Note: I don't own any characters of One Tree Hill except Carly, shes my own creation

That night Peyton walked up to Lucas's house. The last time she had been here, she had told Lucas they couldn't be together anymore. She began to remember..

Peyton: "How you feeling?"
Lucas: "Okay I guess. And not so okay."
Peyton: "Me too. Lucas."
Lucas: "Peyton."
Peyton: "When I saw you lying there in the hospital right after the accident all I could think about was how my mom wasn't as lucky as you. And then I remembered, after she died, it was Brooke who was there for me. We were just little kids and she would come over, every single day, to make sure I was okay. She's been my best friend ever since."
Lucas: "Well life's short, Peyton."
Peyton: "Too short to live it as a bad person. I can't betray her, Lucas."
Lucas: "You mean even more than we already have. Peyton. I'm sorry."
Peyton: "Me too. But it's better this way, right?"
Lucas: "Yeah."

Tears began to form in her eyes the more she thought about it. She finally got up the courage to knock on the door. Lucas's mom, Karen, answered.

"Peyton, Lucas is up in his room."

"Thanks. I also have a list for some possible acts for the opening night of the club. If you want to take a look and tell me what you think."

"I will do that."

She made her way up the stairs and to Lucas's door. She pushed it open. There he was laying on his bed, deep in thought. He look so hot when he was thinking. Peyton knew that she had to get rid of those thoughts if they were going to work together.

"Am I disturbing something."

"No...Peyton come on in" She looked so beautiful, Lucas thought, even though he would not be able to tell her.

"So, I brought a list of topics we could do. I was thinking maybe music, you know, different genres. What do you think?"

"That sounds fine. Hey speaking of music, making any requests?"

"Anything will do."

"Okay" With that Lucas inserted his favorite cd, a mix made by Peyton last year. He listened to it all the time. Immediately Peyton knew the cd, she had made it for him. God did he know how to get to her.

"Lucas, are you sure that everything is fine. You seem distracted."

"No, everything is fine." He was not telling the truth. He was distracted by Peyton. They had not been alone in his room since last year and he just wanted to hold and kiss her, but he couldn't.

They spent the next few hours creating their project. In between they would begin to have personal conversations, but one of them would always attempt to get back to the topic of their project. Finally their time was ended with a telephone call.

"Hello"

"Lucas, its me. I want to see. I need you so bad." It was Carly.

"I am kind of busy, but maybe tomorrow." Peyton began to shake her head and packed up her things.

"I will call you back" Lucas hung up the phone and got up to say goodbye to Peyton.

"You don't have to go, you know."

"Your girlfriend is waiting and I know that if I was your girlfriend I would want to spend a lot of time with you too." Lucas smiled at this comment, knowing that part of him wanted that to be the case.

"So I will see you tomorrow. By the way Peyton, you looked really beautiful tonight." Peyton's cheeks began to blush at this comment, but Lucas regretted what he had just said. He knew that she may get the wrong idea, but part of him wanted that to be the impression.

Lucas and Peyton began to spend a lot more time together after that night. They returned to their old friendship, touching on topics that Carly could not talk about. They worked on their project almost every night. This frustrated Carly to the point that she knew she needed to talk to Lucas about it. When she came over to his house, Peyton was just leaving.

"Hey Carly, Luke is upstairs in his room. He was just about to call you."

"Thanks Peyton." She put on a fake smile.

When she got upstairs, she noticed that Lucas appeared to be distant from her.

"Lucas, you need to tell me what is wrong. Is there another girl. I mean if there is, I want to know now."

"Carly, you are an amazing girl, but...I just don't know."

"Who is it. Peyton, Brooke, for god's sake is it Haley."

"............Peyton, at least I think it is. I am confused about my feelings."

"Obviously you are not confused, if you can fess up to it and say her name."

"Carly, I am so sorry. I did not mean for this to happen, but it just did." He tried to reach out to her but she pulled away.

"Don't touch me. You know, Brooke was right. There is something between Peyton and you that can not be erased."

"What does Brooke have to do with this."

"Nothing, its just we had a very interesting conversation and she told me about you and Peyton. I mean, how could I been so blind. Everyone else sees it."

"Everyone sees what?" He knew the answer, but needed someone to reassure him.

"You are in love with each other." With that Carly left the room, leaving Lucas alone . What he did not realize though, was that there was another person hearing Carly and him fight, his mom.

Peyton was interrupted during her sketching, when she heard the phone ring. She answered and was surprised who was on the other end.

"Hey Peyton, this is Karen. Do you think that you could come over. I want to talk about the choice for the act on opening night."

"Yeah, I will be right over."