Episode 5 Ch. 4 The Way We Will Be

Elizabeth is at the café working. Ashton walks in. "Hi I need to talk to you."

"I'm busy."

"It can wait." Ashton stepped in front of her. "Please I need to talk to you."

"Fine," she sat her things down on the counter. "What do you want?"

"The doctors say that Tyler will be able to come home soon. He has made it a long way, and his doctor says that he has never seen anyone recover as fast as Tyler."

"Okay that is great to hear." Elizabeth was being sarcastic.

"He has no where to go. He needs a place to stay."

"Okay."

"I need your help finding him a place to stay."

"I can't help you Ashton."

"You can't or you won't."

"Both, now I've got to get to work." Elizabeth walks away leaving Ashton disappointed.

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Lucas is trying to straighten up things around the house when he smells something burning in the kitchen. "Oh shit." He walks into the kitchen and realizes that he burned his dinner.

Aidan and Lily walk into the house. "Luke you okay?"

"I burned the damn dinner, my daughter played sick today, and my son hates me. I suck at this."

Lily smiled. "You don't suck at anything Luke."

"You know what Lucas why don't I go pick up some take out from the café?"

"You would do that for me?"

"Yeah no problem. I kind of owe you for bringing Lily home so late."

Lucas smiled, "Yeah you kind of do."

"I'll be right back then."

Lucas gave Lily a look. "Did you have a good day?"

"I really did Lucas."

"Good I'm glad."

Lucas' response surprised her, and she smiled.

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Keith has finished cleaning the bathroom when he walks into the kitchen to see a girl stealing from the refrigerator. "Hey wait a minute what are you doing?"

The girl looked at him and headed out of the door. He was able to catch her. "What the hell?"

"Get off of me," she yelled.

"What were you doing? Why were you stealing from the homeless shelter?"

The girl started to cry, "Because although it is a homeless shelter it will only let you stay for so long especially when you're only sixteen. They want to put me in a foster home, and I can't do that. So just let me go please."

"No, you need help. I don't want you sleeping on the streets."

"Well it's not really your choice, and I refuse to go back into that foster system."

"Then you can be my guest tonight."

"What?"

"I promised to help in the kitchen tonight. You can help."

"They all know what I look like." She told him.

"Hold on," he walked inside and grabbed his bag. "Put on this cap." He helped her put it on. "And put on this sweatshirt." He gave her his Raven's sweatshirt. "Perfect, you look like one of the guys."

She smiled for the first time. "You think this will work?"

"Yeah and I'm Keith by the way."

"Lexie," she told him.

"Nice to meet you. Now let's go help, and you can fix yourself a plate before we leave."

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Derek walks into his house to see that Caroline has set up a romantic dinner for just the two of them. "What is this?"

"I wanted to treat you to a romantic dinner."

"Wow, what about the kids?"

"Aidan is busy, and Mary Peyton is spending the night with her friend Kayla."

"So we have the night all to ourselves?"

He gave her a kiss. "Yeah and there is something that I need to tell you Derek."

"Can't it wait until after dinner?"

"No, it can't wait any longer. I should have told you the moment that I found out."

"Baby you're scaring me. What's wrong?"

"I don't think that anything is wrong, but you might."

"Caroline," he was worried.

"I'm pregnant Derek."

Derek was shocked and didn't say anything much to Caroline's dismay.

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Everyone at the Scott house is eating take out from the café. "Thank you so much for getting this for us Aidan."

"No problem. I just charged it to your account."

"Yeah he really did daddy," Elizabeth told him. "Daddy did you burn dinner?"

"Yeah I did."

"That's not good daddy," Charlie told him. "Mommy Peyton doesn't burn dinner."

Lucas shook his head. "No mommy Peyton just makes really salty cookies."

"Mommy makes the best cookies daddy." Savannah disagreed with him. "You don't know what you are talking about."

Lucas couldn't help but smile. "You know what guys I'm gonna go have dinner with mommy Peyton." He grabbed his plate and walked upstairs.

Upstairs Peyton was eating her dinner. "What are you doing up here?"

"I wanted to have dinner with my beautiful wife."

"You did a really good job with ordering take out."

"I can't take the credit for that. Aidan picked it up."

"You look tired," Peyton noticed.

"I am tired. I never imagined how hard it would be to be you."

"It's not that bad."

"Oh it is worse. Trust me on that one." He kissed her forehead. "It makes me love you even more."

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Isabella is walking down the street when she runs into Daniel. "Hey," he stops her. "Long time no see."

"What do you want?"

"I'm just trying to be nice."

"I've heard about you, and nothing about you is nice."

"I can't believe you listen to rumors."

"I'm pretty sure they are all truths when they are about you."

"Yeah well I can prove to you that I'm different."

Isabella shook her head, "You aren't different. You're like all the other guys I know. You're a jerk." She walks off, and he was determined to prove himself to her, and he didn't even know why.

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Spencer walks into Summer's apartment. She and Jeremy were making out on the couch. "What the hell Spencer?" Jeremy yelled at him. "I'm trying to make out with my wife."

"I'm screwed."

"What?"

"I don't think that Lily will ever remember me."

"You've got to give her time man," Jeremy told him.

"I've given her time, and now I think she has moved on with Aidan."

"Aidan?" Summer questioned.

"Yeah, they were all over each other today."

"Lily loves you."

"Not this Lily."

"If you really love her Spencer you will give her time."

"Everyone keeps telling me that, but what if I run out of time."

"You never run out of time when you are in love. There is always time to make things better and to wait when you are in love. You just have to trust yourself, and trust the person that you love." Summer told him, but he didn't believe her. He was positive that he was going to lose Lily to Aidan.

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