April Rain

Chapter Seven

All Of This

Peyton sat nervously by Lucas' side, waiting for him to wake up.

Finally, when she saw his eyes starting to open, she immediately leaned over to him. "Hey," she said.

He smiled, "Hey," as he pushed himself up to kiss her.

"Umm..." she paused and looked at him. She was so scared. She didn't know whose it was. She wanted to so badly. She wanted to tell him so badly. Something was trying to stop her, but she couldn't not tell him. She loved him so much, as much as she was afraid to tell him she did. "Lucas..." she paused again, trying to hold back the tears, ".... I'm pregnant,"

He sat there, wide eyed, totally in shock.

"Did you tell them about..." his voice choked, and he couldn't finish, he just seemed to mumble words. Peyton shook her head. Tears poured from her eyes. He pulled her into a big hug, as she sat beside him on his bed.

"Please Lucas, don't make me remember..." she said between sobs.

"I'm sorry, Peyt..." he said, crying as well.

She sat up, looking straight into his beautiful eyes. "Lucas... I think we need to talk to the police...."

He nodded, kissing her on the forehead. "It's going to be alright Peyt... it's gonna be alright..." he said, holding her close to him.

Just then, Karen walked into the room with coffee for the two and herself.

"Hey guys..." she said, putting the coffees down on the table and walking over to the two who both had tears in their eyes. She sat down on the chair beside bed and looked at the two. She knew that they were holding something back. She knew that something was terribly wrong.

"Mom," Lucas fit in. "Uhh.. we need to talk to you,"

"What's wrong?" she asked, very concerned.

Lucas and Peyton looked at eachother. Scared looks on both of their faces.

"Remember how we said that we didn't really want to talk about what happened when you found us?" Peyton asked.

Karen nodded. "Well... we do now, because we don't really have a choice..." Peyton said as her tears seemed to form all over her face, and she wiped them away.

Karen started to get nervous feelings in her stomach, as she was terrified at what they were about to tell her. She didn't know if it was going to be bad... or just horrible.

Peyton had to gain up the courage to talk about it. She and Lucas had both held it in for the longest time.. at least for what it seemed to be. They were mostly afraid that, if they spoke about it that it would just keep happening even more, over and over again in their minds.

"When they took us, they took us to an abandoned jail. It was cold, scary, dark.." Peyton described it as Luke held her hand tight, and he wrapped his arm around her. "They put us both in cells and locked us in... not one window in sight at all," Peyton felt tears falling continuously down her cheeks as she remembered in her mind what had happened when they were there. "On the second day there... they took me out of my cell and walked me into this room that had a bed in the middle of the floor, and a window to another room on one wall," Karen gasped, as she covered her mouth with her hand and she felt tears welling in her eyes. Peyton looked up from the floor and looked at Karen, tears falling down her face like april rain, "Karen... he raped me."

Luke felt a flashback inside his head, he tried to fight it, not to remember seeing the ugliness that they made her go through. It was like a recurring nightmare, it just kept happening over and over again. It never seemed to end.

"And.. they made Lucas watch," Peyton felt like she was going to throw up over the thoughts of it all going through her mind. "They told me that if I fought it, they would kill him. They told me that it would be the last time he ever saw me... and I couldn't let them do that!" she shouted. She couldn't go on. She had no more strength to speak anymore.

"Mom..." Lucas spoke up, "... Peyton's pregnant..."

Karen tried to hold it in. She was almost about to explode, just wanting to rush out of that room and just stab the man that had done this to them. She knew she couldn't.

"Have you spoken to the police?" she asked.

They both shook their heads. "We wanted to tell you first..." Peyton said, she held Luke's hand tightly.

Karen looked at the two, extreme pain in both of their eyes just from trying to retell the story. "Are you sure that it was the man that raped you?" Karen asked. "Did you get a paternity test?" she asked.

Peyton looked confused, "Why? Who else could it be?" she asked, trying to reassure herself.

Lucas got wide eyed, he looked over at Peyton.

Flashback

(Peyton and Lucas had been going out for 3 months or so)

Peyton and Lucas stood on the porch of Peyton's house, as they couldn't stop staring at one another in the eye. He gave her a small, subtle kiss on the forehead.

"Goodnight, Peyton..." he said, about to walk away and down the street.

"Wait-" she said, grabbing a hold of his arm. "Do you wanna come in?" she asked.

Lucas thought it over, "Sure, I guess..." he said as they walked inside.

"My dad's away on business, so we have the house to ourselves."

Lucas walked up to her and put his arms around her waist, kissing her on the lips swiftly. Then, she began to kiss him more passionately, as they moved their way over to the couch.

A while later, Lucas pulled back one of their kisses, "Peyton, are you sure you want to do this?" he asked her. She nodded, a smile slightly on her face. She didn't know what she was doing because she knew that with Lucas, things were different than they were when she was with Nathan. He was just that guy who always wanted to do it, that was all their relationship was about, anyways. Lucas... he was different. he wouldn't just do it any old time that a girl would ask him to. Peyton must've been pretty special to him for him to be doing this with him.

The night went on and... it happened. They had done it. The thing that they were glad about was, they didn't feel weird around eachother that they had done it. They were even closer.

It was only the little amount of 4 days later that the most terrifying thing in their life happened.

End of Flashback

"No, it can't be..." she said.

Lucas shrugged, "How can we know?"

"But didn't we-"

Lucas shrugged again, more obvious this time that he actually knew that he didn't.

Karen looked at the two. "Lucas, may I have a word with you?" she asked him.

"I'll just be out in the hall," Peyton kissed Lucas on the cheek as she left the room.

Karen pulled up her chair closer to the bed. "Lucas... now please, give me time to grasp on to the fact that this baby might actually be yours!" she shouted. "What were you thinking?"

"It just happened... we were both ready for it..." he replied.

"READY? How can YOU be ready at the age of 17?" she started to cry heavily. "I do not want what happened to me to happen to you Luke... I don't want that for you!"

"But wasn't I one of the best things that happened to you?" he asked. She slightly nodded, but still trying to show her point. "Look, Mom, if this baby is mine, I will show it more love than it will ever know. It will be the best thing that ever happened to me and Peyton," he paused. "I can't change what has already happened... but all that I can do is make this baby's future the best it can be... just trust me that I can do that... please?" he asked.

She nodded, still holding back.

"Thank you..." he said quietly.

Just then, Peyton knocked on the edge of the door, "Oh, c'mon in..." Karen said politely.

She walked in and sat down in a chair beside the bed. "So, I was thinking that I should get a test done... just to make sure..." she said under her breath.

Lucas looked scared, he sat, looking wildly at her, just thinking about the fact that he might be having a baby.

"Ok, Peyton, I'll take you there... c'mon," Karen said, leading her out of the room.

"Mom-" Lucas spoke up.

"Yes?"

"I wanna go," he paused. "I mean, I have to go, don't I?" he said.

"I guess so..." she replied as she walked over to him and helped him to get into the wheelchair and wheeled him out of the room.

Karen walked them around the hospital until they came up to a lab like room with a hospital bed and a curtain to go around it.

"Umm... excuse me, m'am. Is there where you can get paternity testing done?" Karen asked.

The woman nodded. "Yes, I can just take you in through here and I'll be right with you," she replied.

"Thanks," Karen said as she pushed Lucas into the room and Peyton sat on the bed.

"Mom-"

"Yes Luke?" Karen replied.

"Uhh..." he paused. "Do you think that Peyton and I can be alone to do this?" he asked.

She thought it over for a second, then decided that they hadn't really had much time together for a while, "Sure..." she said, walking out of the room.

Lucas looked over at Peyton, "So are you scared?" he asked, a little tear falling from her eye.

"Terrified."

He looked down at the floor, "What if it's his?"

She looked at him, even more tears falling down her rosey cheeks. "I don't know, Luke..." she said, walking over to him and sitting on his lap and hugging him. She never wanted to let go, and she hoped with more than she had that it was his child. If it wasn't... she wouldn't want to go through with having that baby. She wouldn't. At least she didn't think she would.

She quickly wiped her tears away as she went back over to the bed as the doctor walked in.

"Hi," she said. "I'm Dr. Walters," she said, shaking Peyton and Lucas' hand.

"Hi, I'm Peyton,"

"I'm Lucas..."

"Nice to meet you both," she smiled. "So, Peyton, I'll just need you to put on this robe, and then I can take your sample and I guess that you would like to have it compared to Lucas here?" she asked.

Peyton looked and Luke and nodded. "Yeah," she replied.

"Ok, then we'll just need to swab your mouth and then you can go."

"Is it alright if I stay with her?" he asked.

"Sure.." she said, a reassuring smile.

As time went on, Peyton noticed that it was finally over. It seemed like she had spent forever in that room.

The next day, Peyton came into Luke's room while he was sleeping. She decided to let him sleep, so she went to get a coffee and walk around. She then walked up to the lab where she got her test taken. She noticed that same doctor, Dr. Walters.

"Oh, you're Peyton, right?" she asked.

"Yes..."

"We got your test results in."

"Already?" Peyton asked as the doctor led her into the lab room and looked through a filing cabnet.

"Yes... they usually finish within 24 hours."

"Oh," Peyton said quietly.

"Here they are," the doctor said, handing her a piece of white paper with a bunch of charts on it.

Peyton walked solemnly through the halls of the hospital until she reached Luke's room. She walked in and noticed that he was awake and sitting in his bed reading a sports magazine.

"Hey..." he said, a bright smile on his face.

She didn't reply. She just looked at the paper, then at him.

She handed him the paper. "Here," she said.

He took it, and just stared. He seemed to stare at that paper forever.

(A/N: Hey! Well, that chapter was definitely longer than the last few. So, I hope that you liked it! Ooooo.. suspense! Well, I'll keep you guys hanging for a while I guess!! Thx for all your reviews lately! I love the support! BrOoKe)