CHAPTER 4: THE TANGLED WEBS WE WEAVE

Peyton stumbled into her apartment around 4:30 that morning after one hell of a night at work.

She spent most of the night taking shots that these dumb guys kept buyin them for her thinking they could get in her pants. To bad they were wrong.

She also spent most of the night throwing nasty comments towards Brooke. She couldn't understand why Brooke hated her so much. She didn't even know her. Haley on the other hand... Haley she liked.

She ended up hanging out with Haley most of the night. She spent her hour break with Nathan, Jake, Haley, and Lucas. She spent most of that time with Nathan... laughing at his bad jokes and horrible idea of a good time. Apparantly a good time according to Nathan consists of Beer and Pizza and Monday night football, wathcing the Patriots cream whatever team they played. Peyton on the other hand thought that a good time consists of going out dancing, hanging out with friends, listening to AWESOME music, and watching all sorts of crazy movies. They were so different but then again they were so alike. Kinda like her and Lucas.

She loved how shy he was around her. It made her try that much harder to get his attention which is something she was becoming very good at.

The more she hung out with the four of them the more she started to noticed the tangeld web of lies that is going on!

For one... Nathan might be into her, but his eyes were on Haley all night long.

Haley tries to avoid his gaze by hanging out with Jake but inevitably she fell for his gaze.

Jake was the same way. He was hiding with Haley but all the while he has a thing for little miss Brooke Davis.

Brooke on the other hand was eyeing Lucas to tick off Jake just b/c he was hanging out with Haley.

Lucas on the other hand paid no attention what so ever to the come on's by Brooke... He was to busy watching every move Peyton made that he couldn't notice anyone else talking to him let alone notice Brookes sorry attempts to make Jake jealous.

It's kinda funny how all these lies end up coming full circle. New girl in town catches eye of Boston Brothers. She couldn't help but crack a smile as she thought of all of this. She was probably the only one who noticed what was going on. The others seemed to be oblivious to what they were doing and what everyone around them was doing. Peyton was to perceptive to not notice. She picked up on anything.

Peyton went to bed that night with all of these crazy thoughts in her head. She was gonna have a lot of fun living here in Miami.

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Peyton woke up that morning to one severe headache. She rolled out of bed wearing nothing but a sports bra and little bitty gym shorts. She stumbled her way into her bathroom as she fumbled around for her tylenol. She found them in the back of her medicine cabinet. She opened them up to find she only had to left

"Crap" She said to herself

She then made her way to her kitchen to grab a glass of water when there was a light knock on her door

She makes her way to the front door and opens it up to be greeted with Lucas' smiling face

"hey" He said

"Hey" She said with a yawn "Need something?" She asked as he just stared at her "Lucas?"

"OH HUH?" He said coming out of his thoughts

He thought she looked gorgeous with her messy brown hair pulled back in a ponytail, wearing very little clothes

"Did you need something?" She asked eyeing him curiously

"Yea... do you have any milk I could get from you?" He asked

"Dude... I just moved here like what... 2 days ago... do you seriously think I have milk?" She said laughing

"Well... it was worth a shot." He said turning around embarrased

"Hey" She said as he turned around "What did you need milk for?"

"Coffee. I haven't had any this morning and considering how late I got in last night..." He said making a face at her "I need my morning cup of coffee" He finished turning around once more

"Well... if you'll give me a couple minutes we can go to starbucks and grab some coffee... my treat" She said as he spun around on his heel and she flashed him a warm smile

"Sounds good to me" He said smiling back

"Well you can come sit in here and wait... it shouldn't take me that long to get ready"

She walked back out ten minutes later as Lucas' jaw fell. She was wearing a pair of tight jeans that hugged her curves and showed them off, along with a black halter.

"Pick up that jaw lover boy" She said cracking a smile

His face immediately turned red

"Sorry" He said shyly

"It's fine... just don't let it happen again... you ready to go"

"Yea" He said as he got up and followed her out of her appartment

"Are you gonna go in that?" She asked pointing to his board shorts, wife beater, and flip flops"

"Yea" He said casually "What's the matter... not flashy enough for ya" He said with a smile

"Actually... no" She said returning the gesture

They made their way into Starbucks as they ran into Brooke and Nathan

"Hey Nate" Peyton said flashing him a cheery smile

"What's up Peyton?" He asked as he gave her a warm hug

"Not to much just came to get some coffee with Lucas"

Brooke was glaring at Peyton by this time. She was sooo pissed that Peyton had the attention of both Scott boys

"Hey Lucas" Brooke said trying to flirt with him

Lucas didn't respond which made Brooke that much more angry

"So we still hangin out today" Nathan asked Peyton

"Yea... I gotta couple of things to do around the appartment and then I'll be free... say around... 2 oclockish... sound good"

"Yea... see you then..." He said before giving her another hug "Later Luke" He finished before walking out the door with a very pissed off burnette

"So... you and nate seem pretty close" Lucas said trying to hide the jealousy in his voice

"Yea... he's pretty fun to hang out with" She said simply before walking up to the counter to order

Lucas followed behind her

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Alright guys there it is! I hope you understand it! I wrote it when I was on my way back from the dentists office and I wasn't exactly in the right mind to be writing! I hope it turned out alright! I might not get to update until Saturday b/c my laptop charger isn't working and I need to get a new one before I can do anything! My battery only had like 45 left! So I will get a UD up as soon as possible! Those of you reading Finding My Way Back To You... I will try and post again tomorrow! I don't know how long my battery will hold out so it might be short! ENJOY! Thanks for all the awesome reviews! YOU GUYS ROCK!

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