Chapter 6

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Sitting on the armchair facing the dark sky, Lucas pulled open the lid of another can of beer, and drank from it forcefully. A flash of lightning brightened the sky and then vanished as quickly as it had appeared.

Frustrated, he hurled the empty can beer onto the floor vehemently. He got up, and stood by the windows. The dark, empty sky, resembling his rowdy mood. The images of the night were just so vivid. Everything is like a flash of lightning; flashing across for seconds, then vanished as quickly as it had appeared.

He was worried sick about her. It was almost midnight. He knew that she had nowhere to go; Haley and he basically were her only friends and families. "Where are you now Peyton? Please come home, I'll happily do anything you want me to, just be home and safe."

Why did he have to make such a stupid thing like that? Why did he have to come to Lindsay? He just wanted to be Peyton's hero not anyone else. 'Why, why, why?' He had been questioning himself that question and it all came back to him being a bad guy. He looked down, and closed his eyes. 'Good bye Lucas.' The word 'goodbye' hit him like a thousand daggers stabbed straight to his heart. At that moment, his heart seemed to stop beating once seeing the hurting look on Peyton's face. The devastating look showed him how much he had hurt her. He had to make thing right with her again; he promised himself. 'After a storm, comes a calm sea right?

Morning sun shone through the window woke him up; Lucas rolled over and felt out off the couch, landing on to the hard floor. He raised his hand up to shield himself from the brightness. He was having a massive headache from the hangover. Groaning, he opened his eyes, and found himself alone in his living room. He rubbed his face into his hands, and closed his eyes, trying to recall what had happened the night before. "F***!" He swore under his breath, everything from last night slowly dawns on him. He stood up immediately and ran to his/their bedroom, there was no trace of her, and it was as cold as the night before.

He walks into his office wearily, thinking about what he would explain to Peyton. He knew that she had class that day; he was going to talk to her after class. There were so many curious eyes looked at him as long as he stepped out of his Mustang. He knew that he was a mess but that was the last thing in his mind at that time.

"What?" Haley asked surprisingly.

"I said that Peyton quitted." Nikki replied.

"Since when? And how did you know?"

"Since this morning and I've overheard her conversation with Principal Turner." She answered with a shrug.

"How could that happen? This is her favorite job and Lucas' here too."

"Maybe that's the point. If I'm or Lindsay's or whoever's right, they broke up. Last night." She added the timing to make her story more convincible.

"What? Was yesterday not their anniversary? How could that happen? I mean they love each other so much and they've been together since forever. And I'm his sister…why…God, this can't be true."

"Well you should leave that answer to your brother then. By the way he was a mess; just think that you should know."

Walking into Lucas office, Haley spotted a stubble man was blankly staring at the frame picture on his desk.

"So, that's true."

Lucas looked up at the person whose voice stirred him out of his thought. "What's true?"

"You and Peyton, you guys broke up?"

He just gave her his brooding look and Haley had her answer.

"What happened last night Luke? You were so much in love."

He buried his face into his palms; his voice was mixed with emotion. "It was my fault. I shouldn't meet Lindsay last night."

"You went to see Lindsay? Were you out of your mind Lucas Scott?"

"Yah, that's exactly what I've been questioning myself. She said that she was upset and needed a friend. But after finishing the drink she gave me, I felt dizzy and everything was a blur. And I thought she were Peyton, I swear, then we began to dance, and that was what Peyton saw us, Lindsay and I were making out at the dance floor at Tric…I just wanted to die once seeing her disappointed eyes."

"God Luke, you screwed up big time. I also would have broken up with you if I were Peyton." She wanted to yell at him but seeing her brother's miserable face she downed her voice. "Do you think that she drugged you?"

"I really don't know but that explains pretty much to why I got drunk so fast and you know the high feeling I felt last night."

"That bitch, I'll give her a visit." Haley said angrily.

"I don't care. I don't want anything to do with her. I just want Peyton back."

"Luke…there's something you should know, Peyton quitted, this morning."

"God, I miss her so much" Lucas mumbled. Rolling over the bed, he rummaged for his cell phone in his pocket and dialed Peyton's numbers. "The number you have dialed is not active. Please try again" He ended the call and sighed. He had been trying to contact her the whole day but couldn't reach her. Peyton's job at school wasn't only her job but also her passion for life. So ever since hearing about her quitting her job, he knew that their argument that time was huge, big time huge. And he began to worry about her more and more when the daylight had gone. Lucas wanted to go find her but he had no idea where she was. Yes they had their tough moments but he always was the one was kicked out of the house not even one the other way. 'Why love is so hard, it supposes to be easy.' He mumbled to himself. Sighing he got up and grabbed his keys, he decided to take a stroll to river court.

He walked on to the empty street. A gust of cool wind swept through, and he shoved his hands into his pockets, continued walking again. Looking up ahead, he thought he saw Peyton. He scrutinized to see if that was really her. It wasn't!

Peyton yanked the windows closed in attempt to block out the wind brewing. She shivered against the cool air and pulled herself tighter. She had never felt so lonely in her life, no family, no friend and no job. She knew that everyone would think that she over reacted things but she was desperate to forget Lucas and it was good for her to not see him at all so quitting her job was the right decision at least for the time being. She wasn't willing to go back to Lucas's house to pack her things. She didn't know how to face him. She shook her head slowly; her mind was a humming blank. The sudden thought about their happiness, all the good things they used to have, had brought tears to her eyes, and she wiped them away abruptly with the back of her hand.

After graduating from high school, Peyton moved in with Lucas so her father decided to sell his house since his most time spent at sea and give her half of the money to support her life. Her father also left to her a legacy when he passed away a year before. So after 22 years of living, all she had left was money to accompany with, no mother, no father, no Haley and definitely no Lucas.

Focusing again on Tree Hill daily newspaper. Firstly she had to find a new job then an apartment to live. Life still went on.

"…private art teacher, HG high school, TH art museum, Siren record label…" Peyton took note the job that suite her. "God, record label, I don't know if I should apply for the job…uhm… give another try to take another chance, furthermore there aren't many jobs out there for me anyway."

"Oh, sorry." Peyton said to the man next to her whom she accidentally bumped her head into his chest. They were in a crowded elevator, and she had to snuggle up to him. She didn't know that there were so many people applied for the job to Siren record. Looking up at the man, she had to use all of her strength to swallow her laughing once seeing his red face. 'God, he's blushing. This guy is so cute.' Didn't want to embarrass the guy, she looked at other direction.

Walking into the interview room, she realized that one of the two interviewers was the blushing guy. 'How small the world was!'

"Hi! I'm Peyton Sawyer."

"Hi Ms Sawyer. Please sit down. I'm Chase Adams and this is Julian Baker." Said the other guy.

Here we go another chapter. Now Peyton had met Julian, I'm sure that the guy already loves her...What do you think?...LP-PJ-JB-BL this rectangular love is promising a big mess up...

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