Just to recap this story begins where Season 6, Episode 17 left off after Lucas told Peyton he hated her. It retells most of the storyline in Episode 18, but has a slight twist towards the end. Any feedback would be much appreciated, cheers.
After finding Lucas at the bar and having him pass out in her car, it was quite a difficult job getting him home. She felt so sorry for him, she hated seeing him like this, her heart was breaking at how he was handling Lindsey leaving, she only hoped that one day he would come back to her. After getting him into his bed and placing the covers over his half naked body, he fell fast asleep, as she watched him sleep for a few moments, she lays a kiss on his forehead and walks over to the door, feeling so sad at how hopeless he has become she couldn't stand seeing him like this anymore. As she opened the door, she turned to hear Lucas whispering something to her.
"Peyton...I hate you" He looked up from his drunken slumber, with a hateful glare.
"What!?" Those words breaking her heart into a million pieces, her eyes swell up with tears and the hurt in her eyes is evident.
"I wish you never came back, you ruined my life" Lucas whispers before turning away from her, those final words giving her that fatal last blow to the heart. She fights back the tears and exits his room, not knowing if he will ever see her again, as a friend or lover.
After a week of drinking himself into oblivion, Lucas awoke with a mighty hangover and a punk rocker Mohawk, he looked in the mirror trying to get used to his appearance, after a week of only going out to drink and get drunk, Lucas was in a dark place, he knew when looking into the mirror his actions were unacceptable and selfish, yet the place he was in at the moment he didn't care much for anything. His family and friends were worried and hated what he had become over recent days, so now as he looks in the mirror he knows he has to make a change.
"Oh well well...what what what is all this?" Haley entered the room giving Lucas a disapproving look, she looks at her best friend with nothing but worry.
"Not sure" Lucas responds to his appearance and remains trying to find his identity in the mirror.
"I would laugh if this whole thing wasn't such a mess" She says holding back the laughter and is understanding of the situation.
"What whole mess?" Lucas asks defensively turning to look at his best friend, hoping she might give him some answers.
"You, your head, all of it...Look you and I are gonna go for a drive, but first of all were gonna fix that ferret above your head." Haley demands while moving a chair to the centre of the room, grabbing Lucas by the arm and forcing him to sit down in the chair.
"Why?" Lucas asks for insight.
"Me and you are gonna take a drive, cos im your best friend and you need me. And we are fixing your very punk rock hair cut, because unfortunately I have a 5 year old son who want to look just like his Uncle Lucas." Lucas sits in the chair finally understanding his actions need to change, and with the help of his best friend he knew how lucky he was to have her and the love of his nephew. The first step was to have his Mohawk cut off his head by Haley and that was worrying.
As Jamie came hurtling through the door to Clothes Over Bros he ran up to Brooke who was in the middle of talking to Millie, she turned around when she found Jamie, the handsome little man tugging at her clothes. Her immediate reaction was shock and slight horror at how bad his hairstyle was, instead she laughed and ruffled his hair, while Nathan entered the store.
"Hey Aunt Brooke, Look, do you like my hair?" Jamie asked, waiting to hear a compliment about his hair.
"Wow, I never knew the Mohawk was back in fashion" Brooke laughed and lifted her Godson into her arms, giving him a hug.
"Uncle Lucas has his hair like this" Brooke soon puts Jamie down and he run's off excited about showing Millie his new hair cut. Brooke turns to talk to Nathan.
"Well that explains why he hasn't been out lately, he didn't want to look an idiot" She laughs.
"Hey Nate...So you have seen Lucas?" Reaching forward to give Nate a friendly hug.
"Yea, he's in a pretty doomy place right now, Haley has gone to see him and if anyone can get through to him, it's her" Nathan always tried to stick up for his brother, although he knew better than anyone that his brother was acting like a jackass.
"Well hopefully she can get him to talk to Peyton, she is really hurting" Brooke begins to think about Peyton, Lucas wasn't in her good books at the moment for how he treated her.
"We just have to wait and see what happens, anyway thanks for agreeing to watch Jamie, I will be back in a few hours...See ya little man" Nathan exits the store, Jamie comes rushing over to Aunt Brooke and looks up at her waiting to know what they are going to be doing today.
Meanwhile Haley is on a mission to pull Lucas out from his dark hole, while out driving, they get stuck in a traffic jam, Lucas is frustrated and fed up. Haley notices his hostile attitude and decides to get some answers.
"I got to ask you something, did you tell Peyton you hated her?" Haley looks at him in disbelief hoping that what she heard from Peyton wasn't true and that her best friend hadn't completely turned into a jerk, although she already knew what the answer was, she just needed to hear his version of the events.
"Maybe, I was a little wasted" He tried to support his actions, although when she mentioned Peyton, regret filled his heart, he tried to forget the events of that night, he never meant to hurt Peyton and he especially didn't hate her.
"Luc your such a jackass sometimes, she is in love with you, you probably broke her heart."
"Oh I didn't break her heart, don't be dramatic" Lucas began to get agitated at how he had been a jackass, becoming defensive and annoyed.
"Dramatic right. Stop here!" Haley was fed up, looking at her friend, she didn't see any remorse, she wanted him to understand the full extent of his actions.
"The Light is green" Lucas was confused and looked at his friend wondering what she was up to.
"Just stop!" Haley repeated
"Alright we are sitting at a green light, now what?"
"Just wait for it" Haley knew what was coming, but she didn't tell Lucas.
"Haley the light is green, wait for what?" He was now getting angry and started shouting, the cars behind him were beeping and he was becoming more frustrated by this pointless venture. Suddenly from the sky's above came a water balloon landing on the front window of the car, scaring Lucas and making him jump out of his skin, looking to the sky to where it had came from. Turning to Haley who the surprise of the balloon hadn't affected, waiting for a response.
"Kinda like Peyton's heart, don't ya think...I'll be right back, stay here." Lucas was stunned and Haley exits the car, making her way into the Clothes Over Bros Store, Lucas remained in the car, slightly frightened at what had just happened, his thoughts going over what Haley had said before she left. Had he really broken Peyton's heart?
Haley walks out onto the rooftop of Clothes Over Bros to find Peyton hanging over the edge holding water balloons and throwing them at random people, Haley smiles to herself, but then she realises how sad this has all become, no one wanted anyone to be unhappy.
"Hey!" Haley walks up to Peyton who has resorted to sitting on the wall next to a pile of water balloon, tears are in her eyes and Haley puts a reassuring arm around Peyton.
"You said it made you feel better." Peyton rests her head on Haley's shoulder and delicately cries.
"It's going to be ok" Reassuring her friend, she watches her and closes her eyes thinking back to when all was good.
A little while later after Peyton had stopped crying, she left Haley alone on the rooftop, Haley walks over to the loose brick in the wall and pulled it out revealing a small tobacco box, opening the box she takes out the pieces of paper inside it, putting them in her bag. After hearing Lucas coming through the doors to the roof, she quickly closed the box, putting it back in its place before turning around to greet Lucas.
"No Peyton?" He asked as he scouted the area for her.
"No, you need to apologise to her." Looking at his friend as he picks up a water balloon sitting on the table.
"Hey do you remember all the water balloon battles we used to have up here?" Looking at the water balloon he tries to hide from the situation by remembering those fond memories, sitting on the bench he is joined by Haley, who looks at him in confusion.
"Don't change the subject." She laughs as her friend tries once again to avoid talking about anything that has happened recently. "Now that you mention it, it was senior year at the boy toy auction and we came up here and you say the tattoo I got of Nathan jersey number, for the first time." They laugh at those fond memories.
"You mean your slutty little tramp stamp" Lucas says in a spiteful way, but his smile lets Haley know he still loves her.
"I am so barely your friend right now." She punches him in a friendly way. "The point is I was falling in love for the first time that night and I was so scared, and while it hasn't been easy, it has been everything...were not kids anymore Luke...It really hurts me to watch what your doing." As she told the truth, she looks at Lucas hoping to see some understanding.
"Lindsey said no Hales...I said yes." Again he was showing his bitterness at the events.
"Don't give me that, I'm being honest with you right now, you need to be honest with yourself...what do you want? If Lindsey is the girl your in love with, great, if its Peyton great, If it's Brooke, just please stop hiding your heart...I mean it." Haley responds as she places a comforting arm on his shoulder, standing to leave him in his own thoughts.
Haley was putting out fires all over the place, she was a great friend and this moment in time all she wanted was for people to realise what they wanted and to be happy, just like she is. As Haley entered the recording studio she found Peyton sat at her desk, going through paper work with a deep, thoughtful expression on her face.
"Ok I'm dying...You ok?" Haley laughed trying to comfort her friend with her presence.
"Yea I just spoke to Mia, she has invited me to come on tour with her, so it caught me off guard. Ok how come you're dying?" Although Peyton's mind was distracted, she was glad to have Haley around and could do with someone taking her mind of certain things and people.
"Because I'm having trouble writing lyrics for this melody you like." Haley is desperate to find something for her lyrics.
"Right Ok, what have you got so far?" Peyton asks knowingly that she needn't worry, because Haley could always find the right words.
"So far, I've got...nothing." They both laugh.
"Alright, how about, I hate you bitch, you ruined my life, does that do anything for you?" Peyton says sarcastically, laughing to herself to cover up her pain.
"You know what, actually I do have words for you, even though they aren't mine. Lucas and I used to write our predictions every year before the school year started, sort of what we hoped would happen" Haley began to explain.
"So Lame" Peyton smirked.
"You know your jealous" Haley joked.
"Kinda"
"Anyway, I'm going to violate my friendship rule right now, because your at code red" Peyton smiled and shrugged her shoulders at Haley's words. "Peyton Sawyer will become Peyton Scott, that was like 8th grade...He got a little cocky sophomore year, make out with Peyton Sawyer or maybe more...This year I will talk to Peyton Sawyer...Try again with Brooke, Brooke Davis." Both laughing at the mention of Brooke.
"Well that's... See how much he doesn't hate you, it's a whole life times worth." Haley tries to conclude her point to what she has just told Peyton.
"I know I know, but that's what he writes, but what he says is a totally different story." Peyton says while looking saddened, as she thinks of him.
"Sometimes people write the things that they cant say...So you going to take Mia up on her offer?" Trying to change the subject, before Peyton began to look more upset.
"I think I might just get away for a little while you know." Peyton realises that's what she needs right now, she couldn't stand being around Lucas at the moment.
"Well if that's what you need, ok." Haley walks over to her friend and wraps her arms around her shoulders, comforting her with a welcoming hug. As Haley walked away from her friend, she turned and attempted one last time to put a smile on Peyton's face "Peyton...He loves you, he just has to stop fighting it".
TO BE CONTINUED...