SO I'M BACK AGAIN LOL... I didn't want to wait to post the next chapter. Thanks to all those people that favorite my story and AllLeyton for the review you really don't know what it means to me to know people are enjoy it so far. I don't own any of the characters from One Tree Hill
"Who the hell was that crazy chick?" Skills asked when he finally saw Lucas come back into Tric.
"Peyton is all I know so far, but definitely from the high society lifestyle." Lucas said pulling a beer out from behind the bar.
"You guys pulled your guns for Peyton Sawyer! Oh great, hopefully she doesn't know any of your names. Hayley said walking towards Nathan.
"You know her?" Lucas asked trying to seem neutral.
"Oh yah, her Dad is a big shot in the Dredging industry, but in school she is better known by her best friend Brooke Davis." Hayley rolled her eyes just thinking about Brooke Davis, she had gone to school with both Peyton and Brooke for what seemed like forever and Brooke always seemed to find a way to make her life miserable.
"Oh so Peyton's a bitch then?" Nathan said placing his arm around Hayley's shoulder
"Um, well I not really sure, I mean Brooke definitely knows who she is and is not afraid to use it but Peyton she never really says a lot. She actually seems kind of lonely for a girl that has everything." Hayley shrugged not really able to pin point who Peyton really was. "Was she really here tonight?"
"Yah I guess so, she was in one of the battling crews." Lucas responded he thought Hayley was right in her explanation of Peyton, feisty that was for sure but underneath there was definitely a hint of guarded and judging how quickly she got out of Tric tonight, she didn't seem like someone that enjoyed the crowd.
"Whoa, wait curly! The girl that pretty much dominated the dance floor tonight is Peyton Sawyer the Nicole Richie of Tree Hill?" Skills eyes widened
"Yup in the flesh" Hayley said patting Skills on the back
"Damn..."
Lucas couldn't have said it better himself, Peyton Sawyer was getting more and more interesting by the minute. Though after tonight he highly doubt he would ever see the likes of her down in these parts ever again. She defiantly was one of a kind that was for sure.
"Sooo, I'm guessing she was the reason all three of you left me to tend to the bar by myself." Hayley glared at all three of them.
"Well, not the only reason baby, James and his dickhead friends were causing trouble outside the club." Nathan tried to explain
"Yah baby girl, we can't have those low lives causin a scene it would be bad for business." Skills nodded with Nathan. "right Luke?"
"Hayley, we don't need to explain anything, we have tons of staff here." Luke said making a face that said he did not wish to explain to her.
"Fine, whatever if you wanna play hero to a girl that probably could careless be my guest." Hayley hissed then turned towards the office slamming the door.
"Thanks a lot man." Nathan glared at Lucas
"I don't explain myself to anyone, she's your wife."
"Yah and she is your best friend, so treat her like one. Just because James came around and pushed your buttons doesn't give you the right to treat people around you like shit." Nathan turned towards the office as well as Lucas grumbled behind him.
"I'll be at the river court." Lucas hissed and then walked out.
"Man! I need to find some friends that aren't such hot heads." Skills shook his head and started to clean up the abandoned club.
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The alarm went off at 7:30 am. Peyton quickly raised her hand to stop the annoying ringing and pulled the covers tighter around her.
"Good Morning Sunshine!" A perky voice came from the entrance to her room.
"Oh God Brooke seriously, who in their right mind is up and smiling at this time of day." Peyton whined
"Moi" was all she said in return and walked into Peyton's closet.
"What are you doing here?" Peyton asked as she sat up in bed
"Making sure your outfit makes men drool."
"And what if I don't want to make men drool?" Peyton said with a whinny tone.
"Oh please, it is your job as my best friend to be as hot as me. Well maybe not as hot as me, but pretty close." Brooke smiled throwing her chosen outfit at her.
"Thanks" Peyton sighed slowly getting out of bed and moving towards the bathroom "I'll be back"
"Well hurry up will you, we got to get to school, Julian is waiting"
"I should have known" Peyton said closing the door. She loved Brooke she really did but the early morning wakes up calls were a little much.
Peyton and Brooke had been best friends since they were 8 years old. Peyton couldn't think of many memories of her childhood that didn't involve Brooke in some shape or form. She was everything that Peyton had ever wanted in a best friend. They never kept secrets from each other, well except one. But Peyton figured that was for the best.
"PEYTON! HURRY UP" Brooke banged on the bathroom door
"COMING!"
Though Brooke had complained the whole drive to school they still made it in plenty of time to meet up with Julian.
"Hey Sexy" Brooke smiled walking up to her boyfriend of 3 years. Brooke had meet Julian in grade 10, he was nowhere close to what you would expect someone like Brooke Davis to date but she loved him and for Peyton that was all that matters.
"Hey Babe" Julian smiled and kissed her then turning to Peyton "Hey Peyton, did you finish that literature essay yet?"
"Yah, pretty much done how about you?"
"Still working on it" Julian frowned "I was going to work on it last night but then a sexy distraction came over" he said swing his arm around Brooke
"That would be me!" Brooke smiled pleased with herself "and I wouldn't of distracted you if Peyton had of been home last night"
"What" Peyton eyes grew wide and she swallowed nervously
"You heard me, I came over to your place last night but all the lights were out." Brooke pouted
"Oh, well I must have been sleeping then" Peyton said looking away from her
"It was 7, what are you six?" Brooke exclaimed "No one are age goes to bed that early"
"Your right, I went for a drive" Peyton tried to cover up
"Your car was in the drive way?" Brooke squinted
"Right well, I took my dad's sports car it had a full tank."
"Oh, well makes sense" Brooke smiled again and pulled both Julian and Peyton towards the doors of the school when the bell rang.
"So what the agenda for tonight?" Julian asked when they came to their lockers
"Well, P. Sawyer and I will be cheer at the basketball game tonight and then I feel like living dangerously. What do you guys think?" Brooke said clapping her hands together knowing she was about to get her way.
"What did you have in mind ?" Peyton sighed just hoping that living dangerously wouldn't mean ending up in jail for the night like it did last time.
"Well, I was thinking since we have been to all of the bars and country clubs around are area why don't we try to get into a bar downtown."
"Brooke you can't be serious" Julian said not at all happy with his girlfriend's idea of fun
"Oh come on, it will be fun"
"Which bar were you thinking?" Peyton questioned nervously
"Well apparently there is this one major club downtown that the delinquents always party at" Brooke said loving the idea of being around dome time of danger.
"Why the hell would you want to go to a club where criminals drink?" Julian exclaimed starting to believe that his girlfriend had completely lost her mind
"Brooke where did you have in mind?" Peyton stated plainly knowing that no matter what Julian said right now he would be coming no matter what.
"Tric, apparently it's the top club for those people."
"Brooke, people that go to Tric are not all criminals." Peyton said rolling her eyes
"How would you know? Have you been?" Brooke crossed her arms ready to argue
"ummm, no" Peyton replied quickly
"Well then it settled, were going to Tric and then we will know who's right and who's wrong" Brooke looked at Peyton then shut her locker door "Meet Julian and I at my house at 10:30 in sexy bar clothes and I mean sexy Peyton because I will be checking."
"Great" Peyton said as she watched Brooke drag Julian into the homeroom. Now what was she going to do. Peyton figured this must have been karma for all the lying she had been doing lately. From Brooke's point of view the people of downtown were criminals and therefore, unworthy of her time. Which made no sense, considering now she wanted to go party with them. Well probably not party with them, more like spy to see how dangerous they really were.
"How the hell am I going to get myself out of this one" Peyton mumbled and turned without looking knocking some over and sending papers flying all over the place.
"Oh my God, I'm so sorry!" Peyton exclaimed looking at the girl that was crawling around reaching for all the papers that were lying on the floor.
"Don't worry about it." The blonde girl huffed
"I'm really am sorry" Peyton said sincerely then bent to pick up the last remaining papers
"Its fine, I'm on spare so no place to be until 2 period." She said as Peyton helped her up and then passed her papers to her.
"Me either" Peyton smiled "Your Hayley right?" Peyton questioned
"Yup the one and only... well um I guess not the one and only cause there is like 5 or 6 Hayley's at this school but the only Hayley James Scott so that's gotta count for something."
Peyton laughed "Yah, I guess so, I'm the one and only Peyton Sawyer"
"Yah I know, Brooke Davis best friend." Hayley stated
"Wow, so glad that I'm defined by my best friend." Peyton said sarcastically
"Oh right, um sorry, it's just that's all I really know about you. You're kind of mysterious" Hayley nervously fidgeted.
"It fine but how about we hang out together now so you can get to know me." Peyton stated smiling
"Well that sounds great and all but I usually go to the library and do homework stuff so..." Hayley trailed off
"Oh well that's cool" Peyton said knowing when she was being blown off
"No, I mean you can come if you want but you might get bored." Hayley said quickly
"Well I was going to be bored either way. Sounds like a plan Hayley James Scott, lead the way." Peyton smirked and her nervousness and followed her into the library.
Turns out that Peyton ended up not being bored at all. Hayley had a lot of the same interests that she did and they were able to talk about everything and anything. They were laughing when they heard the bell ring for second period.
"Wow, time sure flies." Hayley smiled and stood up to gather her things
"Yah wow, I'm glad we talked maybe we could do it again sometime?" Peyton asked unsure if she would even want to do it again
"Yah sounds like a riot" Hayley giggled when she saw Peyton stick out her tongue
"Okay well see yah later" Peyton said as she too headed towards her classroom
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"Come on let's get a move on people." Brooke yelled from the car
"Your Girlfriend is crazy, you know that right." Peyton said walking with Julian to the car
"Yah, I know." Julian sighed "but I love her"
As they got closer and closer to their destination, Peyton seem to get more and more nervous and also a little bit excited. She was really hoping that she and Brooke didn't run into the same people Peyton had the first time she was here. However, she was kind of divided on whether or not she wanted to see the blue eyed stranger. She still hadn't figured out anything about him, not that it had been that long since she met him, but she found herself greedy for details. On the other hand she was with Brooke and Julian and though she knew that Julian wasn't a complete snob, she knew Brooke would be and the both of them would never accept or understand someone like him.
"Okay, so now that we are in here are the ground rules" Brooke said turning around to face Julian and Peyton. "You are not to talk or take drinks from any of these people. Just walk around and make it seem like you belong got it?" Brooke finished putting her hands on her hips
"Got it" Julian said looking nervously around him, he had no problem just sticking with Brooke this was not something that his family would approve of. He just hoped nothing went wrong otherwise all three of them would be in a huge amount of trouble.
Brooke and Julian walked off to explore and as Peyton watched them she knew it didn't matter if they were trying to fit in they really stuck out. Brooke was wearing designer clothes and so was Julian even the way that they walked around the room screamed I'm from uptown. She had to laugh at that.
"What's so funny?"
Peyton jumped when she heard the voice and slowly turned around.
"Hey" Peyton smiled nervously and looked anywhere but his eyes
"Hey yourself didn't think I would see you back here." Lucas smiled
"Yah well I wanted to work on those people skills" Peyton laughed
"Really, and you thought you would come back here to try them out on me." Lucas said with a little smirk
"I guess..." Peyton gave another small smile
"You can practice on me anytime." Lucas whispered into her ear cause Peyton to shiver
Both blondes were interrupted when they heard "Peyton, wow your here, what are you doing here?"
"Hayley do you mind." Lucas hissed irritated that Hayley had interrupted.
"Wait, you guys know each other?" Peyton asked
"Yup he was the aggravating brother-in-law and best friend that I was talking about." Hayley laughed and hugged her quickly. "Sorry gotta run, I'm helping Nathan with the liquor order. Just thought I would say hi, maybe see you when I'm done?" She questioned
"Ya, sure thing." Peyton smiled not only happy that she had seen Hayley but also because she had found out about the blue eye stranger without even knowing it. When Hayley was out of sight she looked back at Lucas "So you're Lucas Scott"
"Yeah and your Peyton Sawyer."
"PEYTON! What did I say about talking to people?" Brooke hissed into her ear and yanked on her arm bringing her close to her and Julian
Lucas figured these were the people that Peyton had been laughing at earlier. The fact that her friend and the guy beside her looked scared out of their minds indicated that they were most likely the friends from uptown. Unlike the guy he had seen Peyton with last night these two looked extremely uncomfortable.
All Peyton seemed to be able to do was look back and forth between Lucas and Brooke. She really wanted to stay and talk to him more but she had a feeling that Brooke would never leave this place without her. She was just about to try and introduce them to Lucas when Lucas beat her to it.
"I am the owner of Tric. I was just asking Peyton here if she was enjoying herself." Lucas said adding a hint of arrogance to his tone.
"Oh well you have um a very nice club, we were just leaving." Brooke said pulling Peyton with her
Lucas was really starting to dislike this girl. She was exactly how downtown people predicted Uptown to be. He didn't really know what was going on with him and Peyton but he got this feeling in his gut that told him to say "If you don't mind, I would really appreciate talking to your friend a little while longer. I would like to rack her brain on ideas for the club." Lucas said in a neutral tone.
"Oh really?" Brooke said turning to Peyton then mumbling to Peyton "More like rape you in the back alley and then leave your dead body in the ditch."
Peyton rolled her eyes, and turned to Lucas again "Yeah, I could help you out." Watching as his eyes laughed but his body stayed ridged.
"Peyton are you sure? Cause we really would like to leave now." Julian cut in for the first time that night.
"Oh don't worry about Peyton, I'll find her a ride" Lucas cut in
"Wonderful" Brooke said and grabbed Peyton one more time "You don't have to go with this guy." Brooke whispered when she saw that he was staring at her
"Yah I know but I'll be fine, he said so himself." Peyton whispered back
"I dunno..." Brooke looked worried if anything happened to her there would be no one to protect her. But she didn't think Julian wanted to be here anymore then she did. Sure she suggested the idea to them but now she had seen everything that she needed to see and she can happily go back to her choice of bars and country clubs.
"Brooke, I promise I will be fine. I have your number if I get into any trouble. I highly doubt that Lucas will let anything happen to me." Peyton tried to comfort her friend the best that she could.
Brooke hesitated a moment longer looking around the club "Alright, let's go Julian." Brooke finally said taking his hand and navigating her way out.
"Brooke are you sure about this?" Julian asked also worried about Peyton's safety
"No, not sure at all." Brooke sighed as her and Julian both got into the car and drove off.