The Difference between Two Words and Three

Author: Chlarkrocks

Spoilers: Anything within the series is bound to be commented on.

Author's Note: I'm changing the scene between Lucas and Lindsey in the episode. The profile of this story will be given from Lucas, his manuscript, and Peyton.

Summary: Lucas reflects on past events as he starts to write his third manuscript. Was Lindsey right about the comet? Can his heart and his own words lead him back in the correct direction to the women he loves?

Pairings: Leyton, Naley, Karen/Andy, Brooke/Owen, Mouth/ Rachel, slight Lindsey/Lucas, and slight Keith/Karen

Chapter 1

Have you ever had one significant moment in your life that stands out among the rest? Well last night I thought I knew which one memory that was, but now I'm not so sure. When I woke up this morning I was happy, but now I'm just as confused as I was when I first left for college, if not more so. Moments are what you have to look back on when you are older and decide if you made the right decision.

The significant moments are what shape your life. I was told this once by the person who made me the man I am today, his name is Keith Scott. He was my uncle biological speaking, but in my heart and mind he was my father. He taught me that you must follow your hearts desires or else you will never truly live.

Lucas's Pov

I enter my house and I wonder if she is still here. I walk through the hallway. This hallway has been a place filled with moments. Good and bad memoires, but most of them a good. Some are moments that I will never forget in all the years I'm alive.

"Lindsey?" I ask in desperation as I enter my room. As I turn my head I see that someone is standing near Lindsey.

This person is Peyton Sawyer. She stood there with tears running down her face and mascara forming lines with those tears. She looks so beautiful and I really wanted to tell her so, but I know for the sake of possible getting Lindsey back I might want to keep quite.

"Peyton, can I talk Lindsey please?" I ask looking over at my friend with curly blonde hair. Her hair may still be blonde, but it was defiantly teetering on the edge of being brown. The color hair she has now is real. I know this because I use to watch her during freshman year and that was the year she dyed her hair.



"Sure" she says giving me what I consider a fake a smile to mask the emotions that are going through her head. Not a lot of people know when Peyton is hiding her emotions, but I'm defiantly one of them. She has these walls that are around her heart that no one can get through except for Brooke.

"She beat you to it" says Lindsey looking up from the bound together papers that are of the first draft of my second manuscript.

"I'm sorry" was all that I could think of to say. There is not a lot else I could possible say.

"I know you are" she says and smiles sadly up at me. Her eyes portrayed her true emotions. She was very hurt and I knew there isn't anything I can say to fix it.

"I love you, Lindsey" I say staring into those beautiful green eyes. I'm so stupid, Lindsey's eyes are blue and Peyton's are green.

"I love you too, but Peyton is the one that holds that strong beating heart of yours. I spent a year editing the book, I knew the entire time. I still know. Those words that you wrote about her they come from your heart and that doesn't just go away. We came down here to help get rid of your writer's block and you did, but I didn't get through that wall she did. This book is so romantic and epic, but the story that it tells isn't at all what are love is. It so much stronger than ours." says Lindsey with tears welling up in eyes.

"Lindsey, the idea of the scientist and the comet didn't come from Peyton's car" I say looking up from the floor after a long moment.

"You may not think that, but you know in your heart its true" she says and stands up. Bending down she sets the manuscript down and takes the ring off her finger. She walks past me in a few swifts motions.

I turn towards her as she starts to speak. "She really loves you know that. If I were in her position these last couple of months I wouldn't have just stood by and watched. Lucas the reason she was here was because she was trying to get me to go back to you, but by doing that she made up my minded completely. I could never be that selfless and let you marry some other woman if you were the love of my life. You know what that reason is, it's because she loves you more anything in the entire world and I know you feel the same way" she says with tears in her eyes that I'm sure will come out as soon as I leave the room.

"Goodbye, Lindsey and thank you so much" I say with pure graduated.

"You are Welcome. Goodbye Lucas Scott" she says and walks out the door. I lean over and sit on the bed. I put my head in my hands and I wonder how many mistakes my life I have made.

I hear the light footsteps coming down the hallway. I hear a light knock on the door frame and look up at the person who understands me the most.

"I'm so sorry Luke" she says leaning against the door frame.

"I am too" I say and looking to her eyes.

"Are you going to be okay?" she asks with a sympathetic look.

"Eventually" I say and I chuckle because I think I'm already alright. Saying goodbye to Lindsey was all I need to know that my heart still belonged to the curly blonde woman who stands before me.

"All I want for you is to be happy Lucas and even though I know how much you love Lindsey, maybe possibly this was for the best. I know you don't want to hear it from me, but that is my honest opinion" she says gives me a sad smile.

"Thanks, Peyt" I say and smile slightly at her.

"Well, I better go. I'm pretty sure you need sometime alone" she says and turns.