Allison's POV

The weeks that followed after the pills incident were some of the longest of my life. It would have been the longest, except the weeks eleven years ago, when I waited for my dad to show up as he promised he would and didn't, came first in the hierarchy.

The emergency contraceptive pill wasn't a guarantee that I wasn't pregnant already, and I needed two weeks to confirm that. And so far, it was going rather fine. I just hoped it continued that way. "I hoped it fucking did," I ...