Peyton was perched on hood of the mustang when she spotted Lucas walking across the grass and into the parking lot. They locked eyes and Peyton could feel her stomach doing flips. Normally she would have dropped eye contact immediately, she used to get nervous, but it was as if she was in a trance. She couldn't help but look into those baby blues. A huge grin formed on Lucas' face as he saw Peyton waiting for him. She put on her 80's aviators and propped her right hand behind her head and pulled up her left leg, pouting her lips and posing against the car.

"Ohhhh, quit teasing me."

"Teasing you? You mean..." she pushed her sunglasses onto the crown of her head and grabbed Lucas by collar of his t-shirt, pulling him into her, "like this?" she continued, leaning in as if to kiss him but abstaining as if playing a game of chicken, to see who would give in first.

"Who needs Disney World when you can make all my dreams come true?" he laughed, giving her a peck on the lips.

Peyton's hands drifted to waistband of Lucas' gray sweats, cupping his bubble butt in her hands. Lucas jumped out of slight embarassment but mostly pleasure. Peyton laughed at his, "I just can't help myself, you're ass is way to nice. You're lucky all I did was smack it inside school."

"Alright you, let's get out of here." said Lucas, as he walked Peyton to the passenger side of the car, opening the door for her. "And watch those hands!"

Lucas crossed in front of the car and opened the drivers side door, plunking into the bucket seat.

"So, you really think it's nice?" He asked, referring to his badunkadunk.

"Baby, you could do some serious damage with that thing."

Lucas started the car up turned the radio on, awakening the sleeping iPod. He looked to Peyton with raised eyebrows as if to ask, 'wanna pick a song?'. Peyton was very territorial about her iPod. She was also territorial over car stereos, even if it wasn't her car. She shook her head with a smile on her face, symbolically telling Lucas that he can choose. He hit 'MENU' bringing him back to a list of choices. He chose 'PLAYLISTS', scrolling down to find the playlist she had made him right after the championship game and the cafe. He melted inside. He hit 'MENU' again, selecting 'ARTISTS' and scrolled down, stopping at Matt White. He threw the car into drive and navigated his way out of the labyrinth that was Tree Hill High parking lot.

"Where do you wanna eat lunch?" asked Peyton.

"You'll see."

"Curious and curiouser" Peyton spoke with a raised eyebrow and love in her eyes. She reached out her hand and was met with Lucas' fingers.

"Oh, I love this song!" she squealed.

"Well, this song pretty much sums up the way I had always felt about you and our relationship. I waited then and I would wait forever for you, although I'm glad I didn't have to wait forever to finally be with you."

"Lucas, quit it" she spoke glassy eyed, slightly embarassed.

As the car came to a halt at a stop sign Lucas took his free hand and ran his thumb underneath her eye, brushing away a stray tear.

"Ugh, I'm such a girl."

"That you are my lovely." Lucas then licked the salty tear from his finger. "You taste good, like the ocean, but please don't cry."

Lucas gave her a teeth baring smile and turned his head back to the sign and traffic. They both began to mouth the lyrics, softly singing.

It's like a quarter to three and I cannot sleep, 'cause I'm thinking of you...

Soon enough, Lucas pulled onto the grass beside the River Court. On the picnic bench was a box filled with the goods from Karen. Peyton was nervous, she thought the River Court might be one of the last places he was ready to see. But Lucas was taking things head on now, life is short and he wants to make the most out of it - Keith showed him that.

When times are hard I think of you. I'll wait for love, I'll wait for love.

Peyton pulled up her hand, intertwined with Lucas', and kissed his hand. "No more waiting necessary, we've waiting long enough."

They stepped out of the car, Lucas hearding her to the bench, hand in hand, which still went unnoticed by Peyton.

"Ooh! So what's in the box?"

"I'm sure you were wondering how we were going to eat lunch here without any food."

He opened the box revealing sandwiches, salads, cookies and two bottles of water.

"Oh, wow! This is amazing, you got hooked up!"

"Yeah, a perk of having my mom own the cafe."

"This is so romantic, thanks for doing this!"

"Anything for you."

They started digging in, there was so much good food that neither of them were going to let any go to waste.

"I don't mean to put a damper on our date but I need to get it out... I've had Keith and Jimmy on the brain a lot lately. Remember what I was telling you earlier, about how I saw Keith?"

"Any date with you is undampable, don't worry about it. Yeah, you said Keith showed you a bunch of things and people."

"Well, I don't think Jimmy killed him and I've been wracking my brain trying to figure out who could have. Keith was a loveable guy, he didn't have any enemies except... Dan. But as horrible as Dan has been, I'm not sure if he could kill a person - especially his own brother! I just... feel like I'm going a bit crazy inside but I know, I just know that it wasn't Jimmy."

"Trust your intuition Luke, Keith visited you for a reason, maybe he was trying to show you something or lead you to the person who really did it."

"Yeah. I've got to find out who did it so Keith's soul can truly rest in peace, so the truth is out. Just do me a favor? Keep your distance from Dan even more so than you already do. I don't trust him."

©Greene 2007