A/N- I haven't updated is like two weeks, I'm so sorry. I have been super busy, my Grandma has been in and out of the hospital and I have been hanging out with my friends more than usual and report cards are coming out soon and I have been to trying to raise my marks and all of that good stuff. I'm on spring break now so I'll try to update lots of the next week, and then update every Saturday again. It shall be fun.

As It Comes

Chapter 10

Normalcy

Two weeks had passed and Peyton was still in a deep sleep. Over the past two weeks the other four of the group had fallen into the repetition existence of going to school, listening to everyone talk about the "accident" and then going to the hospital to visit Peyton. The doctors said that there was no reason she shouldn't wake up it was all about when she would wake up. Brooke was probably taking everything the worst. She had fallen into a life of moping around, not being her cheery self. Nathan had found comfort within Haley, the pair had become inseparable. Lucas spent most of his time comforting Brooke. The boys somehow found time for basketball and Brooke kept cheering.

The four sat in Karen's Café pushing their small portions of food around there plate, it was the two week anniversary of the accident and Peyton still wasn't awake.

"Want to go to the hospital?" Haley asked. They had been sitting there in silence for ten minutes and they needed something to do other than let their minds wander.

"I don't know," Brooke replied looking up from her half eaten pancake. Karen's pancakes were usually gobbled down within in seconds if placed in front of Brooke but not today.

"What else is there to do?" Nathan mumbled.

"Maybe, we should try having some normalcy in our lives and we should do something fun, like the movies," Brooke countered.

"What's normal about one of our best friends being the hospital?" Haley spoke up.

"Nothing but I don't think we should be living in the shadows because she is," Brooke argued. This argument was a regular one for them lately, Nathan and Haley weren't moving on from the fact that Peyton might be in her coma for awhile, Lucas was trying to act the most normal and Brooke was moping around but she was trying to let her cheeriness shine through.

"Brooke, why don't we go the hospital for a hour and then go the one o'clock show at the movies," Lucas reasoned.

"Okay," Brooke said giving in.

The group finished what little of the food they wanted and left. The all had been at Nathan's that morning and had come to the café together in Nathan's SUV. The piled into his SUV together, Brooke and Lucas took the backseat and Haley rode shotgun. They got to Peyton's room and Larry, her dad, was sitting at her bedside.

"Larry," Brooke exclaimed, giving the man a large hug. "You're here." Larry had been notified about his daughter's condition but he had no way of coming in from sea sooner and he had finally arrived.

"Hi you guys," Larry said quietly. His eyes looking over each of his daughters friends, Brooke was dressed down, she was wearing a pair of Raven cheerleader sweats and Lucas' sweatshirt, Haley wore jeans and a tee- nothing out the ordinary, Nathan wore the ever present track suit, and Lucas wore jeans and one of his sweatshirts.

"Hey," Nathan said trying to be casual, he had only met Larry once since beginning to date Peyton and he knew that Nathan was driving that night.

"Nathan, I don't blame you," Larry spoke up, seeing the wariness in Nathan's eyes. "You guys got hit by a drunk driver; it had nothing to do with you."

"Okay," Nathan replied, taking his ever present seat next to Peyton pulling Haley onto his lap. Larry's eyes wandered to the two, he remembered that the pair used to date but that was forever ago.

"Peyton and Nathan are still together right?" Larry whispered into Brooke's ear. Brooke nodded.

"Haley is just being there for him, its nothing, I have asked her so it's fine," Lucas spoke up over hearing Larry's question to Brooke.

"You both know that its not," Larry said, "but I don't really think Peyton should be with Nathan anyways so I don't care. If she is in a coma for months she has to expect him to move on, especially knowing the player that he is."

"I love how you are never around us but you know exactly what kind of person Nathan is," Brooke said smiling.

"Nathan is Brock Hamilton from when I was in high school," Larry said.

"And where is Brock now?" asked Brooke. She wanted to know where Nathan would be in twenty-five or so years.

"Married to one of his high school girlfriends, he has kids too, I saw him at my twenty year reunion, and he's a good guy."

"So why don't you think Peyton can't be that girl?" Brooke asked.

"Because they aren't enough alike and right now I can see Nathan with the girl who will be his real girlfriend, they just are going to be that couple, I can tell," Larry replied knowingly.

"Well we'll see," Lucas said, hoping Larry was right, if anyone could make Nathan into a better person it would be Haley.

Brooke and Lucas took their spot in the corner of the room sharing a chair and Larry sat on a chair on the other side of Peyton and held her hand. Time passed quickly and it was soon time for the movie, "Nate, Hales, it twelve thirty, we should leave for the movie," Brooke said quietly, looking up from her watch.

"Really," Haley said, "okay, let's go." She got up from Nathan's lap and grabbed her coat and Nathan, Brooke, and Lucas followed. Larry had fallen asleep so Brooke scribbled a quick note and told him to call or whatever. They made it the movie, once in the theatre they went to the middle row. The movie was funny, it was one of those if you start thinking it becomes really stupid but it was hilarious. The four friends piled out of the movie laughed and repeating the jokes to each other.

"Is this wrong?" Haley asked, after they got into the car.

"No, she would want it this way," Nathan said quietly.

"She would," Brooke piped up from the back seat.

"Okay, that's good," Haley said solemnly. She placed her hand the center console and Nathan placed his hand on top of hers and smiled at her. Lucas and Brooke saw this and looked at each other knowingly.

A/N- I'll try to update soon. On Monday or maybe tomorrow, I have been having some writer's block about this story but I'll keep thinking about it.

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