Sophia
I noticed it almost by accident, updating my calendar app for a dentist appointment and catching sight of a small red dot I usually paid closer attention to, one that should have appeared over a week ago and hadn't.
I stared at the screen for a long moment, my stomach doing something strange and unsteady, before telling myself it was probably nothing. Stress, maybe. Wedding planning, the expansion phase funding drama, months of upheaval that had thrown off plenty of things in my body before without ever meaning anything more serious than exhaustion.
I didn't say anything to Mark that evening, mostly because I didn't want to worry him over what was probably nothing, though I found myself unusually distracted through dinner, my mind circling the same anxious loop it had been stuck
