Secrets and The Lies I Told Him

"Beep

"Beep! Beep! Beep!"

"Uggg" moaned Jude as she rolled over and fumbled around to switch off the alarm clock. "Not yet" she whispered into her pillow as she reminisced in those last few minutes of sleep. Sleep seemed to be about the only place these days where she could escape reality. Yet all good things have to come to an end…and they did.

"Jude! Come on get up! You're going to be late for your recording session!" yelled Sadie from downstairs.

Jude groaned into her pillow, rolled out of bed, and planted her feet on the white carpet of her room. As if routine she walked to the mirror and lifted her baggy sweatshirt. Her abdomen swollen from the unwanted secret hidden under her skin. She sighed and pulled the sweatshirt down. Its frumpy look was her only saving grace from her father and Sadie.

"Jude!" yelled Sadie up the staircase again. Jude peeled her eyes off the mirror and turned to shout back.

"I'm up! I'll be down in a second". Then Jude looked one more time in the full length mirror. Her legs stuck out from her Capri pajama bottoms like twigs. Her wrists and hands just the same from the sea of fabric surrounding her stomach. How much longer could this go on? How much longer could she keep this a secret?