AU: Thank you for the reviews, I really appreciate them ) Just wanted to tell you, Haley is more like Brooke actually is in the show. I hope you like this chapter, sorry things are happening slow.
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"So, we kind of lost ourselves, back there eh?" she said well smiling to her friend Haley.
Haley never judged Peyton like everybody else did. She was always there, through thick and thin. Always there to talk to when she felt like things were falling apart around her. Haley was a smart, funny and caring girl. Her and Peyton had known each other since they were in grade 8, they had grown up together you could say. Haley had never really had a real boyfriend, she just liked to have fun as she would call it. She was smart to a point, she never let any boy really get into her heart, in some ways she was just like Peyton in a way, she was always wishing to find that special someone.
"Yeah, I'm sorry. It's just with you not being in school, we hardly see each other anymore," Haley replied.
They walked and laughed about the old times, well walking on the river court. Peyton actually looking like a lady today in her little red dress, and Haley in a mini skirt and tank top. It was a fairly hot day out today.
The river court was where they were the first time they actually spoke. Sure, they were in the same class, but they never really had a conversation. They hung out with different crowds. Peyton mostly with the boys and well Haley was more of a girlie-girl. Most people couldn't understand how to opposites could become best friends, but Haley and Peyton could.
It was it was the day the boys were playing basketball, and Haley just happened to pop around the corner and sit beside Peyton. That was the day everything changed in both there lives, and they became inseparable. Haley with her long brown pigtails, and Peyton with her golden curls at the time. They were Goldilocks and Repunsil as both there parents used to say.
They had so many similarities. Yet, somehow they were so different. Peyton had a different out look on boys, well Haley well she liked to be a flirt. They listened to the same music, loved scary movies, at times loved to party. They had an understanding of each other, this bond that just couldn't be broken. They had been there for each other, through a lot. Through thick and thin, they were together, not matter what.
"Would you like to come to my house for a bit?" Peyton shyly asks her best friend.
She didn't know if Haley would want to because of her father. She was always nervous about friends rejecting her, or she was worried her dad would embarrass her in some way.
"Ya, sure," Haley replied well turning onto Peyton's street.
As they up the street they started talking about life. It was easy how Peyton could forget about everything when she was with Haley. It wasn't like she had anytime to talk anyways, Haley has always been the talker in the group. Peyton barely every could get a word in, but she liked it because she never really was a talker anyways.
They made there way to her driveway. Well. Haley went ahead Peyton stayed back, looking at all of the trucks and cars in her driveway. "Daddy, having another party?" she thought to herself, well rolling her eyes.
"You coming?" Haley asked well stopping at the door, noticing that Peyton was still at the beginning of the driveway.
"Yeah," she said, well making her way up the driveway.
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She opened her front door, slowly hoping she could actually fit in her house, considering all the cars and trucks outside. She could hear the music blasted, but it was muffled by the voices from people's conversations. Normally she would be completely pissed about her dad having a party, but for some odd reason she wasn't, she was actually okay with it tonight. Possibly because Haley was here, and she would make things better, or possibly because she knew a certain blonde haired blue eyed man would be here.
And sure enough with the first step into the house, she didn't think she would make it any further. This wasn't something new though, she was used to it by now. He just had to put that stupid golf machine in the front room didn't he? Was it just be an ass? She would never know and she didn't really care, that was just her dad for yeah.
She looked around, she had seen everybody here before, she didn't remember too many names but she had definitely met them all before. Karin was here, Keith wife, Lucas' step mom. She could see her sitting at her kitchen table. Keith was beside the golf machine waiting for his shot like always. Her father was playing golf, a beer in hand. And there he was Lucas, sitting across for his mother, smiling and laughing. She couldn't hear what they were saying but you could tell by his hand motions that he was feeling the beer a little too much.
Seems like they were all feeling it a little bit too much. She pushed pass the group of people, and made her way to the kitchen, praying her father didn't stop her or Haley. Thank goodness, he didn't seem to notice either of them, he was too busy in his own world.
She had almost made it to the stairs before she felt somebody put their hand on her shoulder. She turned around about to get mad, thinking it was her father but her face softened as soon as she noticed who it actually was, Lucas.
"Hey! What you don't even say hi anymore? I thought I was your best friend?," Lucas yells trying to talk over the music, trying to put on a sad face.
She bursts out laughing, all she needed she to see his face and her mood completely changed. She laughed because he was trying to be cute.
"I'm sorry, I thought you were busy talking to your mom" she laughed.
"Never too busy for you to say hi!" he smiled.
Just then she was thrown back into the real world, brought back to a world where it wasn't just him and her. Peyton hears a cough, she looked over a Haley she was standing there watching, "Oh crap!" She didn't even introduce them.
"Oh Lucas, this is Haley and Haley this is Lucas" she said well moving her hands both ways.
"Why nice to meet you Lucas" Haley said well reaching her hand out.
"Yeah, Hi" he replied, well shaking her hand.
"Okay well we are going to go upstairs we will see you in a bit" Peyton said well leaving him at the bottom of the stairs.
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Peyton placed a mixed cd in her cd player and sat on her bed, waiting for Haley to come out of the bathroom.
"So, Miss Sawyer. How come you never told me about that fox Lucas downstairs?" Haley asked well winking at her.
"Well, what's there to say? I met him like two weeks ago, he seems like a really nice guy. His dad is Keith and his step mom is Karin. He just moved back here with his girlfriend from some town that's four hours away. He has been here everyday almost, for the past two weeks, getting drunk trying to forget about his problems I think," she replied.
"Aww, he has a girlfriend?!" Haley said well pretending to be really upset.
"Of course that's the only thing she can think about, of what I just said" Peyton thinks to herself.
"Yeah, she seems really rude," Peyton replied.
"That sucks! I guess I won't get to sleep with that one" Haley says.
Meanwhile as Peyton thinks about what her best friend had just said. Wow, was Haley really into older man now? She doesn't even know Lucas, and she really would sleep him with him? That just shows how much respect she has for herself.
"Hello…Earth.. To Peyton!" Haley said well putting her hand back and forth in Peyton's face.
"Ah, huh?" Peyton replied.
"Stuck in your own little world again" Haley said.
"Yeah, I guess"
"So, what do you wanna do?" Haley asks, well smiling.
"I don't know, but i'm sure you have something in mind?" Peyton asks her.
"I kind of feel like drinking? how about you?" she asks.
"Of course Haley is the first to say she wants to party" she thinks to herself.
"Okay. Well I'm not asking my dad if we can drink but you can?" Peyton replies.
"Okay, fine!" Haleys smiles and runs to the out door.
"I will be right down" Peyton calls after her.
She falls down onto to her bed and closes her eyes, "This is gonna be a fun night, dad's having a party and now Haley and i are going to get drunk. Wow, talk about crazy"
Even thought she didn't know it yet, but she would have a fun night, she is quickly forgetting who else is downstairs.
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AU: I know there isn't too much Lucas and Peyton action just yet, but there will be soon. I feel like she needs to get to know him a little better, before things can really happen.