Chapter 11

Its three days before Christmas and Lucas and Peyton are walking through the snowy streets in Tree Hill. The sun has set, the streets were all lit up with Christmas lights and there are carollers singing Christmas songs- it was truly a beautiful night. Lucas and Peyton have not felt more comfortable around each other and are looking forward to spending their first Christmas together as a family.

They are laughing and talking arm in arm down the street when they decide to stop off at Karnes for a Hot Chocolate. Lucas opens the door to the cafe and the bell chimes indicating that customers have entered. Lilly who is sitting on the counter facing the door says "Luuuke you have to kiss Peyton cos the mistletoe is on top of you!" Lucas and Peyton both look up and see the mistletoe hanging right above their heads. Now this is where it gets a bit weird, they haven't shared a kiss since the tiny peck that sealed their marriage vows all those months ago. They both just stood there and looked between each other and the mistletoe.

"C'mon uncle Luke just kiss aunt Peyton" Jamie says as he is sitting next to Lilly.

"Yeah Luke c'mon man Nathan" chimes in.

So with a slight nod from Peyton, Lucas slowly leans down, closes his eyes and softly joins his lips with his wife's. For what was supposed to be a soft quick kiss turned into something much more than that, As their Lips joined Peyton through her arms around Lucas' neck and kissed him back with just as much passion as he was showing her. After what seems like forever for the husband and wife but really only moments in time they slowly pull apart, share a discrete smile and head into the cafe to join the rest of their family for some Hot Chocolate and marshmallows.

Peyton POV

I Never thought Luke could Kiss me like that, I never thought I would like it so much. The last time he kissed me it felt so wrong and...Sad. I don't know why but this time it was different, it was soft and gentle and a little moist, not bad at all! I even forgot that we were in the cafe and had people around us. And afterwards when Luke looked at me I saw something that I have never seen before in his eyes, and with that little smirk he gave me I knew it was good and that he probably just saw the same sparkle in my eyes.

He didn't try to kiss me again after that, Sometimes it looked like he was going to but in the end he would pull away or kiss my cheek instead. The funny thing is that every time he pulled away I would find myself realising that I had wanted him to kiss me all along.

I went to lunch and final Christmas shopping with Haley on Christmas Eve when I finally told her how I was feeling about the kiss I shared with Lucas only days before when she came up with the idea of getting Luke to kiss me without getting too caught up in the technicalities of it all. So I took her idea in stride and went home with a way to improve my marriage.

Normal POV

Peyton arrived home to an empty house, with just a note on the fridge from Luke telling her that he is at the river caught with the boys. So she decided to make Cinnamon Scrolls whilst she was waiting on him.

The front door opens just as Peyton starts scrolling the dough onto the tray and Lucas walks into the kitchen looking as handsome as ever, he smiles when he sees her in the kitchen, gives her his sexy Lucas Scot wink and says "I'm going to Jump in the shower and write for a little bit- I'll be in my office if you need me" before running upstairs.

When the bathroom door slams shut, Peyton slumps he shoulders, picks up the tray and puts the scrolls into the oven. She cleans up the kitchen then sits down with a cup of tea just waiting. This is not what she had planned for Christmas Eve, this is not what she planned with Haley earlier today. The oven dings and the scrolls are ready. She pulls them out of the oven and lets them cool- she turns the TV on and the late night news come on and she can't believe how time has gotton away. She then realises that neither her nor Luke have eaten yet.

She puts a few scrolls onto a plate and heads into Lucas' study, she lightly taps on the door before she opens it. Lucas looks up from his screen and says "Hey Peyton, you ok?"

"Yeah I'm fine- it's ah, its quite late and I thought you might want something to eat. I made cinnamon scrolls" Peyton adds with a shy shrug.

"That's what smells so amazing!" Lucas says with a soft smile. "c'mon in, eat with me!" Lucas says as he pulls his chair slightly away from his desk. Peyton walks into Lucas's office, hands him the plate and takes a seat on his oak wood desk facing him, she crosses her legs over and plucks a scroll out of the plate that is sitting on Lucas' lap.

"Wow Peyt, these are amazing!" Lucas says as he pops another one in his mouth.

"Thanks" Peyton says with a shy smile before she asks "are you looking forward to Christmas tomorrow?"

"Yeah I am" Lucas says, "Lilly is going to be crazy silly and Jamie- oh my gosh its going to be so funny watching those kids! What about you?"

"Yeah- I am. Its ah the, you know going to be the first real Christmas that I have had in years with a family, and I ah- I can't thank you enough for this. For all of this." Peyton says with tears in her eyes.

Lucas reaches out, grabs her hand and pulls her onto his lap and just holds her for a while, placing soft kisses on her head. When he feels her calm down a little, he pulls back a bit, lifts her chin and says "All of this Peyton, it's nothing, it's nothing near enough for you. You deserve the world and a life time of happiness and I just want to be able to give you all that you deserve."

"But Lucas, you have given me almost all that I need or could ever want." Peyton says with so much passion showing in her eyes.

"Almost everything" Lucas says with a puzzled look.

"Well I ah, I want to ask you a... favour you could call it." Peyton says softly.

Some of her hair fell across her forehead; Lucas tucked it behind her ear and left his hand there: fondling the curve of her ear and the tiny lobe. "Ask away." he said smiling.

"Alright," she said blushing but looking him in the eye. "I want you to teach me how to kiss."

"What?" Lucas asks with a curious smirk

"I understand if you don't want to… it's just that you're my husband and it's not like I can go kissing someone else and… I liked when you kissed me last time…. And… well, I guess I could get someone else to…"

She never got to finish that sentence because Luke's mouth went down over hers. No one else was going to kiss her if he had anything to do with it! It was a hard kiss at first, and he hadn't intended it to be that way but couldn't help it…. The idea of someone kissing his Peyton drove him crazy.

Lucas thought that she was going to take back the whole 'teach me to kiss' thing but then he felt her arms reach around his neck. That small gesture of willingness made him soften the kiss into something that was just as enjoyable.

After a while they broke apart, gasping for air. Peyton took one deep breath, her arms never leaving his neck, and said: "I think I'm getting the knack for this." And moved closer… and he had no other choice but to kiss her again, again and again.