Disclaimer: I don't own anything affiliated with One Tree Hill, or No One-by Alicia Keys
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What I'm Feeling
"Hey girlie" Peyton said as Mia walked into her office.
"Hi Peyton"
"Did you just check into your hotel?"
"Yeah, my flight got in a few hours ago."
"Good, now how would you feel about getting in the studio today?"
"Today...thats awesome, it would be amazing"
"And there is a game at Tree Hill tonight, everyone is going if you want to join."
"Umm...yeah!"
"Good, now lets get to the studio"
"Hey is that the library?" Mia asked as they walked by.
"Yeah, you wanna see where I almost bled to death"
"Hell yes"
"Mia just called me, she came into town today and wanted to meet up" Haley said to Brooke and Lindsay as they sat in the stands. Nathan and Lucas were talking with Skills and Julian was on the way with Juliet.
"Where is she I want to see her?"
"In the library"
"What?"
"Its a long story let's go."
"Wanna come Lindsay?"
"Sure" They all ran off and found their way through the halls of their old school to the library.
When they walked in they first saw Mia and ran over to hug her but then Lindsay saw Peyton and went to walk out when she reached the doors she realized there were no handles.
"Guys we are locked in here."
"What?" Everyone ran over and Brooke found a paper describing that they were fixing them.
"Great we are locked in here...and I don't have any cell service." Haley said looking at her phone.
"Me either." Mia sighed.
"None of us do then, Tree Hill only has one cell phone provider." Peyton said.
"This is just great" Brooke sighed sitting down as everyone looked at her "What, we are going to be stuck until someone comes looking for us, we might as well get comfortable."
"At least Nate and Luke know we came here."
"Julian will start to wonder when he can't find me in the gym...I hope"
Lindsay walked over to the door and started banging on it. "Lindsay nobody's going to hear you their all at the game" Haley called over to her.
Brooke walked around the library "Okay they're fixing all the other doors; no handles"
"The library calls are just going to the office." Haley said hanging up the land line.
"So what were all you guys doing hanging out...I mean I thought Mia called Brooke and Haley but I could be wrong."
"I'm sorry Peyton we made plans before..."
"You don't have to apologize to her Brooke, we made plans before she faked a relationship to make my fiance get back with her but she is just jealous that Lucas is engaged to me, not her."
"Please as if for one second I would be jealous of you and your sorry ass. And by the way my best friend can say whatever she wants to me she doesn't have to listen to what you say when you cut her off like a rude..."
"Peyton, its not worth it" Brooke whispered.
"It is because I was going to try to be nice to her, but I think that's officially over because your a bitch."
"Excuse me how can you say that because you don't know me?"
"I don't know you but I know how you act. You say you want to be friends with people here but you don't show up to anything, like the launch of Brooke's new line to support her you could have cared less when Juliet was in the hospital, and you were completely hostile and didn't talk to anyone at dinner the other night. You could care less about anyone in this room."
"I wish I could beat the hell out of you but Lucas would kill me"
"Maybe because he likes me better, you couldn't even try if you wanted with your fat ass."
"Guess this will be the second time you will be bleeding all over this library."
Peyton walked up to her and stood right in front of her
"You think that's funny! Do you think your funny for joking about the time when I almost died. I could have died in there but I didn't and you know who the first person I wanted to see when I woke up was, it was Lucas, because I knew he would be angry with Jimmy but I told him not to be because Jimmy was good kid who was struggling and couldn't keep up with the bullies anymore. You should be ashamed of yourself because you officially just made fun of a kid who was suicidal and shot himself and me." Peyton slapped her and turned away.
"I'm online!" Peyton shouted after fiddling around with the computer. Everyone ran over. She started to try to log onto facebook but it wouldn't let her.
"They block all of that stuff at a school dumbass" Lindsay said.
"Obviously you were the saint in high school, you can mess with the system" Peyton replied as she put an 's' before the webcode and facebook loaded. "Hales login"
"Why me"
"Because we all know your password anyway."
"What?"
"It's so predictable Haley" Brooke said.
"HJS23NS...its been your password since high school" Peyton said.
"Wait do you guys...like use this"
"Yeah because we spend our free time hacking into your facebook, we actually have lives" Brooke joked.
"A little presumptuous Hales you weren't even married yet."
"Shut up Mia!" Haley said as everyone just laughed.
"Why 23?" Lindsay asked.
Brooke started "Nathans jersey number"
Peyton continued "The day her album went number one on itunes"
Mia said. "The day of their wedding"
"The day she first sang at Tric"
"The day the guys won against Oak Lake...and Nate proposed."
"Nathan's birthday"
"And my due date" Haley said running her hand over her stomach, and by that time Peyton had already opened her messages and was typing one.
"Does Nathan get facebook alerts sent right to his phone."
"I don't know"
"Julian does."
"Luke used to" Peyton whispered starting to type a message to the three.
'Locked in library, door has no handle, come quick or Peyton will kill someone, and yes this is her typing it because she...I hacked Haley's account, yes her password is still the same as it was in high school.'
"Peyton!" Haley said reaching over and hitting her.
"I just had to, you should get on changing that though."
"Yeah"
"Would you just send the damn message already!" Lindsay yelled.
"Ok, do not yell at me!" Peyton said looking up
"I'll yell at you if I want to! Just send the message I want to get the hell out of here"
"We all want to get the hell out of here okay, don't yell at me!"
"Calm down" Haley said as Lindsay walked away.
"Alright Hales, don't get stressed okay, its not good for the baby" Peyton said.
"Thats the least I have to worry about"
"What do you mean?" Brooke asked. Haley looked away and Peyton walked closer "Hales what's wrong?"
"Chris gave out an interview to hit the stands tomorrow that...I slept with him and am carrying his child, not Nathan's."
"Oh my" Brooke whispered.
"Hales" Peyton instantly hugged her.
"Please don't think I did it" Haley started crying once more.
"Of course we wouldn't Haley" Mia said putting her hand on her shoulder.
"You are the most honest caring person I know of course we wouldn't think you would cheat on Nathan" Brooke said running her hand on her back.
"What are you going to do about it?" Lindsay asked.
"I have an interview in two days on GMA but I am afraid it will still be too late, I am so afraid of what the next few days and weeks will be like."
"Why don't you and Nate come over tomorrow, no one will be calling my house for a story and no one knows where I live to try to find me, this way you can avoid the press calling and showing up. Maybe we can keep your mind off it"
"Thanks Brooke"
"And maybe you could come to the label the next day, you could record, or Mia could, anything to get your mind off it."
"You are all amazing."
"You made a great honest career for yourself Hales" Mia complimented.
"Thank you...where did that come from?"
"I just think that we tear each other down enough and we sometimes we should tell each other what we love about them or something they are great at or a quality that you admire. And I think you did a really good job with the way you built your career because you made your fans feel like you care about each of them."
"Courage, Haley is courageous" Peyton said
"She sees her dreams and goes for them."
"And strong" Brooke said "She has been through so much and I could never imagine how I would have handled it"
"Kind" Lindsay said "She has a great heart"
"See don't you feel like you're pretty awesome now?"
"Yeah I kinda do"
"Okay now do me, what do you love about me?"
"Your voice is an amazing gift." Haley said.
"The fact that you came up with this game" Lindsay said.
"Your boobs" Peyton joked.
"And your lips, you got good lips and legs you got the whole package" Brooke babbled.
"Before this turns even more weird, lets move on...Lindsay your eyes are like not even fair"
"Your one of the smartest people I know" Haley pointed out.
"I am not"
"And your classy" Brooke complimented.
"You guys"
"Peyton is their something nice you'd like to say about Lindsay?"
"She's got a decent taste in men..this game sucks"
"I'm intimidated by Peyton, I spent a year editing a book that was basically a love letter to her I watched how caring and meticulous Lucas was in his words to her, he was still holding on to her sometimes I think he still is."
"Which is why he proposed to you right, yeah I can see that. God I hate this library" Peyton looked away.
"Okay everybody please relax, the guys are going to come and maybe we will make the end of the game so in the meantime everybody just calm down."
"Hales calm down we don't need another run to the emergency room."
"What?" Peyton said as her head snapped up and she walked closer to Haley "Are you okay...the baby?"
"We are fine, I had a cyst and it started bleeding but everything is fine."
"You should have called"
"You were busy and I didn't want to worry you if it was nothing, which it turns out it wasn't"
"But still...if anything happens I want to be there, I love this baby already."
"I know you do Peyt" Haley said giving her a hug.
"Oh guitar" Mia said seeing one hanging on the wall and reaching to grab it.
"Do you have A.D.D?" Peyton asked, noticing it.
"I have had this melody in my head all day and I need to figure out lyrics."
"You should have heard her in the studio today Hales she was amazing. You have to stop by tomorrow we will be back in there."
Mia sat down and started playing.
"Thats gorgeous"
"Thanks..I just don't have the lyrics yet."
"Why don't you keep playing it maybe we can help you."
"I think maybe we should just work on that in the studio, alone."
"Oh for Gods sake what am I going to do steal Mia's song?"
"I don't know songs...friends"
"You mean you trying to steal Lucas doesn't count? Pot meet kettle"
"Ass meet face"
"Pot meet kettle, ass meet face" Mia sang along "Don't think that's gonna work guys"
"Let me try one, my names Peyton fake blond Peyton I don't have a boyfriend because I'm a bitch"
"Play it again Mia" Peyton said.
"Guys we need to stop" Haley tried to intervene.
"Mia...her names Lindsay man faced Lindsay and her fiance proposed to me first with the very same ring."
"You're lying."
"Oh you didn't know"
"Peyton..."
"Oh, is she gonna cry?"
"Stop it."
"Go ahead let's cry little rich girl."
"I said stop it!"
"Is daddy going to throw you a big huge wedding for his little cry baby daughter?"
"Peyton you don't know what you're talking about!"
"It's fine Haley, daddy's gonna make everything better for the little rich girl who got everything she ever wanted!"
"He's dead, alright Peyton? He's dead. He died two years ago from cancer but not until he couldn't walk or talk or even recognize me, does that make you happy? Does that make you feel better? That his death is with me everyday, that I was the one was had to turn off the ventilator because my mother was too destroyed to do it. You wanna hear the sound he made to before he took that last breath. Oh cause I can still hear it, exactly how it sounded. Does that make you happy? Are you glad that my life isn't perfect?"
"Lindsay"
"I used to admire the Peyton from the book, she seemed so noble, kind. I wish you were here Peyton, that version of you. What happened to her?"
"I understand you went through a hard time with your father but imagine having to go through that twice, my mom died and my dad stayed home til I was 14 after that but then Ellie moved in and I saw him once a month...then Ellie died but he still went on his trips as usual, so after she died I basically had no parents because I never told my dad how much I missed him and their isn't even a chance of me ever finding out out who my real father is. Consider yourself lucky that you had that many years with an amazing father especially after Dan and Deb were evil to Nate and Brooke and Haley and Luke lost both their parents far too young within three days of each other. Yes a lot of us know what that's like and we are sorry but don't ever use that as a playing card anymore because you are the lucky one." Peyton turned and walked away.
"They replaced the carpet" Peyton said when Brooke found her in the exact same spot she had been many years ago under many different circumstances but this time she had a copy of Lucas's book next to her. "This is where Julian and I hid out during the shooting, but they changed the carpet, it doesn't match."
"I'm not going to tell you how to be with Lindsay, but most of your life I have known you to take the high road."
"No Brooke, I am am just so sick of looking of her and her precious ring."
"Don't you mean your precious ring." Peyton looked at Brooke then got up.
"Lindsay I am sorry, I am so sorry for what I said about your father okay, you know I lost my mom to cancer and I'm sorry. I don't know what it is but for whatever reason you bring out the insecurity in me and I end up being the worst possible side of me."
"Welcome to the club"
"I think what makes it so hard to be nice is that Lucas found this person who is so great...and it was never my ring I was just trying to hurt you."
"Why are you saying this?"
"So we can stop doing this...I guess it obvious I'm not the Peyton in the book anymore, truth is I never was."
"I think you were and I think you still are it's just you're not that couple anymore and in a way it breaks my heart because I really was rooting for them, but Lucas and I have written our own chapter now and thats a chapter I won't apologize for."
"No you don't have to and you don't have a man face or a big ass, fact is you have a pretty great ass."
"Thanks."
"Just please promise me you will treat him right because God knows I didn't and he deserves better than what I did."
Peyton turned to walk away and then turned back around "My Mom used to sing to me, I don't think I've ever told anyone that before, it was like our little secret. But every night she'd come in and she'd tuck me in and she'd sing something, like lullabies or album rock stuff. And after she was gone I remember lying in bed for the first time and just feeling silence, you know. Then realizing for the rest of my life that it was gone, all her songs were gone, her voice and the way it used to soothe me, just all of it. So I guess I tried to find new songs to fill that quiet, but none of them ever really have. Now she's gone and Luke is gone. There's just silence...There's just silence. Now I just hear the echoes of who we used to be. And so I wish for patience, and grace, and strength to just let him be happy. Mostly I pray for the strength to not make his life worse because of what I want. That's the toughest part, letting go, you know? That's the part of grace that really sucks. So I understand how you feel about your dad...just so you know"
"Hales?" Nathan called walking into the library. Everyone quickly shouted. "Don't close the door"
So he just stood there as everyone grabbed their stuff and walked into the hallway.
"What happened?"
"Long story" She said hugging him.
"Mia when did you get here?" Lucas asked as everyone finally saw him and Julian behind Nathan.
"This morning."
"Hi" He gave her a quick hug as did Nathan and Julian.
"Where is Jules?"
"I left her with Mouth after we found out you got locked in the library."
"Alright...Mia you wanna get out of here?" Peyton asked as she nodded "Hales call me tomorrow and we can meet at the studio, Brooke I will see you at home, maybe you too Julian" She said as Brooke blushed and Haley hit her lightly.
"What, why didn't you...?" Brooke shrugged.
"Bye Luke...Lindsay"
"Bye everyone" Mia said.
"Bye Peyt, Mia." Lucas said as Peyton and Mia went the opposite way down the hallway.
"I'm so confused" Nathan said as Haley replied
"I will explain in a minute but I have to pee...don't groan you aren't pregnant."
"Your baby is the size of a cheese it Hales, you just have a small bladder!" Brooke said once more.
"My baby is a larger than that Brooke it is the size of mango, lets go Nate"
"I think I am going to go take some time away and go to New York." Lindsay said.
"What...why?" Lucas asked.
"See ever since Peyton came to Tree Hill I've been acting like a crazy bitch, I'm neurotic, insecure, paranoid, jealous, and that is not who I am."
"I know that."
"But its who I've become, I'm not stupid or blind I know Peyton is the reason you're writing again and I refuse to be a chapter in that book"
"Lindsay wait"
"I've been waiting, for you for the book, I moved here for you remember so you need to figure out what you want!"
"I want you"
"And I want you to stop falling in love with Peyton looks like we're both screwed"
"If you need me to prove it to you then lets move up the wedding"
"To when?"
"As soon as we can."
"What is this going to prove?"
"That you're the one I want to be with, you are the one that I am going to marry, not Peyton."
"Why didn't you ever tell me you proposed to Peyton?"
"I technically never proposed she walked in on me with the box and she said for me not to propose because it would ruin things, after that it was basically over but I didn't think it was important to tell you I'm sorry"
"Luke you just let me walk around not knowing that you were going to propose to another girl and now..."
"Hey look at me, it doesn't matter who I proposed to, it matters who I am with right now and who I want to spend the rest of my life with now what do you say about moving up the wedding."
"Okay, I don't want anything fancy."
"Alright, how does two weeks sound?"