I decided to update for you guys! lol. This story only has 2 more chapters and then I have another story on the way. I'll give you guys a summary on the last chapter. Here's chapter 12, it has a lot of Jeyton in it so for all you Jeyton fans here they are!

Chapter 12

Peyton walked into the café about 10 minutes after Lucas left. Haley was still there, cleaning tables and making food.

"Hey Peyton." She greeted.

"Hey Mrs. Scott, how's it going?" Peyton asked.

"Shouldn't I be asking you that?" Haley asked and knew that Peyton only called her Mrs. Scott when she was in a joking mood, which she hadn't been in awhile.

Peyton smiled.

"I'm fine." Peyton reassured.

"Want to tell me how Jake is?" Haley asked and smiled with curiosity.

"Well…"

Flashback

Peyton walked into Jake's apartment and took a deep breath and she stood outside of his door. She missed Jake, she really did but now that he was back here she didn't want to trust him again if he was going to run off and break her heart once more. After he left, she confided in Lucas and she became so close to him that she confused her feelings and ruined a perfect friendship from it. Sure her and Brooke were trying now, but before Peyton was convinced she loved Lucas. She tried to push all of that past her and just focus on how he was here now and she needed to talk to him to lift some things off of her chest.

She knocked on the door and waited until he answered it. The door opened and Peyton let go of a breath she didn't know she was holding.

"Hey Jake." She said quietly and stared straight into his eyes. She saw love and fear, much like her own feelings right now.

"Peyton…hey come on in." He said.

Peyton walked into his apartment and looked around. It was so Jake. There were some basketball posters and pictures, pictures of Jenny and some music posters. But then she found something…something that made her heart melt. She had found a picture of her, Jake and Jenny on the day that they went on a walk to the park. She picked up the picture and felt tears coming. She didn't want to cry in front of him, she was strong and she needed to be strong especially now.

Jake looked at Peyton and realized what she was holding. He had kept that picture for the longest time. It was the only reason he would come back to Tree Hill.

"Peyton…" Jake began.

"Why did you come back?" She asked harshly. She didn't mean to sound mean, but this anger washed over her.

"I wanted to see you." He replied.

"Now? After all this time? Jake, there has to be another reason." She said.

"There isn't." He said simply.

"Liar." She said. She still loved him, so much that it now hurt. She hadn't seen him in so long and now that she was standing in his apartment, staring at him she couldn't take it.

"Peyton, believe me I came back because I found Jenny and this was the only place I wanted to be. I wanted to be with you Peyton. I meant what I said before I left." He answered truthfully.

"How long are you staying?" Peyton managed to choke out. She remembered the words he had said before he left and she now couldn't get them out of her head.

"For good." He said.

Peyton laughed and then turned serious.

"I've heard that too many times that now, I just block it out." She said still looking in his eyes.

Jake took a step closer to her.

"Peyton please listen to me, don't block me out." He pleaded.

"Block you out? Jake you've never been blocked out by me! I've always loved you! And now, now you're back again and I still feel that way! When you left my feelings were mixed and I ruined a perfectly great friendship!" She yelled with tears falling freely from her eyes.

Jake looked confused, he had no idea what she had been through after he left.

"Peyton what…what are you talking about?" He asked trying to get through to her.

"I said I was in love with Lucas! I told Brooke that at Nathan and Haley's wedding and then she slapped me! You know why? Because I kissed him in the school shooting. Yeah! I was shot in the leg Jake. And Lucas came to save me. I said that I loved him to Brooke and to him just recently. But then, then I realized who I really loved. You! It took me so long to realize it but it was always you! But it was too late to tell anyone that because I had already ruined just about everything. My friendship with Brooke, Brooke's relationship with Lucas, I just…why couldn't you be there for me Jake?" She stopped yelling halfway through her speech. She was now in fits of anger and tears.

Jake hugged her and hoped she didn't try and get away. She didn't, she accepted the hug and sobbed in his shoulder. He loved holding her, he wanted to be the one to save her. But he wasn't, he wasn't there for her and now he was paying for it. Maybe she wouldn't let him back in her life, he was sure as hell going to try.

"I'm sorry." He whispered in her hair. He loved her hair it always had a smell of kiwi, her favorite fruit. She never told anyone that except for him.

"But… you still did it. You still went away and broke my heart again. How do I know that you won't do that now?" She asked still holding him and crying in his shoulder.

"Because I want to be here for you Peyton. I'm ready now, I'm so ready that it hurts. I won't leave you again Peyton and I know I sound like a broken record but I'm serious. I have all that I need. I have Jenny…and if you'll let me I'd love to have you too." He whispered into her hair once again, soaking in the kiwi scent.

Peyton slightly moved back and looked into his eyes. She now saw love, fear, and honesty. She knew that she would have to take time to forgive him fully, but for now, she knew he wouldn't leave. She felt so much better to get all of those tears out and those feelings that she had been confused about, or just hiding for so long.

Jake looked at her still holding her waist and pulled her to him. He kissed her hard, but passionate and she returned the kiss. She wrapped her arms around his neck as they moved around the apartment, never breaking the kiss. Jake wanted to go to the couch but instead he ended up tripping on the side of it. He fell to the floor and looked up at a now, hysterically laughing Peyton.

"You know, laughing at your boyfriend isn't a good thing." He said.

"Who said you were my boyfriend?" She asked but then laughed at how serious Jake's face looked. He saw her laugh and knew she wasn't serious.

"Ooh you come here!" He said and smiled as he pulled her on the ground with him. She fell laughing as their lips touched once again.

Peyton pulled away seriously for a second.

"But, I do want to take it slow." She said seriously.

"I agree." He said and kissed her once again. She smiled at how understanding he was.

And for once in a long time, Peyton was finally happy and sure that things were going to be okay.

End of Flashback

"Were doing great." Peyton said not being able to stop the smile that was forming.

Haley saw the glow back on Peyton's face and she missed it.

"So you guys are taking it slow?" Haley asked.

"Yeah about that…" Peyton began.

"Peyton Elizabeth Sawyer!" Haley yelled.

"I know I know but whenever we say were taking it slow things…happen." Peyton said.

Haley laughed.

"Uh huh."

"Hey! Okay we were just in the moment and we kind of…forgot about taking it slow." Peyton defended.

Just then the bell rang in the café and Jake walked through the door.

"Hey Jake." Haley greeted with a knowing smile.

"She knows doesn't she?" He asked.

Peyton laughed and nodded. Jake returned the smile and kissed Peyton softly on the lips and sat down next to her.

"Okay, enough about us, tell us about Tric again." Peyton said blushing.

"Well I was going to try and get Brooke to talk to Lucas." Haley said.

"Okay, and where do we play in?" Jake asked.

Jake was filled in about the story from Peyton just yesterday. He didn't understand really why Brooke and Lucas broke up in the first place, but he wanted to help get them back together.

"Well I was thinking that Peyton, you could announce Jimmy Eat World since you got them to play there again and since that's the only band Brooke knows. That was the only band she would go there for." Haley explained.

Peyton remembered what Brooke had once told her. Brooke said that Jimmy Eat World was the band playing while Brooke thought that Lucas was interested in her, which was true. So she always thought of that song as a good luck charm. She knew that Brooke hoped it would work tonight.

"Haley, the only reason Brooke went for that song was because it was a song special to her and Lucas." Peyton said.

Haley now understood. Jimmy Eat World wasn't just a band to Brooke, it was love. It was the song that reminded her of the best time of her life. And now she knew that it was the song she wanted Brooke to remember at Tric tonight. If Brooke could just remember the way she felt, everything would be better.

"Okay, then let's use it." Haley suggested.

"So, you want me to tell them to sing that song?" Peyton asked.

"Well, yeah. But we need to get Brooke and Lucas to talk to each other so maybe the song will do that if we have them stand next to each other."

"But won't they just walk away?" Jake asked.

"Maybe, but then I guess that's up to us to make them listen." Haley said and all of them nodded.

Haley didn't know how the plan was going to turn out. There was more to the plan of course, but she needed to think it through. She wanted the night to be perfect…for all of them. Jake and Peyton, her and Nathan, and especially Brooke and Lucas. This was the only way Haley knew to get them to almost perfect, so she was going to try her hardest to make it work.

"Jake and I will go by Tric now to ask them if they could sing the song. Then we'll swing by here to get you and Brooke. Deal?" Peyton asked.

Haley smiled.

"Deal."


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