a/n: So this chapter is longer than any of the other ones. Be happy! I'm working on chapter 6 and it will be up in a few days. Happy October! My 19th birthday is in 9 days. So how about you review for my birthday-almostweek?
What happens next?
Lucas knew exactly what he had to do now. He couldn't avoid this. It seemed to only make things worse and complicate his life in ways that he didn't need at this moment. He had to tell Lindsey that he had married Peyton. In any other situation it would matter less what she thought about it. But she was carrying his first born, after all. He didn't want to hurt her. But she would have to understand that Peyton was an important part of his life, just like his child would be.
"They will both just have to learn to live with each other." He said to himself. Sounds like famous last words if he had ever heard any. But he would be anyone else before he would be like Dan. And he knew that Peyton understood that. She wouldn't do anything to make this harder than it had to be.
He walked into their house and threw this coat on the bed. He had exactly two hours until he was set to meet Lindsey for dinner and wanted to spend a little time with his wife. God, the words even sounded good in his head. Wife. Peyton was his wife. It made him feel like he was a kid again, with the rest of his life ahead of him.
"Peyton?" He called her name around the house, with no answer he went to look for her. And to much of his surprise, he found her in the kitchen. He laughed at the sight in front of him. His wife, in an apron that hugged her body in all of the right places, with flour in every place imaginable. "What on earth are you doing?"
She turned around and smiled. "Well silly, I decided to be domestic," She said, as if it was the most obvious thing in the world. "And make my husband dinner."
He frowned. If it was any other night, he would have been excited to see what she had prepared for them. But this night, this night he had something to take care of. He had thought that he had explained that to her already.
"Wow. If I had known I was going to get that reaction, I would have gone with plan B." She said, studying the frown on his face. "What's with the upside down smile, dear?" She asked playfully.
"I have dinner plans already." He said simply, waiting for it to register in her mind. And judging by the look on her face, it didn't.
She tilted her hear ever so slightly to the side. "Got another wife on the side?"
He laughed and shook his head. She really could wear her blond hair loud and proud. "Tonight I was going to tell Lindsey about our wedding."
He watched as it clicked. "Oh, you told me that." She dusted flour off of her hands. "I'm so stupid sometimes."
"Hey, watch it. You're talking about my wife there." He let his hands move around to her waist. He knew she would put her hands on him and he would become just as covered in flour as she was. But that was a risk he was just going to have to take.
He kissed her. "I'm sorry, I must have just forgotten." He kissed her again, with a little more force.
"Don't worry about it. I have enjoyed seeing you covered in flour." She got that look in her eye, he noticed. That look that comes when she comes up with an idea, or she knows she is going to say something that he will love.
"Well," Her hands dropped to his sweater and he laughed silently. "You go out to dinner. I'll invite Nathan and Haley over." She kissed his cheek. "And when you come home, there will be your desert waiting for you." And there it was. And he loved it.
"Sounds like a plan to me." He said, kissing her again.
Lindsey had been waiting for him for what seemed like ages. In reality, it was only about twenty minutes. But also, she had been waiting for him since she ran out at their wedding. She was waiting for him to finally get over Peyton so they could be together. Somewhere in the back of her mind, she knew that this baby would bring them closer, but wouldn't push Peyton and Lucas away from each other. But she couldn't help but hope that it would make him fall in love with her all over again.
She ordered another glass of water and silently gave it another 15 minutes before she left. The worst part was over. She had told him. She sat and contemplated those words for weeks. She laughed at her logic. The worst part was over? She still had 6 months of pregnancy and a labor to go through. She was nervous what he would say when he finally told him, with his father and everything.
"Got a lot on your mind?" The blond said, pulling her from her thoughts.
"You can say that." She watched him sit down and shift to get comfortable.
She could tell that he didn't know what to say. And she hated that. They used to be able to tell each other anything. She remembered nights that they just stayed up and talked for hours, holding each other. But it was obvious that wasn't the case anymore. But that was her fault, wasn't it? If it wasn't for her own mind, she would have been married when she found out about that baby.
"How are you feeling?" He asked. He sounded sincere too. It just made it all that worse.
"Alright, the morning sickness is kind of unbearable." Kind of unbearable? What was wrong with her?
"My Mom said that should go away soon." She nodded in appreciation. She had loved his Mother.
"So why did you ask me here?" Lindsey asked. She was silently entertaining the idea that he was ready to commit to her. She could picture them drinking coffee while their daughter played in the front yard.
"There is something I wanted to tell you." He sighed and she put away all entertaining ideas. She could tell this probably wasn't going to be what she wanted to hear. She raised her eyebrows, in an effort to tell him that she was ready to hear what he had to say. "Peyton and I got married last week."
She couldn't say she didn't expect this. She put her hands on her stomach and feels something overwhelming come over here. "So I was right all along."
"Lindsey," He started. But she wouldn't let him. Suddenly she felt very scared. Even more so than when she found out that she was pregnant. He was married now. It was new territory. Soon they would start their own family and her and her baby would fall into the background and become simply just another single mother trying to support her child.
"No." She stood up taking a last sip of her water. She felt like she would pass out if she didn't get out of there soon. "Just forget I ever told you, I don't want you in her life" And like that, she was gone. Lucas sat there stunned for only a moment before he ran after her. But as soon as he reached the door, he knew she was gone. Nowhere to be found.
How could this have happened?