On the surface.
The dining room glowed with soft yellow light. Music played quietly in the background—something cheerful, something easy. Plates passed from hand to hand. Someone laughed too loudly at a story that had already been told twice.
Everything felt… normal.
Almost perfectly normal.
I remember thinking how tired I was.
The kind of tired that settles deep into your bones. Work had been exhausting, and the pregnancy only made everything heavier—my body, my thoughts, even my patience.