A/N: Things are slowly starting to fall in the place for them, and I have a feeling that the story will be over in a few more chapters. I know how it's going to end already, so I feel like 3 or 4 more chapters and we'll have our ending. Maybe more, maybe less. I don't know. But I'd like to be able to focus my attention on one fic at a time, and this one is closer to being done than the other so I'm going to concentrate on finishing this one up in the next few days.
Disclaimer: I don't own One Tree Hill.
She dialled another number and listened as the phone rang.
"Hello?" She heard him ask.
"I called Jake." She said bluntly.
"And?" Lucas questioned.
"I told him I loved him."
"Good for you Peyton, I'm glad you finally made a decision." Lucas said simply, "Now if you don't mind..."
"I wasn't done." Peyton said to him.
"Well go on then." He sighed.
"I told him I loved him, but someone else has my heart."
Lucas was completely stunned. He had been expecting Peyton to choose Jake.
"And who is this someone else?" Lucas asked nervously.
"Well, I think you might know him. Tall, muscular, handsome, last name Scott."
"You're choosing Nathan over me?" Lucas said in mock humiliation, "You do know he's married right? Although things with him and Haley..."
But Peyton cut him off, "I'm choosing you, silly."
"I love you, Peyton."
"I love you too." Peyton replied, "You have my heart. Always have, always will."
Lucas smiled, "And you have mine. Forever."
"If I were a man who's wife won't talk to me and I was jealous of a guy who doesn't even want my wife, and my wife doesn't want and I stole my kid to get my revenge, where would I go?"
"Well first of all, Brooke, you aren't any of that. So it'll probably be a bit hard to imagine that. It's not exactly a situation you find yourself in every day."
"Point taken." Brooke said, smiling goofily.
"Second of all, forgetting all the crap about being jealous and not being spoken to, why don't we just try and figure out where Nathan would go?" Chase laughed.
"Good idea!" Brooke exclaimed, "You know for a dumb guy, you can be pretty smart sometimes."
"I'll ignore the fact that you just insulted me, and take that as a compliment." Chase said.
Brooke stuck her tongue out at him.
"So, where would Nathan go?" Chase asked, "You know the guy better than I do."
Brooke thought about it for a moment. If she was Nathan, where would she go? And that's when it hit her.
"I know where he went." Brooke said.
And Chase didn't even question it, he just told her to lead the way. They were going to find Nathan and James before Haley found out what had happened and murdered them for letting Nathan take him.
Mouth sat on the table down at the River Court. Memories that he had once pushed out of sight and out of mind, came flooding back as he saw this place again. He remembered Lucas and Nathan playing their one on one game here. He remembered Lucas and Skills both leaving the River Court and joining the Ravens. He remembered Jimmy's happy face, a face that he had forgotten all about when he too had followed Lucas, becoming announcer for the Ravens games. A face that for the last bit of his life had become unrecognizable, and a face that no one knew. Everyone had forgotten about Jimmy Edwards. But his death had changed the lives of every Tree Hill High student. His death had made them who they were today.
He thought about all his friends, all the people he'd graduated with. There was Lucas, someone he had always been really close with, who seemed to have lost Peyton once again. There was Nathan, who had gone from being a jerk, to being a really great guy, to being a jerk again. There was Haley, who had lost the man she had once cared about so much and had been basically abandoned. There was Brooke, who had so much to offer, but after her break up with Chase, had lost her spark. There was Peyton, who had never been a very lucky person, having lost almost everything she cared about. There was Chase, who Mouth knew very little about to begin with, he hadn't even known he was back in town. But Chase, was an idiot for ever leaving Brooke. And Rachel. His Rachel. He had always had countless childhood crushes on the pretty, popular girls. But this thing he had with Rachel, it was different. He loved Rachel, with his whole heart. But he didn't think Rachel even cared. She cared about herself. She cared about Nathan. But never Mouth. He had never meant a thing to her. And that hurt. It hurt that she wouldn't even give him a chance.
"Hey Mouth."
He turned around and there she was, but whether she was going to give him a chance or not was still unknown.
She knocked on the door one more time.
"Brooke? Chase? Nathan?" She shouted, but still there was no answer. So she sat on the step, figuring they had to come home eventually.
Little did she know how wrong she was.
Oooh, drama :) Okay so that was kind of, cliff hangery in more ways than one :D I'll try and get the next chapter up soon! Leave a review :)