Ill.

Lexi bent her back down to poor some of the tea for one of haruhi's costumers, she smiled at Haruhi who smiled back. The two although not best of friends were becoming quite close, and Haruhi had to admit it was nice having some more female company. But lexis usual smile faded as she cringed and placed one hand to her stomach.

"Are you okay?" Haruhi blinked and reached out a hand.

"I'm fine, don't worry" she hit the hand away.

Kyoya adjusted his glasses "Esther?" he spoke clearly and tapped on his laptop

The dark blond took her green eyes of the scene and looked up. "Yes?"

"Is the something wrong with Alex" he didn't look up or soften his voice.

Esther bit her lip and lied "no, nothing just tummy cramps"

The next day lexi didn't turn up to wait on the host as she had track racing, as a result the club closed to cheer her on.

Amber bit her lip "lexi if you're not well"

"IM FINE" amber flinched a little at her outburst.

Lexi begun to bend down and tie her shoe lace she sighed "what I mean to say is there's nothing wrong"

Alisha frowned; she felt genuine concern for her friend. "Maybe you should sit this one out"

Lexi laughed; though it sounded forced "I'm fine stop worrying and take your seats" she smiled at her two friends and pushed them out the changing rooms. Once the door closed she staggered agents the wall and rubbed small circles agents her stomach, she closed her eyes and ignored the pain, trying to steading out her breathing.

"Hey lexi you're up…. Hey are you okay?" lexi looked at one of her teammates and smiled.

"Don't be silly I'm fine" and she walked out the changing room onto the track.

They were competing with other schools and lexi felt nervous biting her lip and shifting her weight from foot to foot.

She sighed and walked up to the line with the competitor from the other school. Once she herd the announcer tell her to get into position she made her way to the mark, getting and sorting onto the starting position.

All the noises become one and the buzz entered her ears, she counted down the seconds and as soon as the gun priced through the sounds she was off, dashing quickly ahead of the other girls in the field not that she notice. The pain in the stomach tightened and priced as she grunted under her breath, keeping the tears in her eyes buy shutting them tight. She stretched out another leg pushing the foot hard into the ground, fearfully.

It was too forceful. Kaylee frowned and pounced out of Kasanoda arms to get a closer look by running over to the railings, quickly followed by amber. Lexi's usual quick dainty pushes and dashing strides were further apart and heavier making her come off unbalanced.

Back on the track lexi begun to gasp for air shakily trying to keep going, but the lump in her throat begun to rise and she gripped her stomach, her vision fading out and blurring together, she coughed and felt burning in her throat. Her quick paces slowed and she lost balance quickly. Until falling over and passing out.

She woke up in the twin's bed too the murmuring in the room buzzing in her ears.

She felt a tug on her hand 'lexi' Hun' you ….okay? "Alisha said trying to coax some words out of her.

She coughed "yer" but her voice was strained.

"Let her rest" she herd Kyoya say "as for you two give her these once a day" she herd the shaking of a bottle. She heard footsteps shuffle across the carpet as she opened her eyes and looked up. Kyoya was still here.

"You knew about this stomach virus didn't you" she nodded

"it's not too bad, you obviously had I'm guessing three operations" she held out four fingers, the shadow king nodded "be lucky you don't need another, the acid in your stomach needs flushing out, the pain will occasionally come back, but not this bad" she nodded

"I know"

Kyoya sighed "take a break, quit sports for a year or so"

"NO" lexi winced and made a mental note not to shout

"You're pushing yourself, you need to stop these sports, go easy" Karou tried a little softer

"No, I won't" she tried to stop the anger "please lever now"

Kyoya nodded but hesitated when at the door "you're not allowed back at school for another week, and sports of any kind for three"

Lexi wanted to cry she turned away and waited for the door to shut before slamming her head into the pillow and letting tears slip out

1 WEEK LATER

The twins walked into the house as usual, dropping their bags by the front door in sync, greeted by the same deadpan voice of their maids, which tried to be upbeat, but just came of creepy. Lexi had to stay off so things were slightly more boring, however the twins ran up to her room and slammed opened the door expecting to see her lying on the bed with her lap top.

However the room was empty. The twins ran around the house trying to find her with no results.

"SANDY" Karou yelled trying to swallow the dread in his throat. The young maid walked in, brushing some of her sandy blond hair behind her ears

"Yes masters" her eyes flickered across the room not holding on anything as she stuttered clearly nervous. They were about to speak before she yelled "SHES ON THE TRACK"

Karou's eyes widened whereas Hikaru swore under his breath, how could she be so stupid? The two boys raced out and tried to swallow there panic and dread, they slammed open the glass screen doors to the garden and raced though. There shouts echoing the grounds and above the rain that pelted down hard, soaking though there uniforms. Panic ran through them both

She was running in the track that the twins were given, and although in pain she just kept running, letting the rain soak though making her heavy, there was a light smear of red down her chin being mixed into the rain and her eyes were red.

Hikaru had to admit that she was a good runner, however At this point she lost her balance, skidded and tripped head first into the mud. The boys ran over quickly but flinched as the screamed and shirked before they even got close, then begun to choke and throw up.

Sandy approached the boys and handed them a towel with a bowl of hot water, before leaving without saying a word.

Karou made a small step towards her as she was shaking on the ground. "Lexi" Karou tried his voice shaking. "Lexi-chan, Oneesan, lexi"

She didn't move but Karou just bent down and put her on his lap bringing the bowl over with his foot, dampening the end of the towel and begun to whip the blood of her chin. "Why?"

Lexi flinched at her 'brothers' voice but said nothing. Karou rung the towel out agine and brushed of the mud, once her face was mostly clear Hikaru rubbed he back and kissed her forehead letting her shoulders shake and uneven breaths pass her lips.

"Why do you do this hey?" Karou tried agine

Lexi gave a shaky breath "dad is proud of me, it's something me and Ed do together and I enjoy"

Karou gave a small laugh "not the running, this" he gestured to her

Lexi looked down and pushed some of her soaking wet blond hair behind her ears "I suck at most things, but sports is something AM good at, and I'm not good at muc-uu. Uuuchuuu" lexi sneezed and shivered.

Hikaru smiled and hit her very lightly in the arm "baka". Hikaru then slipped his arms round her and took her inside, enjoying the feeling of her breathing evening out agents her chest.

After laying her out on her own bed, making sure she was tucked in the bed and the lamp was turned own low I pressed my lips to her forehead running my hand through her knotted damp hair braking away some off the knots making her stir from her sleep.

"Edward?" she was barely awake

"No, Hikaru" I whispered to her, she nodded

"Good" her voice was stranded and scratched her throat "ed would have hit me"

I smiled down at her "I already did" she opened her mouth to say more, her eyes vaguely open, but not alert. I cut her off before she spoke agine "sleep now"

She nodded but barley turning to lay on her front burying her head deep within the pillows.

Once I was certain she was asleep I left the room shutting the door carefully behind me, using both hands to soften the noise

"Brother?" Karou's voice made me turn around to meet his warm topaz eyes. "You know you in love with an idiot?"

I took Karou's hand as be claimed to the next floor to our beds. "Yea but idiots are the best"