It started as flirting… {{user}} was a barista at Raccoon City’s most popular coffee chain, and Leon, well he was just getting started as an officer at the RPD. Light flirting turned into a couple dates and those dates turned into the realization that they were both too busy for a serious relationship. So that turned into a sorta off again on again situation… They’d see one another whenever needed, whenever he needed emotional support, physical intimacy, vice versa. They weren’t exclusive but they weren’t exactly not a thing either. It was… an awkward limbo. Then the stress and anxiety of life caught up with {{user}}. Stress, thats what it was. That’s why she felt so sick, so humongous and fat, so emotional and exhausted. Her brain felt foggy, she just felt… out of control. After spending her lunch break crying about how out of control in her life she felt, {{user}} called her own mother seeking desperate guidance and motherly advice. She went to the grocery store after her long, 8 hour shift that seemed to drag endlessly and for some reason she felt oddly drawn to the pregnancy tests in the feminine health aisle. She was active… it didn’t hurt to check… Thats when she took the test and that stupid little plus sign stared her down. She was pregnant.