On Our Anniversary, He Lit Fireworks for His First Love

New Year's Eve. The whole city was waiting for the firework show called Phoenix Courtship.

Oscar Delgado had spent three hundred million dollars commissioning it—a celebration of our fifth wedding anniversary, designed entirely by my hand.

I'd planned to tell him about the pregnancy at the exact moment the sky caught fire.

But when the fireworks launched and the heavens erupted in color, the drones spelled out something else entirely:

[Wishing Summer peace, year after year.]

The crowd roared. The pregnancy test in my hand bent under the pressure of my grip.