Shirley
I sat on the bathroom floor crying when Alex knocked softly on the door.
"Baby, please talk to me," he said. "I know something is wrong."
I opened the door with tears running down my face and showed him the tests. His eyes went wide, but then the biggest smile I had ever seen spread across his face. He pulled me into his arms and held me tight.
"I'm going to be a dad," he whispered. "We're going to have a baby."
"How can you be happy?" I cried. "This is a mess. We are stepsiblings. Everyone will hate us."
He took my face in his hands and looked me straight in the eyes. "I need to tell you something. Something I should have told you weeks ago."
We sat on my bed and he held my hands while he talked.
"Our parents' marriage was never real. It was a green card arrangement. The
