"Morning Lucas, your up early today" Karen said as she dumped her coffee in the sink. " I have an assignment to type and the computer froze so I'm going to finish it at Peyton's" Lucas grabbed a muffin, kissed his mother on the cheek and walked out the door.
Lucas walked into the room and smiled as he noticed Brooke cuddled up to her best friend. " Lucas!" Lucas jumped, startled. " sorry my computer's dead can I use yours? You know you really should lock your doors at night, how's Brooke?" Peyton laughed. " you should probably think of breathing once in awhile" Lucas smiled and sat down at Peyton's computer. " She's okay, I think she's just trying to adjust. She's confused you know, I mean we really hurt her. Now that you told her how you feel she's just scared of a repeat." Lucas nodded. " I never meant to hurt her Peyt" Peyton reached for her closet. " we never meant to hurt her Lucas… we is the key word" Brooke stirred and opened her eyes. " Luke, what are you doing here?" Brooke looked from Peyton to Lucas and then back to Peyton. " whatever, I'm going to take a shower, please don't let that stop you from doing… whatever you were… about to do" She looked at Peyton and stomped off. " what's up with her?" Peyton sighed " she still doesn't trust us Lucas, I wouldn't either" Lucas started typing away. " Lucas, have you ever thought about what life would be like if we dated different people?" Lucas glanced up. " you mean what life would be like if we were dating?" Peyton smiled " not quite, I mean what if I was dating Tim… okay totally unrealistic example. Let's say skills, what if I was dating skills? And you were dating hmmm… Hayley?" Lucas stopped typing and looked up. " I've never really thought of that. I thought you were happy with Jake, what's up Peyt?" Peyton shook her head " nothing, I just had a weird dream last night" Lucas laughed. " so on a scale of one to ten, how skilful was Skills?" Peyton smacked Lucas' arm. " that's horrible Luke!" Brooke walked in and glared at them both. " I didn't mean to interupt this flirt fest but what are we going to do about gas money?" Lucas turned back to the computer. " My dad sent another check it's on the kitchen table. He said we cold use $200 each for a little shopping spree, I hope you don't mind that I sent him both of our report cards" Brooke shrieked and jumped on her friend. " after school?" Peyton laughed " of course." Brooke laughed and grabbed her backpack. " I'm going in early so I'll fill up" Peyton took her towel. " sure just don't forget he bank card and take $400 while your there" Peyton turned to Lucas " I'm just going to go take a shower, drive me in?" Lucas nodded " no problem."
" Don't forget about the unit test next week, please pick up a copy of the review on our way out" Brooke slammed her books shut and followed the crowd out into the hallway. " So what did you get on the quiz?" Brooke twirled around to face Peyton. " I didn't write it okay, I skipped that class. On purpose." Peyton stopped walking and looked at her friend " Brooke, everything on that quiz is going to be on the test!" Brooke sighed. " I know okay, I didn't study" Peyton opened her locker. " well we'll study together okay? Now I thought we had a date with money today." Brooke smiled and shut her locker. " we sure do P Sawyer" Peyton and Brooke walked out into the parking lot. " Peyt!" Jake ran up and wrapped his arms around his girlfriend. " Hi Jake listen, me and Brooke are going shopping if you want to come over later around seven we could order some pizzas and put in some movies." Jake nodded and kissed Peyton on the forehead. The two friends got into Peyton's vintage car and took off towards the downtown core of what was Tree Hill.