AN: Hey guys! Thanks for the reviews to: OTH.daddy'sgurl.06, Emma Smith, and the only sweet catastrophe. You're reviews make me so happy, I really love to receive them. And yeah, this story is already all written so I'm sorry for the lack of Naley. There is a little of them but only in the very end, I'm sorry about that. I hope you still like it!

Chapter 3

Peyton's POV

OK, so I've only been on this cruise for two days, and I have to admit, it's really not that bad. Of course, we got yesterday and today just to relax and all, but then tomorrow is when the whole matching starts. They have a whole schedual. The morning speed dating, the afternoon 'swap-guys-with-the-girl-on-your-right', and the evening blind date. That's five days a week, and you meet three guys a day, so at the end of the three weeks here, I'll have 'dated' forty-five guys. That's a really weird way to think about it.

Anyway, there are about a hundred guys on this boat, so the chances that I'll ever get paired up with Jake are less than fifty percent. And that thought makes me sad. Because, although I've only been here for two days, I can safely say that he's the only cool guy I've met here. Plus he's a total fox...

I've decided to hang out with him first as friends, or just aquaintences, because who knows with guys? I just want to be sure that I really want him before I make a move... if I make a move. I mean, for all I know, he could be totaly uninterested in me. I bet he knows that I'm seventeen, I know I shouldn't have lied. I bet he can tell, like he gets a high-school vibe or something... I bet he doesn't like me always hanging around him. Does he hate me? Wow, I have way too much free time on my hands, if I think about this any longer I'm going to drive myself crazy!

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Jake's POV

OK, she's driving me crazy! But in a good way... I don't know, maybe I should back off. I haven't really felt like this since Nikki, and that's not exactly a good sign... Not that Peyton's like Nikki or anything. But I mean, who am I kidding? It's not like she'd be interested in ME? I mean, I'm a single-father, I haven't dated since... well, a while... I'm not exactly a catch. She's the kind of girl that probably has guys surrounding her on campus and all that. And I'm the kind of guy that lays-low, writing songs and all. But even though she's probably really popular, she has this down-to-earth quality, it's like she doesn't even know just how beautiful she is...

"Dad... Dad!... DAD!" I heard Jenny saying from behind me. I turned around, she looked annoyed.

"Yes, honey, what is is?" I asked her. I hoped she hadn't been calling me forever, but from the look on her face, it looked like it. Once I get in a different world, it's pretty hard to bring me back to reality.

"Can we go swimming?" She asked. She was already in her polka-dot pink one-piece and I remembered that I had promised to go swimming with her. I felt bad that I wouldn't see her as much during the week, what with the tight schedual these people kept you on. Fortunitaly, there were a couple other young, single parents on this trip, and there was a day care and everything.

"Oh, right, of course, just let me get changed." I said and then I went to change into my swim trunks, but not before noticing Jenny's annoyed expression change into and excited one. Yes! Extra cool points for the Dad!

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Peyton's POV

God this place is fancy! Brooke and I are getting tan by the outdoor pool, and some guy that works there comes up and askes if we want Evian water sprayed on our bodies! It kind of weirded me out, but Brooke gladly accepted.

"Peyton, we're on this cruise for free. You need to take everything you can get out of it." Brooke said. "And I'm not just talking about the guys."

"I know, it just feels so.. weird..." I tried to explain, but decided to change the subject, "So you and Lucas seem to be getting along well. There are definitaly sparks there." I kind of only brought up Lucas so that we could get to the subject of Jake, but I did want to here what was going on with her and his friend, Lucas. They seemed really interested in each other since the second they met.

"I can't argue with that..." Brooke said, with a smirk, "He's gorgeous!" She said and we both giggled a little, and I had to agree with her. "Plus, I mean, he's mature, you know, he seems so sweet and intellegent. He's really like no other guy I've ever met." I had to gush to that. Brooke had this twinkle in her eye that is not there very often. And when we were normaly talking about guys the words 'pig' and 'shallow' normaly came up, but 'sweet' not so much, and even less 'intellegent'. This was something new.

"Well, has anything happened between you two?" I asked. OK, so it had only been two days, but with Brooke you never knew.

"No, not yet. But we can't keep talking about him, because here he comes," Brooke said fast. And I turned my head and sure enough, there was Lucas, shirtless, but not in his bathing suit. I looked over at Brooke and she was looking him over with a look in her eye that I recognised as her 'I want you' look.

"Hey," He said when he reached us. I totaly noticed him checking Brooke out in her bikini, and I bet she did too, but she didn't mind. If anything, she was probalby happy that he did it. "What's up?"

"Nothing," Brooke said with her usual cheery voice, "We were just talking about the obveous attraction between Peyton here and your friend, Jake," she said, and I glared at her. She's always doing things like that. But before I could say that that was absolutely not true, we saw Jake himself coming towards the pool with his daughter. He hadn't noticed us though, he was too wrapped up in Jenny, laughing with her and everything. That sight was enough to make your heart melt.

"See?" Brooke said to Lucas, gesturing to Peyton, "She's totaly crushing." She said, and got my attention.

"Brooke! I am not!" I lied playfuly hitting her. Lucas laughed at us and then went to go say hi to his friend.

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Jake's POV

"OK, Jenny, why don't you stay here with Luke and I'll go get us drinks." I said to Jenny and she nodded. "Luke you want anything?" I asked turning to my best friend, who shook his head, so I headed to the bar.

"Hi, uh, one Apply Juice, and one Coke, please." I asked and the bartender gave me the drinks without saying anything.

"Uh..." I said, "What do I owe you?"

"Nothing, it's free," The guys said amazing me. They give you the trip for free, and everything on it for free, how do these guys make money? This was really weird. I'm a single-father, at college on a scholarship, I'm not used to luxery and being treated so well. This is too weird. It'll probalby be hard to tear Jenny away from this place at the end of three weeks. And I'm starting to think the same for me.

All of a sudden I notice a head of blonde curls I recognized. Walking closer to get a better look, I saw that it was infact Peyton... in a bikini. I almost spit out my soda, she looked so hot. But I contained myself, thankfuly. Scared that I would embarass myself if I went any closer, I went back to where Lucas and Jenny were waiting.

But I noticed them already in the pool. I guess Jenny just couldn't wait, and Lucas was like him, he couldn't say no to her. I realized that a certain brunette was in the water swimming around with them. That's probably Brooke, the only thing Lucas could talk about for the last two days.

I decided that I should probably go see Peyton after all. You know, because I didn't want her to be lonely...