Good question.

"Well I figure we should just tell him straight forward. Tell him why." I hope he doesn't get mad though..mad? What am I thinking this is my dad he'll be happy for me.

"Yea, what do we do if he does get mad? Just do it anyways or wait? We are almost 18." exactly what I was thinking Nate.

"If he doesn't think we should then we should wait. You turn 18 in what...3 months? And I turn 18 in 4 so its not that long of a wait." not that we'll have to deal with this because I know my dad and he'll be so happy.

"Do you think we should. We've known each other forever but we've only been dating for about for about a year." doubts. Not a good sign when we're talking about marriage.

"Well I love you Nate and I always will but if you-"

"no I do. I just thought you dad might use that against us. Cause I love you too." he bent down and gave me a soft kiss on the lips.

"He should be here in a little bit so we'll find out soon." I said.

2 hours later... he's home..dun dun du...(lol)

"I'm really nervous Peyton. What if he doesn't like me because of this? Then when we do get married he won't come? What if he doesn't let me see you or won't give us his blessing?" you know this is kinda funny. I've never seen him like this. He was so nervous and I know I shouldn't laugh cause it just means that its important to him but he looked to funny not too.

"Nathan its okay. Gosh what's wrong with you Scott? I've never seen you like this before." I said pretending to be Whitey.

"I've never felt like this before." I wonder how her was with Haley's parents?

"It wasn't so hard last time." he added as he saw me open my mouth.

"Peyton! Come here I wanna see you, I've got a present here." my dad yelled making Nathan turn pure white.

"Here we go lover boy." I took his hand, my hand was slightly shaking too. Together we went into the kitchen where our fate was to be decided. For right now anyways.

"Hey Nathan. You're here awful early." I looked at Nathan and I had to smile cause he looked kinda scared and to think this was the fearless Nathan Scott. So many personalities in one person. But that's why I love him so much.

"Uh yea, I just love being with Peyton." I could tell that he was about to say more but obviously my dad didn't.

"Yea she's an amazing girl."

"Sure..uh..is."

"Nathan shut up." I knew if I didn't stop him he would make a fool of himself.

"You know you do kinda look nervous." my dad said finally starting to catch on. God dad you are so slow.

"Peyton this isn't funny." he raised his voice. He was getting bold now.

"Why not Nathan?" I know this is not the time but if I could just get him to say it then I am so the master of Nathan Scott.

"Because I love you and your laughing cause I'm nervous!" wow he was really mad now cause he just kept going on. He turned around and looked dad straight in the eye and asked if he could marry me.

"Is that why you've been...making a fool of yourself." Ouch. Nate really looked pissed now.

"If that's what you wanna call it." he said it really slowly and I could tell he was trying to stay calm. I suppose since I kinda caused this I should make him feel better.

"It's okay Nate. I still love you."

I hugged him and gave him a quick kiss. Then I turned to dad.

"We love each other dad and we wanna get married." I had expected smiles and hugs, not this.

"No." just to hear that word surprised me.

"What?"

"I can't let you. Not now." I was speechless. And I just stood there. My dad had always supported me and now the biggest decision of my life and he denies me.

"Look Mr. Sawyer-"

"don't talk."

"Don't tell me what to do. What's wrong with it? We're in love."

"Yea is that what you told the other girl you were with? That you loved her. Well I won't let my daughter go through that kind of pain. Your too young to know love."

"Dad." I couldn't even finish what I'd intended on saying.

"If it's love Peyton it can wait." I was crying hard, my dad just couldn't see that this was different. Then my sweet Nathan comes to my rescue and hugs me.

"Look wait til your like 20. Then it'll be fine." 20? Who does he think he is telling me how long I should wait to marry the person I love.

"Sorry dad but in 4 months I'm gonna be Mrs. Scott wether you like it or not!" I yelled. And once I started I couldn't stop. I mean how could he not support me? After all those years of me letting him leave me alone. Me dealing with things all by myself.

"Dad, I can't believe you would say that. Throughout my whole life you've always supported me no matter what! This is the biggest decision of my life and that's when you decide to leave me?" I was crying and yelling all the while Nathan and Dad just stood there.

"Peyton calm down." now I love Nathan but m dad was the one who was supposed to say that and hug me. Not Nathan. So I just stood there crying.

"Dad I love you but if you can't suppoer me like I have with your job all these years then things are gonna change." I managed to choke out. I didn't know if he understood me until I heard him whisper.

"I'm sorry Peyton I just can't."

"I can't stay here then."that was hard, he was crying now.

"...I understand. Just know that if you need anything I'm here."

1 hour later..

I was packing my things. My dad said he was gonna go out and Nathan stayed with me.

"Peyton. We knew this might happen, I don't think you need to move out. I would love to see you 24/7 but this is your home." I know he was right and maybe thats why I got so mad.

"Nathan, I can't okay! When I said he might say no I didn't really mean it!" I thought I knew my dad. Fuck I thought he'd be happy for me.

"Well I know how much you two need each other. I think your too close to let...something like this ruin it."

"Something like this? Our marriage is just something to you?!"

"No but compared to your relationship with your dad it is a little bit smaller." okay I know I've thought this a lot but how could he say that? Our relationship is everything to me. He was just tossing it off like it was nothing.

"Smaller? Maybe to you"

"I'm just saying that I don't think this is the right solution."

"If you don't want me to live with you then you can just say it. I mean you didn't have any problem telling Haley to move out or telling your mom to go fuck herself." I don't even know why I said that. He didn't do anything to me so why was I doing this to him. I was doing it again. Blaming it on someone else.. I looked up when he didn't respond for a while. He was just stadning there with a hurt look in his eyes. I started to move toward him but he backed away. I was just about to say something but he started talking first.

"Your right I didn't but I did it civilly unlike you. And I did want you to live with me." he said it all with rears in his eyes.

"I didn't mean it Nate. I guess I just had my hopes up. I really thought my dad would say yes." we were both crying and I sat on my bed.

"Yea I did too. It's not the end of the world though. We still have the rest of our lives to get married."he said as he sat down next to me. I put my head on his chest relieved that he wasn't mad. Then I felt his arms wrap around me as he kissed the top of my head.

"We will get married Peyton. After we graduate." I want so much to believe him but after all the things that have happened to me it really hard to. I mean what about Derek and what really happened that night...

Okay I think that was pretty good. Thanks ashley for reviewing. I hope that some other people review too though..