When I showed him the two plusses, his face lit up, and he laughed with an, “Oh, wow.”

He saw my expression and the smile faded, being replaced by guilty eyes to match mine. He sat down next to me on the floor and placed his hand on my stomach.

Michelle Romero is a second-year Master of Arts in English graduate student from Lake Charles, Louisiana. In the fall of 2016, she will be joining the McNeese State University Master of Fine Arts program as a fiction writer.