Thank you for the reviews so far everyone. I read them all and take on board the feedback. I'm glad most of you like this. I know I'm taking a bit of a risk with this fic, I might have written Peyton OOC in what she's done, but hopefully you'll all stick with this? Here's the next chapter for you all, sorry it's a bit of a short one.

So if you ever feel neglected
And if you think that all is lost
I'll be counting up my demons, yeah
Hoping everything's not lost

Lucas sighed as his writers block took over, nothing was coming to mind. He'd been sat staring at his laptop screen for over half an hour...how could he have gone from writing a best selling novel to this?! Actually he knew the answer to that and she was sitting in his drawer on a photograph along with the ring he'd proposed to her with. Since he'd lost Peyton, his life hadn't been the same. She was his inspiration, she was the one he wanted next to him when his dreams came true, she was the one he wanted next to him when they didn't, she was his everything! He'd been stupid to pop the question all those years ago and she'd been right to say 'someday', he could see now how young they'd been at the time and how little they'd seen of each other back then. He makes out he's over her, tells everyone that he's happy to be single when they ask why he doesn't have a girlfriend, but he thinks about her every day and doesn't want to be with anyone other than her. He hates himself for how he left her that morning and hates how she's probably with someone else now, engaged or married, possibly with a family and happy.

He let out a sigh before closing his laptop and looked over at his basketball. There's always been one place where he can go to escape reality and he decided to head down there.

Bouncing his ball solemnly along the quiet roads, he expected the Rivercourt to be just as empty and silent, but when he got there, a voice startled him!

"Hi." Peyton said softly and the basketball he'd been bouncing suddenly fell to the floor as he looked at her in shock! At first he thought he was seeing things, going mad even. She'd been in his head and now she was suddenly stood a few feet away from him on the Rivercourt! It wasn't until she spoke again, asking him how long it had been that he knew he wasn't imagining her.

"Two years?" He replied with a shrug.

"It's been longer than that." She said and then wrapped her arms around herself. She was cold, but she also felt a little uncomfortable, at least she'd been prepared to see Brooke earlier, Luke not so much, plus there was all the history, the way they'd ended things, the way he'd ended things.

"When...when did you get back? How long have you been back?" He asked, trying not to admire the view of her legs that were on show or pull her into his arms seeing her shiver slightly.

"This afternoon, Brooke's back too. She was having a rough time in New York and wanted to come home." Peyton explained, Luke just nodded.

"What about you, why are you home?" He questioned, not feeling as nervous or shocked as he did before.

"Somebody told me that I was doing more here than I was in L.A, so I quit my job and here I am." She told him and he let out a small smile.

"Listen about what happened..." He started but she shook her head and stopped him.

"Don't it's ok, we were young and we all make mistakes at that age." She said and Luke nodded, thinking she meant his mistake in proposing, not her mistake of not saying yes.

"So how long are you back for?" He asked and Peyton shrugged.

"I don't know? A long time hopefully." She answered.

"Good, that's good. Where are you staying?" He then asked and she panicked inwardly.

"Oh erm...a hotel just outside of town for now, until I find somewhere better." She lied and he seemed to buy it.

"Well there's always room at mine if you need it." He offered and she laughed.

"Isn't there a hot girlfriend at yours who'd mind?" She asked and he shook his head laughing with her, but then he got serious.

"No, she left for L.A four years ago, place has been quiet ever since." He said and then reached forward to touch her. "Peyt, I missed you." He told her and Peyton closed her eyes, she'd not heard her name shortened like that for so long. "I missed you every day, I still do." He added as he caressed her cheek.

"Luke...I...I'm sorry, I can't do this right now." She said pulling away. She still loved him, he was going to apologise for proposing before she'd stopped him earlier and by the sound of things, he'd been single since, but her life was too much of a mess right now and if he knew the half of it, he wouldn't want to be with her. "I'll be seeing you." She added and then went walking off into the night leaving him stood there with a flashback of their past.