Her sleepy eyes began to open slowly. Still groggy and a little light headed she was having a hard time adjusting to the light shining through the window. Groaning she caused something to stir close to her, awfully too close. Suddenly her eyes were wide awake frantically searching for the cause of the noise. And that's when everything became clear again. Leave it to a night's sleep to get you forgetting about all that happened the night before.

Finally regaining her senses she turned her head slightly to find a sleeping Nathan next to her, his warm body against hers. They weren't wearing a blanket but she seemed content, him next to her all cozied up, it was way better than any blanket. That's when she noticed as she looked down. His arm was around her and his fingers intertwined with hers. How could she not have felt that, she thought? Her guess was probably cause it felt just right.

Closing her eyes she recalled the other night. She had been crying and Nathan came to the rescue, as always. What she'd do without him, she didn't know. What she did know was he consoled her like no other. His warm embrace sent her into an oblivion of comfort, it seemed only he could provide. They must've fallen asleep on her bed right after, cause that's all she could remember.

Jill ever so slowly unlinked their fingers causing a sleepy eyed Nathan to wake. She shushed him quietly assuring him to go back to sleep and he did. Smiling he closed his eyes. She looked down at him for a second before getting up. He had said so many nice things to her last night and he meant them, she could tell. Something she didn't want to do because of a bad heart break but she did, she was falling for him and there was no turning back. Could she run away any longer?

One last sigh and she got up off the bed and disappeared into the bathroom. A good cold rush of water to the face is what she needed, even though she already seemed wide awake. Towelling off she headed out into the hallway.

"Hey!"

Jill jumped out of fear only to find a smiling Brooke in her face.

"Geez Brooke, trying to kill me?"

"Hmm and ruin that smile on your face never."

"What are you talking about?"

"Oh puhlease Model Girl I'd be smiling too if I was cozied up to a gorgeous guy alone in my bedroom while my unknowing friends slept in the living room."

Jill rolled her eyes.

"It's not like that."

"Whatever just tell me the juicy details and I'll leave you alone."

"There are no juicy details, nothing happened. Nathan helped me pick up a few pictures I dropped and we by accidentally fell asleep."

"Yeah, fell asleep in each other's arms."

Jill's eyes widened pulling an excited Brooke into the kitchen. Lucas and Peyton were still sleeping on the couch but they still whispered.

"You saw that?"

"Duh, you two have been like that since I went searching for you M.I.A kids last night."

"Brooke stop snooping."

"Hey what else did I have to do? It was either watching Broody and P.Sawyer make out or find you two kids. I definitely wasn't going to watch suck fest so I went to your room. Originally I was just going to hang out with you guys but when I saw you two asleep and in such a cute position might I add, I just left you alone."

Jill blushed remembering what happened, Brooke's detail only heightening her thoughts. But she had to come down, it could never happen.

"Yeah umm don't tell Lucas and Peyton okay?"

Brooke looked at her confused.

"How come?"

"I just I just don't want to make a big deal out of nothing."

"Nothing? Yeah right, that was definitely something."

"I was crying last night and Nathan comforted me, that's all. We were both so tired and exhausted we probably didn't know we did that."

"Are you denying things again?"

"What?"

"You do that a lot. You may not say it but I can sense it, I have special powers you know."

"Brooke your special powers are imaginaing things cause you have no idea what you're talking about."

"Whatever you say. You're denying as we speak."

"What are you 'deny sensing woman' are you going to attack me with your special deny detector?"

"Make fun all you want Model Girl, but you know it's true."

Just then a smiling Peyton and Lucas stood in front of them, their hands in each other's pockets.

"Oh goody creepy love birds are awake," Brooke laughed as she rolled her eyes.

"What's up guys?" Peyton pushed strands of her hair behind her ear.

"Umm," Brooke opened her mouth sensing Jill's glare, "we were wondering if we're going to leave anytime soon?"

Lucas scratched his head.

"Yeah Peyton and I talked it over and maybe we could grab breakfast on the road. You know just in case we get lost again, we want to have a head start."

Jill and Brooke nodded.

"That sounds like a plan."

"Yeah," Lucas yawned, "where's Nathan?"

"He fell asleep in Jill's room last night. The nerve of that boy you know, let's us sleep on the floor while he goes off by himself to sleep on a nice comfy bed...all alone," Brooke smirked as she stared at Jill.

"Yeah Nathan's a jackass," Lucas laughed, "I'll go wake him up, you know ruin his peaceful slumber."

The girls nodded. Jill deep down sighed, thank goodness they didn't catch on to anything with 'deny detector woman' giving hints.

Lucas woke Nathan up who was startled to see the masculine face of his brother instead of Jill. Nevertheless he got up and joined the others who cleaned up and got ready for their departure. Their so called weekend trip turned out to be one small sleep over but to Nathan it was so much more. Just him talking to Jill was more than enough, but falling asleep with her in his arms? What more could he want?

"You guys ready?" Lucas asked the team who were half asleep as they stood by the jeep. Jill had gone to make sure everything was turned off and locked before she joined the rest of them outside.

They all mumbled yes in unison as they opened the car doors.

Peyton stopped when she saw Brooke standing behind her.

"Brooke where are you going?"

"Huh? Oh I'm sick of sitting between those two. One more silent moment back there and I'll completely gag," She turned to face Nathan and Jill with her trademark smirk.

Peyton nodded buckling her seat belt not noticing Brooke's tone of voice.

Every person accounted for and all bags in the back, nothing left behind. Calling out a checklist to make sure, Lucas turned up the engine and ventured back onto the road. Everyone was just how they entered, except for the minor adjustment that Brooke was seated in the front now. Lucas was still driver and Peyton was wedged between them. Nathan and Jill took their same seats and were just as quiet as they were before. It was the same.

"This was fun," Lucas got out as he followed Peyton's directions.

"Yeah not including our lost trip for half the day," Brooke spat out.

"Hey I got us there in one piece."

"Yeah a bajillion hours later and one muddy jeep oh and don't forget one dirty Model Girl and P.Sawyer."

Lucas rolled his eyes.

"Don't start Brooke."

"What? Me start you started it."

And there they went, at it again. Yup everything hadn't changed.

Peyton slumped in her seat having to hear her boyfriend in one ear and her flappy mouthed bestfriend.

"Shut up you two. One more word from you guys and I swear I'm going to throw BOTH of you out of the jeep."

Both pissed and moaned but shut their mouths. They didn't want to see the wraths of Peyton cause that girl never backed out on her words. What she said she'd do, and it wasn't pretty.

The ride stayed pretty silent with the two monsters behaving themselves. They were too afraid of Peyton to even think of sneezing. Nathan and Jill were looking out their windows, watching life pass them by. It was actually symbolic.

She sighed as her chin leaned on her hand that was resting on the door handle. She was too in thought to see what was happening. She didn't even notice what had just touched her. Slightly jumping up she realized the warm touch was that of Nathan's. He slowly inched his hand over to her side and linked with hers. She turned to face him smiling she gripped back giving a gentle squeeze. He did the same before turning back to face the window. She stared down at their linked hands once more before focusing her attention back to the road beside her.

It was just the same. A silent car ride with everything going as it should.