Oliver’s hand froze above the cake like it had touched an invisible fence, and in that breathless pause the room kept laughing while his eyes went dark. One dumb joke about his “pregnant belly” detonated seven quiet years of trust, turning frosting and balloons into a crime scene I hadn’t seen coming. By the time the candles were cold, the real reason his T-shirts clung tighter was pulsing under fluorescent hospital lights, and every replay of that birthday chorus felt like a confession we hadn’t known we were ma… Continues…
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