AN: Hey guys! you may know me from my other fics that I've posted here. This story is about: Brooke and Peyton go on a LustFactor. com cruise for the summer and meet Jake and Lucas there. Mostly Jeyton, but there's some Brucas, too. I hope you guys like it!

OK, here's some history on the characters you should know:

-Everyone has the same personality as on the show.

-Peyton and Nathan used to date, the same relationship as in the beginning of the 1st season, it was pretty dysfunctional. But now they've ended it.

-Brooke and Peyton are best friends, and juniors at THH. Both are single.

-Jake had the whole history with Nikki back in high school, Nikki had Jenny, Jake is the father, Nikki left right after.

-The whole custody battle happened his senior year of high school when Nikki came back, but Jake ended up wining full-custody of Jenny and Nikki left and never came back.

-Lucas and Jake are best friends at NCU, they are juniors, they are 21 years old. Both are single.

-Lucas and Jake have never met Brooke or Peyton.

Alright, here we go with Chapter 1 of Just A Ride!

CHAPTER 1

Peyton's POV

It's weird how my whole life I've hated things that were fake, or a lie. I don't like posers, liars, or anything like that. But I admit that can be kind of a hypocritical thing for me to say. At home and with my best friend, Brooke, I can really be myself. I don't have to have any labels: punk, bitch, brooder... But at school, for some reason I feel like I have to act part of a certain group. I have a good group of friends, that I like and everything, but in a way I have to keep my real self bottled up. I'm a cheerleader, yet not such a cheery-person. I'm fairly popular, yet I get lonely a lot. I feel like the person I am outside of school is completely different from the person I am in school. And that comes with so many issues. Like: when I meet someone, who do I want them to think I am?

When you think about it, when you meet someone new, you can be whoever you want to be. The reason why my last relationship didn't work, with a guy named Nathan, besides the fact that we were completely wrong for each other, was because we were always trying to be who everyone else wanted us to be. We were supposed to be the 'It Couple' of Tree Hill High, but we couldn't have been further away from perfection.

It's too late for me to suddenly act really myself at school, but not for people I meet outside of school. That's why I really cannot wait to go on this cruise with Brooke.

"Oh my gosh, P. Sawyer, you are going to love me!" She had said to me. It's weird because she is so cheery all the time, and I'm definitely not, yet she is my best friend and always has been.

"Why's that?" I had asked.

"I got us two tickets this summer to go on a cruise for three weeks!" She exclaimed jumping up and down. I had to laugh at her for this, but I was getting pretty excited too. See my mom died when I was young and I'm an only child, and my dad goes on a ton of business trips, so I figured my summer would be totally lame. Until I found out about this cruise. I didn't ask many questions about it, I just agreed right away to go with her.

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Brooke and I were going to arrive at the doc an hour before the boat was suppose to leave, so that we didn't have to rush. But of course once Brooke saw what I had packed, she had insisted I bring some skimpier-looking clothes. Which was a little weird, even for Brooke, considering the fact that we didn't even know if anyone our age would be on the cruise. It could just be a bunch of senior citizens or something.

Anyway, we ended up getting there only five minutes before the departure. I was overwhelmed by the size of the boat. It was huge! It was white and on the side in fancy, cursive writing it had the name: Amour. Whatever that means...

I looked up at the entrance and there was a big, multi-colored banner there that read: "Welcome aboard the AMOUR. Sponsored by LustFactor. com" Wait a second...

"Brooke!" I yelled coming to a halt. She looked over at me with a innocent face. I gave her an 'I'm not falling for that' face.

"OK, don't get mad, but I-" Brooke started to say.

"You signed us up for a love cruise!" I said, reminding myself to ask more questions next time Brooke invites me somewhere.

"It's not a love cruise," Brooke said not very convincingly.

"Lust, whatever. Brooke, did you put our pictures on LustFactor. com?" I asked.

"Well..." Brooke said," Not exactly. I kind of just put... yours." I opened my mouth to protest but she spoke before I could say a word. "Look, you were miserable during your relationship with Nathan, proving that you cannot pick your own guys, so might as well let the pros do it for you. They invited you on this cruise for free, Peyton. And you were allowed a 'plus-one', that's me." She said with a smile. OK one thing was true, I do kind of suck at finding the right guys for me, but LustFactor. com? That seems so... desperate. But before I could say something, Brooke spoke again.

"Do you have any idea how many hot guys between the ages of sixteen and twenty-five will be on that boat? Plus it's not like you have to get with any of them. You can just act like it's a fun, normal cruise." Brooke said. "Please, please please! You won't get another chance. Come on!" She said.

I thought about this for a while, but I knew that my answer was already yes. And Brooke seemed to know that too, so I just didn't say anything and she led us to the entrance of the boat.

"Hi," She said perkily to the guy at the entrance. "Brooke Davis, and Peyton Sawyer." She said with a smirk. The guy found our names and checked them off. He looked us over, up and down, then smiled.

"Nice," He said, making Brooke giggle and me roll my eyes. What did I get myself into...

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AN: OK sry if that was a little short, the others will be longer! And BTW, Amour means Love in french. Up Next:

Jake's POV

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