Love Rectangle Plus One

Chapter 16 - Feeling the Moment

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Feeling the Moment is a song by Feeder.

Feeling the moment slip away
Losing direction you're losing faith
You're wishing for someone
Feeling it all begin to slide
Am I just like you
All the things you do - can't help myself

How do you feel when there's no sun
And how will you be when rain clouds come and pull you down again
How do you feel when there's no one
Am I just like you

Previously on LRP1-

Lucas looked at Brooke and Jake. He stood up. "I learned," He started. "I learned from Brooke that, it's never to late to be who you really are." He sat down. Brooke smiled at him and then kissed Jake's cheek.

Mouth walked over to Jake and Brooke who were standing by Jake's locker. "Hey guys!"

"Hey Mouth! What's up?" Brooke asked.

"Look, I know that the time capsule was a big flop but, I was thinking and maybe we can make our own time capsule." Brooke frowned when Mouth suggested this. "Look, we're going to be graduating in a few weeks and maybe this can keep us together. We all get together in 15 years and watch it. What do you think?" He asked.

"Sounds good to me." Jake smiled. He looked at Brooke. "Promise me you won't take your shirt off this time?"

"You knew about that?" Brooke asked blushing.

"Yeah, I downloaded it off Limewire." He said playfully.

"So, what do you think about Mouth's time capsule idea?" Haley asked Nathan.

"Well, it sounds good to me, I promise I won't say marrying you was the worst mistake of my life again." Nathan smiled.

"Hopefully not!" Haley said with a smile.

"Even if you do, we wouldn't know until 15 years from now anyway." Skillz said joining them at the table.

"Yeah" Bevin added. "Where do you guys think we'll be in 15 years?"

"Who knows." Nathan said.

Everyone met at Peyton's house, even Lucas.

"Okay guys." Mouth said getting up. "Here is the recorder. You can say whatever you want, everyone has it for a day. Do whatever, just keep it PG-13!" He said, looking at Brooke. "Who wants it first?"

"I'll give it a shot." Haley said. Mouth handed it over to her before they left.

"Hey Lucas." Peyton said aproching him.

"Hey, Peyton, I'm sorry." Lucas started.

"Forget about it. Please? Let's start over." Peyton said. Lucas looked over at Brooke as she gave Jake a kiss.

"Hi, I'm Lucas Scott." He said turning back to Peyton.

"Hey, Lucas, I'm Peyton Sawyer." She smiled.

Haley got infront of the camera. "Hey! This is Haley James-Scott. I'm 18. I am married to the most wonderful man ever! So much has happened, good things, bad things. Take this apartment for example. I lived here with Nathan when we got married. Then I went on tour, and we fell apart. Brooke moved in here. She let me room with her. I'll always thank her for that. She's a great friend. All my friends are great. They just sometimes get lost along the way, like I do."
"Lucas, you can't just blame me for what happened. We both are guilty, not just me." Rachel said.

"I don't blame you. I'm a big boy I can could have said 'No' and be done with you." Lucas said. He was angrier with himselfthen with her."Rachel, just go away."

"Fine, but you'll regret this tonight when you're in bed with Peyton." She said walking away.

"So, you and Lucas are okay now?" Brooke asked.

"Yeah, seems that way." Peyton smiled. "Thank goodness."

Haley handed the camera to Peyton. "Here, your turn."

Peyton turned it on when she was alone in her room. "Hey, it's Peyt. I'm taking the time to do this now since Brooke is off with her boytoy, Jake." She rolled her eyes. "I'm not really sure what to say. I guess I'll just tell you all about this year and how crazy it's all been. I fell in love. And I fell out of Love. I got shot and saved and now, now all I can do is look ahead and hope I'll be okay."
"Good Morning!" Brooke said with a smile. Jake looked at his alarm clock.

"You're lucky my parents are gone already," He smiled.

"You're lucky they didn't see me sneak in last night!" She kissed his cheek.

"Lets skip school today, stay like this. Forever." Jake suggested.

"No way! Today is our Spanish project thing." Brooke said getting up. She walked over to Jenny's crib. Jenny was still sleeping. "She's amazing." Brooke said as Jake joined her by the crib. He kissed Brooke.

"Thanks for loving her." Jenny moved a little.

"How could anyone not love her." Brooke said watching Jenny.

Mouth walked over to Peyton. "Did you get a chance to record?" He asked.

"Yep and you're next!" She said handing him the camera.

"Hey guys!" Brooke ran over to them pulling Jake along with her. "Guess what?"

"You two are getting married?" Peyton said. Brooke rolled her eyes.

"We got A's on our Spanish thing!" Brooke said excited. "I'm actually going to pass Spanish!"

Mouth sat infront of the camera. "Marvin "Mouth" McFadden here. What up home dogzz!" He laughed. "I wanna thank you guys for doing this. And for being my friends. When Jimmy died, it was hard but, I couldn't have gotten through that without you all. I'm glad that we all met. Really glad."
"Mouth," Rachel said walking to him.

"Do you still hate Brooke?" Mouth asked. Rachel didn't answer. "Then we're not friends."

"Hey guys! It's Nathan! Not that you didn't already recegnize my handsome face." He smiled. "This year has been crazy. I learned a lot. I forgave the person who hurt me most in the world, and it was the best thing I ever did. I love you Haley, and it hurt me when you left but I'd like to think that missing you helps me to know how good it itnow that you're back here with me."
"Hey Jake." Lucas said.

"Hey." Jake said grabbing a book.

"Look, I know this might be weird but, I need to talk to someone."

"Sure, I'm here for you."

"I did something, and it's going to hurt Peyton. I want to tell her the truth.I love her and I want to make it better. But, I don't know. What should I do?" Lucas asked.

"Depends, can you live with yourself if you don't tell her?" Jake asked.

Lucas Scott sat infront of the camera. "I'm a terrible person. Really I am. I'm horrible. I want what I can't have. I broke two girls hearts this year. Neither deserved that. No one deserves to have their heart ripped out. I'm sorry. I can tell you how sorry I really am. I promise, I'll make it up to you one day."
Brooke looked at her photo album. She found a picture of her, Jenny and Jake from long ago. "Who would have known?" Peyton said sitting next to her.

"Yeah." Brooke put her head down.

"Brooke, what about fashion?" Peyton said. "We graduate in a few weeks and then after summer you have to go. You are going to New York right?"

"I don't know. I know that fashion was my dream but, somewhere in all of this." Brooke looked at the picture again. "It all changed."

"Hey Everyone! It's Bevin! I am doing this time capsule thing so that I can see my friends in 15 years when we're old! Gosh, we're going to be so old!" She laughed. "I hope I don't have wrinkles!" She touched her face. "Well, in 15 years I want to be married. Hopefully to Skillz. We can have 6 kids and he'll be an lawyer. We'll be so happy!"
Brooke walked into Haley and Nathan's room. "Knock-Knock." She smiled. "I've got a present!" Brooke handed Haley her wedding dress wrapped in a box.

Haley opened it. "Wow! OMG! Brooke! I love it." She hugged Brooke. "You should design wedding dresses. This is beautiful!" She said admiring the dress.

"I don't know about that." Brooke smiled.

"Well then at least design your own dress when you marry...JAKE!" Haley grinned. Brooke laughed.

"Yeah, that will be in the far far future!" She said sitting on Haley's bed.

"Well, at least you admit it will happen." Haley smiled again. "You two are great together."

"This is Skillz! Yo what up homies?" He smiled. "I'm not a rich man, hell, I don't have a dollar to my name. I'm not a smart man, but I'm not and idiot either! I know when I'm lucky and this year, I was lucky. Bevin. See, she's this crazy little shorty, but she loves me so much. And I love her too. I love you Shorty."
Jake, Nathan and Lucas were practicing shooting ball at the court. Jake made his shot, score.

"That was luck!" Nathan shouted.

"No way!" Jake laughed. "I've never been a lucky man."

"That's true!" Lucas said.

"See." Jake replied. Nathan looked at them.

"Well, you're lucky now. You've got Jenny," He said. "And...Brooke" He smiled.

"Yeah, I guess." Jake smiled.

"Maybe you're finally getting that rainbow after the rain." Lucas suggested.

"Rainbow? He's with Brooke, it's more like he's in the eye of a hurricaine." Nathan laughed.

"Brooke Davis here! Cheerleader. Class President. Friend. Girlfriend." She gave a smile and then it faded away."Mom?" She paused. "I meet a great guy this year. His name is Jake Jagielski. He's amazing. He has this baby, Jenny, she's the most beautiful, most wonderful thing in the world. I know I'm not her real mother but, hopefully, one day, I can be something close to that."
Jake was holding Jenny in his arms on his way to Brooke and Peyton's. "Hey Jake. How is my little girl?." He turned around to see her. Nicki.
"Hey guys!" Jake bit his lip. "I spent most of my senior year looking for Jenny and then one day, I found her, just like that." He smiled. "That's kind of how it was with Brooke. She was right there." She's great with Jenny. I love her but,"He paused looking down."I have this past that just won't go away."
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