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Gorilla in heat

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I feel like shit, Peyton thought, fumbling out of bed. She groaned, heading to the bathroom. It was the day before vacation was over; she shook her head, so much to be fixed before she left. After flushing the toilet, she walked out of the bathroom, moaned and plummeted back down on the bed.

"How are you feeling?" A soft voice asked, coming into the room.

"Like shit," she clenched her teeth together, "how much did I drink Hales?"

"Like a fish," the brunette laughed, sitting on the end of the bed. "Do you remember any of it?"

Peyton cupped her face in her hands, "everything."

Haley furrowed her eyebrows, "what makes me think you don't like what you remember?"

The blonde chuckled dryly, "I don't, and I was such a baby. I can't believe I made a fool of my self that way."

"You didn't," Haley reassured, "only with me, but you didn't say anything I didn't already know. Lucas and Brooke think you just wanted to have fun, well Brooke does," she frowned, "I'm not quite sure what Luke thinks."

"Ugh" Peyton groaned, "Lucas."

"You need to talk to him Peyton," Haley grabbed her friends hand, softly smiling; "you know that right?"

Peyton sighed, slowly nodding, "I just don't know how."

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"So what do you call a gorilla in heat?" Nathan asked, sipping on his fruit juice, when no one responded he chuckled, "Bo."

Brooke sucked her teeth and slapped him in the chest, "shut up."

"You're so cute," he pinched her cheek.

She rolled her eyes, "and you're so Nathan."

He batted his eyelashes and said, "That's me," with pride. He looked over to his brother, who was off in his own world. "Earth to Luke, join us in reality!"

"Huh?" Lucas squinted, "oh, I'm fine."

"I never asked how you were," the younger Scott shook his head, "anyway; don't worry Peyton and Haley will be down soon."

"Who said I'm worried?" he glared.

"Well, you've only been zoning out ever since Peyton came home drunk last night," he shrugged, "but maybe I'm wrong."

Brooke scoffed at Nathan and turned away.

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"Hey guys," Peyton smirked, hands in her pockets.

Nathan spit out something like, "Peyton your awake," in between bites of his sandwich.

"Yeah," she arched her eyebrow, "so, anyway, what do you guys want to do today?" The group looked at each other puzzled. She sighed, rolling her eyes, "tonight's our last night."

Lucas frowned, "Oh yeah, it is huh."

Nathan swallowed, "damn, I don't want to go home," he looked over to his brother, "Lucas could we move to here?"

Lucas could only smile at his witty brother. "So, what do you guys want to do?"

"How about we go to one of them sexy light shows?" Brooke offered, sexy smirk on her lips.

"What Light shows?" Haley questioned.

"Yeah, it's like these big museums you crawl through, but their sexy," she beamed, "big bright stars, moons and what not."

"Oh," Haley murmured.

"Sounds fun to me," Nathan shrugged.

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The museum was beautiful, unlike anything Haley had ever seen. She was amazed by the colors and the essence of it all, but the scary thing was, she was lost! It was like a big maze and somewhere along the line she got lost in it!

"Hello?" she called, "anybody?"

"Haley?" she heard a voice, "is that you?"

"Nathan?" her started to beat and she sighed in relief, "Where are you?"

"Hey," he said bumping into her.

"Hi," she blushed slightly, "I was lost."

"Well, now you're found," he responded giving her one of those looks that caused her to be weak for him.

"So?" she brushed stray hair aside, "where is everyone?"

"I don't know," he shrugged, "I got lost too."

"Oh," she chuckled, "well, maybe we should go find them, you know they could be worried, or maybe we should be worried about them. What if something bad happened?"

He smirked and grabbed her chin wit his fingers, bringing her head in to kiss her lightly. "You talk a lot when you're nervous."

"I know," she smiled, leaning in and kissing him back. "What are we doing?"

He frowned, but suddenly the corners of his mouth started to curve, "making up for lost time." His reply was simple enough, smiling completely before tasting her again.

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"Ugh!" Peyton stretched, letting the breeze work its way through her hair, "I'm glad we got out of that damn maze, I was starting to get claustrophobic."

Lucas laughed, sitting down on a bench outside. "I wonder if Brooke, Nathan and Haley got lost."

"Probably," she smirked, sitting down beside him.

Silence took over and they both contemplated what to say to each other.

She broke the silence, "so, how are things?"

"Weird question," he smiled, "but things are okay and you?"

She bit her lip, "not so good."

With his lips in a straight line and little emotion showing he said, "Why, what's wrong?"

"Everything," she looked down, but something was nagging inside of her to say what she needed to. "Lucas?"

He looked into her eyes, "huh?"

"I..." she hesitated, "what's happening with us?"

He ran his fingers through his hair, looking away slightly, "I wasn't quite expecting that question."

"I mean," she fidgeted, "if it's nothing then forget it, I'm just asking."

He smiled, "no, it's okay Peyton." A sigh parted his lips, "I don't know what's happening with us. You have a fiancée and I don't know anymore."

Guilt made its way through her body, she clenched her teeth. "I miss you," she whispered.

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