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BrOoKe

April Rain

Chapter Two

Answers

Peyton walked up the back steps to Lucas' house as she was about to knock on the door, it opened suddenly, surprising her.

"Peyton?" Lucas said. She smiled.

"Hey.." she trailed off.



"What are you doing here?"

"I just really wanted to see you Luke.."

"Wanna come in?" he asked.

"Sure.." she replied as she stepped into his room and he shut the door behind her.

She sat down on his bed. "So what's up?" he asked, sitting down beside her. She pulled something out of her pocket. A folded up piece of paper. He opened it as she stood up and walked out the door before Lucas could even get the chance to say goodbye to her or ask her where she was going. As he hesitated to get up and go after her, he opened the piece of paper to find a drawing completely in black. One of Peyton's drawings.

"Answers To Your Questions Come With Time..." he read off the page and he saw a picture in the middle of the paper. The picture was of Lucas. He didn't understand what she was talking about. That night he went to bed, just trying to figure out what it meant, just reading the sentence over and over again in his head. What did she mean?

The next day, Lucas went to school ready to talk to Peyton about what she had meant. He walked up to her locker where she was getting books to put in her bag. He stopped in front of her and she continued on doing what she was in the first place.

"Peyton?" he said as she glanced over at him.

"Hey Lucas..." she said partially smiling.

"What did you mean?" he asked her. She continued to fiddle with things in front of her and not pay 100% of her attention to Lucas.

"That's for you to find out for yourself, Lucas.." she said as she kissed him quickly on the cheek and walked off down the halls to her class.

He was so overly confused with everything that he just went to his next class, trying to figure out the sentence in the back of his mind.

By lunch time, Lucas was still as confused as he was at the beginning of the day. He sat outside beside Haley not eating anything, staring off into the distance.

"Lucas? Lucas?" she waved her hand in front of his face, as he came out of his daze. "Are you okay?" she asked him.

"I'm fine.." he said.

"Are you sure? 'Cause you don't seem fine."

"I'm sure Haley.."

"Okay.." she said as he paused to think about it for a second.

He started, "It's just that, Peyton gave me a drawing last night... and I can't think of what it is. It's been bothering me all day,"

"So that's what you were looking at in Chemistry?" she laughed. "Well, did you ask her?"

"Yeah.. she told me that it's for me to find out for myself.." he pouted.

"Well, then you have to figure it out for yourself, Scott.." she said as she picked up her lunch and left the table.

Lucas sat there staring at the white piece of paper. All of a sudden, something came to his mind.

*Flashback*

"Okay.. I'm going to give you each a piece of paper, and I want you to write what you want most on it..." he said as Lucas Scott accepted his piece of paper and placed it in front of himself. Peyton Sawyer sat in front of him and put hers on her desk as well. Nathan Scott sat at the front of the row and accepted his last. The three of them sat there puzzled in their seats for a while, confused of what to write on the sheet of paper.

Peyton sat just beside him, knowing exactly what she wanted most: Truth.

Nathan sat at the front of the row, his anger and fury still stirring inside of him, he wanted: Revenge.

Lucas then noticed, and he knew immediately. The letters sat on his paper for what seemed like forever: ANSWERS.

*End of Flashback*

Lucas sat up in his seat at his table. He ran around the school trying to find Peyton, and finally succeeded as he looked in the Library, and she was sitting, drawing at a table in the corner.

"Peyton," he said. She looked up, and started smiling, almost being able to read his face. She felt like she knew he had discovered what she meant. "That day, in English class... when he told us to write what we wanted most. How did you know that was what I wrote?" he asked.

She smiled, "I looked over at your paper," she smirked. He got a cringed look on his face.

"Why?" he asked.

"Lucas... I felt like I knew you the second that I met you. Knowing what you wanted more than anything let me know you even more.." she said as she got up out of her seat and kissed him on the cheek as she swiftly left the room. Yet again, Lucas sat alone, puzzled in his chair. Why was she confusing him so much? He didn't understand what she was doing.

At the end of the day, Lucas found Peyton at her locker again.

"Peyton, why exactly are you doing this? You're driving me crazy!"

She laughed. "You're a real character, Lucas Scott."

"Peyton, just tell me!"

"This entire day just proves to me how much you really do want them..."

"Want what?"

"...Answers..." she got her things and left the building, Lucas not following far behind her.

"Peyton!" he chased after her. She sat down on a bench underneath and tree. "Peyton... why do you keep walking away?"

"Lucas..." she paused as he sat down beside her, looking her in the eye, "why do you want answers so badly?"

He stopped right there. Why did he want answers so badly? Well, because he didn't know any of them to start with. "Peyton.." he started, "look, I want to know things just as much as any other person would... but when I met you, it was like there were so many more to be answered. It was like, when I was with you, my whole entire world changed and I wanted to know why. I wanted to know why you are the one that makes me feel the way that I do, why you were different from the others..." he looked down at his feet on the ground. She had nothing to say, then he spoke up, "what did you write on your paper?"

She paused, she couldn't tell him that, but for some reason, she did, "Truth."

He looked at her.

"Lucas, I look around this place and I see people who hide themselves, take everything that's easy and make it seem so serious, and make life seem like a stage full of actors just acting out scenes to fill their time... and people who are untrue. I'm tired of people not being able to be themselves and taking cover trying to be just like everyone else. I hate seeing girls who throw their lives away by sleeping with a guy one night to have a reputation. No one is real..." she paused. She pulled her drawing book out of her bag. She took out the picture of a crowd, with one person standing out from all the others. At the bottom of the page read a message: THEY ARE NOT YOU. Lucas looked over the drawing for what seemed like forever. What she did amazed him.

He couldn't even say anything.

She stared at him.

He stared at her.

They sat there forever in the same position.

Finally, Peyton kissed him, and he kissed her back. Lucas felt like he didn't exactly know the answers for what was ahead of him, but he felt that as long as the future included Peyton... he didn't really care.

I don't really know where that chapter was supposed to lead, but I felt like writing some more. Hopefully some more meaningful chapters to come! And PLZ leave me reviews with some suggestions!!!! I need some... I don't know where to lead this story.. thx!

BrOoKe