Disclaimer: I don't own it but I want it. I mean I have about seven bucks. What would that buy me?
Summary: Just as Lucas and Peyton are starting to be happy together a person from their past comes back and will change the way one feels about the other. Will they make it through this or is it finally the end of Lucas and Peyton.
Pairings: Lucas/Peyton and others but I'll let that be a surprise.
Lucas Scott frowned as he leafed through the box that contained so many memories. The bottle of vodka sat near his feet almost entirely gone. He ran his hands over the picture he held, the one taken of them after the championship game. He had fallen for her too many times to count, Peyton Sawyer, the girl of his dreams. There was always something in the way though, her fear of commitment, his attachment to her best friend. It seemed like they would never be on the same frequency. That all changed the day she confessed her true feelings towards him. He didn't know how to react to it so he didn't. Lucas knew he loved her but for some reason he couldn't tell her. He was afraid that if he did somehow she would change her mind. The more he thought about it the dumber it sounded. There was the girl he had waited so long for, professing her love to him, and he couldn't even tell her that he felt the same way. He knew that he had to tell her. When he finally told her he was thrilled to find out that she still felt the same way. Who knew that the happiest day of his life would lead to such misery.
Two weeks ago at the end of the championship game which the Ravens had just won-"So looks like you finally have everything huh?" Peyton says to Lucas as confetti rains down on them.
"Not quite." He replies. She gives him an odd look.
"What do you mean" she asks him, confused.
He takes a step closer to her oblivious to all the people around him. He knows this is his chance. It's now or never.
"I've wanted to tell you this for so long Peyton but I never really had the courage to, until now." Lucas says as he looks in to the eyes that captured his heart the day she nearly ran him down with her car.
"Tell me what."
"It's you." He tells her a small smile appearing on his face. " When all my dreams come true it's you standing next to me."
He reaches for her and looks at her with all the emotions he's held inside for so long. His hand cups her face as their faces come closer until their lips meet in gentle kiss. Slowly they break apart, both flushed from the fleeting kiss.
"So where do we go from here?" Peyton asks him, her forehead resting against his.
"Your bedroom?" Lucas asks with a smirk.
Peyton slaps his arm with a laugh. "Come on perv, let's get out of here."
He grabs her hand and leads her out of the gym to her car. The drive back is peaceful, neither saying much but occasionally stealing glances at each other. They finally arrive at his house.
"Hey." Lucas says as he looks over at Peyton.
"Hey." She says back. "So I never really congratulated you on tonight."
"Well I know one way you could congratulate me" he wiggles his eyebrows suggestively.
"You are too much Lucas Scott" she laughs at his attempt at a wounded face
"I'm one hundred percent serious Sawyer" Lucas says in a fake hurt voice.
"Yeah, yeah" she laughs. "I missed this Luke"
"Missed what" he asks turning towards her.
"Us, the way we used to be" she sighs contently. "Things haven't been the same lately"
"I know but that's all gonna change, for the better" he smiles at her. "I finally have you and I don't intend on letting you go"
"God Luke you don't know how long I've waited to hear you say that" she tells him as she pulls him into a passionate embrace.
They stayed that way for a few minutes their bodies speaking what their minds had been trying to say for so long. They finally broke apart, the need for air becoming too much to ignore.
"Everything is finally perfect" Lucas says to her with a look of pure happiness on his face.
Oh how wrong he was for it was just then that everything would start to fall apart.