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Chapter Two

"In 'Experience' Ralph Waldo Emerson said, 'Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion.' That's about how I feel right now..." Lucas sighed. "When I woke up this morning I was happy and it looked like everything was going to work out okay. Then I heard about Brooke and all of the anger and hurt are back. Now, everything looks wrong and nothing can seem to go right." He paused. "Hales, I don't know what I'm going to do now. I can't deal with seeing Brooke again right now."

"I know." Haley sighed. "So, how's Peyton taking it?"

"Not so well. I think that she's really freaking out, but I just got onto her about the whole jealousy thing so she's hiding it." Lucas switched the phone to his other ear. "I just don't know what to do."

"Lucas, I don't know what to tell you. I wish that I could tell you what to do to make it all better, but I can't."

"I know, but it still sucks." The knock on his door startled him. "I wonder who that is." When he swung open the door he almost dropped the phone. "Brooke!"

"Brooke? Brooke's there? Oh, crap..." Haley's voice in his ear brought him back to his senses.

"Haley, I've gotta go. I'll call you later." He hung up the phone. "What do you want Brooke?"

Brooke sighed. "To talk to you."

"What makes you think that I want to talk to you?"

"I'm sure that you don't, but there's some things that I need to tell you."

"Fine." He stepped back and let her inside. They settled onto his bed and he listened as she talked.

"Look, Lucas. I'm not sure that I can deal with this." Peyton threw open his door and stared in shock at Brooke and Lucas. "Brooke? What are you doing here?"

Brooke wiped away the tears from her eyes. "Finding out that I've lost to you once again."

"Oh, come on, Brooke. It's not like that," Lucas pleaded with her.

"Whatever." Brooke held up her hand. "I don't care." She stood up and headed for the door.

"Brooke, wait." Lucas started to follow her until he saw the look on Peyton's face. "What, Peyton?"

"She wants you back, doesn't she?"

Lucas shrugged. "Yeah, she said that she had made a mistake."

"I knew it! And I bet if I hadn't walked in just now you would've taken her back. I knew that this would happen! How could I have been so stupid?"

"Knock it off, Peyton! I was NOT going to go back to her. Didn't we just talk about this?" Lucas picked up a book from his desk and threw it against the wall. "Why can't you just trust me? I have never done anything to betray you! Never!"

Peyton laughed. "You're right. You've never betrayed me, but you betrayed Brooke WITH me."

"Give it up, Peyton! I am not going to go through this with you again!" Lucas was so angry that he was shaking. All of his anger wasn't at Peyton, but she was the one that was there.

He was angry with Brooke and Peyton. And if he was honest, he was even angry with himself. He shouldn't have let Brooke's visit get to him, but he couldn't help it. Brooke had always been able to get to him. Both her and Peyton. And having to deal with one right after the other was not working out well for him,

"So, what? You can't have a discussion with me over something like this?"

"A discussion? You call this a discussion?" Lucas scoffed. "This is called a fight, not a discussion."

"Whatever! It doesn't matter what it's called. We need to talk about this!"

"Talk about what? When Brooke told me that she had made a mistake I told her about us. Which, by the way, YOU were supposed to do. And that's when you stormed in here."

"Why are you being so stupid, Lucas?" Peyton threw her hands up in the air.

"I'm not. I just don't want to do this right now."

"Fine!" Peyton spun on her heel and threw open the door. "You can go to hell, Lucas Scott!" She slammed the door loudly behind her.

"Well, shit! Good job, Lucas. Great way to screw everything up." He opened the door. "Peyton, wait! I'm sorry!" He jogged down towards her car, but as he neared the car she took off. "Peyton!"

Peyton roared off in her car, not even looking back. She was fighting to hold back the tears that threatened to fall. She ran a hand over her eyes, trying to wipe away the tears. Instead the tears began to streak down her face, blurring her vision. She knew that she could've handled that better, but when she'd seen Brooke and Lucas together she'd freaked. She hated being jealous, but at least she hadn't attacked Brooke like she'd thought about doing.

Suddenly her phone started ringing and she looked down to find it. "Hello?"

"Peyton?" Lucas's voice came through the phone.

Peyton glanced up at the road and saw a young child directly in her path. "Oh, shit!" She dropped the phone, bringing both hands to the steering wheel. She quickly spun the steering wheel and slammed on her breaks. Her brakes froze up, causing her to slam into a tree. A truck chose that moment to come barreling around a corner and ran straight into her car. It caused her car to begin spinning again. As the car began to flip she felt her self slipping into unconsciousness.

"Peyton? Oh, my God! Peyton, are you okay?" Lucas's voice shouted from the phone.

"Lucas..."