Chapter Six: Something I Can Never Have
(Peyton's pov)
Ah, the sun. One eye opened, followed by the other, and I winced. Why couldn't someone just turn the sun off for a little while longer so that I could get some sleep. I rolled over onto my stomach and sat up upon feeling nothing or no one there. Had last night even happened? From what I remembered, which was everything, Lucas and I had slept together last night. You can blame a lapse of judgement or a moment of weakness, but it happened. I, on the other hand, blame nothing or no one. It was fate.
I sat up, immediately pulling the blanket over me to cover my body. Without even realizing it, I sighed, my eyes scanning the room for any piece of evidence that Lucas had been here. That's when I saw it. A single flower on the pillow next to me. I picked it up and brought it to my nose, a large, overbearing smile on my lips. How romantic..
I stood from the bed with the flower in one hand and grabbed onto my robe, which was resting on my computer chair. I noticed that my webcam was covered with a towel and I smiled despite myself, covering my body with the robe and setting the single flower down onto the computer table. I made my way downstairs, humming some random tune. The first thing that I saw upon walking into the kitchen was Lucas in his work out gear, eating cereal at the table.
As I came closer and closer, I noticed Karen and Larry sitting there as well, both drinking coffee and eating their own breakfasts. I leaned down and kissed my father's cheek before smiling over at Karen and eyeing Lucas with a grin. "Morning, family.." I said in a chipper tone, contrasting my normally pouty mood. I was, most definately, not a morning person. I never was and never had been.
My father, having known that much about me, looked up from his newspaper, narrowing his eyes slightly. "Who are you and what have you done with my daughter?" He joked, giving me a small smile. "What's his name and what exactly did you do with him?" He continued to joke, but his smile vanished when he heard a choking Lucas, who had been silent the whole entire time, begin to cough.
He choked on his cereal and began coughing profusely, causing a small giggle to fall from my lips. Wow, that was smooth, wasn't it? I shook my head and sat down at the table next to my father, looking over at Lucas with a playful grin. "Pass the orange juice.." I pleaded with him, still smiling the same way that I had been.
Much to my dismay, Lucas passed it without a word uttered to me and stood up, taking his bowl to the sink and speaking to our parents. "I'm gonna go out for a run. I'll be back later." He decided, not even greeting my existance. I frowned just slightly, not wanting either Karen or Larry to get suspicious and I stood as well, walking away without a word.
I seemed to catch Lucas just in time. He opened the front door to leave and I closed it, leaning my back against the door so that he couldn't leave. "Last night, you told me that you wanted to be with me. You left a flower on my pillow after we had sex. Now you're seriously going to tell me you've changed your mind?" I questioned angrily, my voice not daring to go above a hushed whisper.
I looked on as Lucas shook his head, his jaw clenched for reasons that I couldn't see. Anger? Confusion? Who knows..Who icares/i? Right now, I was hurt and angry--A lethal combination.
"I haven't changed my mind!" He said in a regular tone, but quickly looked in back of him to see that Karen and Larry were looking at them suspiciously. I rolled my eyes, my hand resting on my hip, not caring if the whole town knew what we were talking about right now. "..I haven't changed my mind." Lucas's voice was much quieter this time and he grabbed onto my arm, bringing me into the bathroom for whatever reason.
I, once again, rolled my eyes. Gee, the two of us dissapearing into a bathroom together? That wasn't too suspicious. Smart thinking, Luke. I bit my tongue to keep a snarky comment from slipping out. I waited for him to speak and, when he didn't, I began to walk towards the door to exit the room.
"As hard as it is to leave this lovely little moment, if you're not gonna speak, you're wasting my time." I said rudely, pushing past him. I felt Lucas grab onto my hand once again and I stopped, turning back around.
Lucas paused before leaning in and kissing me. I kissed him back with everything that I had inside of me, my back pressed against the door. Finally, we pulled away and I breathed heavily, inhaling and exhaling in an attempt to regulate my breathing. "..I didn't change my mind, Peyton." He promised me and I smiled, believing him for the first time all morning.
"I just..I don't really know how to act, y'know?" He questioned, doing that cute little brooding face that made me weak in the knees. I nodded my head with a smile and pulled away from him, my hand on the doorknob.
"Just act like you care, Luke. I don't need some big, romantic gesture. Just remind me that you care about me..That's all I want." I told him quietly, leaning up and gently kissing him one last time. With that, I pulled away and opened the door, speaking so that the parental units, who were probably wondering what we were doing, could hear me.
"..And that's what you do to get yourself over a hangover.." I called out loudly, sending him a quick wink before exiting the bathroom and going back upstairs to shower and change while Lucas did his little jogging thing.
After I was all showered and dressed, I walked back down the stairs. Much to my dismay, I was met with another voice. The voice of a girl that I already didn't like. I walked into the living room, finding the culprit of the voice to be a gorgeous blonde haired, blue eyed girl sitting across from Karen on my couch.
I looked over at Karen and then at the girl, waiting for my almost step-mom to introduce me to the blonde bimbo. She smiled brightly at me when I entered and practically pushed me down onto the couch.
"Lily, this is Peyton. She's Lucas's step-sister." Karen explained and I smiled uncomfortably, nodding my head. "...Almost step-sister. We're not related..yet." I justified, still having it feel weird for us to be almost related. I sighed somewhat and waved at the girl, dreading what was to come next.
"Lily goes to our church and she's been after Lucas for ages. I finally decided to put the plan into motion. I can't remember the last time he brought a girl home.." She continued on with a laugh, causing me to inwardly cringe. Did this Lily girl really think that she was going to get to take my boyfriend? I don't think so, Barbie.
I wanted to scream at Karen and Lily and dad and anyone else who thought that neither Lucas or myself were dating enough people. We weren't dating other people because we were dating eachother, dumbasses. "I'm sure he'll love that." I joked, sarcasm dripping from my voice with each and every single word that I spoke. Karen would know that I was right. It was a fact that Lucas hated to be ambushed. He hated feeling like things were being planned behing his back and that was exactly what his mother had done, wasn't it?
Before anyone could seem to comment back to my sarcasm, the front door opened and Lucas walked inside, dripping with sweat from his run. I couldn't even find it in me to smile when he flashed me a quick dimpled smirk. Instead, I nodded towards the other people in the living room with me, watching his smile drop dramatically.
"Mom..." He greeted unsurely, looking between the blonde haired girl from church or whatever Karen said she was from and to his mom. I rolled my eyes and stood up, throwing down the pillow that had been resting in my lap. "As fun as it was to have this Scott Church Family Reunion thing, I'm gonna go.." I said rudely, walking up the stairs and into my bedroom. I didn't need to see or hear anything else from them. The visualizations that my imagination was coming up with were enough to give me restless nights of sleep for months to come.
I sat in my bedroom for what felt like hours, sketching aimlessly. Finally, I heard my name being called. Dinner. Was the skanky hoe gone? I stood from my chair and looked out the window, finding that her car was still parked. Was it wrong that I hoped she tripped and fell down a flight of stairs one day? No, I was just jealous.. Breathe in and out, Peyton. In and out.
Wow, okay. Did someone give my dad a freaken' microphone? He called my name time and time again and, eventually, I called back. "I'm coming!" There. Now he could shutup. I opened my bedroom door and walked down the stairs, forcing yet another smile onto my face. The second that I reached the bottom, the smile turned into a snarl. There was Lily--Kissing Lucas. I narrowed my eyes at him as he opened his eyes and just shook my head in disguist, walking into the dining room.
Lucas and Lily followed me, Lucas obviously not pleased either. They all sat down and, of course, Lucas chose to sat down right across from me. I forced a smile onto my face as he asked me to pass the potatoes. Yeah, sure. I'll pass them, alright. "Oh, sure." I said sweetly, grabbing them and handing them to him. Just as I did so, I made sure that my foot rammed right into his shin.
I watched Lucas's face contort in pain and, for some reason, I got a bit of enjoyment out of it. "Whoops, I thought it was one of the legs on the table.." I apologized with a shrug, grabbing a piece of chicken and putting it onto my plate. "..But I'm sure that Lily here can kiss it and make it iall/i better." I predicted, still with that sickeningly sweet smile on my face.
Lucas simply rolled his eyes and I mirrored his actions, doing the same. For the rest of dinner, not a word was spoken between either of us. Afterwards, I didn't even clear my plate. Instead, I stood from the chair and walked up the stairs, anger pulsing through my veins. So much for him wanting to be with me, right? The second that some blonde bombshell comes through, he's making out with her! Okay, granted, Karen set them up and they weren't 'making out'..Just kissing..But still. Why would he do that? I'd love to see his reaction if I was making out with some random.
Oh! And so my plan begins. Plan: Make Lucas Jealous was officially going to go into effect starting... now.
