Chapter 9
Peyton and Haley woke up and had breakfast then Peyton drove her home and she went to Lucas's. She knocks on his door and he answer's it.
"Hey Peyt." Lucas says opening the door with nothing but his black boxers on.
"Wow."
Lucas just laughs.
"Can we talk?"
"Of course."
He takes her to his room and they sit on his bed.
"Lucas you remember that night that we had that long discussion about our family. You wanted me to tell you about my mom and how she died, but I told you no?"
"Yeah."
"Well it's been on my mind ever since and I want to tell you now."
"Ok."
"I was 16 years old. My mom insisted on getting a pizza for me and Nathan. So she wanted us to go with her. So we all got in the car and sped off. Stupid me came up with a conversation about Nathan's basketball game and she went to look back at him and she didn't see the red light and ran it. A truck was coming full speed on her side. I was sent to the hospital with stitches in my arm and Nathan had some bruises, but was fine." She starts to tear up. "Lucas I looked over and my mom was sitting there lifeless with blood ALL over her and there was not a damn thing I could do to save her. I heard her crying and I told her she was going to be ok, but the paramedics were to late. She died right there beside me."
"I am so sorry Peyton."
"My dad was on the boat at the time and I had to be the one to tell him. I had to be the one to tell my dad that the women he loved and married was dead." Peyton leans over with her head in her hands. "It hurt so bad to hear my dad cry on the other end."
"I bet come here." Lucas wraps his arms around her and lets her weep in his arms.
"It hurt so bad when I realized that could have been me or Nathan. Why just her to die? I could not for one second believe it was all happening. What in the world did my mom do to deserve dyeing? I mean she never intended to die. It just happened and it was out of her control."
"She's watching over you Peyt. You just gotta believe."
"I do believe. When I got home from the hospital that night I kept looking out the window and praying that she would walk right back into the house and walk into my room and tell me it was all a dream, but she didn't."
"I don't know how it feels to lose a parent, but I do know how it feels to lose a bestfriend."
"Hurts doesn't it. Right here." Peyton says placing her hand on his chest.
"Yeah." Lucas says holding her hand. "I am so sorry you had to feel that kind of pain, but I'm here for you now."
"I know you are Luke. I just want you to know everything about me you know. I want us to be able to understand each other."
"Me too." Lucas says wiping her tears.
Everyone was gathering into the gym that night. It had rained earlier so they were forced to have it in the gym to avoid all the mud. Haley drove with Nathan and Lucas drove with Peyton. They all met in the lobby at 6:30.
"OMG guess this is really it." Peyton says as they all got in a circle with their arms around each other. It was Nathan, Lucas, Haley, Peyton, Tim, and Jake.
"I am going to really miss you guys. You all really made my highschool experience fun and I will never forget it." Haley says with a tear rolling down her cheek.
"Guys this is it. All the hard work came down to this night. I can't wait to watch each of you walk down the aisle. I'm proud of you guys." Peyton says.
"I am really going to miss playing basketball with my teammates everyday. I am going to miss my tutor and my girlfriend Haley. Lucas I am even going to miss you your my brother and Haley has made me come to the fact that we both have to accept that." Nathan says.
"Umm.. I'm going to miss everyone. I am going to miss my bestfriend here Haley. I know Nathan will do you good. I just hope that before this night is over we will all be friends and noone will leave enemies. As Haley said each and everyone of you has made my highschool year a rememorable one and I am so glad I came here." Lucas says.
"I know some of you I didn't get to spend as much time as I hoped with, but Nathan and Lucas yall are the best basketball players I have ever saw and I hope you two succeed in the professionals. I'm going to miss you all." Jake says.
"Well I hope you all do well in the future and I am going to miss yall. Now let's graduate." Tim says as they all head for the gym.
They all are seated in front of the stage as their parents and friends surround them. Haley had to sit on the stage so she could soon do her speech. After the principle and coach Whitey did their speech Haley did hers.
"Hi my fellow senior class. I am so glad I got to be your valedictorian. Ever since we were little we always wondered how are senior graduation would be like and now we are finally here and it doesn't feel like we are actually finished. All that hard work is finally over with. All our relationship and friendships, that we hope will still grow after this, are over. No more seeing everyone everyday in the halls. No more running to classes cause you know your late. And no more dancing with your sweet hearts at homecoming and prom. I think we all have been through alot here. I think we all have learned alot from each other. I know I have. I learned that being crazy once in a while is ok and that falling in love isn't as bad as it seems. I hope everyone in this room with me tonight succeeds in life. I hope you get good jobs and live a long and healthy life. Thank you for your time. I love you class of 2004 and keep safe."
Everyone stands up and cheers. Haley goes back out into the crowd and sits as the principle calls out the names.
After he was done everyone begins to exit as they do Peyton makes sure she finds Brooke. She does out in the parking lot about to get into her car.
"Brooke wait!" Peyton yells running over to her.
"Peyton what do you want?"
"What I want is us not to end our senior graduation hating each other."
"Oh really. Well I really don't care."
"Brooke. Please you have to forgive me. You are my bestfriend. You always have been since we were 3 and I will not let that end now."
"Oh really. You should have thought about that before you madeout with my boyfriend in the pool."
Peyton was speechless. She didn't know what to say to that. Maybe Brooke was right. Maybe she didn't deserve to be forgiven for something like that. So she let her leave. She let her best friend leave hating her still.
Peyton runs back to the front door where everyone was gathered at.
"So I guess this is it guys." Jake says.
"Yeah. We better all still keep in touch." Haley says giving everyone good bye hugs.
"Haley you act like we are all moving or something. We all see each other anyways even outside of school. So don't worry." Lucas says hugging her.
"I guess your right." Haley walks over to Nathan who was talking to some of his other friends.
"Everyone party down at the basketball court everyone is invited!" Tim say walking out of the front door.
"Ok Hales you ready to go." Nathan says putting his arm around her.
"Yeah hold on."
"Ok."
Haley walks over to Lucas who was hand in hand with Peyton talking to Jake.
"Hey Lucas will you come by my house later on tonight?"
"Sure." Lucas says giving her a hug.
"You know the usual I don't care how late."
"Ok."
Lucas always pecked on her window when he got scared at night or when he needed to talk. He mainly did it when his parents broke up, but then he just started coming for no reason, but Haley never minded.
She goes back to Nathan and he opens the door for her and she gets in and he gets in.
"So what now?" Nathan asks looking over at Haley.
"Let's go back to your place."
"Ok." Nathan starts the car and off they went.
"Peyton you ready to go?" Lucas asks Peyton.
"Yeah let's go."
"So are yall going down by the rivercourt for once last time and shoot some hoops with the guys?" Jake asks.
"Yeah we'll be down there later probably."
"Ok man yall keep safe."
"Ok man bye."
Peyton and Lucas get in her car and drives off.
They drop by their houses and changed clothes then they go down to the basketball court. Where everyone from the basketball team and other seniors was.
"Yall started without me?" Lucas says walking over to the court.
"No we're just warming up. Where's the other Scott?"
"Who cares. One Scott can take you all."
"We'll see."
"Hey Peyt will you keep a eye on Jenny for me?"
"Sure." Peyton walks over to the hood of his car where Jenny was in her baby chair.
"Hey."
Peyton heard a voice so formilar but she knew it couldn't her. She turns around to find Brooke. Brooke hops on the hood with her.
"Hey Brooke."
"We have been friends for so long. I keep asking myself why? Why did I chose a backstabber for a bestfriend?"
"Brooke I don't want to argue."
"Me either. I just want some answers Peyton. That's all I want from you."
"Brooke for some reason when we was younger it was so much easier to make promises, but then it started to get so hard to keep them." She looks away from her then turns back to her. "If you really want to know why I did it it's because I fell in love."
"Yeah you did. With my boyfriend Peyton. He was everything to me and he meant the world to me and you were my bestfriend. What did I do to deserve that?"
"Nothing Brooke. This was never about hurting you."
"Yeah keep telling yourself that." Brooke say as she hops off and begins to walk away.
"Brooke stop." And she does so and turns around. "So this is it?"
"Yup. This is it Peyt." She turns back around and there she went. She walked away once again.
Lucas walks over to Peyton.
"So what happened?"
"Nothing at all."
"Are you serious?"
"Yup she still hates us."
"Your joking."
"Nope can we go home now?"
"Sure." Lucas runs back and tells the guys their leaving.
After they left the basketball court Lucas walks over to Haley's house. It was around 12:30. He pecks on her window and she lets him in.
"So why you want me to come over?"
"I just need to talk to someone."
"Oh ok."
They sit on her bed.
"I remember it just like it was yesterday you hiding behind Karen at the neighborhood gathering picnic. You were so scared of me. We were what 6. That was the first time I saw you and that's the first time I fell in love. I tell myself everyday I am in love with Nathan, but nothing can seem to give me that feeling that I felt when I saw you that day."
"Yeah me too."
"It's so hard letting go of your first love you know?"
"Yeah."
"But we have to move on Lucas. We have to. It's not fair to Nathan for me to still be in love with you."
"Well how can you just stop loving someone?"
"Bye leaving."
"What?"
"When me and Nathan were up in Ohio we had decided after graduation we would move up there. Lucas he wants me to marry him. I am so scared he keeps throwing everything at me and I don't know what to do."
"Being on your own is a scary thing. We you have to start making decisions like that by yourself and that's why you have Nathan. He's there to help you."
"Yeah." She starts to cry. "I miss us Lucas. I miss me and you playing everyday. I miss us falling in love again everytime we see each other. I miss us goofing around together when we would hang out. it just all went by so fast and there's nothing I can do to rewind it all."
"Yeah I do, but maybe it's a good thing that we can't go back. There are some things that are just meant to stay in the past you know."
"Like our relationship."
"Yeah. So do your parents even know your leaving?"
"Yeah. My mom and Deb talked about it and they think it's for the best that we got out on our own and start a life together."
"Well that's good Haley. I'm glad one of us can get out of here."
"You can Lucas. Just take Peyton and go."
"No I don't want to take her away from this place. I just think I need to leave by myself and leave everyone here happy."
"Yeah well maybe that would be for the best, but Lucas bring Peyton with you. Please. I don't want her in this town all alone."
"Yeah I know. I might, but I better go before your parents catch me."
"Ok I guess I will see you tomorrow maybe."
"Yeah I might come by in my busy schedule."
Haley laughs.
"Will you be working at the cafe tomorrow?" Lucas asks.
"Yeah."
"Ok see you there."
"Ok bye Luke."
"Bye." Lucas opens the window and leaves.
The next morning Lucas walks down to the court as he did every weekend morning to gets some extra practice. This morning he finds Nathan down there throwing free shots.
"You know if you want to play like a pro you need to learn from a pro." Lucas says motioning him to throw him the ball.
"Yeah well when you see a pro tell me."
Lucas laughs then Nathan laughs.
"What are you doing here man?" Nathan asks throwing him the ball.
"I heard your taking my bestfriend to Ohio."
"I dunno."
"What do you mean you don't know?"
"I mean I am scared to take her away form this place you know. This is all she knows."
"Yeah well this is all me and you know right?"
"Yeah I still remember when we lived together, cause mom thought it would bring us closer."
"Yeah but instead it made us hate each other even more."
"I wonder why Lucas?"
"What I never done anything."
"Oh you didn't? Then what do you call cutting me off everytime I tried to shoot in a game? What do you call making Whitey bench me a week after I was in the hospital cause you wanted to be the star payer for our game. Lucas you always wanted to be me and I never could understand why? Why do you want to be so much like me?"
"Cause Nathan no one ever cared when I scored the way they did when you did. No one ever cared when I made the winning shot."
"They cared Lucas. It was you who never cared. You want to know something funny?"
"What?"
"I always wanted to be like you."
"Why?"
"Cause you had Karen as your mom and you didn't have to put up with living with Dan. One night I actually told him I wish he would go live with yall."
"Really?" Lucas laughs a little.
"Yeah. The man was driving me crazy. Kept at me all the freakin' time about basketball."
"It was worth it though. Your like the best player we had. Yeah it just sucks that we can't go to the play offs."
"Yeah, but hey it's all good. We gave it our hardest."
"Yeah."
"We'll I am going to go."
"Ok man." Lucas says giving him a tight brotherly hug. "You and Haley keep safe and keep in touch. Don't leave and never call now."
"We will. I promise." With that Nathan walks away and Lucas just stands there. "Oh yeah." Nathan stops and turns around to say "Your still my big brother right."
"Do I have a choice?"
Nathan laughs. "Nope."
"Bye lil bro."
"Bye." Nathan waves one last time.
Still Lucas stares as he walks away. This was his life. This court was his entire life. He spent days down here just shooting. Alot of memories were made down here. This court was where Peyton and Lucas first talked, this is where Peyton and Nathan broke up, this is where Haley and Nathan hooked up, this is where Peyton and Lucas hooked up officially, and this was the place where Lucas's mom came and told him about her and dad's divorce. Still makes him a little upset that he grew up without a real dad. Keith was the closest they came, but he was satisfied with that, cause he knew his mom loved him dearly.
Lucas stays and throws some free throws and stayed thinking what him and Peyton was going to do now.
r/r- Ok there it. Does that sound finished or should I continue another chapter or go ahead and make a sequal to it (that is if yall want a sequal). Please let me know what I should do. Thanks!