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He smiled as she threw her head full of curls back and laughed loudly, not caring who heard how loud she was. Her legs were long and toned in her short jean skirt, his eyes moved up to her purple clothes over bros tank top. The bright green eyes were sparkling. He hadn't seen her this happy for a while.

"Down boy." Lucas quickly tore his eyes away from Peyton and flashed to the brunette smirking at him, "She looks happy, doesn't she?"

He nodded turning his head away from Brooke and back to Peyton, "She looks beautiful."

Brooke snickered, "God Luke, it only took you this long to realize how in love with her you are? You know, I never thought you were slow, but apparently I was wrong."

"Ok, just because I said she looked beautiful, does not mean I'm in love with her."

"Broody, it's not always what you say, but it's how you look at her. And how you act when she's around, or when her name is mentioned." She smiled, "It's the look you've always had towards Peyton, even when we were together and I was too proud to admit it. You've always been in love with Peyton, so stop denying it please."

Luke took a sip of his drink and his eyes filled with jealously as he saw Peyton lean in close to Grant and whisper in his ear, as Grant's hand moved to the small of her back. Brooke saw him looking at Grant with anger and laughed,

"Doesn't feel so good to see the person you're in love with, with someone else does it?" She patted his back supportively and moved forward, joining Grant and Peyton in their conversation.

Luke moved back over to the bar and sat down, motioning for Owen to get him another drink. His mind was replaying everything he had been feeling towards Peyton lately.

The truth was, everyone was right, none of these feelings were new. It had always been Peyton for him; even when he was with Lindsey, he never got the blonde-haired beauty out of his head or heart. But feeling this seemed much easier than actually expressing it to Peyton. Over the years, they had both hurt each other a lot, and going back to what they used to have seemed impossible at times. but most times, going back to what they had was the only thing that made sense in the world to Luke.

"Hello Mr. Scott." Luke's heart began racing as soon as he heard her voice, and it increased when he turned his head and his blue eyes met her green. He smiled and answered,

"Hello to you, Miss. Saywer. Are you having a good evening?"

She smiled widely, "Why yes I am. I'm always happy when an old friend shows up." Jealousy spread over his body, but he remained calm.

"Yea, so what is the story with this Grant guy?" he asked, trying to sound as normal as possible, but that proved to be harder when he saw the beginning of a blush forming along her cheeks.

"He was just a friend in L.A, and I kind of left suddenly without an explanation, so he decided to surprise me."

"He couldn't have just called?" The anger was becoming more evident in his voice, and he could tell that she was starting to notice his annoyance, which made her even more annoyed.

"Yea, well sometimes when a person cares for another person, they can't imaging just cutting them out of their lives and they want to see that person."

"Oh, so he cares for you? Peyton, were you guys a couple in L.A?" The jealousy was in full range, but he didn't care any more. He could see the annoyance in her eyes, which were staring right back at him. She opened her mouth to speak, but was interrupted by Grant.

"There you are! Your friend Brooke was trying to get me to dance, but I figured that no one would want to see that." Peyton slowly tore her eyes away from Luke's and plastered on a smile.

"Yea, sorry about her, she can kind of be intense." Grant smiled and shook his head, then turned to look at Luke.

"Luke, right? We didn't really get to meet." He held out a hand and Luke reluctantly took it, shaking it hard, "Peyton over here as been keeping me to herself. Not that I mind, she's probably the best company to have around."

Luke scoffed under her breath and looked into Peyton's eyes, who looked away blushing, "Yea, I guess she's not too bad to have around."

"So Peyton," Grant started, " Want to dance?"

"I thought you just said that you didn't dance?"

Grant smiled, "Yea but dancing with you would be completely different because you'll look good enough for the both of us." Peyton smiled, while watching Luke out of the corner of her eyes, who was rolling his eyes and muttering,

"Wouldn't count on it."

She looked back into Grant's eyes, "I would love to." He smiled and grabbed her hand, she looked back at Luke with a coy smile on her pretty face.

Luke tried to laugh in off, but he was really burning with jealousy. He turned his eyes away from her body moving to the musc, because Grant was right about one thing: she looked damn good.

20 min later and Peyton finally got off the dance floor, with Grant, who went in search of water and a bathroom. She found Brooke and sat down.

"Someone looks like they were having a good time." Brooke smirked as Peyton smiled sheepishly, "I just have one question that I've been meaning to ask you: does Grant know the extent of your relationship with Luke?"

Peyton sighed, "Well he knows that Luke is my ex-boyfriend. But does he know that I've never fully gotten over Luke? No. Does he know that Luke and I were almost progressing into more than friends right before he showed up? No."

Brooke nodded, taking another sip of her drink, "Ahh, ok all cleared up."

"Speaking of Luke, where is he? We kind of have some unfinished business."

"I think he went to sit down in your office."

Peyton nodded and stood up, "Well I'll be right back." She left Brooke who just rolled her eyes and smiled.

Peyton moved her way past the crowd and entered her quiet office, only to find Luke looking around at all of her album covers, "What the hell is your problem?" Luke turned around and rolled his eyes.

"What's my problem? I'm not the one who purpously danced with some old 'friend' just to make me jealous." He walked closer to her as she laughed out loud.

"No, you're the one who almost got married just to make me jealous." She said, as she moved closer to him as well. This time it was his turn to laugh out loud.

"To make you jealous? No I'm pretty sure I was in love with her!"

"Pretty sure? That's not very reassuring!"

Luke rolled his eyes, "This isn't even about Lindsey. This is about me and you almost kissing and then you avoiding me to hang out with some loser from L.A!"

"Lucas Scott, you are unbelievable! I'm not sure if you remember your engagement night, but you're the one who kissed me then purposed to another women! I wonder which one is worse!!"

They both were breathing heavily and staring into each other's eyes. Suddenly, Luke closed the short distance between them and his lips were on hers. She responded immediately, kissing him back passionately as he moved her back against the wall. She moaned softly as her back hit the hard surface. Her hands roamed his hair, while his traveled along the sides of her breasts. She hooked her left leg around his waist and pressed him harder against her, causing him to groan at the sudden contact.

"Peyton?" Brookes voice from the other side of the door surprised them both and the jumped away from each other, panting loudly. She knocked again, "Peyton, are you in there?"

Peyton cleared her throat, "yea, whats up?"

" I think we should go soon. Besides, Grant is looking for you." Peyton's eyes never left Luke's, which were staring back at her full of want, a feeling which she was sure was probably echoed in her own eyes.

"Ok, I'll be right out. I just need to finish looking over a few things." They waited until they heard Brooke walk away. "What was that?" Peyton asked, staring at Lucas' flushed face.

He took a few deep breaths and walked closer to her. He stood right in front of her and brushed a strand of hair behind her ear, "Something that I've wanted to do since the last time we kissed in here."

'Luke…"

"Peyton, ever since that kiss, you haven't left my mind. Well I guess, you've been in mind forever, but that night changed everything for me."

Peyton reeled back as she started to replay that horrible night in her own head, "Luke that night, you left me here after we kissed and got engaged. That night changed everything for me too; it was the night that I realized no matter how much I'll probably always love you, you will always always hurt me!" She pulled away from him and backed up towards the door, hurt gleaming from her eyes, and tears sliding down her cheek.

'Peyton…" Luke pleaded with her, but she kept moving.

'No, Luke, this time its my turn to leave you." With that, she was gone. Leaving Luke by himself.

What did you think?? I told you I would be giving you leyton interaction!

And I figured, it's lucas' turn to fight for peyton.

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