The Results

Written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt
where she asks us to get creative in exactly 99
words using the prompt word ‘inkling’ and for
Gerry & Sue’s Weekly Prompts – The One Day
Prompt. Here’s where the prompts took me.

Kelly slipped into the third-floor bathroom, the one nobody used, and took the test. She shoved the result in her jacket pocket and walked straight into the 9 a.m. briefing.

For forty minutes, she sat across from Daniel… her manager, her secret… and watched him click through quarterly projections.

She knew one day this might happen but had no inkling what his reaction would be.

When the room emptied, she slid the test across the table.

He looked up, his eyes unreadable.

“A baby? For real?”

She smiled weakly.

Five seconds later they were passionately kissing, laughing and crying.

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99 Words

This is “You’ve Made Me So Very Happy” by Blood, Sweat & Tears

Weekend Writing Prompt #470 – Inkling

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