Trigger Warning: This chapter includes an incident of physical abuse and contains a detailed description of childbirth
*Flashback*
*10 Years Ago*
Seraphina stared at the test in front of her. Two parallel red lines meant...no, it couldn't be, could it? She had missed her period and had been feeling quite uneasy when she woke up. She had initially taken the test just as a possibility. But now as she sat on the toilet seat of her college washroom, results in hand, reality came crashing down upon her. She was gonna be a mother. At 18! She didn't know whether to be happy or sad. She had a life growing inside of her right now. Although she was 18, still in college, without a steady income of her own, she knew that she wouldn't abort the child. She didn't know how she would raise it but what she did know was that abortion was just not an option that she wanted to explore.
