Chapter 20

Peyton woke up slowly and turned around in the bed to face Lucas who was wide a wake staring off to space.

"Hey when did you wake up" asked Peyton rubbing her eyes

"10-15 minutes ago I guess" replied Lucas.

"How come you didn't go down then…im sure Brooke's awake

"Im just thinking"

"About what?"

"Brooke and Jake…I mean how are we gonna do this…"

"Well I wanted to break them up…but you had to be Mr. Goody and said no so we're just going to have to deal with it" Lucas laughs at her comment.

"you right sometimes you don't realize how much you love someone until they stop loving you…that's how I feel now"

"Well duh Luke im always right"

"Funny…shall we go down then?"

"Err you head down first…im gonna go to the bathroom" Peyton gets up and leaves, Lucas stays in bed for a minute and heads out after her. He goes down stairs and in to the kitchen to find Nathan there already eating a bowl of cereal.

"Why is it when ever I come in to this kitchen you're here already eating" smirked Lucas sitting next to his brother. Nathan laughs and carried on eating. "So I guess you can be the first to know… me and Peyton have broken up"

"What wow….when did this happen" asked Nathan.

"Last night"

"Then what happened" asked Nathan.

"What do you mean what happened next…we went to bed" said Lucas.

"Ok wait let me get this straight, you break up with a girl and then sleep with her, dude you turned out to be worse then me" said Nathan

"What no man…we went to sleep in the same bed we didn't sleep together…there's a difference" said Lucas.

"Oh right okay…so what brought up this break up in the first place" asked Nathan.

"Err I guess I still love Brooke and Peyton loves Jake" said Lucas.

"Whoa hold up…you love Brooke"

"Yeah"

"Peyton loves Jake"

"Yeah"

"You both know it aint gonna work out"

"Yes we do and why are you sound like Haley now…Brooke and Jake are together, we know that" Nathan starts to laugh. "What's so funny?"

"Brooke and Jake aren't together…I said that just so you didn't know about Sarah being your daughter" laughed Nathan

"Really…Nate man you don't realize how happy you've made me today" smiled Lucas.

"Glad to help bro" said Nathan. They both carried on speaking for a while when Brooke came pounding in, wearing Jake's tee shirt and shorts.

"Hey boys" she smiled grabbing her self some coffee.

"What are you doing wearing Jakes clothes" asked Lucas suspiciously.

"Well you and peyt were in my room…so I borrowed jakes clothes coz I didn't want to walk in if you to do whatever" said Brooke.

"So…it doesn't mean you had to wear jakes clothes…you could have slept in the clothes you were wearing" said Lucas.

"Luke why are you acting so weird all of sudden" said Brooke, at that moment Jake came in, Brooke looked up and smiled. She walked up to him and gave him a kiss on the cheeks

"Wow…well a good morning to you to Brooke" said Jake taking some coffee as well. Lucas watched them, why were they acting like that…unless they were actually together.

"Nathan…a word in the hall please…now" laughed Lucas nervously walking out, closely followed by Nathan. "What the hell was that in there…I thought you said they weren't together"

"Yeah you know what your right…I have no idea what's going on" said Nathan.

"Well I do…they're together…dude you lied to me" said Lucas.

"Oh Luke stop acting like a drama queen…this is impossible…they would never do that…would they" asked Nathan a little confused.

"Well apparently they are" growled Lucas.

"Who's what" asked Haley. She and Peyton came downstairs together to find the both guys outside.

"Brooke and Jake are together" said Lucas quickly

"What no…that can't be true they're just friends" laughed Haley

"What wait im confused I thought they were" said Peyton.

"Well actually no they weren't I just said that to you guys…apparently they didn't care to tell you guys the truth" explained Nathan.

"I know why…coz they are dating" hissed Lucas.

"Well they only way were going to find out is by confrontation" said Nathan. "Follow my lead" they all walked back in to the kitchen to find Jake and Brooke drinking coffee and talking. "So are you two together then?"

"Yes" lied Brooke. Jake stayed quite and carried on drinking his coffee, he thought it would be better to let Brooke do all the lying.

"Really…that's so interesting…well then why don't you two show us a kiss" said Nathan smirking. Jake spat out his coffee and began coughing loudly; Brooke thumped him in the back.

"I…don't…think…that's…necessary" coughed Jake.

"We'll do it" said Brooke

"What! No Brooke" said Jake

"Oh common on honey we don't need to hide anything" said Brooke

"No Brooke I…oh fine" said Jake in defeat Brooke smiled and they both inched their faces closer, but she Jake stopped half why through. "No im sorry I can't do this Brooke"

"What Jake we were winning" moaned Brooke.

"Aha I knew it they were faking" said Nathan smugly

"Well duh we were faking…from now on Jake isn't allowed on team Brooke" said Brooke.

"So why were you guys faking this then" asked Lucas half annoyed and half relieved.

"Apparently Brooke gets her jollies by messing with peoples head…we forgot to clear you two misunderstanding and Brooke here took advantage of it" explained Jake.

"Yeah and so what if we were dating what's so wrong about that…you're dating Peyton" said Brooke

"Actually no…we broke up last night" said Peyton.

"Wow" said Brooke and Jake

"Yeah we decided to be friends and also coz of another reason, which is me and Luke have realized that we-" began Peyton but was cut off by Lucas.

"We realized that we didn't love each other anymore" said Lucas. Peyton just stared at him and then agreed.

"Right okay" said Jake

"Anyway Brooke…I decided something…I want Sarah to know im her father" said Lucas. Silence spread around the kitchen.

"Oh"

"Yeah…so I was thinking we should both tell her or I can do it alone" suggested Lucas.

"No…I'll tell her with you…it would be the best" said Brooke

"Great"

"Wow from a joke this conversation just took a serious turn" said Nathan.