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I don't really know the principal's name, so I'll just make it up.
Chapter 1: The Scheme
"Miss Sawyer. I've decided to lift your suspension after finding out that the act you did was provoked by some students spreading rumors that you," Principal Bennett said, while sitting in his office chair, looking over some report papers.
"I know sir. I apologize for the way I acted. I admit it was quite, um, impulsive to do so." Peyton admitted.
"I will, however, deduct some points from your deportment grade." He clarified.
"I totally understand sir." She said.
"Good. Then you may go now, Miss Sawyer."
Peyton stood up, grabbed her bag and headed out the door. As she was turning on the doorknob, she heard the principal say one more thing:
"Peyton," he said, as Peyton turned around. "Don't let these rumors get to you."
"Thank you for the advice, sir." She said politely, gave him her most sincere smile, and went out the door. As she walked in the hallway, she could feel people's eyes gazing through her, as if she was a model walking down a ramp. She could also hear whispers.
"Dyke."
"Lesbian."
"Hey Trish, isn't that the lesbian girl?"
She tried to ignore it. But she could already feel tears swelling up her eyes…
"Hey bestest friend!" She heard a familiar voice say.
"Brooke!" she turned around. "Why are you so happy today?"
"Well," she said as she grabbed Peyton's hand and continued walking down the corridor, "If you must know, Felix and I are back together."
"Really? I thought he lied to you." She said.
"Oh Peyton. That's the way love goes. You forgive each other. Besides, he totally explained it last night." She said.
"Last night? You know, last night, I had this hallucination of Jake. Turns out he was some other person." She said, laughing.
"Jake? You seriously need to clear your head." She said. Peyton turned to open her locker.
"At least they got the vandalism off." She said.
"Peyton, I want you to know that I'm here for you. Okay?" Brooke said, with a wide smile on her face.
"Okay. Thanks Brooke." She said, and they hugged.
"Brooke!" a voice from the end of the hall said.
"Felix!" she turned to Peyton. "Gotta go. Bye!" she said hurriedly as she ran towards Felix at the end of the hall.
Peyton grabbed her books, shut her locker, and headed to class. This was going to be a very long day.
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The dismissal bell rang, and the students rushed out the door. Lucas grabbed his things and headed out. He kept on thinking about the things that happened last night. Nathan told him that he was in love with someone. He went to see who it was. He visited Anna. He realized that it wasn't her.
He went by Peyton's house. There was no one there.
He went to Brooke's house. What he saw there was Brooke and Felix making out. He didn't feel a thing.
I'm not in love with Anna, Peyton nor Brooke, he thought. Then who?
He headed outside. He saw Peyton walking to her car. I'm not in love with her, but I've been such a terrible friend. I should make it up to her. He thought. He ran towards Peyton.
"Peyton, wait!"
"What do you want?" she asked coldly.
"Listen," he said as they walked along. "I've been a terrible friend. I wasn't there for you. I'm sorry, Peyton."
Peyton stopped walking, and turned to Lucas. "You think sorry's going to do it?"
"Of course not." He said with a laugh. "I'm going to make it up to you."
"How? Give me free car tune-ups? Lucas…" she said, and started walking again.
"I may not know your other problems," he said, "But I know about the rumors. And that's what I'm going to help you with."
Peyton again stopped. "What? How can you possibly do that?" she asked, crossing her arms and raising her eyebrow.
"People think you're a—" he paused, unsure if he should say it.
"Lucas, you can say it." She said.
"People think you're a lesbian, right? Well, how does a lesbian become one in the first place?" he asked.
"I don't know." She answered. "Um, acting like a guy?"
"Yeah, that too, and because no other guy likes her. So…"
"What?"
Lucas dragged her to a secluded corner of the school, looked around, and told her.
"I can help you by," he started, "Don't freak out or anything, okay?"
"Yeah, okay."
"Well, I, I mean, we, could pretend to be going out." He said in a whisper.
"What? You're crazy!" She screamed, and walked away from Lucas.
"Peyton," he said, walking after her, "You said you wouldn't freak out."
She stopped. "Yes I did! But what you said is completely mad! How could we pull that off? What are we going to tell people? How about Anna? Have you considered her, Lucas?" she asked, with a hint of annoyance in her tone.
"I ended things with Anna last night." He said plainly.
"Oh." Peyton answered, not really knowing what to say.
"Please, Peyton. Let me make it up to you. I promise, it will work." He assured her. "And if it doesn't, you can tell them that I'm gay." He joked.
Peyton laughed at this comment. They continued on walking to her car.
"Okay. We could, maybe give this a shot. But I'm telling Brooke!" she said. "The last time we kept a relationship from her, I almost lost my life." She said with a laugh.
"I almost left Tree Hill!" Lucas said, laughing with her. "And its as if we haven't done this whole romance thing before, right?" he asked.
"Well, yeah." Peyton answered, her tone more serious. "The last time we did it, we had to keep it from everyone."
"Hey," Lucas said, caressing her face, "It's going to work, okay? Don't worry."
Peyton smiled. She took her keys and unlocked the door of her car.
"Hey Luke," she said, looking off into the distance. "Those girls are staring at us."
Lucas turned to look. "Well, let's give them something to talk about." He said, and he leaned in and kissed her. The girls in the distance looked shocked, and one ran off, probably to tell the other students.
Peyton pulled away, and smiled at Lucas. "Bye boyfriend." She said, and got into her car.
"Bye girlfriend." He said with a smile, and walked off.
Peyton looked at him walking farther. She could have swore she felt something during that kiss…
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Lucas looked back, and saw Peyton driving away. He didn't know why he kissed her that moment, something in him told him to kiss Peyton. And he gave in to that impulse. But now, what Nathan told him went back. In love? He laughed the thought off. But he felt something during that kiss… Something that confused him more.
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