Summary: At the age of thirteen, Peyton Sawyer was not your typical pre-teen/teen. She's friends with Brooke Davis, the most popular girl in school, and has a crush on Tree hill's one and only Lucas Scott. But it all ended when she moved to Canada. But what happens when she returns? Will heads turn? Or will a puppy love crush rekindle?

Disclaimer: I don't own OTH but I really love it!

Chapter 1

"It's a start of a new school year.." she said with a lot of feelings in her tone. Peyton Sawyer, not your typical thirteen year old is looking at her self in front of her mirror. It was the start of her 7th grade and she was so nervous. The feeling of starting over was very intimidating. She hated first days of school, everyone was fake and no body is really what they appear to be. But at least for her it would be much easier for she was wit the in crowd. She's best friends with Brooke Davis, a.k.a. miss perfect. Brooke Davis was captain of her cheering squad, student body vice president, and miss popular of tree hill elementary. But she never did forget about Peyton. They've been friends since prep and they always had a motto 'Hoes over bros.' and 'Buds over studs'

Anyways it was first day of school and Peyton wasn't psyched. She was walking to school until a very familiar voice said "You psyched for school?", he was non other than tree hill's basketball star Lucas Scott. They weren't really close but they chat a lot, last year she thought he was gay, but now things were different, there was something about him that seems to intrigue her.

Since she didn't reply he asked again, "Peyton? You okay?" His words seem to soothe her so she replied, "Never better." "Good, cause I thought you blacked out on me. So watsup?" "Nothing much, you?" "Well I'm Captain again." He said with a cocky smirk. "Jerk!" she replied with a joking tone. "I was only joking!" they both laughed.

They reached school hand in hand. They weren't best friends or anything, they just seem to feel comfortable with each other, because God knows they both weren't looking forward to school. Just when they reached the stairs of Tree hill elementary, a cheery voice caught their attention. "Hey guys! Sorry Peyt, I didn't come bye your house earlier, I kinda woke up late." Brooke said with a sympathetic look. "It's okay, I 'm actually fine, thanks to Lucas over here.." while she said that she couldn't help but notice that he was totally nervous. He cant speak in front of Brooke, he got all loserish in front of her. As soon as Brooke left she asked "what was that all about?" "what was what?" "Don't play dumb with me Luke, you were so gaga over Brooke! Oh my gosh don't tell me you like her?" "No I don't!" "Yeah right!" "Well you see I have this girl who I really like and she isn't Brooke Davis!" "Oh…ok." Those words that came out his mouth stung her .It didn't occur to her that she actually has a crush on Luke, she always just thought of him as a friend and nothing more. But this year was different, she now sees him as every girl sees him(Except for Brooke, because Brooke likes someone else.) a hottie, and no matter how many times she tried to deny it, she really actually like him. But no one knew that the girl that Lucas referred to was actually her, Peyton Sawyer, he was just scared to tell her.

A week passed and she was falling for him more than ever, but she knows she can't have him because he likes someone else (who was really her she just didn't know.). Meanwhile Brooke had another guy in mind. Brooke found a new guy, the only problem is he doesn't actually know her. All she knew was he's new in school and is a new player for the the tree hill basketball team. He was a good guy who was simple yet still cool. While he was walking down his new campus he accidentally bumped into someone. "Sorry I didn't see you the.." he was awe struck when he saw her face. He thought she was the prettiest girl he has seen yet, with her blonde locks and her green eyes anyone can fall for her. So out of shear nervousness he said "Hi…I'm Jake, what's your name…" he tried to sound as honest and nice as he can be. The girl she bumped into looked at him for a sec then said "Watch where you're going, and by the way my name is Peyton. Are you new here?" "Yup! I just moved here from the big apple." "Cool! You wanna eat lunch with me and my friends?" "Sure why not." After those words she led him to her normal table. She introduced him to her friends, "Hey guys, this is Jake, he's new here so be nice." The last comment was with a sarcastic tone so everybody laughed. "Jake this is Lucas." She pointed to the charming blonde who was eating his pizza. "Sup dude! Welcome to our school, do you play basketball?" "Actually I do, I was captain at our school in New York." "Oh really! I'm also captain!" she looked at the two handsome boys with a big smile on her face. Good thing they were getting along. After the introduction with Lucas, Peyton finished introducing him to everybody in the table. "Jake this is Nathan, Lucas's brother", "This is Haley, Nathan's girlfriend." "and this is mouth, our announcer." Then he said, "Hi everybody nice to meet you all, you all seem so nice!" then Nathan replied, "We try." With that smart ass remark everybody laughed.

Meanwhile Brooke was jogging to the cafeteria because she had a meeting with the council, and she was late for lunch. While she was running there Peyton bumped into her. "Oh, hey Brooke, I want to introduce you to someone." "Sure, who's the lucky person" she said sarcastically. "Brooke this is Jake, Jake this is Brooke, my best friend." "Hey nice to meet yo…" she gulped with nervousness, it was him! He was the cute guy she saw! Meanwhile, Peyton looked at Brooke, she kinda noticed that she was spaced out so she said "Brooke….Brooke…..earth to Brooke! Is anyone there?" just then Brooke came back to her senses then looked at Jake again , "Hi nice to meet you." That's all that she could say so after that sentence she pulled Peyton to a corner then said "Where did you meet him?" "He just bumped into me. What's gotten into you, you're not acting all Brooke like." She said with both sympathy and humor. "Peyton that's him, that's the guy I've been telling you about." Surprised and some how happy she said to her love struck best friend, "Really! That's amazing! I should hook you both up!" "I'd really love you for that P. Sawyer!" "That's what friends do B. Davis!"

As they reached their table with happy smiles plastered on their faces, it didn't occur to them that they were gonna get in a bumpy road because Jake was actually falling for Peyton.

One month has passed and everything has gone good. Lucas and Peyton were hanging out and Brooke was making her move on Jake. But Jake never really liked Brooke because he was totally crushing on Peyton. Meanwhile Peyton and Lucas were walking hand in hand to his mother's café. "You like something to eat?" he said with a sincere tone. "I'd like that, I have a question?" "Shoot" "Who's the girl you like? I don't mean to butt in but I'm kinda curious.." "Didn't you know curiosity killed the cat?" he said with a a hint of humor. "Well do I look like a cat to you?" she said with the same amount of sarcastic ness as him, "C'mon! Please…." She said doing the puppy dog look. Unfortunately he didn't fall for it so he said, "If I tell you, I might have to kill you." Just then her cell phone rang. She answered it. "Hello?" "Peyton baby, pack your stuff." "Why daddy are we going to a vacation or something?" "No honey, daddy was moved to Canada so we have to move…" as those words were spoken she dropped her phone. "Peyton what's wrong?" he said with a worried look. "Lucas, I'm going to move to Canada…" Just when the words slipped out of her mouth, tears began to slide from her face. But without noticing it, he was crying too.

Well this is my first fic, so please give me reviews and tell me if I should continue.

Thanks!

-Nicole

By the way in the next chapter I'll explain why Lucas was gaga over Brooke.