Two Pink Lines?

So…October 17th proved to be a monumental day in the life of Melissa and Chad Reed. The day I was supposed to get my period came and went and then more than a week passed by. Chad encouraged me to take a test, but I was hesitant, afraid to be disappointed and convinced that it was just my body adjusting to being off the pill for the first time in 7 years.

But despite my better judgment on Friday, October 17th I came home from work and took the all too dreaded First Response pregnancy test. I knew the 3 minute waiting would be torture. I changed from work clothes to Friday evening clothes and stared at Chad. Alas, the 3 minutes were up. Moment of truth.

I walk in the bathroom, Chad lingered in the hall.

“Well,” he says. I simply look at the test and back at him. “It’s nothing, it’s negative.”

“No, it’s flipped over, I can’t see the results.”

“Well, flip it over.”

So, I do. A look of shock must have ran across my face. He can’t take it anymore, he steps into the bathroom from the hall and looks down at the test. We both see the same thing…two pink lines, not subtle, not light, not thin…two very distinct pink lines.

“There’s two lines,” Chad says. “What does that mean?”

“I think it means I am pregnant.”

We both laugh in disbelief and pure shock. We stand there for another minute look back at the test and laugh some more.

Chad being Chad says, “You’re pregnant…Ha…Ha!”

Then a field of questions come pouring out of me, “What if I did it wrong?” “Are those really two pink lines?” “Maybe it says positive, but it’s wrong.”

So, there we are like a bunch of buffoons trying to figure out the inner-workings of a pregnancy test. We read and re-read the instructions, completely baffled. Is this really happening? Could we really be that lucky?

It’s time to take a breather. We head out to new restaurant in town—it’s a hesitant celebration. It was the most awkward dinner Chad and I have ever had. We don’t know what to talk about. We avoid eye-contact and when we do make eye-contact we simply crack up all over again. After dinner and some pretty boring bulk shopping at Sam’s Club, we head back home.

I need to take another test. The package came with 3 and I want to take another one, just to be sure. And yup, sure enough two pink lines. But we are still convinced that the two lines aren’t really two lines or that the test is a false positive. So to the internet we head. Google image search “positive pregnancy tests”. Yup sure enough, my lines are exactly the same as all other lines out there. We conclude the test is reading without a doubt positive. Good search “false positive pregnancy tests”. Our research shows that while false negatives are common because women take the test too soon false positives are truly rare and happen next to never. The test reads positive and the test isn’t wrong.

We got to bed that night knowing everything is about to change.