ANYTHING TO BE WITH YOU
Chapter 1
Peyton woke up on Monday morning, bright and early, to the incessant sound of her alarm clock. She rolled over so that she was lying flat on her stomach and pulled a pillow over her head, pulling at the sides to make them cover her ears. She hated the idea of going back to school after a nice, long summer vacation. She absolutely loved spending those three months away from all the drama and just sit in her room or on the beach just to relax and draw. Now, it was back to the studying, back to cheerleading, and back to boy-drama! It was now 7 o'clock and she thought that she should really start getting ready.
A shower, black coffee, quick morning-sketch, and a spritz of hair spray on her gorgeous blonde locks and she was ready to go! She grabbed her messanger bag and swung it over her shoulder. She walked out of her house and into her convertible. She looked at her watch: 8 o'clock. OK, she thought, only 7 hours! She sighed and put her key in the ignition.
"JAKE!" I really need to get an alarm clock, thought Jake as he woke up to his mother screaming his name. Ah, and so begins the morning ritual. Jake had gone to a strict private religious school for his two first years of high school. Uniforms, hours of homework and sufforing, no parties, all rules! He hated that school and was so glad to be out of it! His sophomore year he had become somewhat unique to the other kids at his school. Don't get me wrong, he was a great student with a wonderfull attitude and personality, not to mention his talent when it came to both basketball and singing/songwriting/guitar-playing. But he was so sick of all the restrictions! He was allways obedient at school and all but when he was free, on his weekends, he would try to just let loose and have fun. Which basicaly meant, parties parties parties. Since he isn't so bad looking, it wasn't hard for him to get into some of the good parties.
That was where he met Nicky. He liked how with her, he could just let go and have fun! They dated for a while and well, let's just say that now he has a 6 months old daughter, got kicked out of his old school, and well, Nicky isn't in the picture anymore.
All this thinking about Nicky got him a little depressed. It had been 6 months since she left him, but he still didn't think he was completely over her. He didn't regret anything he did with her. He had her to thank for his beautiful baby girl, Jenny. But man, that Nicky really knew how to break a guy's heart.
"I'm up Mom!" Yelled Jake from his bedroom. He pulled off his covers. He realized how he just wanted to get up and go to school wearing just his boxers and wife-beater. Partly because it was so freaking hot, and partly because he wanted it to be the opposite of those aweful uniforms he had had to wear for so long! However, he decided that that wouldn't exactly get him the reputation he wanted at Tree Hill High, so he pulled on some jeans and layered a T-Shirt over a long sleeve shirt.
"Peyton!" Peyton could recognize that voice from miles away. It was her best friend, Brooke. Peyton turned around to find her thoughts confirmed and she hugged her best friend. "I haven't seen you in so long!" Brooke said as they pulled apart.
"Brooke, you saw me two days ago at Matt Fahey's party!" Peyton said with a grin.
"Well, whatever, it sounded like the right thing to say on the first day of school! Anyway... Have you seen Lucas?" Brooke asked, as if it were just any ordinary question.
"Brooke, the whole entire summer has passed and you are still after Lucas?" Peyton asked, surprised that Brooke kept a crush for such a long time, especialy since Lucas hadn't come to any of the parties over the summer and Brooke had hooked up with a couple guys who did. Even though Lucas wasn't quite the social star, he still kept up a good reputation, probably thanks to his good looks. But everyone knew that he was a really good guy with a big heart, even Brooke.
"I was just asking..." Brooke said, trying to brush it off. Right then the bell rang and Brooke sighed. "Do we really have to go to History class? I mean, we have a whole year of learning ahead of us, it won't do any harm to just miss the first class, will it?" She pleaded with Peyton.
"You know, I think Lucas is in our History class." Peyton stated, not knowing at all if what she was saying was actualy true. Brooke's eyes lit up.
"Oh!" she said "I guess I could go then." The two best friends linked arms and laughed on their way to the History room.
They opened the door to the room and found that everyone was already there. Brooke was happy to see that one of the two seats left available was next to Lucas, who infact was in that class. Brooke ran off to sit down there, and turned to Lucas.
"Hey there Broody. Have a nice vaca?" She flashed her adorable dimples at him and he blushed a little. Peyton rolled her eyes and giggled a little at her best friend's charm on the guys. She looked around and saw that the only other seat available was in the back. Yes! She thought, now when Mr. Turner's class gets to boring, I can just sketch. Then, she saw the hottie that was sitting next to the empty chair, she didn't recognise him. Maybe he used to be a geek but got hot over summer, she thought, or maybe he's new. Let's go find out, she said to herself as she took the seat next to him.
"Hi, I'm Peyton." She said trying her best to sound casual. She stuck out her hand for him to shake. He gladly took it and smiled warmly.
"Jake." He said, keeping her hand in his for a second longer than she had planned.