A/N: Thanks for all of the reviews! Hope you like chapter three; please review if you want more!

Chapter 3: Is this a dream?

Four days had passed and it is now Friday night. Brooke and Lucas still have not said anything to each other about how they are feeling.

Haley walked into her and Nathan's apartment after work. It was eight o'clock, and Nathan was sitting on the couch playing video games with Lucas. She walked over and sat down on the couch in between them.

"How was work?" Nathan asked as she sat down, not looking away from his game.

"It was good, tiring, but good," she answered.

"Are you okay, Hales? You have been tired a lot lately," Lucas asked.

"Yeah, I am just tired, probably working too hard. I don't have to work tomorrow though, except for TRIC, but that is at night. I can catch up on sleep tonight." Nathan and Lucas finished their game. Nathan won.

"I'm gonna go home, I'll see you guys tomorrow," Lucas announced, getting off of the couch.

"Bye, Luke," Haley and Nathan said at the same time.

"Sleep late tomorrow Hales, you really do look like crap."

"Thanks for the honesty," she said sarcastically. Lucas left, and Haley and Nathan were alone. Nathan got up off the couch, and lifted Haley up.

"Nathan, what are you doing?" she asked as he began carrying her towards the bedroom.

"You're going to bed," he said as he dropped her on their bed.

"I can walk, you know."

"I know, but you look weak, I thought I would save you the trouble. Go to sleep."

"Can I at least get changed first?" she asked and walked into the bathroom. They both changed and went to bed.

"Are you really okay, Hales? You threw up two mornings in a row, and have been tired all the time." Nathan asked, pulling her against him.

"Yeah, I'm fine. It's probably just a bug."

"Okay, let me know if you start to feel worse and I can take you to the doctor."

"I'm fine, goodnight."

"Goodnight, I love you," Nathan said, but Haley had already fallen asleep in his arms.

When Lucas got home, he realized there was a voice message on his cell phone. He looked and saw it was from Brooke. They had been avoiding each other lately, and neither one knew why the other one didn't notice. Lucas had talked to Anna saying that there was someone else and he didn't want to lead her on. She was okay with it, but had no idea who he was talking about; she hadn't seen him with any other girls. He called the mailbox and listened to the message.

'Hey Luke, its Brooke. I need to talk to you, so call me when you get this," it said. He decided it was still early enough that she would be awake, so he called her.

"Hello?" she answered.

"Hey, it's Lucas."

"Oh, hi."

"I got your message; you said you wanted to talk?"

"Yeah, I thought maybe we could get together tomorrow and talk somewhere?"

"Sure, where do you want to go?" he asked.

"I thought maybe we could meet at the river court maybe around noon?"

"Okay, I guess I'll see you then."

"Yeah, bye."

"Bye," he said as he hung up the phone. This would be a perfect chance to tell her how he felt. 'I wonder what she wants to tell me' he thought.

Peyton was sitting home alone on a Friday night. She was listening to music and checking her e-mail. She had still not heard anything from Jake. She missed him so much. She missed watching Jenny. If she had only not looked away when she was shopping with Brooke and Jenny; maybe Jake would still be here. Maybe if she had convinced him to stay they would be together now. She believed it was all her fault that Jake and Jenny were gone. Maybe that was why Jake didn't return her e-mails, and never called or wrote. She was put out of her thoughts when there was a knock on her bedroom door. She turned around and couldn't believe what she saw.

"Jake," she said quietly. Had she fallen asleep, was she dreaming? Jake couldn't be standing in her door, but he was.

"I knocked, but no one answered, then I heard music and knew you were home," he said, trying to get her over her shock. "Are you okay, Peyton?" he asked when she still said nothing.

"Why didn't you write back or call?" she asked, almost in a whisper.

"My lawyer told me not to make any connections to Tree Hill until I had custody of Jenny, maybe they would have been able to trace it back. I'm not really sure, the lawyer gave me a new e-mail address, so I never got any e-mails from you. I figured you had sent some though."

"I thought you were mad at me."

"Why?" he asked confused.

"Because I was the reason you left."

"No you weren't, Nikki was, and that's also why I'm back."

"Why are you back?"

"Nikki found me, she said something about going to Seattle, then she found I wasn't there and I don't know how she knew I was in Savannah."

"Brooke told her you went to Seattle."

"She wanted custody, so I let her take care of Jenny for a day. She couldn't handle her, so we saw the judge and I got full custody."

"That's great, are you staying?"

"Yeah, we're back for good. We missed you."

"I missed you guys too. Where is Jenny, I can't wait to see her?"

"She's out in the hallway asleep. She missed you so much."

"How long have you been back?"

"I just got back, I came here first, and my parents don't know I'm back."

"Why did you come here first?"

"Because I wanted to tell you something."

"What?" she asked. Jake leaned over and kissed her, she kissed back, surprised.

"That," he said as they pulled away. "I like you, Peyton; I have since before I left, I thought you should know."

"I like you too, now go get Jenny, I want to see her!" Peyton exclaimed, now finally happy for the first time in a long time. Jake brought a now awake Jenny into Peyton's room, and handed her to Peyton.

"Can we stay here tonight?" Jake asked, sitting back on the bed where they had been before. "It's late, and my parents are probably already asleep."

"Sure, I'm alone anyways." They both lie down on the bed with Jenny in between them, and fell asleep.

A/N: There's the new chapter, Jake is back!!! Please review, it makes me happy! (And it makes me update!)