As all this was happening out in the corridor, Peyton Sawyer was finally coming out of the anesthesia from her surgery. Her mouth and throat were dry and she couldn't move her leg. "Lucas?" Her bleary voice carried softly out of her hospital room, to where Lucas was standing.He watched Jake go. He felt bad. Worst than bad. He knew that he and
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She smiled at his words. Goldilocks. There were exactly three people she would let call her that and get away with it. Lucas, Her dad, and Brooke. At the thought of Brooke, the madness of the morning rushed back to the front of her mind.
"Lucas." She croaked, "What about Brooke. And Nathan and Haley?" tons of faces and names rushed to the front of her mind. Had all of their friends made it out? Had Jimmy hurt anyone else? "Is everyone ok?" Her eyes were filled with concern.
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"Everyone's okay. No one else was hurt." That's what Chris had said. Haley and Nathan got out okay. Everything was okay. At least, that's what he thought. No one had told them about the deaths inside the school and he hadn't been near a television.
"Peyton," he inhaled a deep breath. "Brooke and Jake...they came to the hospital, Peyton. They know about us." He didn't want to tell her, not when she first woke up. But he knew she needed to know. In case Brooke or Jake came by when he wasn't here and said something. He didn't want her to be totally surprised.
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Her brow furrowed. "They know?" No. They couldn't, not like this. It wasn't fair! She was going to tell them. Both of them...but how had they? Because Lucas carried her out? Did Luke say something when they got to the hospital?
Then it hit her. The voice, the one outside the ambulance that she had thought was Lucas. It had been Jake. Jake petrified that she was dying and all she could do was profess her love to another guy. Suddenly Peyton had a very strong urge to throw up.
"Oh god." She lay stuck in a bed, when two of her best friends were outside hurting. Because of her. Her eyes flitted upwards to Lucas. "You know we are probably going to be reincarnated as dung beetles or something for all this, right?"
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