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At the rivercourt Lucas is shooting some hoops when he hears the voice again that has been haunting him.

"Nice shot." He hears in the distance

"Who's there?" Lucas asks as he squints to see the figure approaching him

"Who do you think?" the figure picks up the ball

"Why the hell can't you just leave me alone?" Lucas yells

"Because I still love you." The voice says to him

"I love you too." Lucas says as he reaches for the figure but it is gone.

"Damn it Peyton just go away leave me alone!" Lucas yells as he throws the ball off in the distance.

"It's been three years since I last saw her and I can't get her out of my head what is wrong with me?" Lucas says to himself as he retrieves his ball it begins to rain.

"Ah hell." He says to himself

Off in the distance Peyton is sitting on a bench reading Lucas' book she hears a familiar voice and looks up its Lucas and he's coming towards her.

"Lucas?" Peyton whispers as if she is unsure if it's the rain playing tricks or if it's really him.

Lucas stops dead in his tracks as he gets closer to Peyton

"It's you." He says trying to figure out if this is his mind playing tricks or if she's really here he rubs his eyes as she gets closer to him.

The rain starts to pick up as they get closer neither of them not knowing what to say as they come face to face.

Lucas can't believe it she's really here even more beautiful than before her hair glistens from the light on the moon.

"Lucas." Peyton says as she gets closer

Lucas stops as if he is stuck to the ground he wants to pull her into his arms and never let go but he can't.

"hi." Is all that he can muster smooth one Luke the girl of your dreams more like nightmares is standing in front of you and all you can say is hi?

"Hi." Peyton says in almost a whisper their bodies are almost touching she can smell the scent of his cologne his hair is longer his white shirt rain soaked is clinging to his body showing every muscle god he looks good she thinks to herself.

"God I've missed you." Peyton says as she gives him a hug

God she feels so good the smell of her hair is like cherries I just want to kiss her and never stop, but I can't.

"Peyton I can't." Lucas says as he pushes her away

"What do you meant you can't?" Peyton gives him a quizzical look

Lucas thinks back to the last time they talked

Lucas: Saw your light on. Which isn't that surprising? I mean I know how hard you work. Ya know you haven't been yourself lately, Peyton. I mean not the Peyton I remember.Peyton: Well, I haven't been that Peyton for 3 years.Lucas: What's going on?Peyton: Mmkay, I went by my old house, there's a teenage girl living there now and she showed me my closet door. And you know what that said? Lucas and Peyton true love always. Always Lucas! That's what we were suppose to have, until you showed up in LA three years ago and ambushed me!Lucas: If by ambush, you mean propose to you?Peyton: Ohh, yeah, out of the blue! A proposal that was driven by some insecurity that I have never been able to understand!Lucas: Insecurity? Right. Let me tell ya how you get always Peyton. When a man asks you to marry him you say yes! You don't say no and call him insecure.Peyton: I never said no! I said that I loved you and that I did want to marry you someday! And, oh god, Luke, I wanted to so bad! But you gave up on us...Lucas: I gave up on us!?!?! Peyton: YES!Lucas: By proposing I gave up on us?!?Peyton: No, by not waiting you gave up on us. And you know that's the truth!Lucas: That's great Peyton! You wanna talk truth! Let's tell the truth!Peyton: Okay.Lucas: You gave up on me! That's why you didn't say yes! You didn't think I could do it! You didn't think I could get my novel published! Maybe you just didn't care... because it wasn't about you. Or what you wanted.Peyton: Well if that's the truth. If I never cared the how come every time I see this STUPID BOOK I BUY IT! EVERY STUPID DAMN TIME LUKE! YOU SAID I WAS GREAT! YOU SAID I COULD BE GREAT! YOU SAID WE WERE DESTINED TO BE TOGETHER! YOU SAID IT TO THE WORLD! YOU SAID IT TO ME AND I WISH YOU NEVER HAVE BECAUSE YOU DID NOT MEAN ANY OF IT! Oh god.

"Lucas?" Peyton says gently taking his hand

"Huh?" Lucas says as he shakes his thoughts

"What's going on you were like a million miles away?" Peyton asks

"How do you do it Peyton?" Lucas asks knowing that this may not be the best time to bring this up but hell what's a guy to do.

"Do what?" Peyton asks knowing where this conversation is leading to

"Act like nothing ever happened?" Lucas says to her as he pulls a cigarette from his pocket and tries to light it but his lighter is soaked from the rain.

"When the hell did you take up smoking?" Peyton asks surprised by this change in Lucas

"What do you care YOU gave up on us." Lucas says after he finally gets his cigarette lit

"Sorry that I care god forbid you MIGHT actually die from those things you DO have a heart condition." Peyton takes the cigarette from his mouth and Lucas stops her

"I wouldn't do that if I were you." He tells her pulling her closer

Peyton can smell the alcohol on his breath

"Have you been drinking Luke?"

"So people drink so what?" Lucas say in a smart ass way

Peyton pulls away from him

"Yeah but YOU are not some people."

"When you walked out of my life all those years ago you lost the right to care." Lucas tells her ask he takes another drag

"I'll have you know that I WASN'T the one who left YOU were LUCAS." Peyton says with tears beginning to well up

"Yeah, after YOU turned me down." Lucas snaps back

"You can't do this to me Luke I AM NOT going to let you break me." Peyton says biting back the bitter tears she has hid for so long

"Peyton YOU broke ME, my heart I was willing to give everything to you EVERYTHING Peyton and you threw it all away." Lucas says pulling a flask out of his shirt pocket and takes a drink from it. "Damn it Peyton I wish I had never met you." Lucas yells

"Lucas how can you say that?" Peyton says unable to hold the tears back hear those words was like having her heart ripped out she never thought he could be this cold to her.

"It's easy Peyton if I had never met you I wouldn't have this pain in my heart, I would be imagining you in everything that I do." Lucas says seeing the hurt in Peyton's eyes slowly takes her hand and places it against his chest.

"Lucas I am so sorry if I had known." Peyton trails off

"Peyton I love you." Lucas whispers in her ear

"Luke I-I have to go." Peyton says as she runs as fast as she can across the rivercourt.

"Peyton!" Lucas yells as he chases her

She can feel him gaining on her she wants to stop and tell him I love you back but she can't.

"Peyton, please!" Lucas falls to ground in defeat he knows he has lost her for good.

"Good one broody." The voice says as Lucas hears clapping

"GO AWAY!" Lucas yells to the voice

"I'm already gone." The voice tells him