Title: Untitled as of now, but if you have any suggestions let me know!

Summary: Peyton and Lucas broke up soon after high school. They have a daughter together, but they really haven't been together for 15 years. What happens when they both move back to Tree Hill?

Peyton Sawyer smiled as she read the sign. She was finally home. She was finally back in Tree Hill, and she couldn't be happier.

"I don't understand why we have to move here!" Her fifteen year old daughter, on the other hand, couldn't be more upset. Peyton sighed. She knew the move would be tough on Riley, but she also knew it was for the best.

"Ri, I know you're upset, but I think you are really going to love Tree Hill." Riley didn't answer her. She stared out the window. Peyton knew her daughter well, and she let her sulk in silence as she drove the short distance to their new home.

The house was beautiful, even Riley had to admit it. It was an old Victorian style house with a tree lined driveway. "Isn't it pretty?" Peyton hoped to pull Riley out of her mood. But even the beauty of the house couldn't make Riley forget how angry she was at her mother. Peyton ignored Riley's glare, and continued to talk despite the silence from her daughter.

"Come on, let's go check it out." Peyton turned off the ignition and opened her door; Riley reluctantly followed. Once inside, Peyton gave the grand tour. Showing Riley all the reasons she loved the house: the quaint breakfast nook, the large stoned patio with the beautiful pool, the beautiful staircase, and the large bay windows; Riley loved the house, but she didn't let her mother see. Lastly, Peyton walked Riley up to her room. "I thought that you would like your privacy, so I had the attic re-done." Peyton smiled enthusiastically as she opened the door at the top of the staircase.

She watched her daughter's expression as she saw her new room for the first time. She knew she would love it. The walls were done in a dark red, as hers where during high school, and the floors were hardwood. In the middle of the floor was a rug of a piece of artwork Riley had done last school year. "I hope you don't mind I borrowed that piece from your portfolio to make the rug. I had the designer come over yesterday and make sure the movers set up everything like we had planned."

Riley stared around her room in total awe. "Mom, I love it." Peyton smiled and hugged her daughter. "I'm glad, but we have a lot of work to do, and just because your room is unpacked doesn't mean you're done." The mother and daughter headed downstairs to start unpacking and rearranging furniture.

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"The pizza will be here soon." Peyton yelled as she shut her cell phone.

"Good, I'm starving." Riley said coming into her mother's bedroom. "It looks good." She flopped on the bed, and Peyton layed down next to her.



"Yeah I think I'm pretty much done for now. How's the kitchen coming?" She turned to face her daughter.

"Good. Can we be done for the night? Please?" Riley put on her cheesiest grin.

"Yah, yah we're done." Peyton smiled. The two girls had finished the living room, Peyton's room, the kitchen, and the main bathroom. They would tackle the rest tomorrow. As the two walked down the stairs the doorbell rang. "That can't be the pizza already?" Peyton questioned as she opened the door.

"Peyton Sawyer! I cannot believe you did not call me the second you got into town."

"Hailey!" Peyton hugged her long time friend. "We had a lot to do, and I'd just figured I'd call you tomorrow."

"I would have helped." Hailey let go of her friend. "Katie and I," Hailey rubbed the top of her daughter's head, "were driving by, and I saw the car in the driveway." It was the first time Peyton had noticed the little girl.

"Katie!" She kneeled down in front of the 7 year old. "Do you remember Riley?" Peyton had been back to visit Tree Hill recently, but Riley hadn't seen Katie in over a year. Riley walked up to the three of them.

"Hi." She greated.

"Come here, you." Hailey hugged her. "How have you been?" The teenager shrugged. "Yah, your mom told me you didn't want to move here. But, it won't be that bad. I already asked Jamie to pick you up for school on Monday and show you around." Riley smiled, but she wasn't that thrilled about Jamie showing her around. He was cool, but he took his role of older cousin way too seriously. When he had visited last summer, he had been really rude to any guy who so much at looked at her. He hoped he wouldn't be like that at school.

"I need to talk to you." Hailey looked at Peyton. "Riley why don't you show Katie your room?" Riley got the hint. Her and Katie headed upstairs to the attic.

"What's up?" Peyton asked once the girls were out of earshot.

"Um, Lucas called me today."

Peyton could tell by Hailey's face that something was up. "And," she urged Hailey to continue.

"And, he's moving back." Peyton's faced dropped.

"Oh." She said quietly.

"I didn't tell him that you were back too. I figured that it was none of my business." Hailey tried to read Peyton's expressions, but it was hard.



"Oh," she flashed a fake smile as she walked to a box and pretended to be preoccupied with it.

"Peyton, why doesn't he know that you and Riley moved here? I mean she is his daughter."

Peyton sighed. "It all just happened so fast, you know. I was going to call him. I was. "

"He and Riley still aren't talking?"

"No. She was so upset when he was going to get married, and then when the wedding was called off she was still upset. He calls her every Sunday still, but she won't answer." Just the thought of her daughter not wanting to talk to Lucas upset her. They had always had a good relationship. Even though Riley lived on the East coast with her and Lucas lived in New York. Lucas had vacationed in LA often, and Riley would visit on school breaks and during the summer. But when Lucas announced a few months back that he and his girlfriend were engaged Riley had been dead set against it. Her father thought it was a jealousy issue, and he promised no one would ever come between the two of them. But, Riley had argued with him. She just didn't like Julie. Lucas wouldn't hear it; the two were getting married in a couple of months, and Riley would just have to deal with it. Unfortunately, Riley was just as stubborn as her father, and stopped talking to him at once. She was so upset by the argument she couldn't even talk to Peyton about it. Peyton only found out about the argument when Lucas called her after several unanswered telephone calls to his daughter. The wedding was called off, but Riley didn't seem to care. It had been three months since she talked to her father.