Chapter 5

"Wow hey Jake what are you doing back."

"I came back to see how the gang was doing." Jake says to Peyton.

"Where's Jenny?"

"She's with my mom. I didn't want to bring her down here and have to worry about her all the time."

"Yeah."

"Hey Haley how are things with you?"

"There great thanks, I was just about to go though so I guess I will see yawl later."

"Ok." Jake says giving her a hug.

"Bye Haley." Peyton says.

"So what now?" Jake says.

Haley was so happy cause she finally found the one for her. She knew Nathan was going to be her everything. She walks down to the basketball court to see Nathan, but instead she see's something that makes her heart shatter into a thousand pieces, makes tears breakout and fall down her cheeks, and makes all her blood stop flowing.

"Nathan?" Haley says watching the guy of her dreams break away from kissing another girl.

"Hey Haley. What are you doing her?"

"Your mom said you were down here. Who's this?" Haley ask confused.

"Oh this is a girl I met at my dad's party he's having." Haley walks away.

"Haley what's wrong?" Nathan screams running to catch up with her.

"Nathan why are you with her? Your suppose to be with me remember?"

"Wait a second be with you? What are you talking about?"

"Nathan I thought we were dating ok."

"I never said that? Did I?" "No but I thought..... nevermind." She walks away again.

"I didn't know."

"Yeah apparently you don't know alot of things." Haley runs to Lucas's house crying.

She knocks and he answers.

"What's wrong Hales?" He says hugging her.

"You were right! You were right all along."

"About what?" "About Nathan." "What did he do to you?"

"Its my stupidity I should have known."

"Come in and we will talk about this."

"Ok." They walk to his room and sit on the bed.

"Your room looks different."

"Yeah me and Peyton painted it the other day."

"Oh that's cool."

"Yeah so what happened?"

"I went to see him down at the basketball court and he was kissing another girl. A girl that I don't think he even knew."

"And you thought you and him were more serious?"

"Well yeah. I mean I thought him kissing me up against my locker and us holding hands to classes was a sign."

"Yeah. People can send out wrong signals you know."

"Yeah I know."

"I just thought that just maybe I was lucky enough to have a guy like him to actually care about me the way I cared about him." Haley begins to cry again. "Come here Hales." Lucas holds her.

"It's going to be ok."

"I feel like he's drowning me and he won't let me up. I'm dyeing without him."

Haley soon leaves Lucas's house and walks back home and finds Nathan on the porch.

"Geeze it's about time you got home?" Nathan says. "How long have you been out here?"

"Like a hour and a half something like that."

"Why?"

"Cause I need to talk to you about what happen."

"Well I don't."

"Haley I never knew we were more than friends."

"Yeah well stupid me thought we were."

"Your not stupid Hales."

"I saw a side of you tonight that makes me question wanting to be with you."

"What?"

"I don't know if that person you are is the person I want to be with."

"What are you talking about? What kind of guy am I?"

"Like that girl you didn't even know her name and already you had your tongue down her throat."

"Please don't judge me Haley."

"I'm trying not to."

"I just don't want Lucas hating you for being with me. He hates me and I'm sure he doesn't want his berstfreind to be with me."

"I don't care anymore. I love Lucas to death, but I chose you over him. And if he really cares about me as he says he does then he will understand."

Jake and Peyton are up in her room talking.

"You left me in the worst time of my life. You left me when my mother died Jake. You know how that feels? I waited so long for you to come back. I got really depressed. I just wanted you to come back and tell me it would all be ok, but you didn't. And then Nathan came to my rescue. He made everything ok. And for that second I knew I could move on with someone new and I did. Me and him were together for the last 5 months and they were great, but..."

"But what?"

"Look I don't want to talk about it and not to you."

"Look Peyton you can't hate me for leaving."

"Yeah but I can hate you for never coming back." She walks out the door and drives to Lucas's.

"This is so crazy. People made me believe he was dead for so long. Luke they all lied to me. They made me believe something that wasn't true and for so long I believed them. And he shows up at my doorstep and for once my heart literally fell to the floor and for once I wished he didn't come back."

"Why?"

"Because Lucas I have finally fell so in love that nothing noone does will change that. And I like being with you."

"I like being with you to, but he scares me so bad."

"Why?"

"Cause I'm scared he's going to make you fall in love with him again."

"I never loved Jake." "Then why did you give him a escape route when he needed out? Why did you fight Nicky over him if you never cared?" She stayed silent.

"Because I thought I loved him. I really did, but I was wrong."

"I think you should read this." Lucas gets up and walks over to his computer and pulls up a email.

"I saved this for you to read, but I never got around to showing you." Peyton stands up and sits in the chair and reads it.

Lucas,

Hey man how's the team holding up without me? Jenny's getting so big she will be 12 months tomorrow. Life around me is changing so fast I can't keep up. I heard the rumor back there is that I'm dead. I'm not I don't know who started it, but don't tell Peyton it's not true. I won't be coming back. I know I told Peyton I was, but I can't. I feel like her heart is with Nathan and not with me. How is she? Is she with Nathan or what? Is she still waiting for me to return to her? Man I wish I could just hold her one more time, but it hurts to look into her eyes and not seeing her gazing into mine cause her hearts with someone else. I better go talk to you sometime.

Jake

"Did you email him back?" Peyton asks.

"Yeah."

"What you say?"

"I told him that you missed him and you cried for days when you heard he was dead."

"Yeah. He shouldn't have came back."

"Yeah I know."

"Now I have to tell him I have moved on and I don't want him back in my life not even as friends."

"Yeah."

"Just promise me you will stay with me forever." Lucas says to her while wiping her hair behind her ear.

"I promise."

"There is only one way that I know you will keep that promise." He gets down on one knee.

"Will you be with me for ever and always? Will you be my wife?"

Peyton just stands there stunned with no expression.