AN: Okay so this is completely AU. I know I already have two other stories, but one of them is about to end, and I wanted to work on this while I was thinking about it. I hope you enjoy.

The first two chapters are going to be kind of like flashbacks and then the actual story and drama is going to take place five years later in chapter three.

In Love with His Best Friend

Chapter 1 Las Vegas Here We Come

When you are twenty-one years old you are supposed to have the world at your fingertips, but for Peyton Sawyer that saying wasn't true. She felt screwed up and all alone. She wasn't very good at maintaining stable relationships. She had dated a guy on drugs, an abuser, and her latest failed relationship was with her college professor. That one ended after her professor's wife caught them together. It had been all over school, and her overbearing parents had found out.

They weren't very happy with their daughter's choices and always tried to control her life. She was majoring in business law in hopes of becoming a big time lawyer like her father, but that's not what she wanted. She was also majoring in music, but her parents didn't know about that. They refused to believe that their daughter could ever have a future in the music business.

So to say Peyton was living a happy life would be a lie. Ever since her break-up she had been moping around her apartment that she shared with her best friend, Brooke Davis. Peyton was jealous of Brooke because she had everything she could possibly ever want. She had the life Peyton wished she had, but she never said anything to Brooke because she was proud of her no matter how sad her life was.

Peyton was lying on the couch flipping through the channels when Brooke walked into the apartment. "Get your skinny ass up right now," she yelled at her.

"Brooke…why?" Peyton whined

"Because I'm taking you to Vegas," Brooke smiled happily.

"I don't have money to go to Vegas."

"Well then it is a good thing that your best friend is filthy rich." Brooke beamed as she laid down a wad of cash in front of Peyton. "I'm so tired of you just laying around feeling sorry for yourself. You need a girl's weekend in Vegas."

"We could have a girl's weekend right here in Los Angeles."

"Yeah but almost everyone knows me here, and they know you by association. If we go to Las Vegas we can be whoever we want to be with no strings attached." Brooke handed her a fake I.D.

"Beth Sommers," Peyton read off the name on the I.D.

"Yes and I'm gonna be Betty Data." She smiled, "Isn't that cute."

Peyton just shook her head.

"I'm not taking no for an answer, and don't forget Peyton I always get my way."

Peyton sighed. She knew that she was going to have to go, but she didn't expect to have a good time.

Peyton was pretty pitiful but in Tree Hill, North Carolina there was someone that had her beat. Two weeks ago Lucas Scott thought that he had everything he could possibly ever want. He was waiting on word that his first novel would be published, and he was marrying his high school sweetheart. They had been together since they were fifteen years old. Lucas loved her with all of his heart. He didn't know how to love anyone else, and he didn't think that she did either.

That's why he was surprised when she left him standing at the alter. She left him a note that simply said that he wasn't the one for her. Lucas was devastated and spent most of his time locked away in his house that he was supposed to share with her. They were going to have it all. And to make things even worse two days later he received three rejection letters about his novel. Nothing seemed to be going his way.

Nathan Scott, Lucas' older brother, walked in the house and turned on every light. "The darkness is going to kill you Lucas."

"I like the darkness."

"Well I think you are going to like the bright lights a lot better." He handed him a ticket to Las Vegas.

"I'm not going to Vegas."

"Yes you are. Haley thought it would be a good idea."

"Haley is letting you go to Vegas."

"She trust me, and she knows I'm going to be with the saddest boy in the world." He pointed to Lucas. "You need to do this Lucas."

"Fine…but I don't want to be Lucas Scott while we're there. I want to be someone completely different."

"Well I'll just call you Logan…" Nathan laughed. He knew where Lucas was coming from.

Lucas nodded his head. Nathan was right. He needed a change of scenery.

Maybe the saddest boy and the saddest girl would come face to face in the city that never sleeps.

Let me know what you thought, and if I should continue. I promise things will get better.