Chapter 2: When it all started to change
Disclaimer: If I owned OTH, we'd be watching Leyton scenes every week, not Brucas scenes.. I only own the plot.
Lucas Scott turned back to his team and his coach. He was the youngest of the team and the last to get married. Josh, a teammate and close friend of Lucas saw how much Lucas missed his wife patted Lucas on the back which earned him a smile from the young Scott.
Meanwhile back in Tree Hill, Peyton was unpacking boxes that contained her records. She remembered the first date she went on with Lucas after seeing her Queen record. Smiling to herself, she thought back to that day.
Flashback:
Lucas Scott rang the doorbell of Peyton's house even though during all the years he knew Peyton, he never used it. When Peyton opened the door, he was mesmerized. Peyton, who usually wore band T-shirts and pants, was wearing a miniskirt and a black halter top. Her curly hair was in a pony tail and her makeup looked natural, knowing that Lucas liked it that way.
"Lucas, you can pick your jaw off the floor now."
"Sorry Peyt, it's just-"
"I never look like this," Peyton finished for him.
"Yea, oh here I got these flowers for you even though you don't need them."
"Why," Peyton asked, clearly confused.
"You're already beautiful as it is."
Even how corny that sounded, Peyton blushed. She loved how he could just say the simplest things, but still make her feel beautiful.
End Flashback
Peyton remembered how nervous she was. This was her first date with any guy, and it even had to be the guy she had a crush on since the 5th grade. She also remembered how thoughtful Lucas was, and how he didn't pressure her into telling him what was wrong.
Flashback
On the car ride to the restaurant he was taking her, she seemed a little nervous, and Lucas, seeing this didn't want to make her feel uncomfortable. He turned the radio on in his car and prayed that Haley hadn't stuck her Britney Spears cd in it when he had picked her up from the café earlier. Instead, Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen was playing and he looked at Peyton who was humming along to the song.
"I never thought of you as a Queen person, Peyton"
"Yea, well. My parents met at a Queen concert so all my life, both my mom and dad worshipped Queen and I guess it just grew on me." Oh god, Peyton thought, why did I just tell him that. He must think I'm such a loser.
When Peyton looked at him, he didn't look at her like she was some sort of freak, but instead said, "That's so neat. Not many people like Queen."
"Are you kidding me? He's on the top of my list, but then again, I'm a little biased."
From then, the nervousness between the two disappeared and there were no more awkward pauses. They were comfortable with each other in sharing stuff that other people might not get.
End Flashback
Peyton loved her Queen album. She listened to it every night after her mom died. As hard as that was for her, Lucas really helped her. He was there through it all. Even though he and Peyton weren't as close as she and Brooke or him and Haley, he could relate to her. He never openly pitied her, but just held her as she cried her heart out. Finally after 3 days of crying, her heart began to heal, but the pain was still there. For the next couple of years, Peyton had a hard time opening up to anybody, even Brooke. The only person she could really talk to and tell how she felt was Lucas. She remembered how every anniversary of her mother's death, Lucas met her at the river court. She never had to remind him, he was always there ready to listen to her rant, grieve, and cry. She never thought of him as anything more than a friend, until they grew older and they were teased continuously about it. She never paid attention to the teasing, coming most of the time from Tim, but one day, she saw Lucas start blushing. She wondered why because it never really bothered them before until now.
Flashback
"So, Lucas are you going to your girlfriend's house later on?" Tim asked, obnoxiously of course.
"What girlfriend are you talking about Tim, Lucas doesn't have a girlfriend?" the boys on the basketball team asked.
"Oh, so Lucas and Peyton are just friends, right, just friends. You know you can't be just friends with a girl these days." Tim smirked to the guys who were all looking at Lucas with challenged looks. Lucas thought, how am I going to convince these guys that me and Peyton are just friends?
"Yea, Lucas. I mean you practically are always at her house or she's at yours. What's the deal?" Nathan challenged him.
"Yea, I mean you do realize she's a girl, a cheerleader. I mean, haven't you guys ever kissed, at all?" another guy on the team asked Lucas.
Oh, crap. What am I going to do now? I mean Peyton and I did kiss one time, but that was purely accidental and yeah I do realize she's a girl especially when its that time, and I get yelled at for no apparent reason. And, so what that I'm always at her house, right?
"Sorry guys, me and Peyton aren't like that. Just friends." Lucas said, confidently.
"Yea Right!" the guys yelled.
Right then, Peyton and the rest of the cheerleaders walked out from the girl's locker room, and all the guys became silent and looked at Peyton and Lucas.
"Luke, ready to go?"
"Yea…., Peyt."
Peyton looked at him and was looking at all the guys on the team staring at her and Luke. She also realized Lucas's face was extremely red. As she and Lucas were walking out, all the guys started whistling and yelling GO LUCAS! Peyton arched her eyebrow at Lucas, asking him with her facial expressions.
"They were talking about tomorrow's game."
"Right, right."
End Flashback
A/N: Hope everyone likes it!