A/N: Finally an update! I kinda rambled in this one..so I don't know if it makes any sense to be honest with you. But..review if you like, please. :)

They hadn't even left North Carolina before Peyton was in need of gas. She sighed in frustration as she slammed her door shut behind her and reached for the gas pump. Maybe this trip wasn't meant to be. First, she gains an extra, unwanted passenger...then she needs gas after less than an hour of driving. This had to be the worst escape anyone has ever orchestrated.

Lucas watched her as she stalked inside to pay for the gas. He sighed and jumped when his cellphone began to ring. "Hello?"

"Hey Luke."

"Haley! How's London?"

He heard a giggle on the other end of the phone. "Sorry..Nathan's just um- London is beautiful."

"I don't want to know," Lucas responded with a laugh.

"So..how's Tree Hill doing without us?"

"I wouldn't know."

"Why..where are you?"

"Uhhh..." Lucas looked around him for some sign of their location on the road but found nothing. "Somewhere...south of Tree Hill."

"What have you and Brooke gotten yourselves into now?" Haley asked with a chuckle.

Lucas paused for a moment. "I'm not with Brooke."

"Then who are you with?" Haley asked. He could hear the curiousity in her voice.

"Peyton," Lucas answered with a slight grimace as to what her reaction would be.

Now there was a pause on her end of the line. "Why..I don't get it..what's going on?"

Lucas sighed. "It's a long story."

"Well I've got time," she insisted.

Looking into the store he saw Peyton still pilfering around looking for things to buy for their trip. "Apparantly her and Brooke got into this huge argument..and then me and Brooke argued at your wedding-"

"-Nice to know Nathan and I were the only ones that had a good time," Haley interrupted, her tone sarcastic.

"Funny, Hales. Anyways," he continued, putting stress on the word. "I went to Peyton's to find Brooke to talk to her...but I found Peyton packing...to leave. She was going to run. Away from Tree Hill. Away from all of us." Away from me, he added in his head.

"So you...what?"

"I tried to talk her out of it..but..well, I'm in the car with her. Obviously didn't work."

Haley was silent for a moment on the other end. "What did Brooke say about all of this?"

"Well..we..ended things."

"You and Brooke broke up?" She asked in shock. Lucas could hear the thump of something falling somewhere in London. "Nathan, that's gonna cost us-" he heard her put down the phone. She came back a second later. "Sorry, Nathan just dropped something...Okay..explain this oneto me."

"Brooke and I..really haven't been happy in our relationship for awhile, Hales. I was hoping..I was hoping we'd be able to be what I wanted us to be..I love her, ya know? But..she can't get past what I did to her. With Peyton. And I've been trying to make her get past that..but she won't. And..I realized today that I really..I haven't let her all the way into my heart. There's just something...holding us back."

"She's sitting in the driver's seat, Lucas."

"What?" Lucas asked, taken aback.

"Luke..Brooke is my roommate. She was my maid of honor. I want her to be happy..but..you haven't let her in, because she's right about keeping the past close to her heart. It's Peyton that's holding you back from giving yourself all the way to Brooke. And I haven't wanted to talk to you about this, because you and Brooke seemed okay..but.."

"Haley..I'm not..I'm not in love with Peyton."

"Then why are you in the car with her Lucas?"

"To stop her from leaving! To stop her from throwing away her life over an argument!"

"What was their argument about?"

Lucas swallowed. "Me," he admitted.

"Figured." She said. "So you left Brooke..to be with Peyton?"

Lucas' mind flashbacked.

"So you broke up with Brooke to be with Peyton?"

"What you think that's wrong?"

"I'm not in any position to judge. The heart wants what it wants."

"I didn't break up with Brooke to be with Peyton! I'm just helping her. I'm not in love with her. I'm just not. Listen- she's coming out..I gotta go."

"Alright, Luke. I'll call again later to check up on things, alright?"

"Yeah. You two have fun."

"Bye," Haley answered and Lucas hung up the phone without responding.

XOXOXOXOXOXOXOX

Thousands of miles away in London, Haley put her phone down on the bed of hers and Nathan's hotel room. She pulled her robe a little tighter around her as she turned to see Nathan cleaning up the bits of the jar he had knocked over when he heard her say that Brooke and Lucas had broken up. She couldn't help but grin as she approached him and a hand on his shoulder. He stood up to tower above her like usual. "What the hell is going on?" he asked her.

"Well, I guess Lucas and Brooke broke up..and now he's in a car with Peyton, who tried to run away from Tree Hill."

"She tried to leave?"

"Yeah."

Nathan let out a sigh. "That's not good. So Lucas..tried to stop her?"

"Unsuccessfully, yes."

He ran a hand through his short hair and plopped himself down on the bed. "She's probably not too happy about that, I guess."

Haley eyes widened as she looked at him. "Why wouldn't she be?"

"She's running from him."

"What?"

Nathan exhaled. "I promised her I wouldn't say anything, Hales."

Haley looked annoyed for a second. But then she joined him on the bed. She knew ways of persuasion, she thought deviously as she took his ear in her mouth.

"Not gonna work."

She pulled away with a frustrated groan. "Fine," she told him as she rose off the bed and stood in front of him. "Enjoy the rest of your honeymoon by yourself," she told him angerly as she headed towards the door.

"Alright, alright..just..promise me not to say anything?"

"Of course, Nathan. I'm not Brooke. I can keep a secret."

"When she went to see Jake..something happened and..well she still has feelings for Lucas," he blurted out. "She kinda let it all out when I picked her up when her car broke down."

Haley's mouth was open slightly. "Well that explains things a bit more." She sank onto the bed again. "Explains her and Brooke...her trying to run..and remember at our party, during the skit? When she cried..oh my god it was real. She meant it. She loves him."

"Yeah. The question is..did Luke mean his line? Does he love her?"