Chapter 2
Lucas stared at the girl in front of him. He couldn't even form words anymore.
"Are you okay?" Callie questioned. He looked like he was going to be sick.
"I will be." Lucas slowly stood from his chair and walked around his desk. "Uhm. Who is your mother?"
Callie shrugged. "I don't know. The only name I was given by my case worker was yours."
"Well… uh… how did you get here? Where did you come from?" Lucas was wondering where her family was. Why she was standing in front of him.
"My adoptive family is moving from California to Alaska and I wanted to know who my real parents were and I didn't want to go to Alaska so they gave me money to come here. I was hoping you would know who my mother was." Callie trailed off.
Lucas thought hard. "How old are you?" He already knew but he needed to make sure.
"15."
"Peyton Sawyer." Lucas nodded to himself. There was only one woman he was with at that time that would have been a possible option. She took off right after junior year and hadn't come back since. He looked up into Callie's eyes. They were a perfect match to his own. He knew when he saw her curly blonde hair that her mother was Peyton. Unfortunately, he knew that he had no way of contacting her.
"Peyton." Callie said softly. She finally had a name. "Does she live here?"
Lucas was about to break his daughters heart within 5 minutes of meeting her. "No." Lucas sighed. "I haven't seen your mother since she left 15 years ago."
"You didn't know?" Callie asked.
Lucas shook his head side to side. "No. I didn't."
"I'm sorry."
"It's not your fault. We had a falling out." Lucas was willing to tell her anything she wanted to know. "There might be one person in this whole town that can get her here though."
"Who?" Callie's interests were peaked.
"Come on. Follow me." Lucas grabbed his jacket and waved for Callie to follow after him. He led Callie down to his car where they both got in. Lucas and Callie drove in silence until they arrived at their destination.
Jamie was shooting hoops in the driveway. The ball sunk its way through the hoop.
"Nice shot Jamie." Lucas said as he exited his car.
Jamie turned. "Uncle Lucas, what are you doing here?" Jamie tossed the ball into the bin and made his way over to Lucas.
"I came to see your mom. Is she home?" Lucas asked.
Jamie looked back towards the house. "She is. She is in the kitchen baking."
Lucas nodded. "Of course she is." Lucas looked at Callie. "Callie this is Jamie. Why don't you stay out here and talk and I will go talk to Haley?"
Callie nodded and Lucas walked off after patting Jamie on the back. "Hi. I'm Callie." Callie extended her hand to Jamie.
Jamie returned with a hand and shook Callie's. "I'm Jamie. How do you know my uncle Luke?"
"He uh. He is my dad." Callie said softly. She wasn't usually so shy but being in this situation is hard.
"Really? That's so cool. Who's your mom?" Jamie wasn't really thinking.
"Lucas said my mom's name is Peyton."
Jamie nodded. "I know her. She's my sister's godmother. We go visit her sometimes but she never comes here."
"I see. Is she nice?" Callie asked.
"Yeah she is. She always gives us presents and calls to check in on us." Jamie wondered why aunt Peyton never mentioned Callie to him.
"Does she have a family? Any other kids?" Callie was nervous about this question.
"No. She dated a couple times but nothing ever stuck."
-With Haley and Lucas-
"You have a kid?" Haley exclaimed.
"I do. Which I did not know about. Haley you are the only person who can get Peyton here. She won't talk to anyone in this town and she hasn't come home since everything happened." Lucas sipped on the pop that Haley had given him when he gave came in.
"It's Peyton's daughter?" Haley was hurt by this. Haley was the only person Peyton would even talk to that still lived in Tree Hill. Hell she was Evie's godmother. "Why didn't she tell me?"
"Haley when you see this girl she is a spitting image of Peyton. I knew they second she walked in who she was." Lucas pulled out his phone and texted Jamie to come inside with Callie. "I need you to get her here."
"Before she comes in here…" Haley trailed. "What's her name?"
"Callie."
Jamie and Callie walked in seconds later. "Mom, this is Callie."
Haley looked directly at the girl and saw her blue eyes and then her eyes wandered to the curly blonde hair and thin build. She was Peyton's twin there was absolutely no denying it. "Hi. I'm your aunt Haley."
Callie stuck out her hand but Haley pulled her in for a hug. "I'm so happy you are here." Haley said muffled into Callie's shoulder.
"You don't know me." Callie wasn't trying to sound rude.
"No but you are family and I am always happy to see family." Haley pulled away. "Would you like a drink."
"Sure."
"Jamie get Callie a drink please." Jamie saluted his mother. She hated when he did that. Haley narrowed her eyes. "Sorry." Jamie mumbled.
"So you can get a hold of my mom?" Callie asked. She shouldn't have blurted but she couldn't help it.
Haley nodded. "I can but I don't know if I can get her here."
"I see. Where is she? I'll go to her."
"I can't send you there. She would get really mad if I told anyone where she was." Haley thought quickly. She then pulled out her phone and dialed Peyton's number.
"Hello?"
"P." Haley said softly.
"Hales. What's up?" Peyton was confused. She only ever heard from Haley about once a month.
"I need you to come home." Haley looked directly into Callie's eyes as she spoke to Peyton, as if her best friend was right in front of her.
"Why? Is everything okay?" Peyton asked.
"Peyton I need you to come home. Please. No questions asked just come home." Haley pleaded. She knew that if she told Peyton then she wouldn't come.
"okay." Peyton sighed. "I'll come. I have some things for work this week I need to do and then I'll be there."
Haley nodded as if Peyton could see her. "Okay. Good. Call me when you get here."
"Okay. Bye Hales." Peyton hung up the phone.
Haley turned to Lucas. "She'll be here at the end of the week."
"Okay."
"Where are you staying while here Callie?" Haley asked.
Callie shrugged. "I'm not sure. I hadn't planned that far ahead.
"You can stay with me if you'd like?" Haley offered. "I'm sure your dad needs to talk to Brooke before you can stay there so…" Haley knew this was awkward. She loved Brooke but never thought that they should have ended up together.
Callie looked to Lucas. "I met Brooke but I don't think I should stay there. At least right now."
"I agree. Brooke will need time to adjust. I'm sure Peyton will stay here when she comes to town anyways so then you will be here with her." Lucas mentioned. "I don't want to make Brooke uncomfortable nor Amber."
"I understand. Brooke must be the woman who told me where to find you." Callie added.
"You've met Brooke?" Lucas was shocked.
"Yeah. I went to the address that is in the yellow pages and she sent me to your office."
"I see. I wonder why she didn't call and tell me." Lucas wondered. He realized then that Brooke probably knew as soon as she saw Callie who she was.
A/N: I may be switching POV in the next chapter. Thank you for the reviews and I don't want to give anything away but keep in mind this is a LEYTON story I just don't know how it's going to get to that point and I do have a few tricks up my sleeves in regards to Brooke. PS. Jamie and Callie are the same age.
