Chapter 9

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"You're pregnant?"

All Peyton could do was close her eyes and wish she was anywhere but there, it was bad enough that Brooke knew but Haley too? That was just a recipe for disaster. It wasn't that she didn't love and trust Haley but Peyton had always known that when push came to shove Haley's loyalties would lie with Lucas in the same way that Brooke's would lie with her.

Realising that she wasn't suddenly going to teleport to some random exotic beach somewhere and would actually have to face Haley, Peyton slowly opened her eyes and nodded slightly in confirmation of Haley's question. It wasn't as though she could deny it, who knows how much she'd heard?

"Are you freaking kidding me Peyton? I thought this whole relationship was fake?" she said in a voice that did nothing but show her anger.

"Please keep your voice down," Peyton hissed before taking a deep breath, "okay the actual relationship is fake but the night that Lucas and I got married we also slept together, it was just a one night stand and it didn't mean anything but apparently we didn't use protection because now I'm pregnant."

"So you're telling me that you're almost three months pregnant and you haven't even told him yet?" Haley's face displayed her disapproval perfectly.

"Okay can you two stop focusing on that? No I haven't told him yet but I will, I promise."

Brooke's expression calmed slightly but Haley still didn't seem convinced.

"Haley, I'm not going to keep this baby from him," she promised. "I just need some time to figure out the best way to tell him and how to keep the baby away from anything to do with the movie which means that no Brooke you can't tell Julian, no matter how much you want to."

Brooke's face turned into a childlike pout and Peyton had to give her a stern glare before she gave up and dropped it.

"I don't like this Peyton, I don't want to lie to Lucas or Nathan for that matter because I'm guessing you don't want me to tell him either?" she questioned unhappily.

"I know how much I'm asking of you but when you were pregnant with Jamie you didn't tell Nathan right away, you told Brooke and Lucas first," she pointed out.

"Yeah but I didn't wait three months," she told her still uneasy with the situation.

"I know that I need to tell him and I will, I just need a little more time," she half asked and half cried, it seemed her hormones were going a little crazy this evening.

"Aw Peyton." Brooke hugged her best friend which really did make her cry.

"I just feel so out of control of my life and I can't be a good mother, this baby was conceived as a result of a one night stand, what kind of a mother does that make me?" she cried softly.

"We all know that Lucas is more than just a one night stand, hell he's your husband!" Brooke laughed. "In fact you even conceived your baby on your wedding night."

Peyton couldn't help but give Brooke an incredulous glance; she made it sound so simple, as though they were newlyweds expecting their first baby but the fact is that they weren't together and until very recently they hadn't seen each other in four years. Yes maybe Lucas was more than just a one night stand, he was the love of her life once upon a time but in some ways now he was nothing more than a stranger to her.

"You're going to be a great mom Peyton," Haley told her and she could see her begin to wear down to the point that maybe she wouldn't tell Lucas about the baby.

"So you're not going to tell Luke?" she asked unsurely.

"No but you can't wait forever because the longer you wait the worse it's going to be when you tell him, besides you won't be able to hide your bump for too much longer," she pointed out.

"You noticed the bump?" She felt a shy smile come across her lips and saw Haley and Brooke's expressions turn into ones of happiness for their friend. "I thought I was just imagining it."

"Trust me it's there," Haley replied despite her obvious uneasiness with the situation apparently she was still happy that she was going to be an aunt.

"Yeah there's definitely something there," Brooke told her nudging her with her elbow. "Don't worry you can only tell when you know it's there though."

For a minute the girls just looked at each other in silence, truly taking in the fact that the Scott family was about to become a little larger before Brooke broke the moment.

"You're going to be a mom P Sawyer," she said with an excited little grin on her face.

"Yeah I am," Peyton replied with a nervous little laugh of her own.


"He's not going to kill me right?" Lucas asked her as they walked towards Peyton's dad's house.

"I'm pretty sure he's going to kill both of us," she replied with a trace of apprehension in her voice.

"He won't kill you, you're his only daughter," he scoffed.

"Yeah but I'm his only daughter who supposedly didn't tell him I had a boyfriend for a year and then eloped with said boyfriend," she explained with a frown, it was clear that even she didn't believe the lies they were telling.

They both paused as they stood outside the white door, took deep breaths and shared some awkward eye contact moments.

Eventually Peyton pushed open the door and yelled out, "Dad? We're here."

Lucas followed her into the living room where they found Larry Sawyer stood in the middle of the room with his arms crossed and a look on his face that made Lucas feel like a teenager again. It seemed to have the same effect on Peyton as well because she suddenly became extremely nervous and gave her dad a sheepish smile.

"I think you two have some explaining to do." The older man's sheer presence in the room and the way that he directed them to sit down simply with a glance at the couch made Lucas want to run out of the house but if Peyton was going to have to deal with this then so was he.

Since neither of them knew where to begin Lucas thought he'd try to be polite and friendly by greeting his… father-in-law.

"Hi Mr Sawyer," he attempted a warm smile but was aware that the forcefulness behind it showed fairly obviously. "It's good to see you again."

Larry just raised his eyebrows and looked at Peyton who immediately looked down at her knees.

"Peyton," he said in a voice that just screamed 'no matter how old you are I'm still your father'. "Would you care to explain to me why two weeks ago you informed me that you'd gotten married even though I had no idea that you were even dating anyone let alone him."

Apparently Larry Sawyer had read his book.

"I – we just wanted to keep it between the two of us for a while and I knew how you would react when I told you I was seeing Lucas again."

He had to admit that it stung to know that he no longer had Peyton's dad's approval, the approval that he'd earned when he was sixteen. He had to say though that Peyton was one heck of a liar.

"So you thought it was fine to just get engaged and married without even telling me?" You could tell just how hurt he was at missing out on such a huge part of his daughter's life and it made Lucas feel incredibly guilty for being part of the reason for that pain.

"I'm sorry dad, we didn't plan on getting married like that I promise." Peyton seemed like she was close to tears and Lucas felt as though it was time he spoke out.

"Look Mr. Sawyer," he said in a tone that was much stronger than he felt in that moment. "I know I've made mistakes but I'm married to your daughter now and that isn't going to change any time soon so you can accept things the way they are or not but we both know that if you don't then it's going to cause everyone in this room pain, especially Peyton and neither of us want that."

If anything this seemed to make Peyton cry more but it was a different type of crying because her big green eyes showed that she was looking at him with the same amazement she used to back when they were in high school with the world at their fingertips.

It was another few minutes before anyone spoke again. With Lucas attempting to dissect the look that Peyton had given him after his more-embarrassing-by-the-second speech, Larry was clearly taking in everything that had been said since they had arrived and Peyton, well Peyton just seemed to be in a world of her own.

Surprisingly enough it was actually Larry who broke the silence.

"You're not going to tell me you're pregnant any time soon are you?" he directed at Peyton and he could tell that beneath the surly expression Larry Sawyer would do anything for his daughter's happiness.

Peyton let out an awkward laugh that startled Lucas slightly but it seemed as though things were improving for the Sawyers and for a moment that was all that mattered.


It took me a couple of attempts to get the first bit done because Haley kept coming across as a bitch in the other versions I wrote of that conversations, I think she didn't come across too badly in the final version though. So what did you think? Let me know in reviews because you guys have to know by now just how much I love them and I'm curious to know what you think of Lucas this chapter.