Ch. 5 Faith
Karen's Café
"So where have you been?" Haley asked Lucas who was just walking in. "Out. Talking to your boyfriend." He replied. "Lucas I'm sorry. I know I should have told you but I was waiting for the perfect time and the perfect way and I guess there wasn't any." Haley said. Lucas responded "Hales I understand that you were protecting my feelings but I would have rather you would have told me instead of finding out from my brother." "Nathan told you?" Haley questioned. Lucas knew he shouldn't have said that and replied "Hales don't be mad, alright. We were working through our problems and agreed to be honest with each other. And what kind of base for our new friendship would it be if we withheld stuff from the beginning?" Haley looking dumbfounded from the new information replied "Well I guess that's a good excuse, but you and Nathan friends?" Lucas responded "Yes. We decided to work things out and he talked to me about you and I talked to him about Peyton." Haley asked "So what about Peyton and you?" Lucas answered "Well I love her. That much I know, but there's just so much time between us, I don't know how to approach this plus the fact that I was a total jerk to her Hales. I love her, but how can I get past this?" Haley replied "With time. You have to give it time and take it slow with her. I have faith in your relationship." Haley was walking away when Lucas replied "I have faith in your relationship too buddy."
At Peyton's House
A knock was heard at the door and the curly blonde went to open it. The person she found on the other side put a smile on her face. "Peyton I know I'm hot but you're like my sister and that smile is making me feel uncomfortable" he stated. Peyton was embarrassed and responded "Whatever Nathan, you're like my brother, I could never think of you that way. Oh and by the way you can come on in." Nathan replied "Thanks. I thought I was going to be standing there all day." Peyton laughed and said "So what's up?" Nathan replied "Well I just came back from my little talk to your lover." Peyton asked "And just who would that be?" "Oh you know he has blonde hair, blue eyes and goes by the name of Lucas Scott." Nathan responded. "So what did you and Luke talked about?" Nathan responded "About stuff and …you." Peyton replied "Can I know what about me?" Nathan replied "We talked about when you were away, about you coming back and about restarting our relationships with you." Peyton asked "What did he have to say about the last one?" Nathan answered "He said some things that I am not allowed to tell you but I will tell you this, he cares for you Peyt, he really does, he is just hurt of how you left. Peyton you two need time to sort stuff out but I believe you two can work it out. I have faith in you guys." Peyton was almost in tears after this and told him thanks and that she was glad he found a girl like Haley. They kept on talking; trying to catch up on stuff they had missed out in each other's lives. Soon after Peyton realized she needed art supplies and Nathan needed to go to basketball practice. What she didn't realize when she left was that someone was following her.
Store
Peyton was looking for some pastels to paint with when Brooke Davis walked towards her. "Who the hell do you think you are?" the angry brunette asked. The confused blonde replied "Excuse me." "You don't know me, I'm Brooke Davis. I used to be Luke's girlfriend." Brooke said. Peyton replied "I see. Well I'm sorry about that but I don't see what it has to do with me." Brooke replied angrily "You want to know what it has to do with you, I'll tell you. Lucas broke up with me because of you, he said 'I don't love you, all this time I've loved someone else.' I asked him who and he said 'Peyton Sawyer, the only girl that gives me butterflies in my stomach' and now you're back." Peyton replied "I'm sorry he broke up with you, but you can't blame it on me because he did that when I wasn't even here, so take your angry little self and get the hell away because I don't need to put up with you." Brooke replied "You little whore." Then a worker at the store said to Brooke to get out and Peyton bought her supplies. When Peyton walked out she saw Brooke was waiting for her and asked "You just don't know when to give up, what are you still doing here?" Brooke then replied "Getting even." And then Brooke lunged into her. The girls were fighting when two guys pulled them apart. They were lucky and surprised to find out it was only Lucas and Jake who had pulled them apart.
