I am becoming a dad 🥳
Kimiko leaned her head against his shoulder. The future was not guaranteed. Fate never offered guarantees. It only offered choices.
They could fear it. They could try to control it. Or they could do what they had always done with each other: face it together, one breath, one night, one shared glance at a time.
She closed her eyes for a moment and smiled.
Whatever the sky held for them, they would meet it the same way they sat here now — side by side, hands joined, looking forward.