A/N: Hi guys this is my first fanfiction and I have always loved Nathan and Peyton so here ya go. Hope you enjoy and please review and tell me what you think.

Disclaimer: I don't own anything.

Summary: 4 and a half years later and Peyton and Nathan are still madly in love with each other. Couples: Neyton and Brucas.

Prologue

Nathan POV:

Ever had a dream that felt so real, when you woke up you didn't know what to believe? That's been my life for the last 4 and a half years.

she haunts me everyday and every night. Thoughts of her seep into my dreams as I try to sleep at night. Peyton the one of only Peyton Sawyer.

We dated years ago in high school but i was too much of an ass to care enough about her or anyone but myself for that matter. It was only coming that she would one day leave me for someone better but who knew it would be my half brother Lucas Scott. I use to despise him for taking her and my spot on line up on our schools basketball team but after getting to know him he wasn't that bad of a guy (or as I thought) and he treated her with the respect and love she deserved. I soon after met Haley James, she was great for the most part shes kind, caring and a lovable girl but she just wasn't the sarcastic, independent, full of fire girl i loved but lost. I stayed with Haley to hide my feeling for the curly blonde girl and to give her the happiness she deserved. Soon after Haley and I had gotten married to try to convince myself I loved Haley and not her but I guess it wasn't enough.

Haley and I had some good times together but those good times weren't enough with all the drama that came with the bad times. It all started when she left on tour with Chris Keller turning our junior year in high school. Soon after that she came back and thought everything would go back to normal it did but not without alot of bumps and fights well as back to normal as you can get. I would have never gotten back to her if I hadn't of been getting so close to Peyton and it scared me so I went running back to Haley. Everything was beginning to get back on track when Haley announced she was pregnant I was scared outta my mind but I was determined not to become Dan Scott. After finding that out money started to become tight and there wasn't any coming in so I needed to find a way to make some fast cash. I made one of the dumbest mistakes of my life. I borrowed money from a guy named Daunte who I knew from trouble from the moment I talked to that guy. When didn't throw the state championship game he wanted revenge but missed me and hit Haley who was 7 months pregnant and lost the baby. After that it was a never ending battle, both her and I blamed myself. I couldn't take it anyone and we both knew we weren't in love and never were. we ended our marriage and went our separate ways.

Graduation came and went and soon we had all gone are separate ways. Haley to Stanford, Skills and I to Duke, Lucas to the local university to help whitey coach and Brooke and Peyton to L.A. We had all gone our own paths and it been 4 years, 6 months and 2 days since I've seen her and still she fills my mind 24/7 and that's were my story beginnings as I lye here another night trying to sleep as thoughts of the blonde haired, green eyed girl dance around my head. I get up as there in no hope getting any sleep tonight I might as well get ready to see her for the first time in 4 and a half years.

Peyton POV:

Ever had a dream that felt so real, when you woke up you didn't know what to believe? That's been my life for the last 4 and a half years. I toss and turn every night in my bed trying to shake the thought of him but its hopeless it always is. I really do need sleep tonight I have a busy and stressful day ahead of me but dont I always. Work is now my escape from reality and I make sure to always keep myself busy ever since I left home with my best friend Brooke after graduation. It become a routine of him on my mind. It been like that for as long as I can remember and I cant sleep because he is still there. The one and only Nathan Royal Scott. We dated in high school and broke up but that always happened and we would eventually make up but not this time because Haley James or "Tutor-girl" came along and had him chasing her like a lost puppy dog. I can't blame him though she a nice, innocent girl and changed him for the better. He is so much more than he could of ever been with me. She is also a good friend of mine now. I always thought they be together forever though they seem like that type of couple especially after they had gotten married in high school, but after Haley had gotten pregnant and lost the baby things just couldn't go there way and they called it quits.

After they had gotten together I had to make myself look strong and move. Thats when Lucas Scott came into my life. He was different from other guy and we had some much in common but my best friend Brooke had other plans. She had set her eyes on Lucas already and they started dating. Thats when I made the one of the biggest mistakes of my life. Lucas had feeling for me and as did I. I was vulnerable. I kissed him. He kissed me back but deepening it and turning it into a full on heated make out session. It all would of been okay if only he wasn't my best friends boyfriend. It took a long time to regain my friendship with her again but what do I do than mess it up again with her but this time tell her I love her boyfriend. All of this to hide my feeling for my married ex-boyfriend Nate. This time it took alot more to regain her friendship back but she is and always will be my best friend, my sister, Brooke Davis and I have learned never let a boy get in between what we have, among many things. Shortly after all of this Lucas and I started dating with Brooke's Blessing as she started to date the new kid Chase Adams.

Once graduation ended we all split up. I followed Brooke to L.A were she has her clothes company and i am working at a record label, Lucas stayed in Tree hill to help Whitey coach and has just finished publishing his first novel, Haley went to Stanford to study to be a teacher and when I talked to her last she was starting to record again, and Skills and Nathan went off to Duke to play basketball and last I heard both play for the Charlotte Bobcats. After leaving to L.A Lucas and I lost touch and agreed long distance was too hard and our hearts both weren't into it. Brooke and Chase broke up after Brooke caught him in bed his assistant Stephanie. When that happened Lucas flew out and comforted her and they started to become close friend until one night Lucas told Brooke he loved her and they slept together. The next day she found out he had proposed to his editor Lindsay who he had been secretly dating while we were dating. Brooke had come crying to me that night and told me everything and has been staying with me ever since than. As I laying in bed thinking of all of this trying to get him off my mind but trying to be quiet enough not to wake a sleeping Brooke in bed beside me as we both have busy days tomorrow and atleast one of us should get some sleep together. 4 years, 6 months and 2 days since I've seen him, I count in my head and still he still haunts my thoughts and dreams that's were my story beginnings as I lye here another night trying to sleep as thoughts of the brown haired, blue eyed boy dance around my head. I get up as there in no hope getting any sleep tonight I might as well get ready to go home and see him for the first time in 4 and a half years.

(well ladies and gentlemen that's it the first chapter. tell me what you think!

Love Leighton)