Chapter five IT'S ALWAYS ALL ABOUT POWER p1
The horror of the situation struck them. Peyton broke the silence with "do you think Keith knew?"
"No. No way. Keith is wonderful there is no way that if he'd known about this he would have helped Lucas hide it. He loves him, he'd hate it if he knew someone was hurting him." Haley said, convinced.
"Are you sure about that?" came a voice that was familiar to both girls. The turned around in shock to face Dan Scott, the father of the boy boys they had just been discussing, and Keith's brother. The malicious, manipulative, and generally creep father of Nathan and Lucas, not that he ever claimed Luke as his own!
The girls looked at each other in shock. "Eh… Mr Scott… what are you doing here?" Haley asked nervously.
"A teacher asked me to drop by. But on my way back what do I hear but two lovely young ladies discussing my sons in an empty art room. Who could resist?" his face assumed a pleasant expression, neither suspicious or angry or worried. This worried the girls more than any of the other emotions had they been present.
"Uh, It isn't what it sounds like, Mr Scott." Peyton began.
"Really?" He asked politely. "Because it sounded like you were discussing a sexually abusive relationship between my two underage sons." Peyton and Haley just stood there in shock. "Oh don't worry girls, I'll deal with this." He removed the painting from Peyton's shaking hands and left the two girls to collapse into near by chairs.
"God!" Groaned Peyton in embarrassment and shock. "That was worse than when he walked in on me giving Nathan a blow job in the shower."
Haley raised her eye brows. Peyton just shrugged.
"You know what's really weird about what just happened?" Haley began.
"That it happened at all?" Suggested Peyton bitingly.
"No… well, yes, but he wasn't even surprised. I mean, I can understand hiding any other emotion fro us, if he's angry and thinks we're lying or confused or angry at Nathan and Lucas but he wasn't even shocked at all. Not even a little. Like he already knew or something." Haley finally concluded.
"And he never denied the accusation about him and Keith…" Biting her lip Peyton shook her head. "I wish I had never found that painting. I really do."
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After practice Nathan checked his phone to find a voice message from his dad. "Nathan, we need to talk. Bring Lucas to the Beach House after Basketball practise."
Lucas looked up from his place on the bench were he was untying his shoes and met his brother's worried eyes. "Dad wants us to meet him at the beach house." He explained much to Lucas's surprise. He'd thought that, at the worst it had been a message from Peyton threatening Nathan but this was so much more worse, especially if Dan was including Lucas in it!
"When?"
"Now."
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The car drive over felt like it took forever even though it lasted less than twenty minutes. As it turns out less than twenty minutes is more than long enough for things to go from bad to kill me now, it's all over, to Nathan's in control. It started with Lucas wondering out loud what Dan wanted with them, was it connected to Peyton's 'investigations' or was it something to do with basketball? Nathan ended up telling him to shut up and to both their surprises he did. After another few minutes Nathan's cell rang. Looking panicked Lucas picked it up. "It's Haley." He told his brother who just motioned for him to answer it.
"Hi, Hales, it's Luke. Nathan's driving at the moment."
"Not that I'm not pleased that you two are hanging out but where are you going? And during school hours." Haley preached.
Lucas rolled his eyes, enjoying the normality of the banter. "Sorry, mom, but dad called."
A sharp intake of breath indicated to Lucas that something was up. "What? What is it Haley."
"God, Luke, I am so sorry." Haley begun, nearly crying. "It's just… we didn't mean for it to happen. He snuck up on us and before we knew it he took the painting and was gone!"
"Who was gone? What painting. Haley you aren't making any sense."
"Dan overheard Peyton telling me about… about you and Nathan. She showed me a picture… it was a mixed medium piece of work you'd done a couple of years ago with Nathan's face during… his, you know, 'happy' face… and now he has it and he didn't even seemed surprised. God, Lucas, I'm so sorry."
Lucas couldn't breath. His heart was pounding and his stomach churning. He felt like he was having a heart attack, his life flashing before his eyes. "It's not your fault, Hales," Lucas said weakly before hanging up and turning to Nathan. "Turn the car around."
"What? No."
"Turn the damn car around, Nathan. He knows! Dan knows." Lucas yelled. Nathan glared at his older brother.
"I'm not turning the car around and running away like a little girl. It's not like I can run away. He's my dad and he knows everyone in this town. He'll catch up to us eventually, and then he'll tare us limb from limb and beat us until our own mother's can't even recognise us anymore." Nathan told him coolly.
Lucas begged with his eyes. "Please Nate, turn around before it's too late."
Nathan shook his head, sad but determined. "It's already too late, Lucas. In one way or another we've been running from this forever. Just you remember your place in all this, big brother." He added, shooting the blond a warning look.
"Don't make me teach you another lesson. I promise you'll regret it."
TBC…
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