Prefect Match

Chapter 12

The room was silent no one talked or moved, for what seemed like forever. Rachel was standing beside Peyton staring at Brooke, she knew that Brooke had an affair with Marshall, she knew that Brooke was in love with him. But she was just as confused as Peyton is over what Brooke just said.

Brooke stood there with her arms wrapped around herself looking down at the floor. Waiting for Peyton to say something or slap her.

Peyton couldn't move she just stood there. Staring at Brooke, she wondered back to the day of her wedding, she remembered crying to Brooke cause Marshall never show up, Brooke was there the whole time so how could she possibly have anything to do with him not coming, cause she cried with her when they got the phone call saying Marshall was in an accident." what do you mean you're the reason he didn't show up? Did you fixes his car so he would lose control in wreck?"

Brooke looked up at her two friends whose eyes were full of questions. " no I didn't do anything to his car" she took a deep breath.

" so please explain" Peyton demanded

" we met up at the hotel the night before your wedding, and I told him if he married you that..." Brooke paused a moment

" that what?" Peyton asked in an annoyed

" that I would tell you about us." she whispered. Looking Peyton straight in the eyes.

" you blackmailed him?" Peyton laughed, " I can't believe this," she shook her head. " so what did he tell you?"

" he begged me not to, he said he had to marry you. He didn't have a choice "

" excuse me, he did not say that Brooke he loved me."

" I'm not saying he didn't love you Peyton, but he did say that, he said that he's parents wanted you guys to get married because of Kelly. And he fell out of love with you, but he couldn't be with me because he had to do the right thing by you."

The room went silent again as Peyton process what she just said. She thought about her whole relationship with Marshall in things started to add up. " now I understand why you didn't want me to move to Florida with him and why he suggest I bring you with me." she sighed. " and when I found out I was pregnant you told me to get abortion cause his career was to important to him in he would dump me. Then when he did asks me marry him, you told be not to do it, cause he didn't seem like the marring type and you think he was cheating on me. Which he was. " she laughed again, " With my best friend," she shook her head. " did he hit you?"

Both Brooke and Rachel looked at her confusedly. "no why would you asks me that?"

" did you two ever fight?"

" not really, not till I got pregnant and he was worried about you findingout about us."

" did he hit you, then call you names, push you up against a wall" Peyton asked her, as tears started to roll down her face. She was trying not to cry, but the emotion inside her was coming out.

" he never laid hand on me"

" so I guess he did love you more than he loved me" she whispered, as she wiped her eyes, trying to control her tears.

" Peyton did that son of a bitch hit you" Rachel asked, as she touched Peyton's arm.

" no Rachel he would never lay his hands on a woman." Brooke said, as she studied Peyton's face. The pain in her eyes, told Brooke that it was true.

" yes, the first time I was pregnant he promise never to do it again, which for a while it stopped. But after his accident he changed he lost his scholarship in I became his punching bag."

" oh my god" Rachel said as she pulled her into a hug. " oh peyt, why didn't you tell us?"

" I was ashamed." she cried into Rachel's shoulder. " I loved him so much, that I blamed myself for it, I thought if I was just a better girlfriend that he would stop, but he didn't I try everything that I could possible think of to make him happy again, like we use to be, but nothing worked."

" he wasn't suppose to hit you, that wasn't part of the plan" Brooke said in low voice,

Both Rachel and Peyton looked at her. " the plan?" Rachel asked, as she pulled away from Peyton. Glaring at Brooke.

Brooke looked like a deer caught in the headlights. " What, I didn't say plan" she lied trying to get herself out of what she just said.

" bull shit, what plan Brooke?" Peyton asked in an a pissed off voice. She glared at Brooke with her hands on her hips.

" I told him that if he lost his scholarship then you would probably leave him. The accident was a set up, he didn't want to play ball anymore in he knew his dad would hate him if he quit, so we decided to fake an accident. He paid two police men lots of money to file a false police report. He even paid an retired doctor a big sum of money to make up a report saying that he couldn't play ball anymore." Brooke finished with her head down.

" I can't believe what I'm hearing, this is crazy." Peyton said as she started to paces back in forth. " the pain pills where did he get them."

" well the pills were actually real, a friend of his did hurt his back so he was buying his pain pills off of him."

" what the hell was the point of your stupid plan?" Rachel asked, she couldn't believe what she was hearing , she was going to defend Brooke to Peyton tonight. But this was way more drama then she could ever think about.

" for Peyton to give up on him and leave him, but unfortunately she didn't"

" no I didn't." she yelled. " you want to know why?" Brooke nodded, " cause I was in love with him, you don't walk away from someone you love Brooke,"

" I was in love with him to Peyton."

Peyton closed her eyes, " I don't want to hear that now, " she said, putting her hands up to quite her. " So since I was crazy enough to think he was just upset over losing his scholarship that's why he kept hitting me. The real reason was because I didn't give up in walk away." she was beyond pissed now she walked over to the couch in sat down like she just give up. She puts her head in her hands, as she continued to cry.

Rachel walked over in sat down beside her. " Peyton I wish you would have told me he was hitting you." she said, as she wrapped an arm around her shoulder.

" me to." Brooke said.

Peyton's head snapped up, " you probably suggest he hit me, since I was dumb enough to stay after he lost everything. You told him to hit me, "

" no I didn't, " Brooke yelled, "Peyton, it was not planned for you to get hurt."

" oh really?" she asked, as she glared at her. " you didn't plan on me getting hurt? Hmm but you were sleeping with my boyfriend the father of my child, the guy I thought I was going to spend the rest of my life with. You didn't think I was going to get hurt?" she ran her fingers through her hair. " what else do you got to tell me?"

Brooke bit her lip, " you know those trips that Marshall had to go on with his dad once a month."

" yeah"

" well he lied, his dad never needed him, he would fly to LA to be with me." Peyton didn't say anything So Brooke when on " we got married."

Both Rachel and Peyton's eyes widen again. " excuse me, " they both said together,

" the weekend before he...he Killed himself." she took a deep breath. " we went to Vegas in got married."

" get out!" Peyton yelled, as she stood up " I want you out of my house."

" Peyton" she cried, " there's something else. "

" course there is." she said sarcastically, "It's non stop with you aint it."

"he left a note."

" what"

" he left a note " she repeated " Marshall, he mailed a note to me telling me goodbye in that he loved me and he wished he was stronger, but he couldn't live two lives anymore, that it wasn't fair to you or me or the kids and...,

" shut up" Peyton cried, she walked over to Brooke. She closed her eyes, " I can't hear anymore, and all this yelling is going to wake the kids. " she paused, " look bottom line here is we are done." she told her flat out.

" Peyton."

" our friendship is over."

" please Peyton, don't do this...

" I didn't do this you did this."

" you have to forgive me."

" seriously?" she laughed, " I can't," she paused, " see I was going to forgive you, for getting drunk and sleeping with my boyfriend, cause I believed it was huge mistake. But too much has been said the damage is done Brooke. I don't think we can ever be friends again."

Brooke closed her eyes, " Peyton we can get past this, we always patched things up in the end."

" yeah we did, but this is different. You were my best friend since we were like five and no matter what I was always able to forgive you. Cause I loved our friendship, I always thought that no matter what happen in my life good or bad as long as I had you in the end everything was going to be alright."

" you still have...

" you hurt me too much" Peyton said interrupted her. " I don't think we can ever get past this" she told her sadly. " you need to leave go back to LA, I need to sort this out, and I can't do it with you here. "

Through her falling tears, Brooke said, " can't we pretend it never happen."

" no Brooke we can't, what's done is done, " she sighed, " look I'm going to go grab Kelly, and then I'm going to Haley's you can stay here tonight, not because I forgive you, I just don't want you to wake Jeff up in have him more confused then he is already. I'm going to stay at Haley's till tomorrow night," she pointed her finger in her face. " I want you gone by eight, don't come back, don't call me, don't email, don't write me, I don't want to hear anything from you, " she told her before walking over to the stairs.

"Peyton, you will be able to forgive me one day right?" Brooke asked, through her tears.

She didn't turn around to look at her, it hurt to much, "I'm not sure I can, cause I don't even know anything anymore, its way to soon for me to say."

Peyton walked upstairs into Kelly's room. She lifted Kelly up "mama" Kelly said in a confused voice.

"ssh" Peyton said, as she ran her fingers through her hair. " go back to sleep honey." she whispered. With in seconds she was back to sleep. She walked slowly down the steps Hoping to get her to Haley's and back in bed without waking her up.

Rachel opened the front door for her. " Peyton I'm sorry " she told her honestly, " I didn't know"

" Rachel I don't blame you." Peyton told her. " I'll call you, but please have her out of my house as soon as possible."

" I will" Rachel promised her, Rachel walked back into the living room once Peyton was out the door.

" see what you did" a crying Brooke said. As she wiped her eyes,

" No honey, you did this."

" you're the one that said the truth had to come out."

" yes, cause I believed that the truth, was that you and Marshall were having an affair and you were in love with him. See that's all I knew, I had no idea about everything else, I'm as shocked as Peyton is. In honestly I'm not sure were we stand either."

" what does that mean."

" Brooke you lied to me, in that hurts, I thought that I would be able to get you in Peyton back together, but I can't believe you married Marshall and, you two set up his accident. He hit Peyton.

" I don't believe that cause he was so sweet t...

" seriously you're calling Peyton a lair ?" Rachel said cutting her off,

" no I just can't picture Marshall hitting her."

" that's calling her a lair, Peyton wouldn't lie about something that serious maybe that's one of the reasons it took her so long to get back into dating. She was afraid of getting hurt or hit again."

" she ain't dating Rachel." Brooke told her. " That's what's wrong with her she is still so much in love with Marshall that she can't let him go."

" I believe a part of her still loves Marshall, cause he was her first love, and he is the father of her daughter." Rachel paused a second. " But she has some one in her life now."

" no she doesn't." Brooke laughed " the only guys she hangs out with is Nathan, which is Haley's husband. Lucas, and they are just friends he's into me."

Rachel, eyed her up, " look we need to get you packed up." She had to change the subject. Cause apparently Peyton didn't want Brooke to know about her and Lucas. And after everything Rachel heard tonight, it's no wondered why Peyton would keep Lucas and her relationship a secret.

" No I'm not l am staying here."

" Brooke she wants you out "

" I like it here "

" then buy house here in New York, but you have to be out of this one by tomorrow night."

" I already put an offer in on a house a few days ago."

" I think you should go back to LA and let Peyton come to you. When she's ready if she ever is" Rachel told

" I'm not staying for Peyton."

" then why are you staying?"

" for Lucas." Brooke told her with a small smile, " there's something between us and I can feel it, I can't walk away yet, "

Peyton took a moment to herself as she made it to Haley's and Nathan's door, She rung the doorbell, then regretted it, she had forgotten about Katie sleeping.

The door open, " Sawyer?" Nathan questioned, as he opened the door more.

" Nate, I'm sorry so for waking you guys up."

Nate noticed the tears, " you okay?" he said, as he moved to the side so she could walk in."

" No," she sighed, " loo..

" Peyton" Haley asked, as she walked down the stairs " what's wrong?"

" can we stay here tonight?"

" yes, your always welcome here." Haley told her. " Nathan take Kelly up in lay her down next to Katie."

Peyton kissed her head then handed her to Nate. " thanks"

" what's going on?" Haley asked, as soon as Nathan was up the stairs.

" I just needed to get away from Brooke. " she cried,

Haley pulled into a hug, " Peyton you know I'm here for you, so if you ever wanted to talk."

" I know, and hales I plan on letting you in one day I promise. " she told her honestly, she hated that Haley didn't know about her past, she loved Haley's friendship.

Haley nodded, " well when ever your ready I will be here to listen."

" thanks"

" do you want a drink, or something,"

Peyton shook her head, " No I'm fine." she said, as she wiped her eyes again.

Haley felt bad that she didn't know what to say or do for her friend who seemed so lost and scared now, " Well, if you need anything, just asks ok."

Peyton nodded, " I just..." She paused, as she thought about what she needed or really what she wanted, " I need Lucas," she told her quietly, like it was a secret that no one could ever know.

Haley smiled, " he's probably a sleep, you know where his room is" she told with a smirk.

Peyton rolled her eyes, and then whispered, "thanks"

" Peyton he's crazy about you." she told her

" I know, I'm crazy about him to." she told her as she walked up the stairs.

Peyton walls into his bedroom quietly, she closed the door,then smiles at the sight of Lucas sleeping. He must have fell asleep reading cause the light beside his bed was still on, and the book he was reading was on his stomach.

She kicks off her shoes,then her jeans, cause she hated sleeping in jeans, she then walked over to his closet in pulled out a shirt and slipped it on. She crawled into bed beside him, She runs her fingers through his hair. As she watches him sleep, thinking about everything that had happen tonight. She wonders if she could trust Lucas, or is he just like Marshall.

Lucas stirred then slowly opened his eyes " Hey " he whispered happily, He notices her blood shot eyes and the deep thought look on her face. " What's wrong?" he asked, as she grabbed her hand.

Peyton snaps out of her thoughts once he kisses her hand. " Hey" she whispered,

"You okay?" He asked out of concern

" No," she tells him honestly, " but I will be"

Lucas just stares at her, he knows there's something wrong and he knows it has to do with her talk with Brooke. "Is there anything I can do to make you feel better." he asked, as he caress her cheek, she leans up in gave him a long deep, passionate kiss. Lucas felt as if electricity was flowing through his blood. As their tongues gently explored each others mouths. She pulled back. They smile at each other,

" Just hold me" she said, as she laid her head on his chest. Lucas wrapped his arms around her in did what she asked. With in seconds she was asleep. Lucas laying there stroking her hair, he knows whatever happen he will hear about when she's already. So he doesn't have to push her into talking to him, he just has to be there when she's ready, He lifts her chin up in press his lips against hers in a simple kiss. " I love you" he whispered, he's been dying to say that to her but was afraid of her reaction. He's knows she can't hear him, but he had to say it. He closed his eyes in drifted off to sleep dreaming of the day he would actually have the guts to say those words to her while she's awake.