A/N- Hey guys I know you are probably fed up with me keep updating this weekend but I seem to be on some sort of writing roll and so I decided just to keep going with it, I am really enjoying writing this fic I just hope you are enjoying reading it. Please read and review I love to know what you all think xxxx
Chapter 11
Lucas jumped up from his bed knowing exactly what he needed to do to try and make Peyton stay in Tree Hill with his daughter.
He walked over to the desk and picked up his cell, he dialled a number he had on called a few times in the past three year.
"Hey, It's me, I need your help, She is going to leave she is going to take my daughter away from again. Please come here and make her see she has to stay." Lucas said quietly in to the phone while more tears fell from his eyes.
He listened to what the other person on the phone had to say then he closed his cell and went to have a shower.
Lucas climbed out the shower and went back to his room and looked at the time 8.15, still too early to go pick up Grace for the day, so he got dressed and then sat at his desk and started to write, the only thing he really knew how to do right.
An hour later and Lucas was stood outside the house that he used to have a key for, the house he loved going into to see the one girl he truly loved.
He knocked lightly on the door knowing that after their talk this morning Peyton would probably have gone back to bed after all the crying she did, she would be shattered.
The door opened and Larry was stood in the door way with the most beautiful girl Lucas had ever seen in his arms and he couldn't help but smile.
"Hi Gracie, how about we go round to Uncle Nathans and Aunt Haley's today?"
"Daddy" The two year old screamed with such excitement and holding her arms out for him to take her from her granddad.
Lucas just stood there totally gob smacked, she had never called him that, it felt amazing to hear that word come out of her little gorgeous mouth. He didn't expect that so soon after just meeting her.
"Lucas... I think your daughter wants you" Larry chuckled knowing the exact feeling Lucas was having at the minute the first time they call you daddy is fabulous.
That snapped Lucas back to reality and he took the wiggling child from Larry and gave her a big sloppy kiss on her cheek, which made her giggle.
"So sweetie are you ready to go? Have you said bye bye to your mommy?"
"Mommy is sleeping... sssshhhh" she said holding a little finger to her mouth just like Peyton did.
"Ok say bye to your Grandpa then and we will see mommy later"
"Bye gandpa" Grace said in such a cute little voice.
"Bye baby girl be good for your daddy" Larry said watching Lucas's reaction to someone else calling him that, and it made him laugh inside to see the younger mans eyes tear up a little.
As they were leaving Lucas turned and handed Larry an envelope with Peyton's name on the front.
Larry just nodded and waved the pair off as they walked down the path.
Once Larry closed the door Peyton walked down the stairs with tears in her eyes again having heard everything, she was so happy Grace had called Lucas daddy, but then she just thought about how much she had hurt him and it was bitter sweet.
Larry turned to his daughter and handed her the envelope that Lucas had just given him.
Peyton took the envelope then went back up to her room to read what was in it.
She sat on her bed and slowly opened the envelope not sure what to expect, she took a long deep breath and started to read.
Dear Peyton,
I am not really sure why i am writing this letter, I have got so many things i want to say to you but as always i am too much of a coward to say them to your face.
First of all, I have NEVER hated you Peyton and I never could, you were my first love and that means so much too me, more than you could ever know.
I am just really hurt right now, knowing you couldn't come to me when you really needed someone, I know you thought you were doing the best thing for me but I was a big boy and I should have had the chance to make up my own mind on the subject.
I am SO SORRY, for all the horrible things I have said about you in the past three years and all the things I have said to you in the past week, they are unforgivable.
I really don't want to lose Grace...or you, again, I don't think I could cope.
I know it is your life and I have no right to tell you what to do but I think I should have a say in what happens with our daughter.
If I could I would pack up all my stuff and Follow you and Grace to LA but I can't leave my mom or little Keith, they need me here with them.
But if you stayed here you wouldn't have anymore problems there are so many people here that want to help you, and watch Grace grow up, Theres my mom, your dad, Nathan, Haley, Skills and Bevin, and then theres me, I need to be near Grace to make up for the time I have missed so far, I don't want to miss anything else not one single thing, I want to be there when she falls to wipe away her tears and kiss her better, I want to be there when she starts school, I wanna be there when she gets her hair cut, I wanna be there when she loses her first tooth, I wanna be there for every second of her life.
I was falling to pieces before you showed up last week and told me I had something to get up for in the morning, in the space of a few seconds my life changed for the better and I don't want to go back to how I felt before. I can't, I need her to be in my life, and not be hundreds of miles away, I need to be able to see her when ever I want or when ever she might need me, because I know all to well what it feels like to grow up without your father, I can't let that happen to Grace I don't want her to grow up with the same pain I did.
I know I screwed up in high school but please don't punish me for it now by taking her away from me.
Grace is the best thing I have ever done in my life and it means so much to me knowing I made her with you!!
I will respect your decision what ever you decide, but I just needed to get these things of my chest before you leave again.
I am so sorry Peyton, I am sorry that you had to go through all this by yourself and I am sorry for everything I have ever done to hurt you.
All my love
Lucas xx
Peyton couldn't believe what she had just read, he was apologizing to her for things that he had no control over, this was typical Lucas always being the nice guy always trying to make things easier for her, even though this mess is all her fault.
She sat and read the letter three more times to make sure she took everything in, she got up and walked towards her desk to pick up the phone to call Lucas, as she picked it up the phone started ringing.
"Hello"
"Hey P Sawyer guess who is coming home for a visit"
"Oh my god, Brooke, When are you getting here I could really use an old friend" As she said these words a single tear fell down her cheek, knowing Brooke was the only friend she had left that sort of understood why she did what she did.
"Peyton are you ok? You sound sad"
"No I'm fine Brooke, I just really need a friend"
"Ok P, I will be getting in later tonight, do you wanna meet me at my house at about 5pm, I really want to meet Grace"
"Ok Brooke we will see you then" She said with a small smile on her lips.
They said their goodbyes and Peyton hung up the phone and was just about to dial Lucas's number then she stopped herself knowing she couldn't do this over the phone.
