I have the next couple of chapters of this written so those should be up soon. As you all know this is a continuation to Acoustic #3 and reading it like last night I realized that once I had said that Peytons father was dead, and then once I did not. For the purpose of this story he will be alive just because I do what I want. Just letting you guys know for future reference. Read enjoy, and please review!

xoxo Jules

Chapter 13: Nothing is forever

The next morning Peyton wakes up at nearly noon to a knock at her door. She jumps out of bed and headed to the door surprised that she could sleep that long. She pushed the memories of everything that had happened with Lucas the night before out of her mind. As she headed downstairs the smell of pancakes flooded the kitchen.

"What took you so long to get up?" Gunner said

"It's no problem. We waited for you to eat." Tessa said smiling from where she sat at the table. "Cody went to get the door."

Cody swung the front door open.

"Hi…" Cody said

Brooke stared back at the girl, a spitting image of her mother.

"Hey, is Peyton around?" Brooke asked nervously

Cody smiled at her mischievously.

"Sure, come on in… Brooke."

Brooke followed the girl with hidden bandages on her arms into the kitchen.

"Mom, you have a visitor." Cody said

"What up P Sawyer?" Brooke said

"OH MY GOD!" Peyton said running over to Brooke throwing her arms around her best friend. "I haven't seen you in years!"

Brooke pulled back from the hug and looked at the group of curly haired children that stared at the two.

"Guys this is Brooke. Brooke these are my spawn, Cody, Tessa, and Gunner. What are you doing here by the way?" Peyton asked

"Well I am living in Tree Hill again but I came for a couple of days to visit with Logan on her turf."

Cody smiled as she watched her mother morph into a sixteen year old girl. She smiled as she headed up the stairs to her room. She could hear rocks being thrown at her window. She opened the window just in time to get hit right in the middle of the head with a small stone.

"Oh my god, are you okay!" Canyon asked from where he stood below her window, squinting to see.

"I'm fine." Cody said rubbing her forehead.

"Oh." Canyon said as he shifted from foot to foot. "So, what's up?"

"You threw rocks at my window to ask me what's up?" Cody said grinning. Canyon was nervous and she could tell. "Hold on, I'll be right down."

"Um, kay." Canyon said

Cody jogged down the stairs.

"Um mom, is it alright if I go on a walk or something real quick?"

Peyton looked at her daughter hesitantly.

"Are you going alone?" She asked

"Um no, I was actually going to go with Canyon."

"You mean River's twin brother Canyon?" Peyton asked raising an eyebrow

"Yeah."

"Um yeah, that'll be fine I guess, just come back in about an hour. I want to talk with you and you brother and sister." Peyton said

"Alright," Cody began heading toward the door, "and mom?"

"Yeah Co-Co?"

"The kids and I heard you and dad's fight last night. We decided that Tree Hill could be alright, Gunner actually smiled." And with that Cody headed out.

Jenny sat on the bed in Karens house, her knees pulled up to her chest as she bit her fingernails.

"Hey, I was looking for you." Spencer said as he sat on the bed beside her. "What's up?" He asked noticing the was that she was gnawing at her fingernails.

"Nothing." Jenny said

"Oh come on Jenny, I've known you forever, don't lie to me like that." Spencer was now beginning to become concerned.

"I was thinking about my mother." Jenny said.

That was something that was rarely talked about, Jenny was fine, more than satisfied with her father. They were each others worlds.

The sun hit the waves of her honey brown hair making it golden in all of the right places. Her bright brown eyes glistened as she focused downward.

"Do you think that people are doomed to repeat their parent's mistakes?" Jenny asked meeting Spencers eyes for the first time. Spencer was now alarmed.

"What are you talking about Jagielski?" Spencer asked pulling her hands from her mouth.

"Remember when you came down to visit spring break, about two months ago?" Jenny asked

"Yeah. It was awesome."

"Do you remember the hotel by the beach, that night when we got back from the club?" She said next hoping that Spencer would get it before she had to say anything else.

"… I… oh my god…" Spencers mind began to race. "That was two months ago Jenny, how the HELL could you not say anything to me about this! I thought that we were closer than that!"

"I wasn't sure Spencer but could you stop fucking screaming at me? It's not just my fault you know!" Jenny said slamming her fists into the mattress.

"I KNOW!"

"THAN WHY ARE YOU STILL YELLING!" Jenny yelled

"I DON'T KNOW WHY ARE YOU STILL YELLING!" Spencer yelled back

"I don't know." Jenny said sinking into the bed in tears "My dad is going to kill us." She said wiping tears from her eyes.

"No, he's just going to kill me." Spencer said kissing her forehead, and rubbed small circles on her back. Something that he had done to comfort her since childhood.

"I'm not angry with my mother anymore." Jenny said, her voice a whisper. "I know how she felt, because all that I want to do right now is disappear."

Canyon and Cody strolled along in the woods.

"So do you want like icecream or something?" He asked again

"I told you Can, I'm fine!" Cody said playfully pushing him in the side. They arrived back at Codys door right where the woods ended.

"So I was wondering." Canyon said when they stopped "I was wondering if you want to get together tomorrow and go see a movie or something." He asked.

Cody smiled as he twitched his equally freckled nose.

"That sounds good." Cody said smiling

"So call me?" Canyon asked

Cody shook her head no, curls bouncing around.

"Right, I'll call you. See ya!" Canyon said walking away, tripping on his feet as he waved.

Cody walked into her house to find her brother and sister sitting on the floor with their mom lounging beside them.

"You have a good time?" Peyton asked as Cody joined them.

"Yeah." She smiled at her little brother who seemed angry that she was out with a boy.

"So I guess you all know what I want to talk to you about."

"Tree Hill is fine mom. Grandma Karen is there, and it's not that far away." Tessa was the first to speak

"Yeah mom." Gunner said not wanting to show his desire to leave the town that hated him as much as he hated it.

"But you guys have to be sure. You're cousins are here, and your friends." Peyton said

"We know mom, but they're always going to be our cousins and are friends. And besides I can drive soon!" Cody said winking at her mom. A chill ran through Peytons body at the thought of her eldest daughter behind the wheel.

"Another thing, you're dad will probably be here, and if he does go to Tree Hill he might not be living with us." Peyton explained.

"We get it mom." Cody said speaking for her younger siblings.

Peyton smiled wondering how she had raised such semi-decent children.

"Well then, I think the day after tomorrow I will head out to Tree Hill just to check things out."

"What are we going to do while you are gone?" Tessa asked

"You and Co-Co are going to stay here with Uncle Jake babe, and Gunner is going to come with me." Peyton said stroking Tessa's hair

"Dad's not gonna stay with us?" Cody asked surprised at how fast he had disappeared from the picture. She had heard and seen the fight between he and her mother the night before. She saw her dad throw the basketball and break the siding on the house. It had scared her a little bit.

"I'm not sure." Peyton said "I just don't know right now."

Right now I feel like I smell really gross... ANYHOW, review, good times. Jenny and Spencer:O

xoxo Jules