Disclaimer: I do not own Degrassi. If I did Owen would still be on our screens and be knocking sense into Maya and Tris in what they have been doing.

Author Note: this was originally meant to be a one-shot but the plot bunnies kept running and they still won't stop so for now I do not know how long the short story will be. But I do know this will be the only longest chapter, the others will not be as long as this one. A big thank you to Halawen for beta and co-writing like always to help make this a great chapter. Hope you all enjoy a sorry again for the rather long first chapter.

Maya's POV

I clutched the hall pass tightly in my hand, I told my mom I shouldn't have come to school today but of course she didn't listen. Mr. Perino could tell something was wrong and sent me to the nurse's office when I was almost asleep at my desk. When I got into the Nurse's office however I saw I wasn't the only one not feeling well as my boyfriend Cam was in there as well as my friend Tori and my best friend Tristan's older brother Owen.

"What are you all doing in here?" I ask hating to talk with my sore throat.

"We're all really tired with sore throats and fevers, something's going around." Tori says.

"Me too, I have those symptoms." I reply.

"Well let's take your temperature Maya," the nurse says. I sit down between Cam and Owen in the only empty chair left and the nurse takes my temperature. While she's waiting she feels my glands and other such things. "102, yep you all have mono and you all need to go home. Better call your parents."

"Mono, the kissing disease? How did I get mono or rather how did you?" I ask looking at Cam and he exchanges a guilty look with Tori.

"Why are you two look at each other like that?" Owen rasped out questioning what I was thinking.

"You two better have shared a cup or something!" I said with my sore throat trying to look at them both with my hazed eyes.

It was silent for a few minutes until Cam finally spoke up "Not exactly but it didn't mean anything I swear Maya."

"How far did the two of you go?" I asked feeling sicker and getting a little louder causing my throat to hurt worse.

"We only made out, it happened at an Ice Hound party a couple weeks ago." Tori started explain with a cracking voice.

"Wait the one that was held at your house?" I asked curious looking at Owen who nodded before I turned back to Cam to continue to talk "The one I couldn't go to cause I had to go with my family to visit my grandma!"

"Yeah, Maya please I didn't mean to really, you have to believe me. I was missing you and kind of sad, Tori asked me if I wanted to go upstairs to talk and then she kissed me." Cam pleads in a scratchy voice.

"Don't put this all on me, you came upstairs with me and when I kissed you, you kissed me back!" Tori snaps her voice cracking.

"So what you fell onto Owen or Tris' bed and your lips slipped?" I said getting a little louder making my voice worse than it already was.

"No we went upstairs and into the first room we saw that happened to be Owen's and I started talking and the Tori kissed me and we just kept kissing and…" Cam is saying but I cut him off.

"SHUT UP CAM JUST SHUT UP! I DON'T WANT TO HEAR IT! I DON'T WANT TO HEAR YOUR LIES! I'M SICK OF BOTH OF YOU! YOU TWO ARE DISGUSTING AND…" I stopped because my throat felt like hot coals, I needed a breath and I was feeling very very dizzy. I put my hand to my head and then everything went black and I began falling.

Owen's POV

Maya was yelling at Cam and Tori because they deserved it and then she stopped and suddenly fell like a ton of bricks into my lap! I caught her sitting her up a little just as she began to regain consciousness.

"What happened?" She asked leaning against me a little.

"You passed out for a sec when you were yelling at Saunders and the Skank." I tell her wrapping my arm around her to support her as I hear Saunders scratchy ass voice and see Santamaria stare at her nails.

"Maya are you ok?" Saunders rasped grabbing Maya's arm causing her to jerk and pull in closer to me as I glare at my teammate.

"Just peachy I found out my supposed to be boyfriend and best friend made out and spread a kissing disease between us all." Maya said lowly with her voice going just as bad as mine.

"What I'd like to know is how did I catch it I didn't kiss the skank." I whispered with my raspy voice because there was no way in hell I would ever kiss Tori.

"You probably kissed a bigger skank than Tori," Cam said.

"Hey!" Tori snapped insulted.

"Unlike you Saunders I don't kiss skanks." I shot back.

"Then how did you get it Owen? You kiss Cam?" Tori says in a raspy and bitchy tone.

"Owen could have gotten any number of ways right now you kids need to call your parents and go home so that no one else in the school gets it." The nurse told us.

Tori got up to call her parents and Cam looked at Maya.

"Maya please li…" he tried but she wasn't having it.

"Don't talk to me," she spat turning away from him and sitting in her own seat again.

"You better call your billet parents and get out of here Saunders." I told him as I heard Maya sniffle.

Cam sighed but got up to call his billet parents, when they were done Maya called her family but nobody answered.

"Hi mom it's me I'm sick and the nurse told me to call you to come get me. So I'll be waiting at school I guess." Maya said despondently into the phone.

Tris had talked about her family before and I knew they weren't nice, not to Maya anyway. Finally I called my mom; it's a good thing it's her day off.

"Hello?" My mom says answering the phone.

"Hi Mom," I rasped out, "nurse says I have mono and you need to come get me."

"I knew you shouldn't have gone to school today. Okay I'm on my way honey be there in a few minutes." Mom says and hangs up.

The four of us waited in silence a short time, Tori's mom came and got her first and then Cam's billet dad and finally my mom showed up to sign me out.

"Did you call your parents Maya?" The nurse asks as Mom is signing me out.

"Yes no one was home or didn't answer," Maya replies.

Mom gives her a look of compassion, she's heard all the same stories I have from Tris about Maya's family. She may have heard a few from Maya herself even.

"I can take her home; she's close friends with my son and at our place all the time." Mom says and the nurse nods so Mom signs Maya out as well and we go out to the car.

It was silent in the car with Maya in the back and me in the passenger seat when mom spoke up.

"So you both have mono? Any idea how you got it?" Mom asks her tone not to so subtly hinting that she thinks we kissed each other and that's why we have it.

"Mom we didn't kiss each other, I have never kissed a girl who's dating someone." I said raspy.

"Then care to tell me how the both of you caught it?" Mom said as she started to pull out of the parking lot.

"We weren't the only ones to catch it, Cam and Tori are the one to spread it, and we don't even know how Owen caught it yet?" Maya trying speaking up from the back.

"Isn't Cam the young one from your team?" Mom asked looking at me curious.

"Yeah and her boyfriend, who caused this whole thing to happen." I said irritated looking out the window, which was a bad idea since it was making me dizzy.

"Ex-boyfriend. I just don't think he realized it yet." Maya said quietly.

"Well with his brains he probably won't realize it until you dump him another five or six times. I can't believe he would make out with a dirty skank like Tori." I said pissed at the thought of what they did to Maya and in my bed for crying out loud.

"You mean Cam cheated on you with Tori and then gave it to you?" Mom asked and Maya nodded. "That's just awful but how did Owen get it?" Mom questions looking at me as Maya weakly coughs to clear her sore throat in the back seat. "You poor thing, finding out your boyfriend cheated with a girl who's supposed to be your best friend and then getting you sick. You both look miserable too." Mom said in worried and compassionate tone.

"Feel it to." Maya said as I can see her lean her head against the window.

"Yeah me too and I got this miserable disease without even kissing someone." I gripe.

"Hey how did you get it?" Maya questions.

"Mono is highly contagious and you're in the locker room with Cam at practice and games." Mom points out.

Thinking back of the last couple weeks in the locker room I remember my locker was next to his.

"Damn it I probably grabbed his water bottle without realizing it since our lockers are next to each other." I said trying to clear my sore throat.

"Well there you have it, that's probably got it, so when we get home straight up to bed and rest." Mom said showing her worrisome motherness.

"Yeah I think I'll stick to the couch until I burn my sheets." I rasped back.

"Why is that?" Mom asked as we turned onto the Matlin street they lived on.

Mrs. Milligan's POV

"Because Cam and Tori made out on my bed when they cheated and now I need to burn my sheets to get their grossness off of it." My oldest son explains as I pull up to Maya's house.

"Oh," was the only response I could make. "We can get you some new bedding. Come on Maya let's get you inside so you can rest." I said getting out of the car and opening the back door.

I took her arm and walked to the front door ringing the bell. We stood there for before the door opened to show Maya's mother, who didn't look happy.

"What are you doing here, you're supposed to be in school!" Her mother scolded moving aside to at least let us walk in.

"Well can't you see your daughter's sick!" I said a little irritated at the woman as I sit Maya down on the chair in the living room.

"She's probably just faking." The lady who was beginning to piss me off said as she rolled her chair away from Maya.

"She certainly is not faking, she has Mono, its going around a few people, one of which is my oldest son who is sitting in the car waiting to go rest himself, and I'm a Dr. I know when someone is faking." I said getting more pissed at Mrs. Matlin as her husband walks into the room.

"Oh that's very contagious she can't be here Katie might catch it." Mr. Matlin says glaring at his daughter.

"Of course you care about Katie only." I heard Maya mumble before she spoke again "Where will I stay then I feel like crap."

"We'll get you a motel for a few days, by then you should be better." Mrs. Matlin said waving her hand like its nothing.

"A motel, absolutely not, this could last weeks and you want to ship her off to a motel just because of your oldest daughter, no Owen is sick too and she can stay with us until she's better, they can be quarantined together, and when she gets better I will decide if I'm even going to bring her back to this place." I said sternly before turning to Maya "Go pack a bag with clothes and anything else you'll need for a few weeks then we'll leave." I said helping the sick girl up and watched as she slowly made her way towards the direction of which I believe is her room.

The living room was dead silent with no one talking until Maya came back out with a bag that looks like it'll tip her over and she's walking slow and frail like.

"Why don't you head out to the car and sit with Owen while I have a word with your parents." I told her squeezing her shoulder and getting a nod from the girl who barley looked at her parents before walking out the door, I waited for the click of the door before I turned to look at the Matlin parents.

"You two sicken me, I have two children as well but I have never favored one over the other. Or risked one of their well beings because I didn't want the other to get sick. I'll be talking with Maya while she's at my house and calling CPS." I inform them angrily.

"We have a right to raise our children how we want." Mr. Matlin says flippantly.

"NOT IF IT HARMS THEM IN ANYWAY! NOT IF YOU'RE ENDANGERING ONE OF THEIR LIVES!" I yell and then walk out the door before I get the urge to become physical.

"Idiot parents…favoring a child…shouldn't even be parents…how could they not care…" I mumble so angrily I can't even make complete sentences and slam the car door as I get back in.

"So good talk then?" Owen said as both kids stared at me trying to calm down a bit before I drove home.

"People like them should not be parents!" I said gripping the steering wheel.

"Tell me about it." I heard Maya hoarsely say getting looks from Owen at that.

I took a few deep breaths then looked back at Maya who looked paler than before, smiled at her and started talking "Don't worry everything worked out you'll be staying with us until your better, and when you're feeling better we will sit down and talk about your parents ok."

"Yes Mrs. Milligan thanks for letting me stay with you." I hear her say as I started pulling out of the driveway.

"No worries dear, you know you're always welcomed." I smile at the young girl.

"So will someone tell me what happened in there, one minute I have my eyes closed trying to sleep some the next Maya knocking on the window to tell me to unlock it with a bag?" Owen asked trying to clear his throat looking at me.

All I did was look at him and he got the message that I didn't not want to speak of it at the moment and I heard Maya talk "I'll tell you later."

We made it to the house 10 minutes later and I parked the car in the driveway and everyone got out and made their way into the house, well the other two slowly made their way in as I held the door open for them to enter and closed the door behind me and I turned to the two as they stood there.

"Ok I want the both of you two go upstairs and change into pajamas and comeback down here cause I'm going to make the couch up since Owen doesn't want to sleep in his bed at the moment and Maya put your bag in Owens room to please. "You both are quarantined for right now which means no close contact with Tris I don't want him getting it. So you'll share the couch for now which pulls out to a bed and when we get new sheets for Owen's bed you two can share that." I tell them knowing they're too sick to want to do anything remotely sexual and I was pretty sure neither of them liked the other in that way anyhow.

I watched as they slowly made their way up the stairs and made sure they made it all the way up before I turned toward the sofa and began moving the couch cushions out and pulled out the bed and secured it to its spot so it wouldn't closed on them as I heard like steps coning down the stairs and I turn to see Owen balancing himself and Maya trekking against the banister until they both made it to the floor and walked over to me as I waved them over.

"Get comfy on the bed there while I grab some blankets and pillows from the closet." I instruct as Owen makes his way to the other side of the bed as I help Maya sit then I went upstairs and grabbed the pillows and blankets from the closet and made my way downstairs to see them just sitting there looking pitiful.

"Ok both of you lye back." I said putting pillows behind their heads so they'll still be sitting up a bit and covered them both with two big blankets that would hopefully warm them up since I see them shivering from there fevers.

"Thanks Mom… Mrs. Milligan." They both croaked out with the voices they barely had left before Owen started coughing rough and Maya tried to clear hers.

I sat on the arm of the sofa and looked at Owen feeling his glands gently with my fingertips, they were pretty swollen, then getting a flashlight made him open his mouth wide so I could look at his throat and it was all red. Going to the other side I did the same with Maya and she was exactly the same but her glands were even more swollen than Owen's.

"Well you'll both defiantly be feeling awful for a while with the way your throats are looking especially yours Maya, there even more swollen then I could imagine. Did the nurse say how high your temperatures were when she took them?" I ask laying a hand each on their foreheads and feeling them burning up.

"Were both at 102, and Maya passed out." Owen told me causing me to look at Maya with worry.

"You passed out!?" I asked.

"It was only for a second, I was yelling at Cam and I got dizzy and blacked out and woke up in Owen's lap." Maya explained to me as Owen nodded along with her.

"Ok here's the remote I'm going to the store to pick up something's along with bed sheets to help make you guys feel better, and try to rest." I said handing Owen the remote then kissed both their foreheads and picked my purse up and locked the door on my way out to the car.

Owen's POV

I watched Mom close the door before turning to Maya and ask how this all came about.

"What the hell happen to end up having you stay here? Not that I mind you being here." I asked curiously in my rasped voice.

"It's a long story." Maya said trying to clear her voice clearly needing water and so do I.

"Well in that case I think we'll need lots of water." I said pulling the blanket back and try to get up when I got dizzy and fell back on the pullout.

"You ok?" I heard her ask as I sat up again.

"Yeah I just stood up to fast, be back in a sec." I said trying this again before walking into the kitchen and grabbing 4 water bottles out of the fridge and headed back into the living room and set two bottles on her side on the table and made my way to my side and got comfy again.

"Thanks." She said smiling her rather cute smile at me before taking a drink out of one of the bottles.

"No problem now start talking." I commanded while my voice cracked hurting.

"I don't think my parents ever wanted me, they've always loved Katie more." Maya said looking down looking sad and stuff.

"What the hell are you talking about you're a great girl and your sister always been a bitch." I said grabbing a water bottle and scooting closer to Maya.

"I know of Katie being a bitch but in my parents eyes its always my fault, you know they thought I was faking to come home and when your mom told them I had Mono they worried more of Katie's health than mine and wanted to send me to a motel till I was better." Maya told me and that pissed me off of how her parents acted today.

"Are you serious? Your parents sound terrible how could they like that bitch Katie better than you?! Worried about her more than you, that's fucking pathetic! My parents never favor me over Tris or vice versa!" I say angrily.

"Yeah and Katie's no better she blames me for everything and gets me in trouble all the time." Maya tells me and she sounds really sad so I decide to stop talking about the subject for now.

I turn on the TV and find a movie on the comedy channel for us to watch. "Let's watch some TV and rest our voices." I say.

Maya nods drinking some water and we settle in watching TV. Mom returns soon after and starts unpacking grocery bags. She comes over to check on us and gives us some gross tasting medicine. We watch TV in kind of a sleepy stupor until Tris gets home from school.

Tris walked in and saw us and was shocked and sat on the recliner before questioning "Maya what are you doing here? You two don't look so good. Tori texted me and said you were mad at her and Cam wants me to tell you…"

"I don't want to hear anything about Cam or Tori, Tris you don't know what happened." Maya said trying to clear her throat.

"But Maya Tori is one of your best fr…" Tris tried saying before I cut him off.

"Tris please shut up your making our heads hurt worse, and you don't even know what's going on, so please go away." I tried saying loudly as I see Maya rubbing her head and Mom walking down the stairs.

"Tristan get upstairs right now, Maya and Owen have mono and I don't want you to catch it and get sick too. Go upstairs and start on your homework and I'll bring you a snack." Mom insists to Tris pulling him away.

As Tris goes up the stairs I can hear him mumble something about us having the kissing disease.

"How did I know when he walked in he'd mention those two." Maya said looking at me as I saw Mom head up the stairs with Tris snack.

"Because his life pretty much revolves around that bitch." I tell her scooting down to try and get more comfortable since my body was aching.

"I know but come on does he have to push it so much. I mean I want nothing to do with her and her bitchiness anymore" Maya voice rasped and she grabbed a drink of her water.

"Tori's always been a bitch. I think Tris is only friends with him because she accepted him right away and never teased him or bullied him like most of the kids in his class. Which is good but her friendship seems to be fairly one sided and all about her. He has other friends now so why he doesn't ditch that two timing skank I'm not sure." I rolled my eyes at Tris lousy taste in best friends.

"She's never really been nice to me, everything she does is to make herself feel better. I really don't know why we became friends and I helped her get back together with Zig which was stupid. I think we only became friends because of Tris, I wanted to be friends with him and he came with Tori attached." Maya said scooting herself down probably to get a little more comfortable.

"Well maybe Zig and you finally realized what a bitch she is." I said rasping out.

"Yep, you know it was her idea for the fake boob thing and she starting to remind me so much of Katie, I don't know why I put up with her for so long." Maya said sourly.

"Well they do have the same bitchy controlling I need it to all to be about me attitude." I said thinking of the chicken cutlet thing.

"True. I was actually starting to fall for him, I thought he was going to be my first love how pathetic is that?" Maya said I guess talking about Cam.

"It's not he was your first boyfriend." I tell her hoarsely and calmly.

"He was so sweet and shy, he would hardly even kiss me when we first got together how could he make out with Tori!" Maya rasped throwing her arms up.

"Well I always knew Cam was a punk but Tori probably manipulated him into it a little, she's good at that. Everyone made a big deal about him as this hockey superstar but he can't handle it." I replied back rolling my eyes at the thought of our "Rookie" teammate.

"His personality always changes too, one minute he's smiling and laughing the next he was would be moody and going off on me." She said sipping her water and making me pissed at the sentence.

"He went off on you, what the hell he's beginning to sound like Goldsworthy now!" I yelled which hurt my throat.

"You mean Eli? Clare's boyfriend?" Maya asked confused.

"Yeah but ex-boyfriend now since he turned to drugs and stuff and was treating her so bad." I tell her reaching for the remote.

"Never would have guessed." Maya horsed out and seen me pick the remote up and start flipping the channels "At least find something good to watch."

"I am the repeat of the hockey game I missed last night cause I felt like shit to stay up and watch." I said clicking on the channel the game was on.

"Oh come on not Hockey, I know nothing about it and I know you don't want me bugging you asking what is going on." Maya exclaimed raspy trying to grab the remote from me.

"Your ex is on a hockey team, I've seen you at games how can you not know what we're doing on the ice." I ask taking the remote out of her reach causing her to sort of fall into me, no I wasn't checking her out.

"He never really explained the sport to me, all I know is you score in a next and the position you play you slam the other team into boards." She huffed.

"I knew you always watched me more." I laughed causing me to start coughing.

"Yeah cause that's all I knew and I wasn't watching you!" She whispered losing her voice.

"Fine ill teach you more of it later, we'll find something else to watch." I told her and turned the guide on and started flipping.

For the next 5 minutes all you heard was "No…..No…No…NCIS yes."

"You like this show to?" I asked her surprised since I though she liked that West Drive shit like Tris.

"Love it, I hate that I missed almost every episode from last season thanks to Katie always yelling and getting her way to have the TV all the time." She said causing me to get irritated at her family again.

"Well then I got just the thing we can watch then." I tell her then called for my Mom "Mom!"

"What is it Owen, don't scream or your voice will get worse." Mom reamed me as she walked into the room.

"Sorry. Can you grab the latest NCIS DVD off my DVD player please, we finally found something to agree on." I rasped out.

Mom went up to get the DVD and came back down and put the first disc in the player and started it for us and then headed into the kitchen to my guess start dinner.

The next few hours the only noises you heard in the room was the shots fired on the TV until around 6 when my dad walked into the house and looked surprised at my guess the site of both Maya and I in the same spot and looking sick as hell.

"Hi Maya it's always good to see you but you're usually with Tris and you both look terrible." Dad says in a curious but concerned tone.

"We both have mono so mom quarantined us together and no we didn't catch it from each other." I explain in a hoarse voice then mom comes down the stairs.

"Hi honey when I went to pick Owen up from school Maya was still there, she couldn't get a hold of her parents. So I took her home to drop her off but her totally inconsiderate parents only cared about Katie not getting sick and wanted to put Maya in a motel until she was better. Well I couldn't let them do that so I said she could stay with us until she's better and I told her when her voice is better we'll have a talk about her parents and her home life." Mom informs Dad.

"Yes I'd say a talk is definitely in order I can't believe any parent would want to put their child in a motel when they're sick at all but especially at fifteen. Don't worry Maya we'll take good care of you, don't worry about your family just concentrate on getting better." Dad tells her and Maya smiles.

"We have to make sure Tris keeps his distance for a couple weeks until they're no longer contagious so why don't you go upstairs and shower and I'll make something for these two to eat." Mom says she kisses Dad he smiles at us and goes upstairs then Mom looks at us. "So do you feel more like soup or smoothies?" She asks.

"Smoothie." Both Maya and I ended up rasping out causing Mom to chuckle.

"What flavor?" She asked again.

"Strawberry." We said again.

"You're a lot more alike than you thought." Mom said shaking her head and head into the kitchen.

"It's only a few thing we got in common jeez." Maya rasped out shaking her head.

"It's Mom what you expect." I tell her smirking.

"True all I know is I hope the smoothie helps my throat it hurts real bad." Maya said rubbing her hand against her throat.

"I know the feeling, you want to finish the episodes on this disc and when we finish and head up stairs watch the rest till we fall asleep?" I ask sipping some of my water.

"Yeah sure." She said as Mom walked back in with our drinks.

"Here you go and as soon as you guys are done I want you both to go straight to bed and rest and I'll check on you before I go to bed." Mom said handing them to us.

"We planned on it already." I tell her hoarsely as Maya started sipping her smoothie.

"Ok. Call me if you need anything." Mom said then headed into the kitchen.

"Ok." We said then continued to drink our smoothies.

We spent about another 15 minutes between commenting on the episode and drinking our smoothies which was actually helping a little until we were done and the first disc was done.

"Ok you two head up to bed and get some rest." Mom said grabbing our glasses.

"Were going to watch some more NCIS first since it's like only 7." I tell her standing up and steading myself before walking slowly over to the DVD player and grabbing the case before heading over towards my Mom as Maya tried to get up and fell back down and grabbed her head to my guess calm the dizzying down.

"You alright Maya?" Mom asked bending down to Maya's level to look at her.

"Yeah I just got dizzy when I stood." Maya said raspy smiling weakly.

"Do you need help getting upstairs?" Mom asked standing up.

"I got it Mom, I can help her upstairs." I told her stepping closer to the younger girl on the bed.

"Are you sure honey, you yourself aren't looking that good either and I know your getting dizzy too." Mom said running a hand through my hair as she looked at my face with worry.

"Yeah Mom I'll be fine." I said as I grabbed Maya's hand and helped her stand and steady herself before wrapping her arm around my waist and I helped guide her to the stairs.

We slowly made our way up the stairs with one hand on the banister and the other around Maya as we finally made our way to the top of the stairs. Then into my bedroom and I helped Maya get in and lay down before I walked over to the DVD player an put the next disc then made myself comfortable next to Maya and wrapped my comforter around us.

"You ok?" I ask her as I see her shiver and try and wrap it more around her.

"Yeah I just feel like crap. You?" She asked looking up at me with her glazed over from fever eyes.

"About the same I'm just not shivering as much." I tell her as I click on the DVD player and wait for it to load.

"I can see it in your face you feel it." Maya said before she started coughing as I help her sit up against another one of my pillows.

A minute after she stopped coughing and as we waited for the disc to load and I click on the play episodes button.

"Hey Maya?" I hoarsely ask waiting for the beginning to start I wanted to ask more about her home situation.

"Yeah?" She rasped looking at me.

"What else has your parents or Katie done to you?" I ask and seen her frown making me wish I took it back.

"I might as well tell you some stuff since I'm going to have to tell your parents when were better." Maya says before taking a deep breath and starts trying to clear her throat before talking "They sometimes forget to give me money for lunch, so sometimes at lunch I don't eat unless Tris forces me to take some of his food, and sometimes they forget to make enough for dinner so I get about the smallish portion." She tells me as some tears trek down her face making me want to go over to her house and hurt them all.

"There assholes Maya and why didn't Cam ever notice you not eating sometimes when you sat with us." I ask her wiping the tears away.

"He usually doesn't notice since sometimes he's talking to Dallas the whole time." She shrugged her shoulders like it was nothing, then the episode began playing stopping our conversation.

Halfway through the second DVD Maya fell asleep her head slumping onto my arm. That didn't seem very comfortable so I moved my arm and she rolled over her head going onto my chest. I was way too tired to make her change positions so when her arm draped over my chest I just put my arm around her and closed my eyes.

Drew's POV

Mom dropped us off at school and we joined Becky, Clare and Luke on the stairs, they really did make a cute couple and he was a lot better to her than Eli. Clare greeted Adam with a hug while Dallas and I bumped fists with Luke, then Clare promptly returned to Luke's arms and Becky went to my brother's arms.

"What are you guys doing outside?" Adam questioned.

"Avoiding the rumor mill," Clare explains.

"What rumor mill?" I ask.

"The one churning out rumors as to why Tori, Cam, Maya and Owen all have mono and why Maya is convalescing with Mono at Owen's house and not hers." Clare informs us.

"Maya's not at her house?" Dallas asks.

"Are you kidding her family is terrible, I'm sure that's why Mrs. Milligan took her home. Alli seems to be the main source of the rumors but I've heard some from Jake, a few of the other hockey players and at least six other students." Clare tells us.

"So what are the rumors?" I question.

"That Tori and Cam slept together at Owen's party then Tori made out with Owen and well Cam and Maya were dating up until yesterday so they caught it from each other." Clare says.

"No way Owen would kiss Tori!" I exclaim and the others agree with me.

"Oh they get better there's one that says Cam cheated with Tori only after finding out that Owen got Maya drunk and got her pregnant, which is why she's at Owen's house and not hers because she's pregnant with his baby!" Clare tells us rolling her eyes.

"I heard Cam was sleeping with both Tori and Maya that he has been since he got here and that's how the three of them got it. Owen got it when he kissed Maya when he was comforting her after finding out Cam and Tori had been cheating." Becky tells us.

"Well at least that one doesn't make Owen sound like a creep," I respond.

"I heard Owen and Cam made out with each other and then Cam spread it to Maya who gave it Tori; some of the rumors say they got it sharing because Maya spit on Tori others by kissing." Luke tells us.

"Then of course there's the one that Alli favors which is Tori and Maya have both been sleeping with Owen and Cam and are both pregnant but either one could be the father of their babies." Clare says rolling her eyes again and with an annoyed huff.

"Well let's see if we can't squash these rumors because I don't think any of that is true." Adam says and we start walking inside.

"It's not Maya is staying at Owen's because her family was more worried about her infecting Katie than Maya's health. Mrs. Milligan told them she could be quarantined with Owen at their house since Owen has it too. She also told them she may not return Maya when she gets better which the whole Matlin family seems to be just fine with by the way. Well anyway Cam and Tori did make out at that Ice Hounds party at Owen's house, on his bed no less and that's how Cam got it. Who knows how Tori got it but Maya obviously got it from her now ex-boyfriend. Not sure how Owen got it yet but since his locker is right next to Owen's in the Ice Hounds locker room he could have caught just by Cam sneezing on him." Clare enlightens us all and we're all staring at her.

"Just how do you know all that Edwards?" Dallas inquires.

"Easy I'm psychic," she laughs.

"Clare," Adam says prodding her to tell us the truth.

"Did you all forget Katie is dating Jake? She has a big mouth and I got most of it listening to her talk to Jake. Katie said the house was so much nicer without Maya and her parents were already talking about what to do with Maya's room if she doesn't come back." Clare says with her tone getting angry.

"Fuck Maya's parents sound terrible to her anyway," I comment.

"Yeah her parents sound like real douche bags and to think I actually liked Katie at one point." Dallas remarks shaking his head.

"Trust me Dallas she's better with Jake they both make terrible older siblings. And Maya's parents are terrible and Katie's a bitch which I've known forever. Of course my mom's solution when Darcy had trouble was to ship her off to Africa so if I catch mono I'm likely to be shipped off too." Clare says.

"You can stay with me Gorgeous," Luke smiles before kissing her softly.

I'm about to make a snarky comment when we hear the sound of someone being shoved into lockers and then the voice of my sexy but tough nails girlfriend and we ran around the corner to see Bianca pushing Katie into a bank of lockers by the shirt.

"LISTEN YOU FUGLY BITCH OWEN WOULD NEVER KISS SOME OTHER GUYS GIRL AND THERE'S NO FUCKING WAY HE WOULD KISS OR TOUCH A FLOOZY BITCH LIKE TORI FUCKING SANTAMARIA! OWEN DOES NOT GO FOR SNOTTY ASS BITCHES LIKE TORI WHICH IS WHY HE NEVER FOUND YOU EVEN REMOTELY ATTRACTIVE! DO NOT FUCKING SPREAD RUMORS ABOUT ONE OF MY OLDEST FRIENDS OR YOUR SISTER WHO IS A LOT FUCKING SWEETER AND PRETTIER AND AN ALL AROUND FUCKING BETTER PERSON THAN YOU ARE!" Bianca yells in Katie's face and shoves Katie into the lockers again before releasing her shirt.

"That's for damn sure," Clare laughs as I go over and kiss Bianca then put my arm around her shoulders.

"Shut up Clare," Katie snapped back.

"Why? Don't like hearing that your sister is a better person than you?" Clare replies with a satisfied grin.

"I'll wipe that grin off your face when I'm at your house tonight." Katie barks at her.

"You touch her and I'll wring your skinny little neck!" Bianca growls at her.

"I'm a black belt I can kick both your asses," Katie says smugly as Jake, Mo, Marisol and Alli come around the corner.

"Kick whose asses?" Jake asks putting his arm around Katie's shoulders and kissing her cheek.

"School skank Bianca and your big mouth prude of a sister," Katie replies.

"Bianca is not a skank!" Adam and I say at the same time.

"I can't believe you're defending Owen and Maya," Alli says to all of us.

"You mean the rumors you're spreading Alli?" I question.

"Owen is a sleaze bag and Maya a whiny snob and I talk to Cam when I tutor him." Alli spits back.

"And that gives you the right to spread rumors?" Becky asks.

"It's not rumors we're just conjecturing on what we think happened," Marisol counters.

"No one asked you Marisol and you were always a bigger skank than Bianca was," I growl at her.

"Hey watch what you say about my girlfriend," Mo barks back.

"You're getting mad at us! Bianca insulted me and Clare laughed and agreed that Maya was better than me. They hurt my feeling Jakey." Katie coos and I want to vomit, I can't believe I dated her.

Jake who had remained fairly calm looks like he snaps, his face turning hard and he glares, not at Bianca but Clare. "I told you to leave Katie alone!" Jake snarls and grabs her arm.

"Let her go!" Adam demands.

"GET AWAY FROM HER!" Luke yells.

Luke curls up his fist and punches Jake in the face just as Clare jerks her arm out of Jake's grasp. Jake is sent careening into the bank of lockers and Katie turns on Clare lunging for her. Bianca grabs Katie and holds her arms pushing her face first into the lockers again. Jake manages to punch Luke in the gut making the latter double over, when Jake looks like he's going to punch Luke again I go over and grab Jake by the shirt whirling him away, he stumbles into Dallas who punches him and Mo runs over to hit Dallas. I'm aware that Alli and Marisol have started fighting with Clare and Becky while Bianca is still shoving Katie's face into the lockers. Adam and Luke are fighting with Jake as I can hear them punching and grunting, most of which are coming from Jake. Meanwhile Dallas and I are punching Mo who's trying to use wrestling moves on us. Just as we get Mo on the ground and Dallas is about to kick him we're all stopped.

"WHAT IS GOING ON?" Simpson yells and we all freeze and look at him. "All of you my office now!"

Maya's POV

I moved a little and felt Owen holding me, my head on his chest. His arms started to move around me and I knew he was awake so I picked my head up a little to look at him.

"Morning I didn't mean to fall asleep on you," I apologize in a hoarse whisper because that's all the voice I have at this moment.

"Morning, I didn't mind at all," he smiles his voice scratchier than mine.

"We should go downstairs," I whisper and Owen nods.

Getting out of bed slowly with balancing myself after Owen got up himself and I watched him pick up his phone.

"Why are you grabbing your phone, it's not like you'll be able to call anyone since were about the same as yesterday and can barely talk?" I ask him with hardly no voice.

"True but someone is bound to figure I'm not there and question it, and we can text my mom if we need something." Owen said hoarsely shrugging his shoulder walking toward his door.

"True but I don't have your Mom's number." I tell him walking slowly to my bag and grabbing my phone out of the side pocket.

"If you need something you can just use mine." Owen said smiling as we made our way out of the room.

"Ok." I said as we slowly made our way down the stairs and see Mrs. Milligan sitting in the kitchen.

"What you doing home Mom?" Owen asked scratchily looking surprised.

"Oh you guys are finally awake. I took the next couple days off until you guys are a little better." Mrs. Milligan said standing up and spoke again "Both of you on the couch I want to do a quick check on you both."

We made ourselves comfortable and covered with the blankets as Mrs. Milligan came in with apparently the objects she'll be needing.

"Under the tongue." Mrs. Milligan said holding the thermometers in front of us and sliding them in when we opened our mouths.

It was silent for a few minutes before the beeping of the thermometers rang out and Mrs. Milligan grabbed them.

"Oh both your fever's risen, Maya- 102.4, Owen- 102.3. Are you guys feeling worse or about the same?" She asked as she sat down and began feeling my glands.

"I'm still really tired even for sleeping real long and my throat hurts worse along with my head." I tell whispery then opening my mouth for her to look inside.

"Yeah same with me all around and my head feels like it'll explode." Owen said whining a bit as Mrs. Milligan walked to his side and did the same to him as she did to me.

"Well your throats are more inflamed but the swelling in your lymph nodes went down a bit, but I'll run to the store more medicine and pick up some smoothies for breakfast, so why don't you guys rest a bit." She said before giving us the last of the nasty tasting medicine, then picked her purse up and went out the door.

"This sucks, I may like missing a day of school but not when I'm feeling this shitty." Owen roughed out before coughing.

"I know what you mean." I tell him smiling a bit before both our phones decided to explode with messages.

"What did I tell you?" Owen said sarcastically.

"Oh hush." I tell him as I grab my own phone and open up the messages but before I could read mine Owen elbowed me lightly.

Drew: Rumors are flying dude and most of them make you the bad guy, we're trying to squash them. Got in a fight with Katie, Jake, Mo, and Marisol and of course Alli because they seem to be spreading most of them. They got suspended the rest of us got detention for the rest of the week.

I just rolled my eyes at it since it was something my sister and her friends would do as I watched Owen type out a response.

Owen: Who else has detention with you?

While he replied back I looked up my messages and saw Adam's name first and clicked on it.

Adam: I officially hate Cam and Tori for what they did to you and Katie and your family for what they are doing to you although I'm guessing you're probably happier at Tristan's. I always hated Marisol and was never fond of Alli but I hate her now too. I also hate Jake for being such a jerk and siding with Katie and I don't like Mo because he's siding with them. Also they are spreading crazy rumors about you guys. Like you're pregnant with Owen's baby which is why you're at his house and not at home. Which is just stupid. Bianca got really mad at Katie, screamed at her while shoving her into the lockers that was pretty funny. Feel better, when you're not contagious we'll all come see you guys.

"Are you kidding! But yes I am happier here then a damn hotel room." I yelled out hurting my voice getting Owen's attention.

"What?" He asked grabbing my phone out of my hand.

"Apparently were having a baby together, congrats you're a dad." I tell him rolling my eyes at the damn rumors going around.

"Are you fucking kidding me? They think we're having a kid?! I bet Alli started that one." Owen hoarse out handing my phone back to me.

"Yeah probably, never liked her. Our voices are defiantly not going to be liking this for a while." I say rubbing my throat.

"Yeah I know what you, let's start the rants back up in a minute going to get us some water bottles." Owen said putting his phone down and getting up and steadying himself before heading into kitchen and coming back with our drinks and got back into the bed and handed me my water.

"Thanks. What's your next message from?" I ask sipping my water.

"Dallas and he is not happy." Owen rasped showing me the message.

Dallas: Well the whole school thinks you got either Maya or Tori or both pregnant or you're having some affair with Cam but I beat up Jake and Mo to defend you so never say I didn't do nothing for ya.

"What is with everyone thinking you knocking people, I mean I don't know about me but I know you wouldn't go anywhere near Tori." I say clearing my throat shaking my head.

"Well never say never about you." He says winking at me making me chuckle before talking again "But you are right about Tori, and I flirt a lot so of course they assume I knocked someone up."

The next message I saw on my phone was from Clare and I was worried of what it said.

Clare: Well Jake and Katie are made for each other, they're helping spread the rumors not helping quell them. Well they were spreading rumors but they got suspended for fighting. Alli and Marisol were spreading rumors too and I've been disputing all of them. People will believe almost anything it's incredible! Anyway get lots of rest and feel better hope Owen is helping you feel better.

"Well great another thing for my lovely family to get mad and yell at me for." I said throwing my head back and showing Owen the message.

"What?" Owen asked looking concerned.

"Katie got suspended and even though I wasn't there I will get the blame." I said grabbing my phone back.

"There dicks Maya and if they even try and say something Mom and Dad will deal with it." He said sipping his water before talking again "So what you going to tell her?"

Maya: They defiantly right for each other. Owen is defiantly helping me feel better.

"Well let's see who our next victim is." Owen rasped out grabbing his phone "Ahh Baker."

Luke: That older Matlin is a fucking bitch! She and Jake deserve each other! Hey so how did you get mono? Clare seems to know everything but that. Anyway feel better dude and come back so you can help us kill these rumors they're fucking ridiculous.

"Well Baker agrees with you on your sister being a bitch part. Now what am I supposed to say to him asking how I got Mono." Owen said hoarded as I sipped my water and looked at his phone.

"That Saunders is an ass and doesn't know how to keep his water bottle away from others." I said clearing my throat and setting my drink on the table causing him to laugh and start coughing.

Owen: Saunders is an ass and doesn't know how to keep his water bottle away from others. And your girl knows everything that's why. Could be out for two weeks or so.

"Nice. Hey just got a message from Zig." I said rasping when I saw my phone light up.

Zig: So the rumors are flying like crazy and I kind of pissed an Ice hound off, think you can ask Owen to text one of the others to call him off please. Hope both of you feel better soon.

"Looks like you got to damage control from the comfort of the bed." I tell him showing him the message.

"Ask him who and I'll see what Baker can do." Owen said grabbing his own phone as we sent text back.

Maya: Who did you make mad?

Owen: Hey find Zig and asked him what happened, you have to call off a teammate from him.

"And here we thought it was going to be easy. You got one more message left." I said lowly with my voice going pointing to his screen.

"Shit don't people know now not to piss Bianca off, she's can become scary?" Owen low with his own voice going as well showing me the text.

Bianca: Katie's a real bitch you know that? Also Maya's family sucks! I shoved Katie into the lockers and when Clare agreed with me that Katie was a bitch Katie threatened her and Jake grabbed Clare! Of course Katie's face might permanently have the locker slats imprinted on it. I hope your mom doesn't let Maya go home because her whole family sucks!

"Of course Katie would attack she always does." I say lowly but apparently bot low enough for Owen to still hear.

"What do you mean Maya? Has Katie or your parents ever hit you?" Owen ask scooting closer to me as tears start to fall down my cheeks.

"Sometimes when Katie's really angry she'll slap me, she's even done it right in front of my parents and they don't care, she doesn't get in trouble or anything." I explain to him crying harder as I feel his arms around me a wrap me in a hug.

We sat there for a few more minutes with me trying to calm down my crying and Owen comforting me as we heard the door open.

"She's not going back to that house." I heard Owen say to his Mom probably since the door just opened was the last thing I heard.