Chase had just parted his lips from Peyton's. No matter either of them would've wished it untrue; they both enjoyed it very much. In that moment something had sparked inside both of them.

"Wow," Chased uttered breathlessly. "That was—amazing." He smiled at Peyton.

"Eh, I've had better." Peyton joked.

"No way! I am THE BEST kisser ever, admit it!" Chase protested while wagging a finger at Peyton.

"Or what?" Peyton teased

"Do not make me throw you into that pool looking as gorgeous as you do right now Ms. Sawyer." Chase joked yet a serious expression falling over his face.

Peyton's eyes widened "You wouldn't dare."

"I would too, now admit if or be prepared to deal with the consequences." Chase levitated closer to her body

"NEVER!"Peyton yelped while running away giggling.



She was truly enjoying herself for the first time in weeks and she couldn't help other than to think that maybe she was ready to move on from Lucas and his drama parade.

However; her thoughts were soon interrupted when she ran square into another person. She was running so fast that she sent herself and the opposing party flying to the ground. Her body lying flush on top of theirs.

She felt two muscular arms wrap around her so that she would not be done any harm.

'I know those arms' She thought

It was then that she opened her eyes and found two pools of ice blue staring up into her eyes. He looked angry judging by the stature of his face, conversely, his hold on her told otherwise. He held her body up to his tightly, yet lovingly, as if her were scared to release her and loose her forever.

"--Um Luke?"

"Yeah?" His voice carried barely above a whisper and his breath was hot on her neck.

She closed her eyes momentarily to soak in every moment of their close proximity, thinking back to their senior year when they would simply lay together wrapped up in each other's bodies contently.

"I know I'm irresistible and all, but do you think I can have my body back?" She stated sarcastically.

"Oh—uh—yeah, sorry." He said while chuckling nervously.

He released her slowly, much to his discontentment. She stood quickly brushing herself off hoping to get away as quickly as possible.

Then she felt someone come up and delicately place a hand on the small of her back

"Hey you are you alright? " Chase asked caringly

She lent her head back slightly so she had a good view of his face and smiled genuinely before replying.

"Yeah I'm fine. It's a good thing Lucas was there to cushion the blow." She laughed lightly

"Are you alright Lucas? I'm sure all that weight on top of you coming at such a strong momentum couldn't have been a fun experience." Chase asked openly.

"Yeah I'm fine. I'm kind of used to it." Lucas said while smirking and cocking an eyebrow at Peyton which in turn received him an infamous Peyton Sawyer eye-roll.

"Alright." Chase responded awkwardly.

Peyton scanned the party in desperate need to get out of this awkward position. Peyton could tell that Lucas has been in possessive ex-boyfriend mode ever since chases hand just happened to make its way onto her back which she welcomed freely obviously sending Lucas over the edge bearing in mind how tightly his jaw was clenched.

"Ooh! Look the moon bounce is free! Come on chase lets go!" Peyton said not looking Lucas in the eye once and pulling chase away.

Lucas watched them walk away hand in hand. He saw chase lean in and whisper something into Peyton's ear causing her to giggle loudly and also earning him a playful slap. An over powering sense of anger overcame Lucas and he bawled up his fists to prepare for a fight. That was until he heard a voice sound from behind him

"Don't do it man." Nathan said while grabbing his brother by the shoulder.



"What are you doing, seriously? I am not sure if you have forgotten but this party is for you and your engagement. You can't keep doing this to everyone Lucas. Not yourself, not to Peyton, and most certainly not to Lindsey. You say you love Lindsey and you propose and although some of us might have thought that you were making a huge mistake we stuck by you nonetheless because you said it was what you wanted; that you didn't love Peyton in fact, but, Lindsey. Yet here we stand and you are two seconds of from knocking some guy out just for being with Peyton, for making her happy? You really need to figure out what it is before you ACTUALLY want before it's too late."

With that Nathan left leaving Lucas to himself to reflect upon his thoughts.