Title: To Be Loved 9/?
Author: Christen (purplehaysc@hotmail.com) but if you want a response back from during the week email me at (cha005@latech.edu)
Disclaimer: these characters belong to One Tree Hill except for Margaret or any other characters you don't recognize.
Distribution: Take it, but let me know. If you have any of my other fics, go ahead.
Comments: This is my first One Tree Hill Fic but email me if have any comments please email them to me. Ok someone was a little confused and they couldn't understand how Lucas could have kids but still be in high school. Ok when Lucas, Nathan, Haley etc are in high school in the past and when they have kids that's in the future. Remember how Dan has a date of death that's not current? That's evidence that at the time that was the future. any other questions just email me. Hey I'm looking for a beta reader? Anyone want to help?
(To Be Loved by Curtis Stigers)
"Mind your manners
Watch your weight
Be a good boy
Just behave
What's wrong with you?
Settle down.
Keep your two feet on the ground.
Stand up straight
Sit up tall
Never falter
Never fall
Stay in school
Make the grade
Never fail
And never fade"
"Having fun?" Peyton asked as they came up to the kids.
"Mom! Dad!" Lori said shocked as she saw her parents.
"We're busted aren't we?" Sam said smiling.
"You could say that." Lucas said.
"Nathan, Margaret it's good to see you." Deb said.
"Mom, how about we call you later tonight and talk? We need to deal with the kids now." Margaret asked.
"Ok well in that case. I'll go. Good luck kids." Deb said as she left.
"So who wants to explain?" Nathan asked.
Everyone looked at Lori and Chad.
"Dad we just thought that maybe if we did this you and Uncle Lucas would start getting along again because you had to, you know so you could find us." Lori said.
"You did this to manipulate us?" Nathan said mad.
"We couldn't think of anything else to do. Please don't be mad. We did it for a good reason." Chad said.
"There is no good reason for scaring us to death or manipulating us!" Lucas said mad.
"Could we take this home because people are starting to stare at us." Haley said.
"Yeah guys that's sounds like a good idea. Come on Sam, let's go home." Peyton said as Sam got up.
"Come on Carrie, Grace let's go." Jake said as Carrie and Grace got up.
"Who do I go home with?" Chad asked.
"Who do you want to go home with?" Lucas asked.
"Mom."
"Then you're coming home with me, now let's go." Lucas said.
"How is that fair?"
"At this point you couldn't of possibly believed that we'd let you choice who you got to go home with." Margaret said.
"Right I should of guessed." Chad said walking over to his father.
"Come on Lori, let's go home." Haley said.
"Aren't I going with you?" Kendall said.
"No you're coming home to your real home. I'll go get your stuff later."
"But why?"
"Because I said so! And I'm really not in the mood to argue with you about this. Plus your cousins don't deserve to have to deal with you on top of their own daughter. Now come on, Kendall we're leaving." Lucas said as Kendall, Chad, Sam and Peyton left with him.
Dan looked down at the picture. He opened up the desk down and then lifted the bottom board. He put the picture in the drawer with the rest of his pictures of Lucas. He shouldn't of left the picture out. He knew better than that. Lucas was never supposed to see any of these pictures. That was Dan's secret. He never told anyone about the pictures. How could he explain it to any one? No one would understand why he kept pictures of a kid he had abandoned. He didn't completely understand himself. The front door slammed. Dan got up and went to the living room where he saw Nathan coming in. "So you finally decided to come back home, I see."
Nathan sighed. "Don't make me regret it." Nathan said angry as he tired to push past him.
Dan grabbed his arm. "Son, we need to talk."
"Let go of me! I'm not going to talk to you. I can barely even stand to look at you after seeing you in bed with Margaret!"
Dan let go. "It wasn't what you thought I was."
"You mean you weren't sleeping with my stepsister?"
Dan didn't say anything.
"That's what I thought. I'm going to my room. Don't even think of coming to talk to me."
"Well Grace still won't tell me why her and Kendall came back." Jake said as he sat down on the couch next to Margaret.
"Well I bet she didn't scream at you near as much as Carrie did."
"She didn't take her punishment to well? I mean it wasn't like it was much." Jake said.
"It wasn't when I first went in the room. But by the time I left it was at least month."
"What did she say?"
"Everything that she's not allowed to say. Called me names; you know the typical things. But she's never take her punishments well has she?" Margaret said smiling.
"No she hasn't." Jake said laughing. "But then again she gets that from her mother."
"Thanks!" Margaret said as she playfully hit him.
"And you get that from your mother."
"I'm going to ignore that you said that. But speaking of my mother. I talked to her too."
"How did that go?"
"It was really nice actually." Margaret said smiling.
"Forgot how much you liked talking to her?"
"I haven't always you know."
"I know I can remember. You two used to hate each other."
"It was more like I hated her for marrying Dan and she hated for me not getting along with him. But when Dan's true colors were shown, we became close."
"You happy about that?"
"Very."
Lucas entered the house with all of Margaret's things. "Anyone home?" He asked. He said as he put Margaret's things on the couch.
"Margaret's not here and your mother just closed up the café." Keith said.
"And you're here as the messenger?" Lucas asked smiling.
"Mostly plus I was hoping to talk to you."
"About what?"
"I don't know maybe the girl who has just moved in with you."
"You mean Margaret?"
"Yes that is unless you've moved some other girl in here. You haven't have you?"
"No just Margaret."
"Why?"
"She needed someone and a place to stay."
"And you think you're that someone."
"She seems to think I am."
"And who cares how that affects your mother right?"
"You know I care about my mother."
"I thought you did, but moving Margaret in here with out even asking your mother makes me think other wise."
"What exactly are you trying to say Uncle Keith?"
"Just that your barely know Margaret and you decided she's going to move in and so your mother is stuck raising two teenagers."
"What exactly do you have against Margaret?"
"Luke I barely know her except to know that she is trouble and you don't really need that in your life."
"Are you saying this because you care about me or because you don't care about Margaret?"
"I care about both you and your mother. I mean come on Luke you don't even know her."
"Either do you Uncle Keith. Forgive me for giving her the benefit of the doubt. I thought that was the right thing to do. You know why don't you get to know her before you just give up here?" Luke said as the phone rang. He grabbed it and handed to his room. It was Peyton and he really wanted to talk to her.
"Can we talk?" Lucas asked as he came into Kendall's room.
"You actually care about my opinion, I'm shocked." Kendall said sarcastically.
"I'll take that as a yes." Lucas said as she walked in and closed the door. "I've always cared about your opinion Kendall. You're my sister after all."
"Yeah well you have a funny way of showing it."
"Well I was really mad and I lost it. I'm sorry."
"Did I really just hear my big brother, Lucas Scott say he was sorry? It's a miracle." Kendall said sarcastically.
Lucas laughed. "You better take a picture or write it down because it won't happen again for a long time."
"By the way you do know I'm not to blame for what happened today."
"I know Chad told me that no one but him and Lori were to blame after about thirty minutes of me threatening him."
"But?"
"I'm a still a little upset that you didn't try to stop it."
"And?"
"That you didn't want to live here."
Kendall got up. "So how long am I grounded?"
"A day."
Kendall smiled. "Which one?"
"Sunday but on one condition."
"Which is?"
"You tell me why you didn't want to stay here."
"Can't you just ground me for a month?"
"Can't you just talk to me? You act like talking to me is like getting your teeth pulled out."
"Well it is, it's own way."
"Kendall, please. I really want to understand what's going on with you."
Kendall walked over to a picture and handed it to Lucas. "That's one reason and…" She went over and grabbed another picture. "This is another one."
Lucas looked at the pictures one of them was of Keith and Kendall and the other one was of their mother. "You know your father would of have gotten quite a laugh out of what happened today."
"He would of?"
"Don't you remember how much your father used to love to pull pranks on me and Nathan?"
Kendall laughed. "Yeah I do. Do you think he would of agreed with my punishment?"
"Yes but of course after lots of lecturing and making you believe that you were going to be punished for a long time."
"And mom?"
"Oh you would of be punished for a long time if mom would have had a saying in it. She was a pretty strict parent."
"They really were opposites weren't they?"
"Yeah and of course opposites attract."
"That explains you and your two wives." Kendall said smiling.
"Hey!" Lucas said hitting her with a pillow.
"You know I miss this when I away."
"Miss me hitting you?"
"No joking around with you and everyone here. I know I choose to leave…"
"Why did you?"
"Too many bad memories and good ones."
"Of Keith and mom?"
"Yeah but I don't want to go back. Please Luke don't make me go back." Kendall said as a tear started to slide down her face.
"I won't K. K. I promise. I never wanted you to leave in the first place." He said as he hugged her.
"K. K. dad used to call me that."
"I know it was his way of remembering that you were your mother's daughter. You know since you have her name for your middle name."
"You know Luke if I stay can you promise me something?"
"I can't promise you that Chad won't bug you."
Kendall laughed. "I don't want you to do that. What I was going to say was that I want you to promise that we can try to talk about my parents as much as possible."
"I promise."
"Ok dad, I'm going to go to my homework. I'll finish this dishes in a little while." Haley said as she came into her room. As she sat down at her desk, the phone rang. "Hello?" She asked as she answered the phone.
"Haley?" Nathan asked.
"Nathan, you ok? You sound a little different."
"Well I just broke up with Peyton, my dad and I aren't talking and my half sister has moved in with my half brother."
"Ok, umm… why did you break up with Peyton?"
"Because of you, Lucas but mainly because we haven't been a couple for a long time."
"Ok and why aren't you and your dad talking?"
"For the same reason I showed up to your house last night."
"Meaning you can't tell me?"
"It's my sisters thing to say."
"And why is your sister living with Lucas?"
"Let's just say her and my father had a falling out."
"And you can't tell me that. So what can you tell me?"
Nathan laughed. "Well I'm glad I have you to make me laugh."
"I'm glad to know I can be useful."
"Nathan can we talk?" Haley asked as she came into their bedroom.
"Sure, is this about Lori?" Nathan asked as she came over and sat down next to him.
"Well not really. But I do think that by the end of her grounding we're going to want to kill each other." Haley said smiling.
"Yeah she's got that personality from you."
"Oh no she didn't! This is defiantly a Scott trait. Her brains and good looks she got from me."
"Ok you know I wouldn't argue with that with out getting my self in some serious trouble." Nathan said smiling. "So is that all you wanted to talk about?"
"No, look I've got some good news and some bad news. Which do you want to hear first?"
"I guess the bad news that way the good news will be even better. You know Haley you look pretty upset. You sure you're ok?"
"I've got to get this out, Nathan because if I don't I'm never going to say it."
"Haley you know no matter what it is I will always love you right?"
"You may change your mind after you hear what I have to say."
"Ok now you're worrying me. Haley what's going on?"
"Ok remember two months ago when you had that business trip the weekend of the big storm?"
"Yeah, you said the electricity went out."
"It did what I didn't tell you was that Lucas came over to fix it."
"I kind of guessed that. I mean who else would you call."
"Ok well Lori was at Katie's the night it went out. And the storm became so bad that night that Lucas couldn't go back home so he spent the night. We started to talk about old times and what might have been and we started drinking actually we got pretty drunk then we… we slept together."
"What! Tell me you're not serious!" Nathan said mad as he got up.
"Nathan, I'm sorry. Look when we woke up the next morning, we both realized what we had done that night before and that it was a mistake and that we both wanted to forget it ever happened."
"Why didn't you ever tell me about this before?"
"Because I was worried about how you might take the news. And I really didn't want to ruin this, our marriage. I just couldn't take losing you, Nathan."
"Well maybe you should of thought of that before you slept with my brother!"
"I wasn't really thinking that was the problem Nathan we were both so drunk that we weren't thinking at all."
"So you want me to believe that the reason you slept with Lucas was because you were drunk?"
"I guess… I really don't know why I slept with him that's the thing. If there was a reason then I'd tell it to you right now. But I can't think of anything." Haley said crying.
"Answer this if you could go back to the night would you sleep with Lucas again?"
"No, I won't. I know I wouldn't." Haley said telling the truth.
"I want to believe you, Haley but this is just so much at once. I need time to think about this."
"Ok, take as much time as you need just promise me that you'll come back to me."
"Why? Because if you thought I wouldn't then you won't of told me?"
"No because I don't want to lose you. I can't."
"Maybe you should of thought about that two months ago. I'll be in Kendall's room." Nathan said as he started to leave. "Wait what's the good news?"
"I'm pregnant and I got a job offer."
"Who is the father?"
"You are."
"So that's why you're telling me this now because you had to tell the doctor so you could find out which Scott brother got you pregnant? Right?"
"Well that's what caused me to think about it again."
"Just a question but who did you tell first about the baby: Me or Lucas?"
Haley looked at the floor.
"That's what I was worried about. Good night Haley." Nathan said as he left.
"Will you be quiet I want to go check on the baby and Jake." Jake's mother told his father as they headed to Jake's room.
His mother opened the door and was shocked to see Jake, Margaret and Grace asleep. Margaret was resting her head against Jake shoulder and Jake was holding Grace. His mother closed the door.
"Was that Dan Scott's step-daughter?" His father asked.
"Yeah, Margaret I think. Do you think we should call Dan and tell him that she's here?"
"It's late. We might wake him up."
"True. You know they looked like a little family in there." She said smiling.
"Our son already made a family. I'll just be happy if he doesn't add on to it."
"I just want him to be happy. So should we wake them up?"
"And deal with the baby crying again? I think not. How about we just go to bed?" His dad said putting his arm around her.
"Yeah, we'll talk to them in the morning."
"So how are you holding up?" Bryan asked Grace.
Grace laughed. "Define holding up."
Bryan laughed. "Have you told your dad why you're home yet?"
"Well not really but then again things have been a little busy here."
"Define busy."
"Well my little brother and cousin convinced my grandmother to take us all so his father and my uncle were forced to get along. To say the least our parents didn't take it very well."
"How long are you grounded?"
"My dad was so worried about why I'm back that he couldn't ground me."
"Well that's pure luck. But you're going to need to tell him soon."
"And why's that?"
"Because I convinced my family to take a detour from our family vacation route through your hometown."
"What!" Grace said shocked.
"And here I thought you'd be happy to see me."
"I am I just… how long do I have till you get here?"
"We'll be there in a week and believe me it'll be in your best advantage to tell your father before then."
"So what did you call about?" Lucas asked Peyton as he closed the door.
"I have some news."
"Ok, what's the news?"
"Nathan and I broke up."
"Are you happy about that?"
"I don't know yet. I'm still reeling for the break up."
"So why did you call me?"
"Because I need someone to talk."
"Why not call Brooke?"
"Look Lucas if you don't want me to call you then I won't!" Haley said mad.
"No, I do. I was just wondering why you would call me out of everyone else that you could of called."
"Maybe because I really just wanted to talk to you, you know someone who won't want all the details about the break up but would just talk to me about anything but that."
"Ok, any ideas?"
"If I could think of anything then I wouldn't of called you." Peyton said smiling.
