Chapter 14: "They press their lips against you"
"Hi!" Marcy said coming across the room, with her hand extended towards Peyton.
"Hi." Peyton said shaking her hand with a fake smile.
Right then Spencer came running into the room.
"And who is this?" Marcy said smiling kneeling down to Spencers eyes level.
"My son." Peyton said picking up Spencer.
"He's adorable!" Marcy said smiling.
Now Peyton was kind of freaked out about this girls happy nature.
"Um, I'm going to go and… see Jake." Peyton said to Luke who looked thankful.
He watched her as she left the apartment, Spencer in hand. Somehow after all that had gone on she was the same Peyton Sawyer from high school, from her dark, mysterious, closed off demeanor, to her clothes, to her hair…
"Hello! Eyes this way!" Marcy said as the door closed.
"Sorry." Luke said catching his breath…
Peyton knocked on Jakes door, silently knowing good and well that Logan was asleep.
"Hi." Jake said in surprise when he opened up the door.
"Hey. Mind if I come in for a bit?" She asked shifting her weight from foot to foot.
"No problem." Jake said.
"Hey Peyton!" Nathan said when he saw her. "Spence wanna come back and watch a movie with me, Jenny, and Haley? It's about some little fish that doesn't know where he is." Nathan said hand and mouth full of chips.
" Nemo?" Spencer said excitedly.
"Why not?" Nathan said heading back to the bedroom, with Spencer trailing close behind
"You hungry?" Jake asked
Peyton shook her head no.
"So what brought you down here?" Jake asked as they sat no the couch.
"Some bubbly red-head." She said through gritted teeth.
"Oh…" Jake said airily… "you met Marcy…"
"If that's what you want to call it."
Jake flashed Peyton a smile.
"Jealous?" Jake said sitting on his leg.
"NO!" Peyton said firmly.
Jake smiled again.
"Spencer's a great kid." Jake said sipping his coke
"Thanks. So is Jenny."
"Yeah, they grow up so fast." Jake commented glancing back at the door where Jenny was watching the movie
"I remember when I first found out you had her. I mean you were only what, sixteen or seventeen? You made it look so easy. It wasn't until I had Spencer I realized it was hard and more." Peyton confessed.
"Why didn't you tell anyone why you left? Why didn't you tell me?"
"I guess I thought you had a lot on your plate already… I didn't want to bog you down." Peyton said looking Jake in the eyes.
"But you were there to help me with Jenny all of the time." Jake said
"I know. But that is because I wanted to be. I didn't want to guilt trip you."
"I wouldn't have felt guilty. You were one of my best friends if not the best. So you planning on staying in New York long?"
"Indefinitely maybe." Peyton said
"How come?"
"I lost my apartment. Don't have much else of a place to go. I didn't want to have Spencer on the streets."
"So you are staying with Luke?" He asked
"I'm not sure yet. Spencer is going to seeing how he and Luke are so close and all, but then he just found out about Logan, and now that I know about Marcy…"
"Why don't you stay here."
"Jake-"
"NO REALLY!" He insisted "You can have my guest room. No problem. And Jenny would love having a girl around for a while."
"Are you serious?" She asked again. The last thing that she wanted to do was come in and ruin their routine. It looked like Nathan, Haley, Luke, and Jake had a good thing going.
"Serious as a heart attack." Jake said with another smile.
~ Lucas sat feeling Marcy's eyes on him.
"So who was she?"
"Marcy, can you sit down?"
"Okay." She said straightening her skirt and sitting next to Lucas.
"Peyton is a friend from high school." Luke said simply, but as though there was more
"An ex-girlfriend?" She asked
"No. Peyton and I never dated… But her son, the boy that you saw her with today… he is mine…" Luke said drawing his words out.
"How could you not tell me!"
"I just found out!" Lucas said defensively "I slept with Peyton ONCE."
"Here comes the sob story." Marcy said rolling her eyes.
"Her mother died when she was little. Her dad worked a lot. One night there was an accident on a boat and they recovered body … they thought it was Peytons dad. I went with her to identify the body. That night we had to stay in a hotel… we ended up sleeping together. Both of us regretted it the next morning. Anyway, as it turned out the man in the accident was not her father. We went back home and acted like nothing had happened. A couple of months later Peyton was gone, and I never thought that I would hear from her again." Lucas said… "Until a couple of weeks ago when I saw her on the way to Nathan and Haleys wedding."
"So this kid is yours?" Marcy asked
Lucas nodded…. Marcy looked in her eyes…
"There's more isn't there?"
"Um… Peyton's best friend back in high school was this girl Brooke. Brooke and I were dating at the time everything happened with Peyton and I… She never found out. Brooke was the wild type. She made me forget everything. After Peyton left we all did some crazy things. We broke up the end of the summer of our freshman year of college. She went out to LA to become famous. Last I checked the furthest that she had gotten was porn."
"What does that have to do with this story Luke?" Marcy asked becoming impatient.
"Two days ago Brooke came back… with Logan… my daughter."
"Luke." Marcy said. "This is becoming crazy."
"I know!" Luke said rubbing his fingers through his hair.
"Well are you sure that they are yours?" Marcy asked now meeting his eyes.
"Of course!" Luke said
"How do you know? Because of what these girls said? You said one of their mothers was in porn! Any girl would want you to be the father of their child. You would be the last person to abandon them. I think that you are being taken advantage of Luke." Marcy said
Luke had never thought about it before. He trusted Brooke and Peyton… well Peyton for that matter. There was no way that Logan and Spencer weren't his!
"No. I will not do that! Marc, they are my kids! I know that they are." Luke said
"Well if they are there is nothing to worry about is there? I love you Luke, and when I told you that I would marry you I vowed to take all of you, as is, … and if that includes two kids so be it. I love you regardless of the mistakes that you made."
"I love you too." Luke said kissing his fiancée .