"Why me? Why now? We had just become my friends again. How do I tell her? Oh god how do I tell him?"

Peyton cried and pleaded with the invisible person in her room. She flopped down on the bed and sobbed. After a few minutes her sobs subside. Exhaustion from the past week took over her body. She drifted soundly to sleep. A gentle stroke of her hair awoke Peyton on the late Saturday afternoon. Her eyes fluttered open to reveal a blurry figure sitting on the edge of her bed.

"Luke, what are you doing here?"
Luke smiled softly as his sky blue eyes sparkled with love.

"I called and you didn't answer so I was concerned. Its 3:30 you know?"
Peyton's eyes grew wide as she turned toward the clock. A sudden knot grew in her stomach.

"Wow! I didn't think I could sleep that late!"

The knot grew bigger but it wasn't in her stomach anymore. It was coming on fast. Peyton lunged herself out of the bed and into the bathroom where she threw up. It wasn't much of a surprise to her. She had been vomiting for several weeks now.

"Peyt are you okay?"
Luke's shaky voice managed to release those words. In between breaths Peyton's spilled the words.

"Don't worry I'm fine."

Luke just couldn't take it any longer he barged thought the bathroom door. There was concern in his eyes as he looked at the sick Peyton slowly lifting her head from the toilet bowl. She was kneeling and just couldn't find the strength to stand.

"Peyton what happened?"
Peyton knew she couldn't tell him the truth about why she had been throwing up so she lied.

"I must have caught a bug or something." A slight smile crossed her face as she began to stand up using the counter for support. She quickly asked Luke to leave she didn't want him to catch this bug. With is head on his shoulders he left closing the front door behind him. Peyton let out a sigh of relief as she crawled over to the bed. She wasn't sure how much longer she could keep this secret from Luke. Since the recent incident with Brooke, Peyton couldn't keep anything a secret anymore. She even ended up telling Brooke that she loved Luke and that they were going out. Eventually they settled everything, but now this new secret arose and it was sure to cause mayhem.