~ Build Your Wings ~

For the first two months she doesn't know, doesn't even begin to suspect. For the next two months she is in denial, writing off each symptom as something else, because it shouldn't have been possible and she doesn't want this and she just can't and maybe if she ignores the problem it will stop being real.

It becomes very real in the fifth month, when some of her regulars are put off by the now-noticeable changes in her appearance. A doctor is sent for, and confirms her condition.

It is still difficult for her to think of it as her baby rather than her problem, but the strange fluttery movements it makes force her mind to concede that she does indeed carry within her something alive. Something about the way it moves makes her compare it to a caged bird.

The doctor offers her a solution, tells her to take her time and think about it.

She decides to keep her little bird.

~oOo~