This is the second to the last chapter. I'm hoping to have the last chapter up in a couple days.

Chapter 9: Straitjacket Feeling
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"Nathan goes to the top of the key. He fakes to the left before turning and passing the ball to Lucas at the three point line. Lucas shoots! And he scores! Ravens win to complete their undefeated season!" Mouth announced as the crowd cheered.

"Wow, Lucas was on a roll," Peyton remarked, turning to look at Brooke who was cheering with her pom-poms. "What did you do to him?"

"I was home last night!" Brooke squealed before turning to Haley. "Tutorgirl! What was Lucas doing last night?"

"She means who," Peyton interrupted causing Haley to laugh and Brooke to hit her.

"P. Sawyer! You guys are so mean," Brooke pouted.

Haley spotted Jake with Lucas and Nathan and ran over to them. Brooke followed her, leaving Peyton to roll her eyes before taking off after them.

The past nine months had gone smoothly, at least from Peyton's perspective. This year she had gained four best friends and a great boyfriend. Sure, she had Nathan before, but now she had what she really wanted, a family.

"P. Sawyer! Shopping tomorrow, wear comfortable shoes!" Peyton smiled and nodded before walking out with Nathan. Okay, so she also had a drill sergeant, but she was happy anyway.
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"Nathan!"

"Yeah, Dad?" Nathan asked, turning around as he walked out of the gym with Peyton.

"Let Ms. Sawyer go home, we need to talk," Dan said.

Nathan turned to Peyton and gave her a sorry look. "Its fine, Nathan. Call me if you need me. I love you."

After Peyton gave him a quick kiss and left, Nathan turned to Dan. "What do you want, Dad?"

"You only scored 12 points. Lucas scored 13 by half time!" Dan yelled.

"It just wasn't my day, okay?"

"The guy from Duke was here!"

"What don't you understand about me not wanting to go to Duke?"

"Listen son, I just want what's best for you. Which is why we are going to wake up before school every morning and practice."

"We already wake up early and run!" Nathan yelled, causing Dan to laugh.

"You think that's early? We are going to get up at 2 every morning, no matter when you go to sleep. We are going to run five miles and then play a game until you can beat me."

"No!" Dan looked at Nathan as if he had grown a second head. "You think I'm kidding? I'm 18, as of last month last month; I don't have to do what you want anymore."

Dan smirked, knowing that he would win. "As long as you live in my house and spend my money, you will listen to me!"

"Then I'm moving out," Nathan stated simply, not missing a beat.

"Right, I'll see you at two then!" With that, Dan started walking away with a smirk on his face.

"Yeah, so that I can pick up my stuff."

Dan stopped but didn't turn around. "Fine by me… But you must want to kill your mom."

When Dan had walked away, Nathan had realized that he was right; it would kill his mom. Deciding that it was the right thing to do and that it wasn't like he wasn't going to see her again, he headed to the one place he knew he was welcome, Peyton's.

Over the past nine months, he had fallen in love with her all over again. He was 100 certain that she was the one he wanted to spend the rest of his life with. He walked up the stairs in her house to the room that he had spent many nights in. He opened the door to find a daily sight, her drawing while listening to a band that he hadn't heard of.

"Now this is a sight that I see everyday."

"Nathan, what are you doing here?" Peyton turned her drawing upside down and got up to kiss him.

When Nathan pulled apart he looked at the desk where her picture was and realized that Peyton had hid it. "What were you drawing?"

"What? Oh, nothing."

"Then, why did you turn it over?"

"It's… not done."

"Really? Then I'll sit here until you finish it," Nathan said as he sat on the bed and motioned for Peyton to continue her drawing.

Peyton sighed, knowing that he wasn't going to give up. "Fine, I'll let you see it, but you can't laugh."

"When have I ever laughed at one of your drawings?"

"Yeah, but this one's… different."

"I promise, just show me."

Peyton walked over to the desk and picked up the picture so that Nathan couldn't see it quite yet. She walked slowly over to him and hesitated before turning it over and handing it to him.

He looked at the picture closely. It was a picture with him on one side Peyton on the other and a huge ring in the middle. He looked up at her, noticing how uncomfortable she had become, before reading the words on the paper: "Making it Forever."

Nathan looked up at Peyton and sat the picture down beside him. He walked up to Peyton and cupped her cheek while gently rubbing it with his thumb. He captured her lips with his quickly before getting down on one knee. "Peyton Sawyer, I know that I'm not the perfect guy, but I love you so much and I know you love me too. I can't give you a huge house or everything that you want, but I can give you that promise that you will be mine forever. Marry me. Marry me and make me the happiest guy alive."

"You're wrong," Peyton whispered with tears falling down her face

Nathan felt his heart sink into his stomach. "What?"

"You are the perfect guy." Peyton smiled, receiving a grin in return.

"Is that a yes?"
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Haley and Lucas walked through the door of their home to find silence. They walked into the living room to find Karen, Keith, and two other adults sitting in complete silence.

"Mom? Dad?" Haley asked, knocking the two strangers out of their thoughts.

"Haley, darling," Mrs. James squealed, running to hug Haley.

"What are they doing here, Aunt Karen?" Haley asked while she pushed her mother away.

"They are here to take you home," Karen cried ,causing Keith to get up and hug his wife.

"After graduation, of course," Mrs. James laughed.

Keith looked around the room at the many different emotions before looking at his wife and stepson. "Lucas, why don't you take your mom and go pick up some food?" Lucas nodded before walking out to the still warmed car.

The room was quiet; no one knew what to say. Haley just stared at her uncle, silently begging him to do something. Her parents smiled at her, not realizing how upset she was.

"Why don't you guys give Haley some time to think about this?" Keith suggested.

"There is nothing to think about. We are going to move to Pairs over the summer and we want to take our youngest daughter with us."

"Paris?" Haley asked receiving a nod from both parents. "I'm not going."

"Yes you are," Haley's father responded quickly.

"I'm eighteen and I don't have to listen to you."

Mrs. James walked closer to her daughter and grabbed her shoulders. "No, you're right, but why turn down Paris? Come on, Hales, its Paris!"

"Yeah, but this is home," Haley smiled. "It might not be huge and have tons of tourists, but it has my friends and my family."

"Not your whole family," her father reminded.

"No, but the ones I need. So you guys can stay for my graduation, I want you to, but I'm not leaving."

"We'll see about that," Mr. James stated harshly.

"Uncle Keith?"

"Yes, Sweetie?"

"Can I go to Jake's?"

"Just be careful and tell Jake hi."

"Of course." Haley ran up to her uncle and gave him a hug before running out of the door.

Haley's parents turned to Keith upset by his actions. "Why did you let her go to a boy's? Do you want her to get pregnant?"

"Unlike you, I trust Haley. She is a good kid and if she is happy, then it is fine with me. She won't do something that she doesn't want to because she has a good head on her shoulders. You both can either shut your mouths about how I raise my children or leave my house."

Mr. James walked over to Keith and got into his face. "She isn't your daughter to raise."

"When you sent her to my house and gave the responsibility of playing the fatherly figure in her life to me, she became my daughter!" Keith shouted before walking to the door and opening it, gesturing for Mr. and Mrs. James leave the house.

Haley walked up to Jake's house. About halfway there, the realization of the situation sunk in and she let the tears fall freely. She had to go with them. Like it or not, her parents had this hold on her, and that wasn't going to go away for a long time.

She knocked on the door lightly at first, but then let the anger take hold of her and began banging. Fortunately, Jake opened the door and took her into his arms immediately.

"Hales, what's wrong?" Jake asked as he whiped her tears off of her cheeks.

"My parents… Paris… summer," Haley sobbed into her boyfriend's chest.

"I can't understand you, baby, say it slower."

"My parents want me to move to Paris with them after school."

Jake heart dropped. "You aren't going to go, right?"

"There's no other choice."

"You can't leave! I need you!"

Haley started crying harder when she saw Jake pull back and pace across the room. She noticed that he was now crying as well.

"I have to go, Jake."

"Live with me," Jake blurted out as he stopped moving.

"I can't!"

"Not now, obviously, but we can go to the same college and live together."

"That sounds great, but I don't want to upset…"

"Don't say it, Hales. If they were your parents, they wouldn't be asking you to give up your life and move with them."

"I don't have money for college otherwise!" Haley begged Jake to understand.

"I'll take care of you," Jake said simply.

"No, I'm got going to be the type of person that depends on my boyfriend for everything."

"But I love you, Haley!" Jake said, getting on his knees and begging her. "You can't leave me! Please, baby."

"I love you too, Jake," Haley said, choking back the tears.

They just sat there crying and holding each other. After awhile, Jake looked up at Haley and took her hands. "I have an idea!"
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Lucas and Brooke were sitting in a small booth in Karen's café. They had been sitting there for about forty-five minutes, waiting for their friends.

"Did Tutorgirl tell you why she wanted us to meet her here?" Brooke asked Lucas after pulling back from their heavy make-out session.

"No, she just told me to call you and meet them."

"Tutorgirl, Tutorgirl, Tutorgirl, doesn't she know that I'm always at your house anyway?" Brooke shook her head.

"Well, you don't really leave my bedroom."

"That's true," Brooke giggled as Lucas laid kisses down her neck.

"What did Peyton say when she called you?"

"She told me to get dressed and wake you up so that we could take showers separately."

Lucas laughed. "I'm surprised that Peyton knows you better than Haley knows me."

"I know, we just became friends."

"Not really, it's been a year. Plus, you guys were in cheerleading together."

"That's true. I hope that we all get accepted to NYU."

"All of us except Hales," Lucas said sadly.

"Wait, what? Why wont Tutorgirl be with us?" Brooke asked, confused. As Lucas told Brooke about Haley's parents wanting her to move with them Brooke was silent for the first time in her life. She wasn't certain how she should feel about that news. She wanted to cry, but no tears would fall, Instead, she found herself wanting to kill Haley's parents.

"I'd miss you when you were in jail," Lucas said, breaking Brooke out of her thoughts.

"What?"

"If you killed them, you would go to jail and I'd miss you."

"You mean you wouldn't sneak in and be my love slave?"

"I think that if you went to jail, you'd be someone else's love slave and wouldn't need me anymore," Lucas laughed pulling her close to him.

"Would you send me a video camera?"

"Why would you need one of those?"

Brooke nibbled on his ear a little bit before whispering, "So that I could tape our lesbian sex and send you the tapes."

"I'd defiantly send you a video camera," Lucas said turning to replace his ear with his lips.

"Why?" Haley asked interrupting the couple. Jake walked in behind her followed by Nathan and Peyton.

"Were you guys all together?" Lucas asked noticing their timing.

Nathan sat down on the other side of the booth. "Trust me, they weren't where Peyton and I were."

"Where were you guys exactly?" Brooke asked, looking between Nathan and Peyton.

Peyton looked at Nathan and he nodded before getting up and standing beside her. "We got married!"

"No, we got married!" everyone turned to the person who said that.

"Haley?" Lucas asked otherwise speechless.

"Yeah, we got married." Jake confirmed taking her hand.

"Lucas… I feel left out. Let's get married." Brooke whined.

Lucas just sat there looking between his cousin, his brother, and his girlfriend, not knowing what to say.

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I know that I haven't had a cliffhanger for a while, but I couldn't help myself.