A/N-Here is another update and I hope you like it.
Chapter Three: Never Too Late
Lucas wonders back into the house and slowly picks up his phone and dials a number hoping to get someone to answer, he got lucky.
"I need to talk to you."
"What's the matter Lucas?"
"Someone showed up on my doorstep claiming to be my daughter."
Lucas hears silence on the other end of the phone and eventually hears said person clear their throat.
"Is it true?"
"She looks just like me."
"It's a girl."
Lucas smiles.
"Yeah, she has blonde hair and she's a teenager."
"What's her name?"
"Gracyn."
"That's a pretty name. I want to meet her Lucas."
"You will mom, but I just have to talk to Peyton about all of this. I'm just freaking out here is all."
"When you talk to Peyton don't yell at her Lucas let her explain and then she can explain to me why she had my grandchild and never told me."
"Okay, I love you mom."
"I love you too, kid."
Lucas hangs up the phone and sighs out loud.
"Peyton!"
Peyton Sawyer walked into the recording studio with her head held high and papers in her hands.
"That was great you guys. You sound a lot better in here then at the restaurant."
A taller man's voice laughed out loud.
"No one really ever gave us a shot before until you Peyton."
Peyton smiles and nods her head.
"I might have given you the shot, but you have the talent. Right now all I need you guys to do is sign the contracts and we are well on our way."
Peyton hands over the papers to the lead singer and he smiles.
"Are you ready guys?"
The band members nod their heads and they sign the contract.
"It was a pleasure doing business with you John."
"Not a problem Peyton."
"So, what are you going to do to celebrate?"
John smiles a huge smile.
"I'm going home to my daughter."
Peyton smiles sadly while in the back of her mind she could've had a daughter to go home to.
"Well you better get going and tell your daughter to be proud of her father."
John smirks and places a guitar in a case.
"She already does."
Peyton smiles and nods her head.
"As much as I would like to see this through I can't so unfortunately after today you might not see me as much as you would like. I live in Tree Hill, North Carolina so I'll only see you guys unless it is absolutely necessary. So I am saying my goodbyes now."
"Thanks Peyton this really means a lot to me and to us."
Peyton smiles and nods her head.
"No thanks needed, just go home to your daughter."
John looks at Peyton with a look that Peyton couldn't describe.
"Alright guys let's head out," John announces.
The rest of the band listens to him and soon they were out the door.
Sam and Gracyn sit down at the table where Julian and Brooke are already sitting. They were just about ready to eat.
"So, how has yours and Grace's day been?"
"Pretty eventful," Sam announces.
Gracyn jabs her in the ribs and Sam looks at her. Brooke's ears perked up.
"Really, what happened?"
Grace takes a bite of her food and quickly swallows it.
"I just met someone who I haven't met before."
"Who was that?" Julian asks with curiosity.
"My dad," Grace mumbles.
Julian and Brooke look at Grace in shock.
"Wow. How was that?" Brooke asks with intrigue.
"Um…it could've gone better, but there's not much I could do anyway. He didn't really know that I existed," Grace says sadly.
"Honey, maybe there was a reason that you didn't know."
Grace shrugs her shoulders and continues to eat.
"So, Sam how was your day?" Julian asks to drag the attention away from an uncomfortable Grace.
"Nothing new really happened. Just did some stuff."
Brooke and Julian roll their eyes at their daughter's vagueness and continue to eat their food.
Peyton looks up at the door in surprise when she sees John enter it.
"What are you doing back?"
John sits down next to Peyton and pulls out a picture of his daughter.
"Her name's Kelly and she's 15 years old, but I've only known her for 10."
Peyton looks at John as he sits down and puts the picture back in his wallet.
"I was an ass when Kelly's mom told me she was pregnant and I didn't want to claim her or acknowledge that I fathered a kid. I was young. I was 20 and I had my life ahead of me. 5 years later I get a call saying that Kelly's mom died and that Kelly needed me and I don't know what happened, but I found myself driving 50 miles to go see the young girl that I never acknowledged as mine, but once I did and looked into her eyes I knew that I should've been there, but I can't go back and I can't change what I did, I could only start then and there and that's what I did."
Peyton looks at John with tears in her eyes.
"Why'd you tell me all of that?"
"Because of the look you gave me when I told you that I had a daughter. You had the look I wore many times. I just couldn't ever see it on myself."
Peyton sighs and pulls out a picture from her leather jacket and hands it to John.
"That's a picture of me and my daughter after I gave birth. I gave her up shortly after that."
"Is that why you are so sad all the time?" John asks.
"I'm not sad. I'm just upset with myself."
John hands the picture back to Peyton.
"It's never too late to try and make things right. It's never too late."
A/N-Many thought that Lucas called Peyton, but you were wrong. Next Chapter Peyton comes home and has a talk with Lucas…So Until Next Tuesday Review Please!