Chapter Eight

After two more rings Jake heard hello from the other line.

"Hey Peyt it's me. How's shopping going?" Jake asked as both he and Lucas shot each other the same worried look.

"Fine. What's going on?" Jake heard Peyton ask, he knew that she could tell something wasn't right.

"Ummmm" Jake mumbled trying to come up with the write words to say and how to stay them.

When Peyton heard her husband mumbling over the phone, she was now one hundred percent sure that something was wrong and it was pissing her off that Jake wouldn't just come out and say it.

"Jake now I know something's really wrong! What in the hell is going on?!" Peyton said raising her voice a little.

This caught everyone's attention. Haley and Brooke both shot Peyton a worried look, she just turned around, shrugged, then rolled her eyes at Jake. But even threw this act, both women could see the fear and worry in their best friends eyes.

"Umm Peyt this isn't easy to say, but" that was all Peyton heard before she stopped abruptly, so Brooke, Haley, the stroller, and Jenny almost ran into her.

After hearing this Peyton started to really freak out. Tears started running down her face, and her breathing picked up a little.

"Dakota???" Peyton quickly asked as her voice cracked.

When Jake heard his wife's voice he knew she was crying and that was the last thing that he wanted to happen.

"No honey, Dakota is fine, but Aiden and Ethan aren't."

Peyton was about to loose her balance, her heart felt like it had just dropped into her stomach, even though Ethan and Aiden were only her "nephews" she still loved them like they were her own boys, thank goodness she was right next to a bench, which she sort of fell/collapsed on. Brooke and Haley just looked at Peyton and automatically knew something wasn't right.

"Jacob you tell me what happened to them right this instance!!!!!!!"

Both Lucas and Jake cringed when they heard Peyton yell Jake's first name.

Jake took and deep breathe, swallowed, then said, "They got hit by a car."

Peyton couldn't believe what she had just heard there was no possible way that what he said was true.

"I'm sleeping and someone's going to wake me up and all of this will be a dream." Peyton told herself as she looked up at her two best friends who looked just as worried as she did and they didn't even know what just happened.

"Peyton..." Peyton heard Jake say threw in microphone on her cell, and she snapped back into reality.

"Sorry, where are they which hospital?"

As soon as Brooke and Haley heard this, they began to freak and Jenny started to look at little worried herself.

When Peyton heard Jake say Children's Memorial in Charlotte, she knew that something must be really wrong, and that their injuries must be severe.

"Okay we're leaving now. I'll call you when we get into town." Peyton said then she snapped her cell phone shut before Jake could say I love you or anything.

"Peyton what's going on?" Brooke said with tears about to run down her face.