All six of them had gotten through their tiring week. They had survived their first college midterms and had turned in all their papers. Now they were only a few hours away from boarding an airplane that would take them home. Lucas and Jake were super excited to get home. Lucas missed his mom and Jake wanted to see his parents and he knew that his parents wanted to see Jenny. She had grown so much since they had left for college.

Brooke, Peyton, and Haley were back in their room packing their bags. It was funny but none of the girls really spent a lot of time in their room. Peyton and Lucas spent the most time in their room. They saw that the other girls on the floor were always obsessed with the boys, being big basketball players. Although the girls knew their boys loved them but they can sometimes get jealous.

After the girls were finally packed all of them got into two different cabs and made their way to the airport. In a few short hours they would finally be back on the east coast, in Tree Hill. Haley and Nathan were staying at Nathan's house with his mom. Dan was staying at the beach house. Deb and Dan rarely are in the same room together anymore except during holidays such as thanksgiving and Christmas. Lucas of course was going to stay with his mom and Peyton would stay at her house. Little did she know that her dad was actually going to be home this thanksgiving. It had a been a surprise that Lucas had been working on. Brooke was going home with Jake since her parents would be gone and she didn't want to stay in that house by herself. Plus Jake wanted his parents to get to know her and hated to tear her away from Jenny who had gotten attached to her. Everyone was going to celebrate thanksgiving together at Deb's house with Deb and Karen cooking.

Finally after a flight that seemed to go on forever and them showing horrible movies the plane landed and six strangers to these parts got off, to be greeted by a big crowd of family. Deb, Karen, Jake's parents, Haley's parents, were all there along with Keith. Lucas was glad that everyone was there. He knew that Larry Sawyer was at the house waiting to surprise Peyton. Peyton thought her dad was on an job and wasn't too sad about it because she was use to it.

After tons of hugging and crying, mainly by the moms everyone made their way back to their houses.

Karen was so excited that her son was back. They had always been so close and she had missed him. In the time that he was gone she had extended the café. As they made their way back with Peyton Lucas was looking over the town and seeing what had changed. They realized that nothing in their small town had really changed, mostly everything had stayed the same. They dropped Peyton off, well Lucas carried her bags in and walked her inside. He wanted to see her reaction when she saw her dad. Peyton walked inside the house and noticed that nothing had really changed at all. She headed up to her room to drop off all her stuff. One her bed she noticed a single red rose. She picked it up figuring it was from Lucas. "Babe you didn't have to do this." Lucas was thrilled that there were gifts waiting for her but they weren't from him. He knew who they were from though. "I didn't. It looks like there is a card though, read it"

Peyton read the card

I just wanted to let you know I was thinking of you. Head down into the kitchen

Peyton was really confused, but she and Lucas headed down into the kitchen to find her dad sitting there reading the newspaper and drinking some coffee. Peyton didn't know who to thank and be excited for first. She knew that Lucas had done this but she was thrilled to see her dad. She ran up and gave him a gigantic hug! "Hi daddy!" Larry looked his daughter over and saw how she had not changed but he was still excited to see her. "Don't thank me, this was not my idea. Lucas pulled some strings to get me here." Peyton gave Lucas a dirty look. "You didn't even tell me, you let me go on and on about how my dad wasn't going to be there". Lucas just started laughing. "I know it was hard, but I wanted to surprise you. This is a present for you I figured you would really like." Lucas had read Peyton's mind. She had been hoping that for some reason her dad could get Thanksgiving off and surprise her. "How did you do this?"
Larry and Lucas looked at each other. Lucas spoke first. " Well as it turns out your dad's boss is a gigantic basketball fan, especially Stanford so I just got him season tickets". Peyton did not know what to say. She gave Lucas a nice hug. "Well I am going to leave you here with your dad and go settle in with my mom.

Haley and Nathan ended up at Deb's house. They looked around and noticed how nothing had changed at all. They were in a sense glad. Although Haley and Nathan had dated for a long time Haley had never spent the night in Deb's house. Usually it was Nathan spending time in Haley's room. Deb had stocked the house full of food thinking that Nathan would want to eat some nice homecooked meals. Deb was super glad the two of them came home and wanted to spend time with her. "I am so glad you guys are here. I figured you would want to stay in Nathan's room. It is all set up."

Nathan and Haley got settled in and looked around the room remembering all the good times. While they were gone Deb had found pictures of mainly Haley and Nathan but also some of Nathan and Lucas and also of all of the friends from stuff like prom and also basketball games and right before they left. Nathan was excited to see these pictures because they reminded him of highschool and also good times. After Nathan and Haley were settled in and had unpacked everything they decided to drive around town and remember the good times. After driving around for awhile Nathan and Haley ended up at the beach house. Although Nathan did not want to see Dan at all he wanted to visit the beach house after all that is where they spent many times. Nathan opened the door and called out to see if Dan was home. "Dad?" He heard not answer so they went into the house.