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Chapter 8: "Into the light of a dark black night"

It was a month after the whole ordeal, if ordeal was even the word for it. Everything was going great, but life never fails to screw you over.

Jake had called Peyton to the park. It was a sudden call. He sounded shaken up on the phone. Peyton rushed over there, thinking that it had something to do with Nikki or that something was wrong with Jenny.

When she arrived she found Jake sitting alone on a swing, Jenny in her stroller next to him.

It was a rainy fall day. The leaves slickly coated the ground making a mush with the earthworms beneath your feet. A dark cloud seemed to cover as far as the eye can see. Days like this you knew that something was going to go wrong. All that you could do was wait around and see what.

"Jake." Peyton said shoving her hands in her pockets as she approached.

She had taken to wearing long sleeved shirts. The scars were still there, but she didn't wish them away. She liked them there. They were comforting. A tribute to the times almost.

"What's going on?" She asked again removing Jenny from her stroller. "Is everything okay? Is it Nikki?" She asked kissing Jenny's head.

Jake shook his head no.

"What is it then Jake?" Peyton asked rubbing Jennys back as she took a seat on the swing next to him.

"My dad got laid off." Jake said

Peyton paused.

"Well it's okay. He can find another job." She said trying to lighten the mood.

"That's not it… he FOUND another job." Jake said. "Problem is is that it in in Phoenix."

"ARIZONA!" Peyton practically yelled "Well when do you have to go?" She asked

"My dad said by the end of this month." Jake said in a whisper

"… but that's barely two weeks." Peyton figured… "You can't go."

"I have no other choice. I could get my own place here but I don't have that kind of money right now." Jake said hanging his head.

"You're not going." Peyton said focusing on Jenny.

"I don't have any pl-"

Peyton cut him off.

"You can stay with me." She said

"That's crazy! Your dad wou-"

She cut him off again.

"Hate for me to be alone after everything that happened. You can stay with me until you get a place of your own. If you don't want you don't even have to leave. Besides, we have to extra rooms." Peyton said grabbing his hand smiling

"Peyton I can't burden you with me and Jenny." He tried to reason

"Jake, you saved my life. Besides you're my boyfriend, and those long distance relationships never work." She said smiling

"Oh what, and live in ones do?" He raised an eyebrow.

"Well, look at Haley and Nathan!" She pointed out.

Jake took a deep breath.

"I'm not sure that my parents would go for it." He said

"Well they're going to have to because I will not take no for an answer." She said leaning over and kissing him.

"What would I do without you?" He asked

"I don't know… move to Phoenix?" Peyton said laughing. "Come on, let's get out of here."

"Yup, time to break the news to the parentals." Jake said as he pushed the stroller out of the park, Peyton following closely behind with Jenny.

Two days later Peyton, Haley and Brooke were are Peyton's house.

"Yellow is so Jenny's color." Brooke said as she rolled more yellow paint onto the wall.

Peyton laughed

"I still can't believe that your dad is letting them stay." Haley said.

"Hypocrite." Brooke said flinging paint at Haley

"Guys, don't fling paint, I want her room to be perfect." Peyton said smiling.

"Alright mommy dearest." Haley.

"Doesn't that weird you out?" Brook asked as she stopped rolling. "Your boyfriend having a kid?"

"Who am I to say it's wrong. I mean, I got involved with him knowing. Nikki's not around so it really doesn't matter. It didn't even when she was."

"But doesn't that kind of put you in the mother role?" Haley asked "them living with you now and all."

Peyton shrugged.

"So. I mean. I know how it is to grow up without a mother. I will still be there for Jenny even if Jake and I aren't together. I love her. Every little girl deserves a mother."

"But after everything you've been through-" Brooke began

"It has just made me more prepared." Peyton said as she finished up the last spot of yellow.

Right then they heard the door open and shut. It had to be the boys. They had no idea what the girls were up to.

"PIZZA!" Nathan yelled up the stairs.

"Oh food!" Haley said dropping her paintbrush and running along downstairs followed by

Brooke and Peyton.

Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these broken wings and learn to fly
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to arise.

"Ah yes, we come bearing entrees." Nathan said kissing Haley

"What's with the yellow paint?" Luke asked

"Nothing." Brooke said leaning in for a kiss.

" You're sure that you're moving in here?" Haley asked

"Yeah I am." he said looking down at Jenny who was nestled in the crook of his arm asleep.

"You better watch out. You don't know what you're getting into!" Nathan said.

"HEY!" Peyton and Haley say in unison slapping him in his sides.

"No longer speaking." Nathan said

Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these sunken eyes and learn to see
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to be free.

"Just know now that I will be watching you like a hawk now." Lucas said turning to Jake.

"HAHA! Get it, like a hawk! The team mascot is a Hawk… and Luke is on the team…"

They all shot him glares.

"Never mind." He said

"You just keep an eye on me Luke." Brooke said kissing him

"God knows that she needs it." Peyton said winking at Lucas, earning a slap in the head from Brooke.

"About that paint?" Jake brought up again.

Blackbird fly blackbird fly
Into the light of the dark black night.

Blackbird fly blackbird fly
Into the light of the dark black night.

"Follow me." Peyton said leading him upstairs and opening a door. "We did it for Jenny." She said smiling. "Hope you like it."

"Its… wow, it's amazing." Jake said

Peyton had added her own little touch to the room by painting blue ducks all around.

"I love it." He said leaning to kiss Peyton, Jenny between them.

"I'm glad." She said leaning on his side. "Hey Jake?" She asked suddenly

"Yeah?" He asked looking down on the curly haired blonde.

"We're going to be okay aren't we."

There was a pause.

"Yeah." He said as he kissed her. "Now, let's go dig into the pizza before the Scott's eat it all." He said wrapping his arm around her waist.

"Deal." She said smiling.

Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these broken wings and learn to fly
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to arise

THE END... or is it? There may be an epilogue