★Nathan★
I didn’t sleep much. I doubted anyone in my position could. I spent most of the night sitting on the edge of Annie’s couch, staring at the dark ceiling while the sounds of the quiet apartment settled around me. My mind kept circling the same impossible thought, looping it so often that it stopped feeling like a thought at all and became a strange, heavy presence in my chest.
A daughter. I had a daughter.
The words didn’t make sense yet. They felt too big, too sudden, too life-altering to fit neatly inside my head. Every time I tried to process it, the shock would hit me again, as if I was hearing it for the first time. I rubbed my eyes and exhaled slowly as the faint light of dawn slipped through the curtains. Saturday morning. I knew I had plans with Timothy. I was supposed to
