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Chapter 11: Two Lines

Author: ChupiCha
last update publish date: 2026-05-17 22:46:09

(Keyla POV)

The first test took three minutes.

I stood in the bathroom with my back against the wall and waited for the timer on my phone.

When it went off, I looked.

Then I put the test face-down in the sink and turned on the tap, not because I needed water, but because my hands needed a job.

Two lines.

I had bought it from a pharmacy four blocks away, paid cash, and taken the cheapest box on the shelf without reading the brand. The brand didn’t matter. They were all measuring the
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