Chapter Seven

Your Pretty Pathetic

"Lucas."

Lucas turned around when he heard the familiar voice call him."Peyton what are you doing here? It's late."

"I know, but I needed to talk to you. I saw Brooke's car here earlier so I just came back. Can we talk?"

Lucas was a little hesitant. He didn't have a good feeling about this."Yeah...sure lets go inside."Lucas opened the door."Lets go to my room. We can talk in there."

Keith heard him talking to someone."I thought you were going home Brooke. Haven't you had enough of my nephew? I know I have."Keith walked up to them and saw it wasn't Brooke Lucas was talking to."Oh I'm sorry. I thought you were someone else."

"It's okay."said Peyton walking to Lucas' room.

Lucas started to follow, but was stopped.

"Luke can I talk to you for a minute?"

He nodded."I'll be right there Peyton."he turned back to face his uncle.

"Lucas what the hell are you doing?"

"What?"

"What? You just spent the whole afternoon with Brooke and the second she leaves, you come in here with another girl. A girl I've seen your girlfriend with a dozen times."

"They're best friends."said Lucas looking down.

"That's even worse Lucas. I thought after our talk you were going to end things with one of them. I thought it was going to be Brooke, but then I see her here with you so I assume it's the other girl, but when Brooke leaves, you come in with this one. What are you doing?"

"I did break it off with one of them. This one."said Lucas pointing to his door."She just showed up. I didn't invite her here. What was I supposed to do? Tell her I didn't want to talk to her? I can't do that."

"I just hope you know what your doing."

"I do. Don't worry. I'm not going to do anything to hurt Brooke."

"Good. She seems like a really great girl. Don't hurt her if you don't have to."said Keith as he walked into the living room.

Lucas walked the rest of the way to his room and saw Peyton sitting on his bed waiting. He walked in without bothering to close the door."So what did you want to talk about?"

"Nothing really. I just missed you."

"Look Peyton, I'm sorry, but.."

Peyton cut him off."Yeah, I know. You want Brooke. I know and I get that, but it doesn't mean it doesn't hurt."

"I'm really sorry Peyton. I don't know what else to say."Lucas hated that he was hurting her, but he had to do this if he was going to be with Brooke.

"Say you made a mistake. Say I'm the one you want."

"I'm sorry, I can't say that."he said with a sigh."If I could take away all your hurt I would. I know I'm the one who caused it and I hate that."

"I know. I'm sorry. I shouldn't have come over here. I was just feeling lonely. I don't want to lose you completely. If friends is all I get, then I'll take it."said Peyton with a small smile.

"I'm really glad you said that. I want us to stay friends too."

She nodded."So are you going to tell Brooke?"

"I keep going back and fourth on this, but yeah. I decided I have to. Haley's right. I can't lie to her everyday. I hope your okay it this."

"As long as I have you as a friend I'm okay with it. I hope Brooke doesn't end up hating us though."

"Me too. Look it's getting really late and I still have some homework to do. Can we finish talking tomorrow?"

"Sure."she leaned forward and hugged him. He hugged her back feeling a little awkward. She pulled away slightly and looked into his eyes. She slowly leaned in and kissed him.

It took him a second to realize what was going on. He was about to pull away.

There was a knock at the door. Keith got up from the couch to answer it."Nathan what are you doing here?"

"Hi Keith. I know it's late, but I really need to talk to Lucas."Keith looked at him skeptically, so he continued."You see I'm having this problem with Haley and he's her best friend so I figured he'd know how to get her to talk to me again."

Keith nodded."If anybody can give you advice on Haley, it'd be Lucas. He's in his room. Go ahead and go in. Tell him I'm going to bed, will you."

"Sure, goodnight Keith."

"Night Nathan."Keith went into his room and shut the door.

Nathan walked to Lucas' room and saw the door was open. He walked in and was surprised to see what was going on."Whoa... Sorry Brooke, I didn't know you..."he stopped when he saw the two pull apart."Peyton?"Nathan looked from one to the other wondering what was going on, but it was obvious. Brooke popped into his head."Dude you are such a dick. I can't believe you are doing this to Brooke."

Lucas stood up."I'm not doing anything to Brooke. This isn't what it looked like."he was about to continue, but was cut off.

"So your saying I didn't walk in on you two kissing?"

"Yes you did, but.."again he was cut off.

"That's what I thought."he turned and looked at Peyton."I thought you were her best friend."

"I am."

"Right. Brooke never would have done this to you and this is how you repay her. Your pretty pathetic."

Peyton's eyes began to tear up and a few tears fell. Lucas saw this."Leave her alone. Don't you ever talk to her like that."

"Oh, am I insulting your new girlfriend?"

"Shut the hell up. What are you doing here anyways?"

"I came to get your advice on something, but now I don't want to hear a damn thing you say."

"Good, then leave."

"Gladly."Nathan walked out.

Peyton turned to Lucas."Oh my god, what have I done? I can't believe this. What's gonna happen now? She is going to hate us Lucas. I know it."

"Peyton stop. Don't worry. Nathan may be a jerk sometimes, but I don't think he'll say anything to her. I'll still be able to tell her myself when the time is right."

"Are you crazy? What do you mean he won't say anything to her? They are friends Lucas. I bet he's on his way to see her right now."

"I keep hearing about how great of friends they are, but I've never even seen them talk."

"So. They have a history together. They were friends before she and I were friends. They did everything together. It was just recently that they grew apart. There is no way that he would keep this from her."

Lucas couldn't get everything she just said out of his head."You said they were good friends, but were they ever more than that?"he need to know.

"What does that have to do with him telling her?"

"Nothing, just answer the question please."

"Okay, no they weren't, but only because Brooke didn't want to ruin their friendship."

"So your saying Nathan tried."

"Yes, but then he agreed with her. Their friendship was too important to them. Then of course we started dating. Lucas what are we gonna do?"

"I don't know, but I need to talk to her first. She needs to hear this from me if there's even a chance that she'll forgive me. There's no way I'm going to lose her. I love her too much."

"Me too. I'm sorry I shouldn't even have come here and I shouldn't have kissed you either."

"Why'd you do it anyways? I told you that I wanted to be with Brooke."

"I know. I think that's why I did it. I wanted one last kiss before things completely ended for us, but I know it was a mistake now. We're gonna lose her, you know that right?"

"No, we're not. I can't. We have to make her see it was all a mistake."

"I hope we can."

"You should go. I need to see Brooke."

"Do you want me to go with you?"

"No, I think I should do this alone. If we go together it might look like we're ganging up on her and I don't want her to feel that way."

"Okay, your right. I'll see you later."

Lucas walked her out and got into his uncles truck and drove straight to Brooke's.

Nathan got out of his car and knocked on his door. He waited, but nobody came. He knocked again and still nobody came. He slowly turned the nob and the door opened. It was unlocked just like he knew it would be. He used to always yell at her about this. She used to say"Come on Nathan we live in Tree Hill. Nothing bad ever happens here."He had hoped she'd changed, but clearly she hadn't. He walked to her room and opened the door and found her asleep on her bed. She looked so peaceful and beautiful. How was he supposed to wake her up and ruin her life? He didn't want to hurt her, but there was no way he wasn't going to tell her. He couldn't keep this a secret because if she found out he knew and didn't say anything she'd never forgive him and he wasn't about to let that happen. They were barely getting back to the way thing used to be. He quickly wrote her a note saying he needed to talk to her and it was important. He left it on her night stand. He walked out of her room closing the door behind him. Using the spare key to her house that he still had on his key ring he locked the door behind him. He got into his car and drove home trying to figure out exactly what he was going to say to her tomorrow.
Lucas parked his truck and ran to the door and knocked. Nobody came, he knocked again louder this time. Still nothing. He wondered where she could be. She told him she was going straight home. He really didn't want to leave because he needed to be the one to tell her about Peyton if they were going to have a chance of staying together. He decided he couldn't sit out there all night waiting. He'd come and see her early in the morning. He turned and glanced one last time at the house before walking back to his truck, hoping everything would be okay.
A/N:Thanks for all the reviews. They were great.

ZoeLuv80:Thanks for the review! I know Lucas was being a bit of a hypocrite, but he doesn't see it that way. He only thinks he's looking out for his best friend, but your right his lie is far worse than Nathan's.

Brucasfanatic:Again thanks for you reviews. I really look forward to them! I know Peyton is still pissing you off and I know after this chapter you'll still feel the same. I'll give you a little spoiler. She's only going to get worse.lol. I'm glad you liked the Brucas love scene. I wasn't too sure about it. Karen and Brooke aren't they great? I hope you enjoy this chapter!

Ali213: Don't we all love Brucas?

TwinkleTot69:I hope your not disappointed that they didn't get along in this scene, but you were right. One of the visitors was Nathan.

jenna:Thanks for the review. You were right. It was Peyton!

I know this chapter was kind of short, but I needed to end it here to start the next one where it needed to be started. I think I will have the next chapter up tomorrow. Let me know what you think. Please read and review! Thanks.

Coming Up:

The next chapters title is Clued In.

Who gets to Brooke first?

How does Brooke take the news?