"Jake? Are you serious? I mean, you and Lucas just broke up. You're on the rebound. Just be happy being single for a while." Peyton said. She was scared when Brooke got ideas like this.

"Don't you see? This is the perfect revenge for Lucas. Seeing me flirt and go out with Jake. It will be perfect! Thanks for the inspiration friend!" Brooke said all bubbly. It was like the scene in the locker room never happened.

Peyton looked over at the guys. Jake and Lucas both looked up and gave a little nod at Peyton. 'Oh no. What have I gotten myself into?' Peyton thought to herself.

"Are we going to start or what?" Brooke asked. "Oh yeah. Sorry. C'mon. Let's get in formation girls!" Peyton yelled. No one but Brooke seemed to be listening. Being captain had its perks, but not in a case like this.

"I said get in formation!" Peyton yelled in her cheer voice. Finally the cheerleaders looked up to find a very mad captain. They got in formation quickly.

'This is definitely going to be a long practice." Peyton thought to herself.

~

After a long two hours Peyton was exhausted and sweaty. All she wanted to do was go home, take a shower, crawl in bed, and fall asleep.

She decided that she wouldn't take a shower at school, and instead take one at home, so once she gathered her things, she made her way to the door.

"Peyton!" Jake called. "Oh yeah, you wanted to ask me something?" Peyton remembered. "Yeah, I wanted to know if you could come over to my house-" "Yeah, no problem, I can babysit Jennie."

Jake laughed. "Not exactly. I was wondering if you wanted to come over and hang out with me." "Oh." Peyton chuckled. "Umm, I have to check. My dad is in town for a couple of weeks, and so-" "No problem. I get it. My mom has a job out of town as well."

Peyton smiled. "I'll call you." She yelled as he left.

~

"How about this one?" Peyton asked in the phone as she put her drawing in front of the webcam.

"Umm, I liked the first one. Definitely. You should submit both though." Lucas said on the phone line.

"Ehh, they might think I'm obsessed if I do that. I'll just take your word and give them the first one."

Suddenly Peyton heard a beep in her ear. "Hey, I have another call, I'll be right back." "Okay." Lucas said.

Peyton pushed the flash button and clicked over to the other line. "Hello?" She said.

"Hey, I thought you were going to call me." Jake replied. "Oh I'm so sorry, I-" "No excuses. It's fine. So what-" Jake paused. "I have another call so I'll let you get back to whatever you were doing. But I don't trust you anymore. I'LL call from now on." Jake said in a playful voice. "Ha, okay, I'll see you tomorrow, bye." Peyton said as she flashed back to Lucas.

"Who was that?" Lucas asked in a serious voice. Peyton was afraid to answer, in case of anything awkward. "It was no one. Never mind it." Peyton tried to reassure. "No, When you were talking to whoever it was, you seemed a bit jumpy. I want to know, who was it?" Lucas asked again. Peyton panicked as she saw that Lucas saw her talking to Jake from the webcam the entire time. She decided she would finally gave in and she said, "It was Jake, he wanted me to call him back for something, and I forgot."

"Oh, well, if that's all. Nothing like trying to hit on you right?" Lucas said kiddingly as he let out a small chuckle.

Peyton laughed weakly. "Yeah........."

~

The next day Brooke came up to Peyton and said, "Well, I TRIED to call you last night, but I guess BOTH your lines were tied up and since I couldn't get a hold of you, I decided to put my plan into action and so I called Jake. In fact, he said he was JUST talking to you. Now why is that?"

The suspicious look that Brooke gave Peyton made her feel as awkward as she did when Lucas asked her about it yesterday.

"It was nothing, just something he asked and I said I would call. He was worried when I didn't, so he called me. No big deal." Peyton replied as coolly as possible.

"Well, if that all." Brooke said happily. "So let me tell you that after over an hour on the phone with Jake I think it might be even better than revenge! He's really sweet. Well, once he lets his guard down."

"Wow, would have never guessed." Peyton replied. The bell rang and Peyton said, "Off to eng-" All of a sudden she realized that both Jake and Lucas were in her English class. She let out a groan. "I know, we all hate English, but you have to go. I'll talk to you next period!" Brooke yelled as she left.

Peyton walked into English and took the worksheets that the teacher handed her. She sat down in her normal spot and glanced down to see what they were doing that day.

To her delight she found that they were starting their poetry unit today. Peyton was particularly interested in poetry. She had never done it before, and was eager to try.

The tardy bell finally rang and the teacher started. "Today as you can probably already guess, we are starting poetry. All I want you to do this period is write your own poem. It can be about anything you want and it doesn't have to rhyme or anything. Just be creative. Some of the best poems have been about egg plants or machinery. Be creative!" The teacher was about to sit down but went back to say, "And of course, no talking. The entire period."

"Yes." Peyton said quietly to herself. "Maybe English wont be as bad as I thought it would."

AN: second chapter, so sorry for the delay, but yeah, that's just how I am. But of course you can email me asking to update if you wish. I usually update if someone does that. Well hope you enjoyed. Please review!