Chapter 7

That night after Peyton had left, Lucas was still in a state of shock, so many things spinning round in is head he felt sad, confused but also happy that his first child was with Peyton the love of his life the one person who really understands him, The same women who he had fantasized about from the very first day he saw her.

Once he had put little Keith to bed he makes his way back to the living room.

He just sat there in a little world of his own, he didn't even hear his mother come in the door from work.

Karen comes home to find her eldest son sat on the sofa just staring into space.

She walked over to him and put her hand on his shoulder, which made him jump.

"Lucas, are you ok?"

Lucas jumped up off the sofa and hug his mom, and cried into her shoulder for about 5 minutes, Karen didn't say anything to her son she just hug him while he sobbed his heart out and waited for him to calm down.

"Mom im so glad you are home"

"Lucas whats the matter you are scaring me"

"Mom, Peyton is back, she came to see me" Lucas paused unable to tell his mom everything he knew he had to.

"Well that's a good thing isn't Luke you have wanted her to come home since she left" Karen replied with an air of caution to her question.

"Yes it is, its great to see her, she told my why she left Tree Hill, mom I think you should sit down before I tell you this"

Karen did as her son asked and sat down on the sofa next to him waiting to hear why Peyton left so suddenly after graduation, from the tone of Lucas's voice she knew it must be something serious.

It took a couple of minutes for Lucas to be able to bring himself to tell his mom.

"Peyton was pregnant with my child, that's why she left Tree Hill, she didn't tell anyone not even her dad, she did it all by herself, she didn't tell her dad till after she had the baby. Its all my fault if I had just stopped pretending I didn't love her because I was scared, and if I hadn't got back together with Brooke then Peyton wouldn't have thought she would be ruining my life and she could have come to me and told me then we could have gone through it all together, and I wouldn't have missed the first two and a half years of my Childs life"

Lucas has tears running down his face again.

"Lucas this is not your fault it is not anyone's fault, it is just the way things go, im sure Peyton thought she was doing what she thought was right for her, you and the baby she was carrying. Just be grateful she has found the courage to tell you now instead of in 16 years you have someone turn up on your doorstep telling you they are your child. You now have the rest of your lives to spend together"

Lucas looks at his mother knowing everything she has just said is all true.

All of a sudden Lucas's face brakes out into a huge smile.

"Mom I have a daughter… I am a dad I cant believe it, it doesn't seem real. I have a picture Peyton gave to me would you like to see?"

Lucas picks up the picture from the coffee table and passes it to his mother. Karen takes one look at it and starts to cry.

"Lucas she is beautiful, she looks just like you when you were a baby except for the long blond curly hair which she obviously gets that from her mom"

"Peyton called her Grace Karen Scott" He watches his mother to see her reaction.

A fresh load of tears start to fall from Karens eyes, as she hears that her first grandchild has her name.

Lucas fills his mom in on all the stuff Peyton told him about little Grace. They talk for a while then they say goodnight and both go to bed as it is getting late.