Peyton's POV
It's been six years since I left Tree Hill, North Carolina for Los Angeles. I haven't been back in Tree Hill in all these years. It just doesn't seem like a big priority of mine. Sure, my dad still lives there, but I see him when he visits here, and other than him there's no other reason to go back..Well until recently that is. This weekend all the Tree Hill gang will gather to pay our respects to Whitey. I'm curious to see what everyone looks like, or how everyone will react to me coming home. Dad keeps me pretty much updated when he can otherwise I have no clue what's going on. I cut all ties back home except for my dad.
In the last six years alot has changed. At 24, I have an amazing life, better than I could of ever imagined. And I, Peyton Sawyer, the original brooding cheerleading artist, is officially happy, and I have been for the last six years.
Even though I am happy, sometimes I feel bad that it took moving out of the hill and cutting ties off to my life to make me this happy. It's not like I purposely cut ties off. We still talk..occassionally. The first few months out of the hill, the gang and I tried to keep in touch, but as everyone was trying to establish themselves in the real world, the phones calls and letters got less and less frequent, and then they just were cut down to an occasional birthday or christmas card or a short phone call. We all just drifted apart.
From what I do know of the Tree Hill gang, Brooke is a top up and coming designer. Brooke eventually ended up marrying Chase a little over a year ago. My husband and I got an invitation to the wedding but we didn't make it.
Haley and Nathan divorced before we all gradutated, after she came back from the tour with Chris Keller. They tried to make things work, they really did, but in the end Nathan just couldn't trust she wouldn't leave again, so the inevitable happened. Last I heard Haley was back on tour doing the one thing she loves the most.
Lucas and I broke up before graduation because a long distance relationship just wasn't in our future. Sure, Lucas played a big part of my highschool life, and i'll always be thankful for him coming into my life, but that is a part of the past. We had a good thing for awhile, but that good thing led me to a great thing, which is my life now. He published the book he wrote when we were in highschool and last I heard another book was supposed to be published soon. He's dated some from what my dad has said, but he can't find something serious, something real.
Nathan, I must say has changed the most out of all of us. He grew up to the man I always knew he could be back when I dated him in highschool. Haley played a big role in that before she left for the tour. He's a professional basketball player now for the Lakers. He got his dream to come true. I'm proud of Nathan. He remarried, five years ago and has two beautiful children, and one on the way.
So I guess earlier, when I said we all drifted apart, I should actually say, most of us drifted apart, but some came together in a truly amazing way. Some of us found our way back to each other, and have everything that they've always wanted, they found it inside each other. So I guess you're wondering where that leaves me, huh?
I own my own record label, promoting up and coming bands. Those years at TRIC did me good, and the two cd's I produced in highschool helped me out alot. I also have some paintings hanging in a few art galleries around here. I also have a family, a husband, and kids. The house, the dog. I'm the all american woman. That's right, i'm no longer Peyton Sawyer..Now i'm Peyton Scott. I married Nathan five years ago after the birth of our first son, Skyler Nathaniel. We call him Skye. He has dark hair, and the piercing blue Scott eyes. He's exactly a minature Nathan look a like. A year and a half later, I got pregnant with Braydan Alexander. We call him Bray-Bray. He has curly dark hair and hazel eyes. The best of both Nate and me. Now i'm almost 5 months along, with our third, and we just found out it's a girl! It's about time too with all this testoterone. Sheez, even our puppy, Ryder, is a boy! The little angel in my tummy is Nevaeh Brooklyn. We haven't decided on a nickname for her yet, but we decided on the name Nevaeh, because it's spelled heaven backwards, and that's exactly what Nathan and I are in. Heaven. Our life together is more than either one of us could imagine. It's hard not to wonder sometimes how we got so blessed.
Nathan and I are in love more than ever. We had a rocky 2 year relationship in highschool, but he was still my first everything. My first love, the first guy I ever slept with, my first hate (although I didn't really hate him, I just hated the things he did at times or the way he acted, because I knew he could be so much better, and 8 years later he's proved me right. He is so much better.) He was also my first heartbreak. I guess when they say you'll never forget your first love, it's true. He was my first love, and my true love but now he is the last guy i'll ever love (well besides Skye&BrayBray of course), the last guy i'll ever go to sleep next to at night, and that's more than okay with me. I wasn't his first wife, but I was his first love and when we found that love still there all those years ago, we decided to get back together, and make our own fairytale story. He'll never regret the time he spent with Haley, like i'll never regret the time spent with Lucas. When we broke up in highschool we were on a path to destruction, destroying each other. With the help of Lucas and Haley, we evolved into the people we could be so that in the end we could be who we were truly meant to be with..each other..forever. I don't know if Lucas and Haley will feel this way once they find out we are married and have a family. Since we cut off ties to everyone, noone knows that we got married, or that we have children, but tomorrow .. wow, it's going to be some drama once again in little ol' tree hill.