Lucas entered Karen's Café and looked around for his mother. When he didn't see her, he was going to leave before he heard Deb's voice.

"Well if it isn't little Mr. Lucas "to-good-to-come-back-home" Scott."

Lucas sighed and smiled at Deb. "Nice to see you too, Deb."

"Are you just gonna stand there or are you gonna give me a hug."

Lucas smiled and happily obliged. "Have you seen my mom?"

"Funny how she didn't come in today. First time since I could remember, but now that I've seen you, I understand why."

Lucas looked down at the floor feeling guilty knowing he was the reason why she didn't show up.

"If you see her, could you tell her I was looking for her?"

"Why don't you go look for her yourself. If she's not here, she's probably locked up in her room listening to the Breakfast at Tiffany's soundtrack."

Lucas shook his head and thought it was either then or never to talk to his mom. He walked the couple of blocks toward the house and found the door locked. He walked around to the door to his room and pulled the welcome mat to find his spare key. He opened the door and saw that his room hadn't changed a bit. He ran his hand over the furniture and found dust.

"Why am I not surprise."

He left his room and went towards his mother. Indeed she was listening to the soundtrack of Breakfast at Tiffany's. He knocked on the door and heard nothing. He started to panic and opened the door to find his mother on her bed with several bottles of wine around her. Lucas felt angry with himself and he perched himself next to her.

"Mom, what are you doing?"

"What the hell are you doing here Lucas? Get out!"

"I'm not leaving! I left once and it turned out to be one of the biggest mistakes in my life. There is no way in hell that I'm gonna do that again. Give me that bottle mom!" Lucas began to fight with his mother over the bottle and didn't want to let go. Eventually, the bottle fell and broke instantaneously on the floor.

Karen looked at the bottle that broke and she fell to the floor on her knees, breaking into sobs.

"Why did you have to come back? Why!"

"I'm so sorry, mom. I never expected any of this to happen. Please forgive me, please."

Lucas enveloped his mother in his arms and she leaned her head into his neck. Tears gathered in Lucas' eyes and then he vowed to never leave anyone he cared about in his life again.

"Ok Peretz, talk to me." Peyton looked from her pepperoni pizza to Haley who sat with her arms crossed.

"What do you want me to say?"

"What happened between Lucas and you last night?" Haley asked.

"We fought…what else did you think was gonna happen? Wait let me guess. Did you think me and the bastard were gonna have hot sex on your dusty, unoccupied apartment of 6 years?"

Both of the women laughed slightly and finally the ice had broken. "You still love him."

Peyton almost choked on her slice of pizza. "What?"

"You heard me. You still love that guy. He maybe the worst slime of a man but he's the cutest. I know that what he did was wrong Peyt but there's a fine line and Lucas is stepping away from it and trying to make up for the damage he caused."

"And that's supposed to excuse him? Haley, you didn't feel what I felt. You didn't have to go through what I did. For crying out loud he left me…"

"I know! I know! I know! You don't have to repeat it to me again. I'm not deaf." Haley looked at the kids and then again at Peyton. "What are you gonna do?"

"Do about what?"

"You know what Peretz."

"I don't know. I never thought this was gonna happen Hales. A part of me always told me that Lucas was never gonna come back to Tree Hill and now the unimaginable happened."

Sadness grew in Peyton's face and she looked towards the light of her life. She smiled towards her son and knew everything was going to be ok when he smiled back. God I love that boy. Suddenly, she felt the softest hands on her shoulder. Russell. She turned around and found the purest, most pacifying eyes in the world. God I love you too…I think.