Nathan, Haley, Peyton, Lucas, Brooke, and Jake all meet at the beach house for their last night in Tree Hill before heading back to school. They would have the beach house all to themselves. Lucas and Nathan were grilling for dinner. Jake's parents had finally convinced him to let them take care of Jenny for one night. Both Jake and Brooke wanted to bring her, but his parents figure they should spend one night alone together with their friends. As they all arrive Nathan and Lucas start the fire because it is getting late and everyone is getting hungry. Once they are done they decide to join their friends. The girls and Jake were sitting out by the beach by a nice bonfire. Nathan and Lucas handed everyone a beer that had been conveniently left in the fridge. The girls were chatting together in hushed voices and Jake was staring out at the water.
Nathan and Haley decided that they were going to keep their engagement a secret until tonight when they announced it to all their friends. Haley had decided to keep her ring in her pocket. She was not sure when the perfect time was, but they are for sure is going to announce the news tonight.
The guys decided to join everyone and soon they were all wrapped up in conversation. Everyone was glad that they were able to take a break from school but they were looking forward to getting back. Everyone was relaxing when Brooke finally brought up basketball season. "So are you guys excited to finally play college basketball in a game!" Nathan, Lucas, and Jake all looked at each other. They all had the same fear. "What you guys are going to have girls throwing themselves at you" Haley was laughing. "I am not worried about the girls, cause god knows I could get any girl I wanted" jokingly gave Haley a hug while saying this…" but I am worried about playing, some of those guys could go pro" Lucas and Jake definitely agreed with Nathan. Peyton knew it was time to reassure the boys. "Yes but think about it, this was all three of your dreams to play college ball, and you are playing at one of the best schools in the country. Also think about it after a game you get to come back to us and some nice massages." "Well Peyt, I am not sure about the massages, but def Nate will get some dinner".
The guys were still worried but the girls decided to change the subject. "It seems so weird that we are in college right now. I remember all the great times we had at this beach house in high school " Brooke was remembering most of her drunken nights. "Brooke most of those times we had here, you were drunk" laughed Jake. Brooke began to pout. "Not all of those nights were drunk, and I can definitely still remember some stuff that happened here even if I was drunk" With that Brooke began looking at Peyton. Peyton put her head down. Haley was wondering what was going on now. "Brooke, care to share with the class?" Peyton was hoping that Brooke would not mention anything. Brooke looked over at Peyton. "Its not my story to share, ask Peyton." Haley looks over and Peyton with her eyes really wanting to know what Brooke was talking about. Peyton did not keep many secrets form Haley. After seeing the look from Haley Peyton finally gave in and decided to tell the story.
"Well if it is what I am thinking about I guess it might as well be told. Get if out in the open." Lucas had no idea that Peyton was going to expose one of their secrets, at in a way he had hoped forgotten about. " Well I guess it was memorial day weekend of junior year. We were all at the beach house enjoying the lovely weather. After a day of hanging out in the sun and drinking, and then that night drinking even more everyone was pretty exhausted and went to bed. Well Brooke didn't go to bed she had passed out on the floor of the room Lucas and I were staying in. I didn't realize she was there until I looked down awhile later." Lucas all of a sudden knew exactly what Peyton and Brooke were talking about. The only thing he didn't know was the fact that Brooke was on the floor and had heard the entire thing. He wasn't exactly happy that this moment was being told to everyone but figured it wouldn't hurt anyone. "So Lucas and I were lying in bed, really really, tired and talking. All of a sudden Lucas rolled over and asked me to marry him. At first I was not sure if he was joking or he was saying this because he was drunk. When I looked at him I realized that although he was drunk, he was acting sober and he actually meant it. At first I was not sure what to do… I thought about it for a few minutes and then decided that I did love him. So we decided to become engaged. That was the end of the conversation. We decided to go to sleep after that. The next morning we woke up and remembered the night before. At first I was not sure if Lucas knew what he had said so I didn't want to bring it up and sound stupid if he was just drunk and asking. But as it turns out he was seriously asking me. Later that day after we left the beach house we went to a jewelry store and Lucas bought me a small engagement ring that didn't even look like one. We decided not to tell anyone. We were engaged the entire summer, but then as it turns out we decided that we should not get married right away so we decided to become "unengaged" at the very end of the summer before senior year started. We decided to see where we were when we graduated and go from there. Although we seemed like friends through out the school year and it seems as if at times we were distant it was because we were working everything out. Well mainly I was trying to figure out what I wanted."
Peyton was actually glad in a sense that this secret was out. Lucas didn't know how to feel. Brooke was shocked, she had known about the part when Lucas had proposed but that was all she had remembered, she had no idea that Peyton had said yes and they were actually engaged. Well Haley and Nathan had no idea and were sitting there in shock.
"Wow wasn't that a nice surprise" Lucas was trying to laugh it off. He knew Haley would not let him get off that easily and that he would hear about it later. Probably get yelled at for the fact that Luke never told her.
Ok so the reason it took me so long to update was the fact that my hard drive crashed, yup 2 weeks before finals, so my life sucked… remember 10 reviews