Chapter 3
Just two kids you and I
Take me back to when our world was one block wide I dared you to kiss me and ran when you tried just two kids, you and I oh my my my my
Peyton smiled as she came across yet another one of her favorite pictures. This one was of her and Lucas playing down at the river court down the road from their houses. That's where you would find them most of the time when they weren't at their houses or at school. Peyton would sit on the bench with their friend Mouth and draw while Lucas and his friends, Skills, Fergie, and Junk played basketball. Sometimes they'd even come here and just sit in front of the river and look out and think, neither of them saying a word. That's the kind of friendship they had, the one where you could just sit with each other and no words had to be spoken.
She loved this picture particularly because of Lucas' face. It was probably one of the top ten faces she'd ever seen on him in a picture. His lips were all puckered up and his eyes were closed, while she was just standing there looking at him like he was crazy. Peyton couldn't help but smile and laugh a little as the day came back to her mind.
It was a brisk spring day and Peyton, Lucas, and both their moms were at the river court for a picnic. Peyton at the time was 9 and he was about to turn 11 in a few days. They were sitting on the blacktop drawing random things with chalk. Peyton kept asking him what he wanted for his birthday, but he kept saying that he didn't care, so she just left it at that. If he didn't like what she got him then he'd just have to deal with it.
Earlier that day the two had been playing truth or dare with their friends and Lucas had dared her to kiss his half brother, Nathan. Peyton, trying to prove her point about not being afraid of anything, had accepted the dare and had gotten all ready to kiss him. Puckered lips, closed eyes, the whole deal. She sat there for a few minutes and nothing had happened, so she opened her eyes and everyone was gone. She looked around everywhere and didn't see anyone. She had a pretty good idea on whose idea it was to leave her sitting there like an idiot. She eventually found them in Lucas' backyard playing a game of tag. She also found out that it was in fact Lucas' idea to leave her there. She walked up to him and whispered in his ear. "Payback sucks." She whispered and then walked off giggling a little. Lucas only stood there with a dumbfounded look on his face.
She was sitting there drawing a picture of the sun and the clouds and she figured now was the best time to get him back while they were sitting there in silence. She looked up from the ground at him. "I dare you to kiss me..." She said looking at him with a straight face, her heart secretly pounding really fast with nerves as she spoke the words. He immediately shot his head up and looked at her with a confused face "What?" He asked. "I dare you to kiss me." She said still with a straight face. Lucas being the guy that he is accepted the dare. He wasn't going to let her fool him, plus he had secretly wanted to kiss her for the longest time, just to see what it was like. So, he got all puckered up and ready, while Peyton just stood there with a smirk on her face. She was so tempted to kiss him, but she knew she had to get her payback for what he did to her earlier. That's when both their moms snapped pictures. Peyton stood there for a minute then ran and hid behind a tree. She sat there for a minute and thought about how much she would've really loved to kiss him, but she couldn't, she had to do this to teach Lucas a lesson. She peeked back around the tree and seen Lucas. He was looking around everywhere for her. Then she heard laughing and she looked towards their moms and they were laughing their heads off. They knew exactly what she was doing because she had told them both on the way there what Lucas had done to her. They laughed at that also. She smiled and went back over to Lucas and sat back down. She continued her chalk drawing as if she never left her spot. "I told you I'd get you back." She said with a smile, not looking up from her drawing. Lucas could only sit there and stare at her with a shocked face. Man, she was good. He thought.
Peyton smiled as she remembered the look on his face, both the face of when he was trying to kiss her and of when he was at a loss for words. Everyone that they knew now had that picture of him all puckered up with his eyes closed, while she just stared at him with a smirk on her face. Both their parents had made it as the picture for the Christmas cards a few years back. It really was a priceless moment.
