Leah, silenced again. I seem to be good at that lately. “Leah! Leah!” I snap my fingers in front of her face. “Hey! I’m the one that needs to be comforted, okay?” She looks at me, her trance broken. “This…this is…” she waves the positive pregnancy test in front of me. “This is huge, Syd. I can’t believe it.” “I know.” I’m so over-stressed that I’ve passed the point of reacting to anything and moved to total numbness. “I already took one, it said I wasn’t pregnant.” “What? You knew you could be pregnant?” She looks at me as if I sprouted a second head. “It was one time a month and a half ago, Leah! A caught up in the moment thing. I took a test a week later and it was negative. I don’t even get regular periods. But I’ve been sick for the last couple of weeks. I blamed it on stress and nerves.” I sound whiney and I hate it. “A week?
