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Chapter 2: Part 2-Lucas, Brooke, and Peyton

The Next Day

Lucas knew his love life was now even more complicated. He had cheated on his girlfriend, Brooke with Peyton and was now cheating on both of them with Haley. What a mess he had gotten himself into recently! He never had strong feelings for Brooke. She was just a distraction from Peyton, but not for long. He couldn't deny his strong feelings for Peyton but now he couldn't deny his strong feelings for Haley either. What was he going to do? He though things through from the moment he woke up. He couldn't be with Brooke. His heart was never in it and he had cheated on her, something he hadn't intended on doing.

He was going to have to break up with Brooke and then, there was Peyton. Since his betrayal with Peyton had happened, he figured there was no way he could have a string relationship with either Brooke or Peyton despite his string feelings for Peyton. It would never work no matter how much he may want it to work. He was going to lose both Brooke and Peyton, and he knew it. He decided to tell both of them at the same time. This was going to ruin friendships. He met both Brooke and Peyton after school at the basketball court.

"What's up, Lucas? Why did you need to see both of us?" Peyton asked when she and Brooke had arrived. She had an idea why but she wanted to hear it from him first.

"You both may want to sit down for this," Lucas suggested to them. He knew the news about him and Haley may shock them.

"Ok, boyfriend, whatever you want," Brooke said as her and Peyton sat down on the nearby picnic table.

"I haven't been very honest or faithful to either of you guys lately," Lucas started out as both of them started to look a little confused. He turned to Brooke first, "Brooke, I'm sorry but in the past few days, I've been fooling around with Peyton beyond your back."

"What? How could you?" Brooke started, looking back and forth between Lucas and Peyton. Peyton looked guilty.

"Stop. Let me finish," Lucas told Brooke. "I've had strong feelings for Peyton for a long time and I should have told you right away. My heart was never in this, Brooke, and I'm incredibly sorry. I know what I did was wrong and I know you may never forgive me."

"You got that right. It's so over with both of you. I can't believe this," Brooke exclaimed.

"I'm sorry, Brooke. We didn't want to hurt you," Peyton admitted.

"Yeah, well you did. It's too late," Brooke said in anger.

"I know this is a lot to take in but there's more," Lucas admitted and turned to Peyton. "Peyton, what I feel for you is amazing and what we had was even more amazing. However, as much as I want it, it can never be because it could never work. We could never have a strong relationship. I've already ruined your friendship with Brooke and I hope you both can rebuild it someday."

"I'm sorry, too, Lucas," Peyton replied, feeling guilty and disappointed.

"Well, the final thing I need to say to both of you is this," Lucas continued as he turned to look at both of them. "There's been someone else all along and I didn't realize it until last night. I've actually cheated on both of you," Lucas stated.

"What? With who?" Both Brooke and Peyton asked him at the same time. They were shocked.

"It's Haley. I became jealous of her being with Nathan. It all came to a head after we had a fight last night. After that, I knew it was her I wanted to be with," Lucas answered with such emotion both girls immediately believed it.

"Wow! So tutor girl, huh? It's your best friend. It's kind of funny how best friends turn into Dawson and Joey," Brooke remarked. Everyone laughed for a moment at that.

"Well, good for you, Lucas. I hope you and Haley work things out," Peyton said.

"Thanks, Peyton. I want to thank you and Brooke for listening to me. I'm sorry this had to happen like this," Lucas told them.

"I'm sorry, too," they both said.

After that, Peyton and Brooke left Lucas to think through everything else. Their friendship had been destroyed but somehow, there was still some hope left to move past this disaster and go on. The next few weeks were going to be rough for them. Lucas felt relieved after his confessions to Brooke and Peyton. He knew Haley was the one now. He didn't know why he didn't realize this earlier. She was his best friend and always will be but she was much more than that now. Haley was so beautiful to him, inside and out. His hidden jealously inside him had been broken free last night and after kissing her; he knew he was in love with her. No doubt about it. All he had to do now was wait to see what happened to her and how she really felt. He hoped she felt the same way he did.