-Lucas slowly opened his eyes, rubbing the sleep off his eyes. If there was one thing he still had difficulties adapting to, living in L.A., even if it had been close to 5 years, it was the sun, it was always so sunny compared to Tree Hill. He slowly moved his head to look at the sleeping blond sleeping deeply beside him. Peyton on the other hand had no trouble sleeping even though the sun was already up. They'd been married for eleven months now and Lucas couldn't be happier. He was torn out of his thought by the alarm indicating it was time for them to wake up. He turned it off before turning his body so that he was on his side facing his wife. He slowly caressed her face with his thumb and gently pressed his lips on her trying to wake her up. When he felt her responding to the kiss he pulled back.
-"Hey", she mumbled sleepily, "I was enjoying that."
-"Me too, but we both know that if we don't stop now, we'll both be extremely late for work." He said still caressing her cheeks with his fingers.
-"I hate it when you're right." She agreed giving him a small smile.
-"I know." He sweetly pressed his lips on hers for a few seconds and then pulled back.
-"Tease"
-He laughed at the face she was making.
-"Come on, you wake her up, I'll make breakfast." He said as he got out of bed.
-"Fine, but I'm expecting something more then toasts, just so you're warned." She glared at him, finally getting out of bed and heading for their daughter's room.
-Lucas smile at her retreating form and headed for the kitchen.
-If someone would have told him that him and Peyton were going to get pregnant before they even finished their first year of college and that it would actually turn great, he would have never believed it, but here they were 5 years later and this was actually how things were.
-Peyton slowly walked into her daughter's room and sat on the side of the small bed. She knew exactly why she was the one waking their daughter, she was the happiest kid on earth once she was awake, but getting her out of bed was most of time a pain.
-Lucas kept joking about how since she got this from her, she should be the one waking her up. This worked well because her husband had a tendency to bend too easily to the '5 more minute please' requests their daughter kept throwing at them before actually agreeing to get out of bed, which had made them late a number of times before.
-She smiled. She had been extremely lucky though to have Lucas. When she had realized that she was pregnant she had just barely started college here in L.A and she had been scared to death, but Lucas had been great. The moment she had told him that she thought she might be pregnant he had flown out of North Carolina to take the test with her and when they had decided to keep the baby, he had given up everything, transferring from his dream school to be with her here in Los Angeles because he knew that it was the best place for her to study. She remembered when she had argued against It, he had looked her straight in the eyes and said. "I can study English anywhere, you need to be here, so that's where I am going to be too." So she had agreed and Lucas had moved here with her.
-She carefully played with her daughter's blond, curly hair. They were exactly like hers, but about a shade lighter. She looked like an angel all warped tightly in the covers. She was convinced that her daughter had to be the kid in this town who slept with the most blankets on. Her and Lucas had no idea how she could do it, but she had once told them that she liked feeling tightly warped.
-She shook her gently. "Anna sweetie wake up." She wasn't surprised when she got no answer.
-She walked to the window and pulled out the blinds so that the sun would shine in but the only effect it had was that the little girl turned and buried her head in her pillow. She tried again.
-"Anna, get up, daddy's making breakfast."
-"No, sleep." Was the only response she had. She sighed and sat back on the bed rubbing the girl's back.
-"Honey, we're going to be late."
-"Tired mommy." She heard the muffled voiced.
-"I know baby, so am I, but daddy woke me up so now I'm waking you up."
She saw the little girl slowly roll on her back.
-"Good morning."
-"Daddy should sleep more." Anna told her.
-Peyton had to laughed at that.
-"I know baby, but your daddy is a morning person." She said as she kissed her daughter on the forehead.
-"Not me." Apparently Anna was in an arguing mood this morning.
-"I know, so what about you get up, get ready and then we can discuss this with him."
-"No!" Anna stubbornly crossed her arms in front of her.
-Peyton laughed, Anna could be so much like her some times it was like looking in the mirror. Well except for her eyes, the deep blue eyes that were glaring at her right now, were definitively Lucas, their was no missing it.
-"Come on, daddy's making us breakfast. You wouldn't want to miss that would you?"
-"He's making toasts." Her daughter argued.
-Peyton laughed again. Lucas had pulled that one before, bribing them into waking up with breakfast and then handing each of them toasts, Anna was having none of it she knew her dad.
-"No he's not, I warned him about that."
-"Promise?"
-"Yeah promise. Can't you smell? It smells like pancakes."
-Anna turned her head toward the door and when she was finally convinced that she wasn't getting up to eat toast, she pulled the covers off her and was about to run out the door when Peyton stopped her.
-She laughed, Anna definitively kept them on their toes. One second she wouldn't get out of bed, the next she was flying out the door.
-"Whoa stop right there missy. You're not going anywhere before you brush you teeth and get dressed."
-"But mommy." She started arguing.
-"No you don't, you're not talking yourself out of that one. Come on." She took the little girl's hand and led her to the bathroom. They had learned pretty early on that if they allowed her to eat before getting ready, she would start playing and amusing herself after her breakfast and it would take them forever to get her dressed afterward.
-Peyton stood beside her daughter brushing her own teeth while keeping an eye on Anna. Another trait that the little girl had inherited from her mother was her independence. She loved doing things on her own and hated people babying her. Peyton remembered how Anna had refused to wear shoes with laces until she could put them on and lace them all by herself. It had been hilarious watching her, sitting on the ground with a shoe in her hand trying to get it done like her parents had shown her with a determined look on her face. It had taken her awhile, but when she had finally did it she had walked around in her new shoes with that proud look on her face for hours.
-When Anna was done washing her teeth and her face they went back into her room. Anna insisted that she could get dress on her own, but she could take forever to pick something to wear and they didn't have time for that this morning.
-"I want to wear this." The little girl pointed at a pink shirt and a matching skirt. Peyton smiled, her daughter was definitively a girly girl. She loved pink and purple and dresses and skirt, all this stuff that Peyton wouldn't have been cut near when she was younger. She loved this about her daughter.
-Peyton okayed the outfit and watched as the little girl carefully put it on and watched herself in the mirror before looking at her mother for approval.
-"You look beautiful." She smiled.
-"Can I go see daddy and eat now?" Anna asked.
-"Sure. Tell your daddy, I'll be in the shower." She said and then she walked in the direction of their bedroom while Anna ran in the other direction.
-Lucas was standing in front of the stove making the pancakes when he heard his daughter's footsteps. He turned around to see her running toward him.
-"Good morning daddy!" She said excitedly as she ran into his arms.
-Lucas hugged her close and kissed her hair walking away from the stove.
-"Good morning to you too princess." He smiled at his little angel. She beamed at him. "You want pancakes?" He asked her sitting her down on her chair.
-"Yes please daddy." She gave him a big smile.
-The two of them kept talking, well Anna kept talking, she had a lot to say. She told Lucas about what she was going to do at day care and her friends. Lucas found it extremely funny that him and Peyton, two people that loved to keep to themselves had created such an outgoing child. Anna loved talking and meeting people and was the farthest thing from being shy, but she also had her moments when she proved that she was just like her parents, she had those moments where she wanted nothing more than to be left alone. Right now, she was in a good mood.
-When Peyton came into the kitchen ready for the day, Anna had just finished eating and Lucas was putting down two more plates on the table, one for each of them.
-"Hey blondie." He called when he saw her come in. "You look beautiful." He smiled as Peyton got closer and wrapped her arms around his neck.
-"Thanks." She breathed their lips less than an inch apart. Lucas immediately close the gap and took her lips. He couldn't help it, she was intoxicating. They broke apart moments later and both turn to their daughter to find her doodling on her napkin. All their friends found it weird that the four year old had never been disturbed in the least by the sight of her parent making out.
-Peyton kissed Anna on the cheek and her and Lucas sat down to eat with their daughter. They listened as she told them about the most random things while they ate. Lucas loved theses moments, where they did the most common things like share a meal, it made him feel whole.
-When they were done, Peyton cleaned up while Lucas took a shower and got ready for work.
-Peyton finished cleaning up and was surprised that Lucas hadn't returned from the bedroom yet, he was usually ready pretty quick. She patted her daughter on the head gently.
-"I'll go see if daddy is ready." She told her and Anna only nodded captivated by what she had been drawing. On top of the other things they shared, a passion for art was another thing they shared.
-She found Lucas sitting on their bed with his computer.
-"Hey! You okay?" She asked him concerned.
-Lucas was obviously surprised by her entrance and turned around to look at her.
-"Hum yeah it's just…" He started.
-"What?"
-"I got this e-mail from Skills."
-"What does it say?" She knew from his expression that it was nothing good.
-"Whithey died yesterday."
-"Oh!"