A/N: I'm sorry everyone, I couldn't think of any other way to continue the story, so here is the ending, I hope you all like it, if I get any other ideas, i'll randomly like..post some more alternate endings/more chapters, so check for updates.
Seven Years Has Gone So Fast
She sat there up in her attic with her notebook in hand reading, this was so long ago, she couldn't believe what drama her life had been years and years ago. She loved her teenage years, but Lucas Scott, the one boy that could make her weak in the knees, she hadn't spoken to him in years, she had moved out of Tree Hill when she turned 18 and finished her senior year at Tree Hill High School, she had went to college and got a degree in art, Peyton had become a successful artist for a magazine, but sometimes her life felt incomplete some how, like she wouldn't be able to ever get that one thing back, the one thing that would complete her and her life, she was sure now she could never get it. She was now 48 years old, retired, and living in a house in the country. She thought about Tree Hill often, thinking about her childhood and her years of drama and pain she had went through, for some reason, all the drama and pain didn't seem worth it anymore, didn't seem worth the cost of her happiness. She had learned that years ago, learned that in order to be truly happy, you have to let go of all the anger and pain. She had been so angry at the world as a teenager, it's what inspired her art and it's what made her who she is today. She sat there looking out the window, seeing the rain fall on the pavement of the street, it reminded her of the day that she had been reading about in her journal, the one where Jake had come back into her life..and where Lucas and her broke eachother's hearts. Their relationship was never the same after that, for some reason, after senior year, the two went their seprate ways. Peyton got married, had kids, and been divorced all by the time she was 48. She still had the long curly blonde hair with a few hints of grey. Things just seemed so clear now that she was older, more clear then they had ever been, she loved her life now, don't get her wrong, but she had always left a piece of her and her heart in Tree Hill with Lucas. The only problem was, he would always have it, she would always feel incomplete.
Journal,
I am on my plane now, on my way out of Tree Hill, I can't wait to get to California, Los Angeles will probably be great, I am going to an art school there, I hope one day..I get a job that has to do with art, it's my passion. I feel a bit guilty leaving Lucas behind, I love him, I don't think I will ever meet anyone like him or love anyone as much, this is just something I have to do..for me. I know Lucas loves me and I love him with all of my heart, but it was time to go, time to end our relationship. It's just been full of ups and downs, truthfully, this is the only time I will admit this, I don't think I will ever stop loving him. That won't ever be said outside this journal, never beyond this page that I write it on now. This is a chapter in my life that I have to leave behind, Tree Hill is my past, not my future.
A few tears came to her eyes as she read what she had wrote on the last page in that journal. She hadn't started a new one after that, she felt as if she was too grown up to have one. Peyton did regret leaving Tree Hill that day, she wondered what her life would have been like if she would have stayed with him, stayed with Lucas, the love of her life, she had never stopped loving him. She had went to his funeral the year before and thought about him everyday since. His heart disease HMC had killed him. Peyton was angry he was gone, she was angry she never told him that she would always continue to love him, she had seen him a few times sicne she left Tree Hill that day, but things were never the same with them. Peyton was never the same.