Chapter 29

Lucas walked Whitney home, brought her to her doorstep and kissed her on the cheek. He turned around and started walking back home, Whitney ran after him and grabbed his hand.

"Luke I'm in love with you." Whitney said.

"What?"

"I thought you should know. I never stopped loving you."

"You lied to me Whit. You broke my heart."

"Can you let me explain what happened please?"

"Alright."

"Come inside, I'll make some coffee."

Bevin and Skillz decided to go to a club to give Nathan and Rachel some privacy. Nathan gave Skillz his key so that they could get into the apartment whenever they got home. Nathan and Rachel went home. Rachel kissed Nathan and went to go turned on the tv. She sat on the couch and Nathan joined her.

"You know you have to take that pregnancy test Rach."

"I know. But it's too early, I have to wait 2 days."

"So we'll take it together tomorrow." Nathan said as Rachel nodding and curled up in his arms. Nathan smiled and held her close.

Chase just stared off into space and Lizzie was waiting impatiently, "Well…" she said

Brooke got up and smiled, walked over to Chase and flicked him in the back of the head.

"Yeah, yeah. Come on in." Chase said zoning out.

The three of them walked over to the living room and sat down around the fireplace.

"So what are you doing here?" Chase asked Lizzie

"Well, Pittsburgh was getting really boring. So I called your mom and asked her where you were and she gave me the address.

Brooke had a fake smile on her face; Chase still hadn't introduced the two of them. "Hi, I'm Brooke." She said finally.

"Hi, I'm Lizzie, so you and Chase are friends?"

"Well actually…" Brooke was interrupted by Chase

"Yeah."

Brooke gave him a weird look, how could he saw something like that.

"But we're also dating…" Chase redeemed himself.

"Right…" Lizzie said rolling her eyes, Brooke saw Lizzie doing this, but didn't say anything. "CJ I was wondering if I could stay with you for a couple of days?"

"Ah, yeah," Chase said nodding, "No problem."

"Great!" Lizzie exclaimed as she went to go get her things. Brooke turned to Chase and screamed, "She's staying!"

"Yeah, come on Brooke," Chase said, "She doesn't have anywhere else to go."

Lizzie came back in and Chase showed her to the guest bedroom. Brooke watched Chase help Lizzie with her stuff. He came back and sat next to Brooke, who was really upset. He put his arm over her, but she pulled away.

"What?" he asked.

"CJ?" she questioned, "What is that!"

"Chase James…" Chase told her.

"What? I didn't even know you HAD another name."

"It's okay, because now you know."

Chase got up and went to go get three cokes. While he was in the kitchen he could see Lizzie taking off her shirt by the reflection of the mirror. She saw him starring and winked. Chase looked down and brought the cokes to Brooke. Was this the start of trouble?

Whitney brought hot coffee to the table; Lucas took one of the mugs. She pulled a chair from under the table and sat down, "Where do I begin?"

"From the beginning would be nice."

"Okay we were dating for a good two years, then I found out that I had cancer. I told you a month later."

"Yes, I remember"

"I didn't want to go threw chemo, because the doctor said that there was little possibility that I would be able to fight the cancer. But you told me I should do it, and I listened to you." Whitney told him, "I went threw the chemo; lost all my hair, but it didn't work. My hair starting growing back and I had to stay in the hospital." She said as lucas nodded, and he remembered.

"Luke you were at that hospital day and night with me everyday, and I felt really guilty."

"But I wanted to be there for you Whit." Lucas said, "I loved you so much."

"I know." Whitney replied, "But I put you threw so much pain"

"Please continue."

"Well, my mom got a phone call from one of her friends, who was a doctor in New York, and he told her there could be something that could help me. My mom told me, and I wanted to go and try what this doctor had in mind."

"Why didn't you tell me about this treatment?"

"Because I knew you would have wanted to come with me."

Lucas nodded, but let her continue her story.

"So I told my mom to call you and tell you that I had died, the one night you didn't come to see me in the hospital; I think it was your first basketball game as a Raven. Anyways, she didn't like the idea, but I kind of gave her an ultimatum and told her that if she didn't call you to tell you I was dead, I wasn't going to go to New York. She called you up, told you I was dead, and then we drove to New York and I got the treatment done, lost all my hair and flew back to Tree Hill. I came back to see you; and what do I see, you and Brooke Davis making out at school. And I saw that you were really happy; you and Haley. I didn't feel like I had a right to intervene with your happiness. So I flew back to New York."


Author's Note: hey guys, i just wanted to say thank you to all my readers who have been following this story since the very beginning, and stuck to it. i really appreciate it.

I realized that some people haven't been enjoying my decisions on the storylines. like the Nachel storyline for one. I chose to do a nachel fanfic because believe it or not there are people that don't like naley. and most of the fanfictions on here are of naley, and i just wanted the Naley haters i guess you can call them, something new. i understand that this will never happen in the real one tree hill, but i'm not writing because i want mark to take my ideas, i'm writing because i love it. i'm been pretty cruel with the Haley character, and i appologize, seriously. This is MY story though, the way i write is how i would like to see some of the characters. i'm sorry if you don't like what i've done with this fanfic. but it's my personal view, and storylines i think would be good.

I would like to thanks Katie and Anna for defending me, but i would like to stop, i really appreciate it, i do. but writers always get bad feedback, and i need to deal with it, and listen to what my viewers are feeling. i love you girlies for doing it, and thank you. but i hope you understand.

I don't know if any of you have read my newer fanfiction "A New Beginning" but i think i'm going to start paying more attention which means, this fanfiction will come to a close soon. I think i'm going to post about 5 more chapters. and then i will end with a conclusion and a farwell.

I hope you guys understand 3

thanks

Amanda