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I just have one question." Brooke said. Peyton nodded and Brooke continued "Do you know Emily Richards?" Brooke asked.

"Yeah…" Peyton said slowly.

"How?" Brooke asked.

"That's two questions," Peyton said trying to avoid answering the question. Brooke gives her a look and Peyton answers her question. "She's…my sister"

"You have a sister? Since when?" Brooke asked, stunned. This was the last thing she expected to hear.

"Since, about two weeks ago when I found a letter from Ellie telling me my biological father had another kid after I was born. Normally you would have been the first to now, but we aren't exactly on speaking terms…you know" Peyton replied.

"Yea…" Brooke said trailing off. Emily and Peyton were sisters. That explained her weird déjà vu feeling when she saw Emily. Now that she thought about it she wondered why she had never noticed it before. Emily and Peyton looked a lot alike; they even had the same mannerisms.

"Wait, how do you know Emily?" Peyton questioned. It was Brooke's turn to start explaining.

Just as Brooke started to explain herself the bell rang, indicating lunch had begun.

"Come on." Brooke said "I tell you everything during lunch." Peyton nodded and the two girls walked off.

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In the lunch room Emily was seated a table, physically. Mentally, however, she was anywhere but here. Emily hated lunch, or at least she used to before she started sitting with Haley, Nathan, and Brooke. She would normally sit by herself, with no lunch, watching other people have fun, like she was currently doing.

Ironically, Emily's lunch was never stolen by Robin. She hardly ate. Food cost money and Emily had to save money in anyway she could. She never knew when her mother would, suddenly, have to be rushed to the hospital. And since they had no health insurance, Emily had to be prepared. The only income her family had was the money Emily's dad had left them, and that was slowly running out.

Emily looked up and saw Brooke and Peyton enter the lunch room and sit down at a table together. This shocked Emily. She figured Brooke would talk to Peyton about her outburst. She just didn't expect it to happen so soon.

Emily sighed and wished she was somewhere else.

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Brooke and Peyton were seated at a table. Brooke was telling Peyton how she knew Emily.

"Wait so you've known Emily for how long?" Peyton questioned.

"About a week, week and a half. Why?" Brooke replied.

"I told her she was my sister yesterday. She didn't mention me at all today?" Peyton asked.

"Actually she did that's how this whole conversation started." Brooke responded "She said that she knew I was just hanging out with her to get back at you."

"Were you?" Peyton asked, a little angry at the thought of Brooke using her little sister.

"No." Brooke answered quickly. "I told you I just found out about you two today."

"Well, if that's the case how did she know about us?" Peyton said to no one in particular.

There was a pause as the two girls tried to figure out how Emily knew about them not being friends.

Then it hit Brooke "Wait, you invited Emily to game last night, right?" Peyton nodded "What if she saw our…our" Brooke tried to find a word to describe it.

"Tiff?" Peyton said with a smirk.

Brooke continued "What if she saw our tiff and thinks we'll make her choose sides."

Both girls suddenly felt very guilty.

"I guess we'll have to talk to her" Peyton said.

"Yea" Brooke agreed.

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School was over and Emily found herself wandering around Tree Hill. She had decided to go for a walk and clear her head. She was so deep in thought she didn't hear her name being called.

"Emily!!!" Peyton yelled. Emily nearly jumped a mile. Once she composed herself she looked up at Peyton, who was smiling. Emily realized she was standing in front of Peyton's house. "What are doing here? Peyton asked "Not that I'm not happy to see you."

"I was going for a walk. I didn't know you lived here." Emily replied.

"Oh, well come inside...we can talk" Peyton offered. Emily nodded and went inside. She was looking forward to spending time with Peyton, alone. Peyton led Emily into the kitchen. There Emily took a seat at the table and Peyton stood behind the counter making something.

"I was making a sandwich before I saw you out the window. You want one?" Peyton asked. Emily looked unsure so Peyton added "Come on. There really good."

Emily smiled "Alright. Thanks"

Peyton smiled as well "No problem. Here you go" she said giving Emily a sandwich.

After they finished eating Emily and Peyton went into Peyton's room.

"Wow. Your room's awesome." Emily said looking around at the amazing art work on the red walls. "Did you draw those?"

"Uhh…yeah, all of them accept that one" Peyton said pointing to a drawing of an angel that looked a lot like her. "My birth mother, Ellie, drew it."

"You're both amazing artists. My mother can't even draw stick figures right" Emily said laughing.

"What about your father?" Peyton asked looking at Emily.

"I wouldn't know…I never knew him" Emily lied. She hated lying especially to her new found sister. But she wasn't ready to talk about him.

"I'm sorry" Peyton replied, sincerely.

"No problem" Emily said. "You have a great collection here" Emily said changing the subject.

"Thanks. Are you into music?"Peyton asked.

"Into it…" Emily laughed "It's practically my life. I can't leave my house without my iPod"

"Okay...I guess you're my sister after all" Peyton said with a smirk. "This is the album I found the letter from Ellie in." She said handing Emily a Led Zeppelin album.

"Well, Ellie definitely, has good taste." Emily responded "This is one of my favorite albums."

"Had" Peyton corrected, "She died a few months ago of breast cancer." Now it was Emily's turn to be sorry. Peyton saw the apologetic look on Emily's face and said "Don't worry about" Emily nodded.

Peyton joined Emily and sat down on the bed. "I wanted to talk to you about Brooke."

Emily nodded and Peyton continued "We talked earlier today and decided that the stuff going on between us won't get in the way between either of our relationships with you."

Emily looked relieved and said "Good"

Peyton smiled. The two sisters spent most of the night talking, mostly about Peyton. Peyton told Emily everything about her, including her relationships with both her moms, Jake, Lucas, Brooke, and even Nathan and Haley. Emily was great listener. Once Emily was all caught up, Peyton caught a glimpse of her clock.

"Wow…its ten o'clock" Peyton said. "Can you believe it?"

"Nope…" Emily replied yawning. "Well I better get going" Emily said getting off the bed.

"Or you could stay the night" Peyton suggested.

"Okay" Emily replied very quickly.

"Don't you need to call your mom, or something?" Peyton asked, laughing.

"Umm…no, she's not home. She's on a business trip in Charlotte." Emily replied. This confused Peyton. Just yesterday at the café Emily had said her mom was home and would be worried about her. Now she said her mom was on a business trip. Peyton decided to let it go for now.

"Okay…I'll be right back." Peyton said going to the front of the house to make sure the lights were out and the doors were locked. Once everything checked she returned back to her room.

"Alright is there anything I can…." Peyton stopped talking when she saw Emily. She was on the bed fast asleep. Peyton smiled at the sight. Emily looked so peaceful when she was sleeping. Peyton wasn't tired so she decided to draw, she had just gotten inspired.

(Author's Note)

That's the fifth chapter. What did you think? In the next chapters I'll be introducing Emily's parents. I accept any comments you have to make. PLEASE REVIEW, I'm begging you.