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Chapter 3: Someone Knows"Excuse me?" Lucas told the person he bumped. He helped that person with the fallen books. Then, just as that person was going to talk, the bell rung.
"Bye, Lucas." Anna said, turned her heel and went to her class.
Anna? He thought. How could she know about the plan?
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Lunchtime…
"What?" Brooke said as she stared in disbelief.
"I'm sorry! She overheard us." Felix said, trying to apologize.
"So now, your sister knows that my best friend is fake dating her ex-boyfriend?" Brooke asked, still mad.
"Well, no." Felix said as he opened the bag of chips he had for lunch. "She asked me, and I told her that Lucas is just using Peyton for show."
"Another lie?" Brooke said. "Why didn't you tell her that Peyton and Lucas are just pretending?"
"Well, I couldn't let that secret out. At least, what she knows now is that their relationship is real." Felix said, trying to make up for the deed. "You can tell Peyton that,"
"No, Felix! Don't you understand? I wasn't supposed to tell anyone!" she said in an angry whisper. "I slipped when we were talking, okay? So I just told you!"
Felix went near Brooke, and placed his arms around her. "We won't tell them, okay?" he said gently, kissing Brooke's forehead. "Don't worry. I told Anna to shut up about this. I am so sorry, Brooke."
Brooke saw Peyton and Lucas going towards them. "Quiet, Felix! Act like you don't know." She told Felix, and he went back to his place.
"Hey Brooke. Can we sit here?" Peyton asked, placing her tray on the table.
"Sure, bestest friend!" Brooke said, in her usual perky manner. Peyton sat down next to Brooke, and Lucas sat down next to Felix.
"So," Felix said to Lucas, "Are the rumors true?" He glanced at Peyton, who gave him an icy glare. "I mean, are you two…" he said, trying to act naïve.
"Yeah, we are. How about you, man? Are you going out with…" Lucas replied, trying to start a conversation.
"Lucas!" Brooke said, "I already told you and Peyton!" They all laughed at this. "So Peyton," Brooke said, turning to her, "Wanna go shopping later? There's this sale at the mall." She asked hopefully.
Peyton glanced at Lucas, and turned to Brooke. "I'm sorry, Brooke. Lucas and I have stuff to do." She answered, giving Brooke a knowing stare and emphasizing the word stuff.
"Oh." Brooke said, returning the knowing stare. "I get it." She said, and started laughing.
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English class…
Lucas stared at the board as their teacher was babbling about Caesar.
How could Anna know about Peyton and me? Did someone tell her that?
"…He fell in love with the beautiful Egyptian queen, Cleopatra, which caused the enraged senators to plot a coup…"
It was bothering him too much. He tore a piece of his notebook, and wrote:
Haley—Did you tell anyone else about me and Peyton? –LucasHe folded the paper, and passed it to his right.
Meanwhile, Haley was thinking about Nathan.
"…Caesar left Rome often, going to Egypt to visit his mistress…"
Imagine me leaving Nathan to go to New York, she thought.
"Psssstt…" she turned to her left, and saw Lucas passing a piece of paper. She looked at him questioningly, and took the paper discreetly. She opened it, and was surprised at what she read.
Haley—Did you tell anyone else about me and Peyton? –LucasShe sighed, and then wrote:
Lucas, it's Peyton and I. And no, I did not tell anyone, except Nathan.
She folded the paper back, and passed it to Lucas.
"…Some say Caesar was aware that he was to be assassinated…"
He laughed at the correction, and then wrote:
I think Anna knows.
He folded the paper, and passed it back to Haley. When she got the note, she was very surprised, and that feeling was mirrored in her expression.
"Haley, what is so shocking about Caesar?" Their teacher asked, as Haley realized that the whole class was looking at her and snickering.
"Um, s-sir, I was just s-shocked that um, Caesar knew about h-his assassination attempt, but he d-didn't do anything about it." She replied nervously, covering the note she and Lucas have been passing with her notebook.
The teacher's expression softened. "Well, yes. But some say he did that because he wanted—"
The bell suddenly rang, and the teacher suddenly shouted some kind of assignment for the class. Haley immediately grabbed Lucas and dragged him out of the classroom.
"What do you mean Anna knows?" Haley asked nervously.
"Well, I bumped into her a while ago, and she told me that she knew what I was up to." He answered.
"How could she know about it?" Haley asked.
"I don't know. The only people we've told are you, Nathan and Brooke. And, maybe she isn't talking about the thing with Peyton, just some other thing. Right?" he said, trying to get some kind of reassurance from Haley.
"Do you have any other plans, Lucas?" she asked.
Lucas could not answer this question. "I'll figure something out. Um, I gotta go to Peyton's place, okay?" he said.
"Yeah. Bye and good luck, Luke." She said, and walked down the hallway.
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Peyton heard a knock on the door. Must be Lucas, she thought. She climbed out of bed and went down to answer the door.
"I'm coming, Luke." She shouted, as she was headed for the door. When she opened it, she was surprised to see someone else.
"Anna?" she asked, with a questioning expression on her face.
"You probably were expecting Lucas," she said, "But I need to tell you something."
"Um, okay. Do you want to go inside?" Peyton asked.
"No, no. I just want you to be careful with Lucas. I don't want you getting hurt, Peyton." She said with a tone of concern.
"Brooke told me that already. Look, Anna, I'm so sorry that things did not work out for you and Lucas. But—"
"No, It's not about that. I just wanted to give you some friendly advice. Um, I gotta go. Bye." She said nervously, and she headed out the sidewalk.
Peyton closed the door, and leaned upon it. Everyone is telling me that I might get hurt, she thought, it's just acting. How can I get hurt?
"Peyton," she heard someone from the other side of the door say. It was Lucas. She turned around and opened the door.
"Hey." She greeted with a smile. "Come on. We have a lot to plan."
Lucas went inside, and they headed for her room. Peyton sat on her bed, leaning against the pillows. Lucas sat down on the bed too.
"So, boyfriend, what?" she asked with eagerness.
"Well, everyday before class, I go to your locker. We walk to class together, and we eat lunch together." Lucas said.
"Yeah, that's the normal stuff. But we gotta have like, you know, petty fights too, and then we simply kiss and make up. No one has a perfect relationship." She added.
"What are we going to fight about?" he asked.
"Little stuff. Like you know, if you forgot to call me, or if I see you checking out another girl, or if you see me flirting with another guy," she said.
"Nice. What about conversation pieces?" he asked.
Peyton grabbed her pillow and threw it at Lucas. "You plan that. I already did the fighting," she said with a laugh.
Lucas laughed with her. "Okay. Um, Friends? Like, Brooke and Felix, Nathan and Haley. Music, funny anecdotes," he said.
"That will do. Hmmm… what else?" she asked.
"Dates?" Lucas suddenly brought up. Peyton looked surprised. "People need to see us go out of school, you know?" he explained.
"Oh yeah. Like in your mom's café, or walking around the street, or watching a movie." She said.
"Exactly. What else?" he asked.
"Um, I guess we could practice it. Let's start with the locker scene." She said, getting up and standing near the door. Lucas followed her, but stood near her computer. "You go to me, and greet me, and then kiss me. Got it?" she asked.
"Got it. Scene one, take one, action!" he said. He walked towards Peyton, while Peyton had her back turned, to indicate that she was facing her locker.
"Hey," he greeted with a lazy smile. Peyton turned around.
"Hey," she said, but then she burst out laughing.
"What's wrong?" Lucas asked, the smile still in his face.
"It's just queer that we're practicing how to be in a relationship!" she said, still laughing. "Okay, I'm sorry. Let's start again." Lucas went back near his computer, and Peyton faced the wall. "Scene one, take two!" she said.
Lucas went near her again. "Hey," he greeted in the same fashion as he did before.
"Hey Luke." Peyton said with her usual seductive smile. As Lucas was leaning in to kiss her, Peyton asked:
"What kiss should we do? Like, gentle, or hard?"
Lucas gave her a quizzical look. "It's morning, so probably, gentle?" he answered.
"Yeah, okay. Let's try that again." Lucas turned around to walk back near the computer.
"No wait," Peyton said, "With the whole 'Hey' thing. Let's start with that."
"Okay. Scene one, take three." Lucas said, and Peyton turned around. "Hey," he said for the third time.
Peyton turned around. "Hey there," she replied, with the same seductive smile. As Lucas was leaning in to kiss her again, she asked:
"How long should we kiss?"
Lucas rolled his eyes, and just leaned in and kissed her. Not a kiss for the locker act, just a kiss. Neither anyone of them wanted to pull away. Finally, after quite some time, Lucas pulled away. He smiled a gentle smile at Peyton, and she smiled back.
"Maybe, we'll just do it spontaneously." She said. "You wanna chill out instead?"
"That'd be great." Lucas answered. Peyton walked over to her old records and played something. Lucas lay down on the bed, and Peyton lay down with him.
"So," Peyton said, trying to start a conversation, "Anna went here a while ago."
Lucas turned to face Peyton, trying to hide the nervousness. "What did she say?" he said, as he took her hand.
"She's not over the thing you two had yet." She said.
Lucas breathed a sigh of relief. "Oh."
"Why are you so relieved to hear that?" she asked, turning to face Lucas.
"I don't know how it happened." He started nervously, "But I think Anna knows."
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