Chapter 1

"I can't believe that just happened!"

I thought to myself. I can't believe I just had sex with my best friend's boyfriend. What do I do? She will never forgive me for this one! Shit! This was a horrible mistake, or was it has Brooke had said Lucas was fair game. I could feel his eyes watching me. My mind raced with thoughts. I slowly opened my eyes to see his deep blue beautiful eyes on me.

"Good morning beautiful" he said still staring at me.

"Morning" was all I could get out. I knew that if I had kept going the tears would have taken over me. I didn't know what was going to happen he was dating my best friend. In fact he was still wearing the necklace she had given him two days prior.

"So we should probably head home, huh?" I nodded fearing that if I said anything the tears would peer from my eyes like the waterfall at Niagara Falls. He already wanted to go home to see her. And all I wanted to do was stay here with him. God I could stay with him for the rest of my life.

God she's beautiful, if I could I would stay here and watch her for the rest of my life. She looked like an angel when she was asleep. She looked like an angel pretty much all of the time. She looked wonderful right here with me. Her curls were lazily lying around her face, wearing nothing but a white sheet and she was beautiful I could imagine my life this way, waking up to see her smiling face everyday, laying next to the wonderful green eyed blonde. But we had to go home to my girlfriend and her best friend. What were we going to do? Would she want to tell Brooke or would she not? All these thoughts ran through my mind, so fast I swear there were foot prints on my face.

We were about half way home and the entire ride had been silent neither of us wanted to bring up what we knew we needed to talk about. Neither of us wanted to ruin the moment we had had this morning. So I was the one who broke the silence.

"Peyt"

"huh?"

"We have to talk about what we are going to tell her" I knew that even though I hadn't said a name she knew who I was talking about.

"I know, but I have no idea what we say to her. It is going to break her heart if she finds out what we did. It's also going to break her heart if we lie about it. So I have no clue what to tell her, Lucas"

I knew she was right. No matter what we decided to do Brooke would get hurt eventually. That was the one thing neither of us really wanted to do, and that was hurt Brooke. But the only thought that was in my mind right then was that I had been the happiest I had ever been last night. And I was with Peyton, not Brooke. I was really in love with Peyton. Yeah sure I loved Brooke, but I was never truly in love with her the way that I was Peyton.

Even though we still had a lot to talk about, everything was quit for about ten more minutes. Then she spoke.

"I don't think we should tell her."

"What"

"I mean she makes you happy and you make her happy and I don't want to hurt her"

"okay, but where does that leave us"

"has friends"

There were those two words again the two words that I hated coming out of her mouth. "Friends" I knew I could never be just friends with her, but if that was what it took to have her in my life then I would do it. We would be friends. For now, at least.