of that would be my very own. Now, I am beginning to wish that it was positive and almost cried when I saw that it was not....