In Love with His Best Friend
Chapter 2 When I Met Him
Peyton and Brooke had only been in Las Vegas for a few hours and Brooke was already hooking up with anyone and everyone.
"P. Sawyer I'm so loving Vegas." Brooke clinked her glass to Peyton's. "Aren't you having a blast?"
Peyton shook her head. She just wasn't in the mood for Vegas. "I'm glad you are having fun Brooke, but this just isn't for me. Maybe you should have just come alone."
"Hell no…Just let loose and forget about all of your problems."
"Easier said than done," Peyton reminded her.
"We are two smoking hot women in Vegas and we are going to have one hell of a good time no matter what." Brooke really wanted Peyton to enjoy herself. She hated seeing her friend so down and out. "Now go over there to the bar with your hot self and get some fine guy to buy you a drink. And you know you could give him a little something in return if you know what I mean." Brooke pushed Peyton to the bar and walked off.
Lucas and Nathan walked into the same bar. "I think I'm just going to go back to the hotel."
"No," Nathan pushed him further in the bar. "Just go sit at the bar and have a good time. You need to get back out there Luke."
"I was never out there Nate. I've never dated anyone other than Lindsey."
"Well today is a great time to start." Nathan pushed him over to the bar.
Lucas ordered a drink and looked over at the beautiful blonde sitting next to him. She looked almost more pitiful than he did. She looked over at him and threw him a half smile. She wasn't looking to hook up in Vegas. She was only there to make Brooke happy. He wasn't looking to hook up in Vegas. He was only there to make Nathan happy.
On both sides of the bar Brooke and Nathan were watching and hoping that something would spark between the two.
Peyton knew that Brooke was watching her, and Lucas knew that Nathan was watching him.
"Hi," Lucas was the first to speak.
"Hi," Peyton replied. She could see Brooke smiling at her. "I'm not in the mood to hook up with some random stranger, but my friend thinks that is what I need to get over all my problems." Peyton scooted over closer to Lucas to make it look like she was trying.
"Looks like we are in the same boat," he casually flashes his eyes over to his brother.
"Yeah it seems like we both have people watching us."
"Maybe we should do ourselves a favor and pretend like we're leaving together."
"That might get them off of our backs." Peyton smiled and touched his shoulder. She leaned in and made it look like she was whispering sweet nothings in his ear. "I'll treat you to room service if you do this to me."
Lucas pushed her hair back away from her ear and made it look like he was going to kiss it. "I'll split the price with you. I need this just as much as you do."
He paid for her drink and his and then they walked out of the bar holding hands. Nathan and Brooke both smiled.
Outside of the bar, "We could just go our separate ways if you want too. I don't even know your name." Lucas suggested as he let go of Peyton's hand.
"Well that would be okay if I didn't know my best friend. She's going to be checking up on me, and I'd rather not lie."
"Oh I see…So if we spent the night together just talking then you wouldn't be lying to her."
"Exactly," Peyton knew that this would be a lot easier than having to pretend to have a good time. "We don't even have to talk if you don't want too. We can go to bed."
"Okay…I'd rather not have to lie to my brother."
"Good," Peyton smiled at him again. "Oh and by the way my name is…" She couldn't decide if she wanted to be herself or use the fake name that Brooke had come up with. "Beth…my name is bed." They were in Vegas. She could be whoever she wanted to be.
"I'm…" Lucas couldn't remember the name that Nathan had given him. "I'm Logan," he was sure that she would catch on that he was lying.
Peyton was almost positive that he was lying, but it was Vegas and they would never see each other again. "Let's go…"
They decided to go to Peyton's hotel room because she and Brooke had gotten separate rooms just in case Brooke wanted to bring someone back, and of course she probably would.
"So what do you like to eat?" Peyton asked as they walked into her room.
"Anything…" Lucas was pretty easy to please when it came to food.
"Then pizza it is." Peyton smiled. "I absolutely love pizza."
"As long as you put all the toppings on it…That's the only way to go with pizza."
"I'm glad we see eye to eye about his." Peyton joked.
The pizza had been delivered, and Peyton had eaten most of it.
"You eat like a man," Lucas laughed at her. "I've never seen anyone eat like you."
"If I cared that would probably make me feel insecure about myself."
"I doubt that."
"So what brings you to Vegas?"
"My brother thought it would be a nice change of scenery for me. I haven't had a really good two weeks."
"Yeah I know what you mean. I haven't had a really good two years."
"Do you want to talk about it?"
Peyton sighed, "I um…if you talk about yours I'll talk about mine."
"Okay…well up until two weeks ago I thought I had it all. I was completely and totally in love with my high school sweetheart, the only girl that I have ever loved in my entire life, and I was on my way to being a big time author."
"I'm guessing that didn't happen."
"Well Lindsey left me at the altar, and my book was rejected. They said that it wasn't original. It wasn't good enough to sell. It didn't pop, and they didn't think that I could ever write anything that would be worth buying." Lucas said sadly.
"Wow…And I thought my life sucked…What did you write about?"
"Love…Lindsey…How I believed in true love that could never die."
"That's where you are wrong. True love can die. It dies all the time."
"I disagree. I still love Lindsey even though she left me heartbroken at our wedding."
"Then maybe you should write about heartache or maybe those editors were right. Maybe you haven't experienced life. You might need to just start all over, and really write from your heart. That's all you can do. You have to re-evaluate things."
"Okay so Miss Smarty Pants….what brings you to Vegas?"
Peyton rolled her eyes, "I completely suck at love. Who the hell am I kidding? I suck at life."
"Okay please elaborate. This is getting interesting."
"I have had a string of failed relationships…I dated a druggy, a guy that abused me, and my professor…Along with a lot of other miserable scum bag guys."
"Why do you date guys like that? It looks like to me that you date guys you know you could never be with."
Peyton glared at him. "I date guys that my parents would hate me with because they pretty much control every other aspect of my life."
"Why is that?"
"Do you really care? You don't know me at all."
"Yeah but you saved me from having to deal with my brother so I owe you, and I'm trying to get to know you…So tell me about your life Beth…"
Peyton smiled, "Well Logan," she knew that wasn't his name. "I love music and art, but my dad is a big time lawyer in LA. He wants me to follow in his footsteps. I don't want to be a disappointment."
"Looks like to me you kind of are."
"We are so not friends anymore."
"I didn't mean it like that, but from what I can see you only date losers because you know your parents wouldn't approve…And you do that because you are too afraid to tell them what you really want out of life."
"So what do you suggest that I do?"
"Work hard at what you love and give up on what you don't. If you don't want to be a lawyer then don't. Tell them how you feel and that is your life not theirs."
"Well what do I do about all of the losers I choose to date?" She could tell that he was a very intelligent man.
"I'll tell you what for a year…starting as soon as you leave Vegas only date guys that you know your parents would love. You might actually fall in love."
Peyton sighed. He could possibly be right. "Okay now on to what you should do."
"I didn't ask your opinion."
"But I'm going to give it anyways. You should spend a year writing about something you never thought you would ever write about, and forget about old what's her name. In my opinion she was the one that lost out because you seem like a pretty terrific guy."
Lucas smiled. "You don't seem so by yourself."
They spent the rest of the night talking about life and getting to know each other. They shared their deep dark secrets and biggest fears.
As a child Lucas had a weight problem and wouldn't let his mom take any pictures of him because he was ashamed of the way he looked. He still didn't take very many pictures.
One of Peyton's biggest secrets is that she had a one of a kind bear that she used to sleep with as a child, and she slept with it all through high school. When she first started college her drug head boyfriend hid his pills in the bear. When she broke up with him she ripped the bear in half because she didn't want to have a reminder of what he did. She keeps a picture of the bear in her wallet in hopes of one day finding a bear that could feel the void.
They both felt like losers, but they both agreed that they could be losers together.
They spent the next day together just lost in the other and what they had to say. They felt a connection to one another that could never be denied.
"I can't believe I actually have to leave tomorrow. I'm gonna miss this place." Peyton thought.
"I think I'm going to miss you." Lucas had never felt this way about anyone other than Lindsey, and his feelings for her had slowly started to fade away once he met Beth.
"Yeah well…At least we have Vegas…"
"Yeah…" Lucas took the chance to kiss her. Peyton was taken by surprise. She had wanted him to kiss her like that but didn't think that he would.
"Logan…" But before she could say anything else he kissed her again.
They fell back on the bed and let the passion take over. They weren't worried about the consequences or the fact that they were both going home the next day. They were only lost in one another and the unbelievable connection they felt. It was easy with them, and there was a certain trust that was undeniable and real.
The next morning they woke up next to each other. "Wow…I can't believe that we are leaving today."
"I know. I probably should call Nathan."
"Yeah…I should probably call Brooke." Peyton wasn't ready to get back to the real world.
"What happens to us?" Lucas wondered. "I'm going back to North Carolina." He told her he lived in Charlotte, but he really lived in Tree Hill. "And you are going back to LA."
"I know. I wish things could be different Logan, but nobody finds love in Vegas. We came here to forget about all of our problems, and you helped me a lot. I'm hoping when I get back to LA my life is going to change for the better."
"I'm hoping the same will happen for my life. But I know that I'm going to think about you every single day. Can't we at least try to make things work?" Lucas hoped that they could work things out, but he was coming out of a very long relationship. Peyton didn't want to be a rebound fling.
"You told me the first night that we met that I should date only guys my parents would approve of for one year, and on normal circumstances you would probably be on their A list, but considering that I met you in Vegas and you are just coming off of a long relationship. You wouldn't be their first choice for me."
"So what are we going to do?"
"Well…we're gonna leave Vegas today and go our separate ways, but we are going to take everything we learned these past two days and use them in our lives…I'm hoping to become a better person because I met you…"
"I just think I'm going to miss you too much."
"If we are meant to be together then we will be."
"So if I come to LA and find you then we can be together."
She shook her head, "Don't do anything different. I won't come looking for you and you shouldn't come looking for me. If we are meant to be together then fate will bring us together. If we see each other again then we will know that we met here in Vegas for a reason and that the reason is because we belong together." She kissed him. "I'm going to remember everything you said to me, and I'll never forget our time together Logan."
He kissed her. "I think fate is going to bring us together…somehow I think that we will be together again Beth."
They got dressed and packed their things. Lucas walked to the door first. "I'll be seeing you someday."
Peyton had tears rolling down her face. There was something about him that made her happy and she had only known him for a few days. It just wasn't meant to be.
Lucas hated to leave her without exchanging any information with her, but he had a feeling that they would meet again someday. He believed that with all his heart.
Okay so I hope you guys are liking this. The next chapter is going to take place five years later. Please let me know what you thought and if I should keep going.