She had taken two home pregnancy tests before report time.

Both positive.

Still not trusting them after everything we’d been through, she called her gynecologist’s office from the employee parking lot.

They squeezed her in for a blood draw near the airport.

The initial test was positive.

Penelope arrived for duty crying.

She told Marisol because she needed someone to cover for five minutes while she pulled herself together.

Marisol asked whether the captain could mention: