Thanks guys for the reviews I really appreciate them.
Someone was wondering if i would make it Mouth/Brooke and tht's xactly what i wanted to do.
note: The Leyton stuff we'll kind of take time to come and so does the Mouth& Brooke stuff.
Hope you will like the chapter.
The torments of life
Chapter 7
Today was the day of Dan's funeral. Lucas was in his room and was trying to sort out everything that has been going on since he came back, three days ago. First of all, the death of Dan, he still wasn't sure on how to react to this. He was sad about this, not because his dad was dead, but because it was affecting the life of the people he loved, his mom, Keith, Nathan. He was sad for them. He wanted to be there to support them. Keith seemed to hold on and so was his mother, but it was another story for Nathan. He was acting like he didn't care, like nothing had happened and if someone was talking about it he would say he was fine and would make it clear he didn't want to hear about this and this was worrying Lucas. He was scare his brother would keep all of this for himself and would get bitter and that someday it would all get out and would hurt every body around him including Haley. Lucas felt he had to do something about it, but he didn't know what and he had also some problems of his own. There was Peyton and Brooke. Since he was back he hadn't talk that much to Peyton, each time he was trying to talk to her she would answer him in a bitter tone that she didn't want anything from him, not even his attention. Brooke, on the other hand, had been nicer to him, she told him she was ready to be his friend as long as he didn't push too much. She didn't want him to insist, to talk about what had happened last year. She had said something that left him curious: she said that her and Peyton had agreed to befriend him as long as it didn't get any further than friendship. The only thing is, if they really had agreed on this, why was Peyton acting so distant? All this was too strange.
knock, knock
This simple noise, got him out of his toughts.
''Lucas, you're ready?'' Asked Karen on the other side of the door.
''Not quite.''
''Hurry, we have to go.''
''Yeah.''
He put on his shirt and tried to put on his tie, but was unable to do so.
''Mom ! Can you come?''
Karen opened the door, and laughed at the scene in front of her eyes. Lucas was in front of his mirror and he had tied up his tie completely wrong. She walked up to him and started doing it correctly.
''I never seem to know what's the trick.''
''Well, that must be because you needed to have female help.''
''Mom!''
''what? I couldn't resist. Here it's done, now put the jacket on.''
Lucas did exactly what he was told.
''I'm ready.''
''I guess we can leave.''
''Does Keith come with us or is he going by himself?''
''By himself. Now come.''
''Mom, will you be able to hold on?''
''Yeah, I will.''
''Ok.''
They walked out of his room and made their way downstairs.
oo
Nathan entered the church, holding on Haley's hand. He saw that his mother was already there. She was sitting on a bench and was looking at a wall. He brought Haley with him to his mother. They sat right by her side.
''Mom, you okay?''
She looked up at him and smiled faintly to him.
''I'll be fine.''
She turned back to the point on the wall she was looking at, before he arrived.
''Nathan ?'' she asked
''Yeah.''
''Have you ever thought, that we might be responsible for what has happened to him?''
''What are you talking about? The doctors said it was due to stress. We cannot be held responsible because he had a lot of stress and couldn't dealt with it.''
''What if we were the cause of his stress? Then we would be responsible for his heart attack. Everything happened at the same time. I decided that we couldn't be together anymore because he was too exigent with you. he wasn't the man I loved anymore, so I decided I wanted a divorce. When that happened, you decided you wouldn't chose between us and that you'd rather live on your own, this way you wouldn't owe him anything. We can say whatever we want, but Dan had a heart and it hurted him that we turned our backs to him. He tried to win us back, but we just kept pushing him away. The more he was trying, the more we pushed him away and the more he was stressing out. We are responsible for this.''
''No! No, we're not! Did you ever think he deserves what we did to him! I guess, not! It was a payback for everything he did to us! Mom, he treated you like you were nothing or barely nothing. He treated me, like I was some way to live up his dreams for him, the dreams he couldn't reach! He's been a pain in our side all our lives ! So, don't think we are the cause of his death, he did it to himself. I assure you I will never, do you hear never, think he died because of me. I have no guilt over this and I'll never feel guilty for this !'' said a furious Nathan.
Nathan wanted to say a hell lot more than this but when Haley said his name and told him to calm down he stopped. He looked at his mother and saw she was crying. So he did the most natural thing, he put his arms around her and whispered to her that he was sorry, but he was thinking every word and that she should think, like him, that she had nothing to do with his father death.