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Here's a new chapter. It is a little short I know, but I'll do better next time, I promise. Enjoy :)
Chapter 4 « Ain't It Fun »
While Lydia was inserting the key in the door, she carefully opened not to make too much noise, the light came on suddenly.
"Have you seen the hour ?" a soft voice said.
"Jamie... Don't tell mom, please ! We just wanted to have fun, we did nothing wrong." Lydia replied to defend themselves.
"You'd go to bed before Mom wakes up."
"But what are you doing here ?" Lydia wondered.
"Me ? What am I doing here ? I... insomnia." Jamie stammered.
"Kelsey must do a lot of sleepless nights too, I guess..." the girl concluded with a smile before going into her room, along with Sawyer.
Spare bedroom
Peyton fell asleep for a little over an hour as opposed to Lucas, who kept thinking. He thought so hard that a migraine appeared. He did not know if they would stay in Tree Hill. Although he misses the city, he was still thinking about Keith, killed in school corridor by his own brother. The indelible grief of his mother, and the pain this death was caused in all people. He did not want his daughter to live in a world like that. She might be badly influenced, even if she had always been brilliant in her studies. Having been there himself, he knows what awaits her daughter if she studies at TH High School. Then he would find a home, rebuild their lives here after leaving it more than fifteen years.
"You should sleep Lucas... We'll talk about it tomorrow." Peyton muttered, half asleep.
"I think so much ?" Lucas said with a smile.
Peyton was immediately asleep again, joined by Lucas who hugged his wife before getting to sleep, finally.
Nathan and Haley's bedroom
Cries echoed through the house, but nothing alarming, just a fussy baby who obviously did not want to sleep through the night. Wayne's crying woke Haley but malignant as she was, she quickly nudged her husband, before pretending to sleep.
"Hales, you're a good singer, but pretending to sleep, that's not your forte. " Nathan said, smiling. He pulled on a shirt and went to the bedroom of Wayne. But before entering, he heard footsteps. This would be even Jamie, who said a few days earlier, suffering from insomnia.
"Hey son, you'll wake the whole city if you continue." Nathan said, before taking the baby in his arms and rocking him gently.
"This little monster still not sleeping ? He knows he prevents his parents from sleeping ?" Haley questioned, before approaching her husband and put her head against his arm.
"Go back to bed Hales, I got it."
"I want you to take care of me after." she whispered.
A week had passed since the arrival of Lucas and Peyton in Tree Hill. Despite the doubts and hesitations of Lucas, he and his wife had finally decided to stay in town. They had contacted some realtors to find a home for them and their daughter.
After being rehoused, they should register Sawyer in high school, Tree Hill seemed the best solution. Thus, Sawyer would find her cousin and twins. The integration of the girl would be easier. She had spent most of her life in Europe. She had few friends but had never formed real connections, she was rather lonely. She already felt closer to her cousin, she had never been with anyone else before. She knew they would do great things together.
Before a new school year starts, a new party was organized at Tric. To "celebrate" the end of summer vacation and the beginning of a new era. All Scott participated, as well as Baker.
"We're supposed to celebrate what ?" Davis asked, after ordering a mojito.
"The arrival of Sawyer !" Lydia exclaimed, raising her glass in honor of her cousin.
"I think our parents are around, so unless you want to get stuck, hide your glasses. " Jamie threw, ordering a vodka coke, before smiling ironically seeing his sister panicked by the presence of their parents.
"We can go to the field, it'll be quiet for drinking alcohol." Jude stated, squinting.
"Go with them Sawyer. I'll see you later, I need to talk to my brother." Lydia said.
Jude, Davis and Sawyer left the club and went to the Rivercourt. The twins did not want to face their parents and receive a moral lesson. After all they did nothing wrong. But they knew that Brooke does not allow them to drink alcohol. All she wanted was that her sons did not look like her at her age.
The evening at Tric took place perfectly. The band playing tonight was Snow Patrol. Brooke wanted to make up for lost time with Peyton, absolutely delighted to know that her best friend had decided to stay in Tree Hill for good.
"You don't have to humiliate me in front of others, Jamie. " Lydia threw her brother.
"What are you talking about ?" the young manasked.
"Rather than making insinuations, be blunt !" Lydia said, frowning.
"What are you doing with Sawyer ? She's just arrived and you wish her to be drunk !"
"For your guidance, I don't drink alcohol. The twins do... "
"Why are you hanging out with them ? I understand that you like Davis, but Jude might have a bad influence on those he goes out with, including you. "
"I know what I'm doing. Sawyer has nothing to fear, and you should mind your own business, sir "I can't sleep" or should I say, sir "I can't lie" ."
"Lydia..."
"Before you lecture me, look at you."
"I'm 22 and you 16. So unless I'm wrong, I'm still your big brother. I still have the right to tell you what I think."
Jamie and Lydia did not argue often. They had always been complicit as hand in glove and brought happiness to their parents. But since Lydia became a teenager and Jamie became a man, they gradually moved away from each other. What grieved their mother, Haley, who would want her children to be as close to her and her big sisters.
Lydia was a model girl, she was brilliant at school, but it was "too" perfect. What was she hiding?
As for Jamie, taken in his studies and basketball in college, he seemed thoughtful, haggard, such as concerned. His nocturnal getaways were they the cause of the distance between Jamie and the rest of his family?