AN/ Bonjour (I got bored of writing hello)! Thank you everyone who reviews and helps with my bad grammar. I apologize. Now on with the chapter…

Disclaimer: I do not own anything to do with One Tree Hill or any of the characters associated with the show. The characters you don't recognise are of my imagination. I also don't own McFly or their song Unsaid Things either.

"Thank you" I said to Peyton as she placed a coffee in front me. She nodded and took a seat beside Izzie who is watched me, patiently waiting. I took a sip of my coffee to calm myself. I can't help but feel that I'm on trial or something by the way they are both watching me. I decided to tell Izzie everything I'm just worried about telling her about Amy's depression.

"Your mother and I met at a basketball game. She was the head cheerleader and I was the co-captain of the Ravens. I always liked her but never had the guts to go up to her so after a lot of encouragement from Haley, Skills, Mouth… about everyone but Nathan. He never liked Amy because she turned him down in freshman year and he can hold a grudge" Izzie smiled a little but stayed silent.

"I nervously walked over to her after the game and asked her if she would like to come to Nathan's party with me. She smiled and agreed and we went together. We danced, had a good time and I walked her home" I tried to keep the smile of my face and continue but Peyton interrupted me.

"What happened?" I looked over at her and felt myself blush. She regarded me intently as she drank her coffee. Izzie looked from Peyton to me and pulled a face.

"Ok. I'm not sure I wanna know now" Izzie said.

I laughed and tried to hide my embarrassment. "Nothing like that! We just kissed. It was a goodnight kiss" I lied. A good night kiss with tongue. I quickly changed the subject.

"Anyway Amy started to hang around with me and my friends and was forever taking pictures of either us or random things like a tree or the river… and a week later I asked her out and she started taking more pictures but of our hand, my lips, and her lips, what we ate…" I trailed off at Izzie's glassy eyes. Peyton rubbed her back slowly and nodded at me to continue.

"Er… we went out for a year before she fell pregnant with you"

Flashback

Ring. Ring. Ring.

I groaned and rolled on my side to look at the time. Seven thirty. Who the hell is ringing me at seven thirty in the morning? I thought as I picked up my phone.

"Hel-"

"Lucas I need you right now!" Amy demanded before she ended the call. I sat up and stared at my phone confused before I darted from my bed, still dressed in my boxer shorts and a T-shirt and got into my car, fearing the worse.

I quickly parked the car and jumped out, running for the door. It swung open just as I was about to knock to reveal Amy holding something out to me. I looked at her confused before I looked at the object in my hand. A pregnancy test. My heart leapt and looked back at her excited. She smiled at me widely and I know from the joyous look on her face that she is pregnant.

"Omigod!" I shouted picking her up and kissed her passionately before spinning her round overjoyed.

End of Flashback

"The next day we went to the doctor and he confirmed it. We just had to tell our parents" I looked over at Izzie who smiled at me.

"I bet that didn't go down well" Izzie said. I laughed and shook my head.

"We told Amy's parents first. Her Dad threatened me and then chased me around the Living room while her Mum wouldn't stop crying and hugging Amy" Both Peyton and Izzie burst out laughing.

"I told Keith next while he was at work. He was holding a spanner at the time and I thought he was going beat with me it from the look on his face but he suddenly started laughing and hugged me and then said my Mum is going to kill me. He was very encouraging!" We all started laughing again. "We both told Haley and the others and they had the calmest reaction that didn't involve threatening my life or telling us we are stupid"

"What about Dan and Karen?" Izzie asked. I averted my eyes from Izzie and sipped my coffee.

"I didn't want to tell Dan since I never liked him before. You see Dan abandoned Karen when he found that she was pregnant with me and acted like I didn't exist until I was sixteen. When he found out about you he said he was proud of me and started acting all fatherly" I explained to Izzie.

"And Karen? She was the woman in that Café right?" I sighed deeply and run my hand threw my hair.

"Yeah. Karen and I had a huge fight when she found out and we don't talk anymore. I moved out of Karen's house and into Amy's and a week before you were born we moved into an apartment"

"I bet you were a cute baby Sugar" Peyton said, hugging Izzie. Izzie rolled her eyes playfully.

"You were the cutest little girl I've ever seen" I told Izzie. She blushed and looked down at the table, a small smile on her face.

Flashback

"I'm late, I'm late, I'm late, I'm, late!" I shouted as I ran through the hospital. The baby is early and she isn't suppose to be here for another three more weeks so I went to Charleston with Nathan to see a basketball game. I skidded to a stop as I found the right delivery room and opened the door. Amy sat up in her bed with her knees propped, she looks so tired.

"Amy!" I called as I ran over to her and took her hand. She smiled at me and squeezed my hand.

"Excuse me Sir, you can't be in-"

"I'm the father!"

"He's the father" Amy and I both told the nurse.

"Well in that case, please follow me" She replied as she started to walk away. I watched her leave confused. I'm supposed to be with Amy.

"Hun, hurry up!" I looked back at Amy who nodded.

"I'll be right back" I told her and with a kiss on her forehead I reluctantly walked back out of the delivery room only to find the nurse has disappeared. I groaned in frustration and looked up the corridor for her.

"Put these on" I turned around to see the nurse again but holding out what looks like scrubs to me. I quickly pulled on the apron-scrub thing and ran back to Amy's room.

"I'm back" I announced, kissing her forehead.

"W-What took you so long?"

"I'm sorry the traffic was bad coming back to Tree Hill and I turned my phone off for the game" I explain, feeling embarrassed. Amy shook her head at me before she started crying out in pain. I took her hand and looked at the doctor for help.

"She's fully dilated" He said to the nurse beside her.

"Ok Hun, its time to push" The nurse who gave me the apron-scrub thing to me said. Amy sat up and everyone started talking at once. The doctor talked to the other nurse, the nurse who told Amy to push is saying encouraging words to Amy and I was trying not to scream out in pain from the death grip Amy has on my hand.

"Ok, one big push!" the doctor shouted. I tensed preparing myself for the death grip to get tighter. It did and I let out a little cry of pain.

"The head is out"

"Thank God" I replied thinking it was all over. It wasn't Amy was made to push one more time and I felt her nails dig into my hand as she cried out in pain again. A moment later there was a shrill cry and a smile came to my face. I looked down at Amy who is now red in the face and sweating buckets and kissed her while stroking her hair with my good hand, she still hasn't let go of the other.

"You were amazing" I complimented. She smiled weakly at me and lay back.

"Congratulations! You have a beautiful baby girl" The doctor announced. I stared at him for a moment in shock. She's actually here, right now.

"Here you go Hun" I looked over at the nurse who is holding out the baby to me. My heart leapt as she put the still crying baby in my arms. I panicked thinking I would drop her as I looked down at her little face. I suddenly felt overwhelmed and started to cry myself but I didn't care. I held the baby closer to my chest and rocked her gently.

"H-Hello baby girl..." I looked up at Amy and said the name that suddenly came to me. "Isabella?" Amy smiled happily and nodded. I lent forward and kissed Amy before turning back to my daughter. "Hello Isabella Lawson"

End of Flashback.

"I still have the scar from Amy digging her nails into my hand" I said, showing them the scar just underneath my middle fingers knuckle and index finger knuckle. Izzie laughed and looked back up at me.

"I can't believe you choose my name"

I chuckled and nodded. "It suddenly came to me when I first held you and me and Amy never actually decided on a name"

"Oh thanks" Izzie teased.

"Well Isabella is better then baby girl right?" I asked through laughter.

"True. So what happened after I was born?" I looked down at my coffee cup and away from Izzie's happy face. I know as soon as I tell her about Amy's depression or the fact that she was absent for almost ten months of her life will upset her.

"Um… we both raised you together at the apartment…" I trailed off and took in Izzie's happy face for a moment. "But you had just turned a month old when Amy started crying and at first I thought nothing of it but as time went on she… wouldn't go near you anymore and cried all the time. I tried to get her help but she kept pushing me away… So by the time you were three months old I told her to go live with her parents who had moved to New Jersey until she got better" I watched as Izzie's face dropped and she frowned at me confused.

"I didn't know at the time that she had postnal depression and she ended up staying in Jersey for nine months. I raised you with help from Haley, Nathan and Dan until you were thirteen months old and Amy came back. She didn't come back alone though. She came back with Jack and demanded that I give you to her or I would never see you again" I explained, noticing that my voice started to get quieter. I could feel Izzie's eyes on me but I couldn't bring myself to look up at her.

"Nine months" She whispered but the kitchen was so quiet that everyone heard it. I took a deep breath and looked up at her. Silent tears rolled down her face and the moment my eyes met hers she stood up.

"Iz-"Peyton tried to say. She looked like she was about to burst out in tears any second.

"No!" Izzie sobbed as she ran from the kitchen. Peyton and I both stood but Izzie was long gone.

I ran to my room and collapsed on my bed. Lucas' words ringing in my ear. Nine months! She left for nine months and then just suddenly came back demanding that Lucas gives me up or he never see's me again. Who does that? That's just… sick!

Guilt suddenly worked its way it and I buried my head under my pillow. All this time I've been mad at him, called him bad names when he was the one who looked after me when Mum left and I bet he fought her to keep me too.

I wiped my eyes and sat up to look for my phone. It sat by my school bag so I got up and walked over to it. One person came to mind at a time like this. I flipped it open and dialled his number.

"Hey"

Hearing his voice made the tears start up again. "…I…I-" I tried to say through sobs.

"I'm coming" He replied quickly.

I stopped at the door and bit down on my bottom lip, trying to hold back the tears that are threatening to roll down my face. I wanted to chase after Izzie and hold her but I knew that she wants to be alone.

I heard Lucas sniff to the side of me and I turned slightly to see him resting his forearm on the wall and his head against his forearm. He sniffed again and wiped his eyes before pushing himself away from the wall and running his hand through his hair. I took a hacked breath, fighting the overwhelming emotions that are rising in my chest.

"I'm sorry" I whispered. "All this time I thought you were… I'm s-sorry" He looked over at me and tears started to run down my face. I looked down at the floor and started to wring my fingers.

A hand touched my shoulder then another before he pulled me into a hug. I hugged him back immediately and rested my head on his shoulder. He wrapped his arms around me and started to run his hand through my hair with a weary sigh.

"Shhh…Peyt its fine" He pulled me away from him and held me at arms length. I looked up into his eyes and felt an instant connection between us that made my heart leap. He moved forward slightly and before I knew what was happening I closed the space in between us and kissed him lightly. It wasn't until he kissed me back that I realised what I had done and pushed him away.

AN/ I tried to cut down on the flashbacks since I keep using two in the chapters but you'd have to let me know if you like them or not and I know the crying on shoulder kiss has been used a lot but I was listening to Maybe Tomorrow when I was writing the end and I couldn't help myself.

Reviews and Suggestions are always welcome

Deanie