Okay so this is the next chapter… I am well aware there are spelling and grammar mistakes but I can't help it…Sorry it took so long for me to update, but I am sort of at a lost to where I think this is headed, and this part took me forever, it wasn't supposed to be this long but I couldn't decide where to end it so I just made it all one thing. If anyone has any recommendations or opinions review or message me or get the word to me somehow…if I don't get any reviews then I just might wrap this up cuz if there's not interest and I'm stuck again it just might be easier…so then there it is

Later that night at the river court….

The boys are playing basketball, Nathan and Lucas vs. the River courts guys. Haley is sitting with Mouth on the bench watching the game when off in the distance they hears a splash and a few screams. Everybody turns towards where the scream came from, they don't see anything until the notice someone crawling out of the water.

M: PETYON GET YOUR ASS BACK HERE!

P: I DON'T THINK SO YOU'LL HAVE TO CATCH ME FIRST!

The next thing everyone sees is a sopping wet Peyton running away from Maddie who is just getting out of the water. Just as Maddie gets out of the water Peyton trips on a tree root sticking out of the ground, and falls letting out a scream. Everyone turns their attention back to peyton. When they look back to see what happened to Maddie they notice she is gone, Peyton looks back to see Maddie but can't see her. She's not paniced yet.

P: MADDIE, O MADDIE, WHERE ARE YOU, COME OUT …

After yelling this there is still now sign of Maddie. Lucas, Nathan, Haley and the others all look over to where peyton is now walking towards, shes looking around and yelling out for Maddie to come out, cuz this isn't funny anymore. Everyone soon starts to get a little worried.

P: MADDIE WHERE ARE YOU

Still nothing, peyton is now standing under a tree, then out of nowhere something heavy falls on her and she topples to the ground.

P: WHAT THE….GET OFF OF ME….HELP

Peyton finally manages to push what ever fell on top of here. The others all come over after hearing Peyton call for help. However, when peyton looks over to see what fell she sees a laughing Maddie.

P: That wasn't funny, you took it to far.

Everyone is now standing behind peyton watching to see what might happen next.

M: Ya but it was funny, and I finally got you.

P: HOW THE HELL WAS THAT FUNNY! HUH I THOUGHT YOU HAD DROWN…THAT'S NOT FUNNY MADDIE.

Maddie doesn't say anything, but she looks up at all the people behind peyton. Maddie gets now why peyton is so upset with her. Peyton finally turns around and sees the group of people that had gathered.

P: WHAT!

With that peyton pushes through the group and storms off, leaving them all just standing there. Haley looks at Maddie.

H: We just came to see what was wrong, we thought maybe you guys would want to come watch the game.

M: Umm I dunno, I have to go talk to her, but if I can get her to come back then I will and you cn introduce your friends.

H: Okay

With that Maddie stands up and chases after peyton. It seemed odd to the others that she hadn't done so earlier, but no one was going to question it. Maddie finally catches up to peyton.

M: Peyton stop, just stop okay.

P: Why, you didn't seem to care if I was alone 5 mins ago. You thought it was a great idea to make me worry. (peyton kept walking)

M: STOP…(she grabs peyton by the arm and spins her around, she can tell that her friend has been crying)

M: I'm sorry okay, I wasn't thinking. It was stupid and immature and I would never leave you alone like that.

P: Fine whatever, can we just go now.

M: No

P: why not?

M: Cuz that Haley girl invited us to come and watch those hot guys play basketball, and I think you need to make some friends before I leave, and I no you won't willing do that so im forcing you to.

P: But I don't want to I want to go back to larry's and sleep.

M: Nope we are going and your going to like it.

Meanwhile back at the river court just after Maddie had chased after peyton.

N: That girl seems to have some problems (with that comment Haley hits his arm) WHAT, come one who just freaks out like? I sure hope that isn't Larry's daughter or he's in for some trouble.(Haley hits him again)

H: will you stop, you don't even know her. And just so you know that is Larry's daughter.

L: Well I like her.

Nathan and haley look at him like he's crazy, they are just sort of standing there while the other had gone back and started playing ball again.

L: What, I don't mean like that, I just mean like she seems interesting, you know like she isn't boring.

H: Sure best friend whatever you say.

N: Ya, you so like her in, not that I don't blame you, she sure isn't bad on the eyes.

Once again haley hits him, but this time really hard

N: Ow that hurt.

He looks down at haley who looks pissed off at him.

N: I don't mean it like that she is not prettier than you, you're my girlfriend and no one is better than you, its just I understand where luke is coming from.

H: Sure you do.

L: Come on man, lets go play some ball.

A little later Peyton and Maddie come back. They climb up onto the bleachers where haley is sitting.

H: Well its nice to see you decided to come back.

M: ya thanks for inviting us. Wasn't that nice of her peyton?

P: ya thanks

H: o well its not a big deal, usually im the only girl so it can kind of get boring when you don't really understand whats going on.

M: O I totally get that, my dad thinks that by making me watch sports with him counts as daddy daughter time. He hasn't got the idea that it only counts if I know whats going on.

Maddie and Haley both sort of chuckled, and peyton just sits there looking off into the distance not saying anything.

M:sorry you have to excuse my friend shes decided to become a broody, mute, with no sense of humor. Isnt that right peyton

Peyton doesn't say anything because she isn't paying attention to Maddie, instead she appears to be looking off into the distance when really she is staring at the blonde boy playing basketball. In her head she is thinking " maybe Maddie has a point, really hot guys definitely make this place a lot more appealing. I wonder what his name is, better question is is he single. O crap I think he notices I'm staring, ok look away, wait look at those eyes, wow their gorgeous what wait who's hitting me." Peyton snaps back to reality to find that Maddie is hitting her shoulder.

P: Huh, what?

M: Okay someone is in lala land.

P: sorry.

M: Its okay I was just telling our new friend haley here that you have become more of a blonde since coming here.

P: ya very funny.

H: well I guess the first person I should introduce you to is mouth. (haley motioned towards a small guy sitting next to her on the bleachers rambling into a tape recorded, and paying no attention to Haley) He wants to be a sports caster so he doest really do much talking during the games unless its about the game itself.

M: OoOo Interesting, so how is that working out for him?

H: well he's got a website, and he broadcasts all the games that the Ravens have. The Ravens are Tree Hill Highs basketball team, their really good.

P: so are all these guys on the team?

H: No just Lucas and Nathan. The other guys are just some friends of ours that the boys play with.

M: So which one is Nathan and which one is Lucas?

H: the one with the blonde hair is Lucas, he's my best friend, we've known eachother since we were little, he's almost like a brother to me. The dark haired one is Nathan, he's my fiancé.

Peyton and Maddie at the same time: fiancé?

H: haha ya. It's a long story…

M: What did he get you knocked up?

P: Maddie, be nice.

M: What it's just a question.

H: No it's alright, he didn't get me knocked up, we just love eachothe and can't imagine spending our lives with anyone else but eachother.

P: That's a pretty big commitment, so when is the wedding?

H: Umm we don't know yet, were just playing by ear. It was supposed to be a couple of months ago, but there was this whole thing that happened with Nathan's dad, so our plans got thrown off couse.

M: really what happened? I mean if you don't mind sharing..

H: you'll probably hear about it anyways so I might as well tell you. See Nathan's dad Dan is a real ass. He got Nathan's mom pregnant in college and made her give up all her everything, promising her a dream life with him, so she took it. Everything was going good for the first while, Dan wasn't to bad, but by the time Nathan turned 3 Dan was out of control, nothing Deb did was right and he was cheating on her all the time. Finally Dan got tired of Deb and left her with Nathan. They didn't hear from him up until about 5 months ago. He came back to town and demanded to see his son, when Deb told him he couldn't he told her he was dying. He got all these notes and prescriptions saying how he wasn't going to live and that he had some rare form of cancer, so she beleaved him. She let him see Nathan, started giving him money for his medication, she was even considering letting him stay with her and Nathan for his last while.

P: So what went wrong?

H: Late one night this guy came banging on Deb's door. He said Dan owed him money, that he hadn't pay his tab in a while, and that if Dan didn't call him she should start watching her back. It really freaked everyone out, when she confronted Dan he played it cool, but Nathan found out the real truth. He went over there to try and talk to Dan, but when he got there he found Dan with some guy and there where needles and powder on a table near by. That's when Deb got a restraining order against Dan, he disappeared again for a little while, but soon he was back and he wanted money, she didn't give it to him though, so he decided to get the money his own way, he decided to rob Karen's Café, which Deb is part owner of. He didn't get far though, the cops found him in the alley behind the café, he'd OD'd. Then when the coroner did the autopsy, they found out that he wasn't dying at all, and that everything he had told them was a lie. Deb took it kind of bad, she thought that he might have really change, Nathan however prefers to think it never happened, that his dad never came back into his life.

M: Wow that seems pretty rough.

H: It was, but it was also eye opening for Nathan. He got to see what his dad was really like first hand and it reassured him of the promise he made himself about never ending up like Dan. But it also sort of scared him, that's why we put the wedding off for while, Nathan just wants to make sure that he can be the man he wants to be, that he can promise me the world and mean it. So it seems like a really good thing and if that's what he wants, I love him enough to wait forever for him.

P: well at least he got something worthwhile from the whole ordeal.

H: Yup

Mouth: AND THE ALL STARS WIN 32 to 28.

M: Well I guess the game is over.

H: Ya I guess so, come on and I'll introduce you to Lucas and Nathan.

The girls walk up to Lucas and Nathan, Nathan wraps his arm around hales.

N: So babe did you hear we won.

H: should I have expected anything less.

N: Not from your superstar and the best player on the Ravens.

L: Hey watch what you say, I did get the most points last season.

N: Ya but that's cuz you shoot threes, I got the most baskets.

L: ya what ever dude. So Haley are you going to introduce us to your new friends.

H: Ya. Nathan, Lucas this is Peyton, Larry's daughter, and Maddie, Peytons bestfriend.

N: Hey whats up.

L: Nice to meet the both of you.

Lucas reached out to shake hand with the girls, but when he went to shake peytons hand he froze, he just stared at her.

N: Hey man you just gonna stand there or you gonna shake the girls hand.

L: Ya sorry (he blushed and reach out to shake her hand, peyton turned an equal shade of pink as lucas)

M: It's nice to meet you to.

P: Hi. (peyton didn't really know what to say, this guy did something to, her made her tongue tied)

They all started to walk off the court and down the street.

N: So where are you guys from?

M: Well I'm born and raised in London England.

N: What about you peyton?

P: Well I was born in California, but then we moved to New York. Shortly after that I moved to London with my aunt Kate.

N: really why's that?

Larry hadn't really told anyone why Peyton didn't live with him, they all just figured there was something there, but no one really knew.

P: Ummm (she didn't know what to say, she didn't really know these people and despite seeming okay she wasn't into telling her whole life story to them on the first day they met.) School, London has some of the best schools.

H: so how old where you when you left?

P: umm about 8…

Lucas who had been silent, listened and knew that when you were 8 unless your parent where rich royalty private school wasn't a big deal at that age, but he wasn't going to question the girl, she seemed upset about the topic at hand and he wouldn't press it. So he decided to say something.

L: So how is London? They have great bands that come from there.

M: It's great, there are so many opportunities to just go out and listen different concerts.

P: Ya that is one of the best things about living there every night is something different. There is always a party, and something is always happening.

L: That must have been great to just get out all them time.

M: It's great unless your in high school and have to get up early in the morning.

P: O right like that ever stopped you from having a good time and going almost all night. If I remember correctly it was me and seth that always left early.

M: Seth only left because you either dragged him out or he was giving you a ride home.

P: Whatever

Who is seth? Lucas wondered, was he peyton's boyfriend?

N: So I take it you too will probably get board staying here, nothing happens that often around here.

H: ya besides Brookes weekly party that runs from Friday to Saturday..

M: well there might be something that we can do. Does Tree Hill have a strip club?

P: Maddie!

M: What you said it would make you want to stay here…

P: I did not, you said that.

Nathan, haley and lucas all let out a laugh at the conversation at hand.

H: umm sorry to disappoint but Tree Hill doesn't have a strip club that I know of, the closest one I can think of is in Charlotte.

N: and just how do you know that?

H: brooke looked into it when word got round that we were getting married and she wanted to throw me a party.

L: but you don't even hang out with brooke.

H: well tell her that.

Suddenly Nathan and Haley stopped infront of house.

N: well it was nice meeting the both of you, but this is our stop.

M: you guys live here all alone?

H: ha we wish, this is Deb house, we just live in the basement suite..

M: oo

P: well it was nice hanging out with you guys.

H: ya we should do it again. Umm here let me give you our number.

Haley hands peyton a slip of paper with her and Nathan's number written on it.

H: don't hesitate to give us a call, summer and that can get really boring in a short amount of time.

M: alright will do.

Nathan and haley say their good-byes which leaves Peyton, Maddie and Lucas all standing there.

M: So what now?

L: well I can walk you guys home?

P: that would be great.

M: ya that would considering I have no clue where we are or where we are going.

L: Ha alright then.

P: its not to far out of your way is it? Cuz if it is we can just you know walk around until we find it.

L: Its not big deal my house is about 2 blocks from yours anyway.

M: really, so if we needed your for any manual labour done when larry is out of town we could call you?

L: sure anytime

They then started walking down the street….

I don't really know whats coming…umm lucas walks the girls home, Maddie wants the dirt on how peyton feels about things here…oo yes and I no that the names aren't capitalized, but for some reason when I correct it they tend to downsize again so I am really sorry about that…it's getting looked into…..